A Storyline Christmas: Light, Longing, and the Work of Care

In serious illness, the holidays rarely feel simple. Research shows that patients and families navigating cancer, grief, or chronic conditions find resilience not through control, but through meaning. Even when the season feels cold or emotionally spare, healing can happen in quieter forms: reflection, relationship, presence. This Christmas, we look to the clinical and the poetic to ask: What is enough in a hard season? And what kind of care helps people hold what matters most?