Disability is a minority group that any of us could join at any time. For something so normal, disability remains shrouded in shame.

There aren’t a lot of places caregivers and patients can go to talk about stress of holidays when ongoing merriment is the expectation. Join this real time discussion on navigating the joys and pains of giving, and receiving, care during the holidays.

Healthcare uses a one-size fits all model in order to streamline care, but who we are influences our health care and relationships with providers, meaning you need to advocate for yourself, your culture and your preferences.

Too often, our journeys through illness get simplified. In reality, our experiences are complex, rich, and far from simple. When we create a space to hold dialectics-- to hold two seemingly opposing things as simultaneously true, with neither negating the other-- we often come in touch with a more authentic truth.

POLSTS and DNRs are tricky to complete if you don't understand the context or consequences.

Hospice and palliative care are too often confused with each other; but are importantly different.

The realities of health care in America can be bleak. What really happens versus the ideal, how you might navigate the reality to meet your goals? While our healthcare system is broken, it's the only one we have so it's important to know how to best use it and also set expectations.

There is no right way to do disability or chronic illness. The important thing is to understand what matters to you, and own it, so you can thrive living with what is rather than struggling to reclaim what used to be.

Discussion of aspects of awe and synchronicity that appear for many at the end of life.

Caregiving encompasses everything, from the emotional to the practical to the medical, the list is endless.

Advance directive documents are tricky to complete if you don't understand the context or consequences.

When pets become sick and die, it can be overwhelming on a level that doesn't feel fully appreciated or understood by society around us.

Mettle Health will be offering Mettle Community meetings to support conversations related to members' concerns about care of themselves, or the care of another person, and to help create connections between people with similar experiences. Our hope is the meetings will provide a safe place for people to talk openly about challenges of living with serious illness, whether as a patient or caregiver.

Meditation calms our minds and opens our hearts. It can reduce stress, promote relaxation and healing, and bring us into deep connection with ourselves, others, and our world.

Deep physical connection is as primal as it gets. Yet, our sex lives are among the first things to go when we’re sick.

Mettle Health will be offering Mettle Community meetings to support conversations related to members' concerns about care of themselves, or the care of another person, and to help create connections between people with similar experiences. Our hope is the meetings will provide a safe place for people to talk openly about challenges of living with serious illness, whether as a patient or caregiver.

Navigating illness, from any angle, is so much about relationships, but years of backstory can complicate things.

Mettle Health will be offering Mettle Community meetings to support conversations related to members' concerns about care of themselves, or the care of another person, and to help create connections between people with similar experiences. Our hope is the meetings will provide a safe place for people to talk openly about challenges of living with serious illness, whether as a patient or caregiver.

Dying is a part of life and there are services out there to help with this important transition. Understanding how hospice care works is an important step in designing your end of life, or for someone you care for.

Grief is unavoidable. It pays to lean into grief rather than to run away, and that requires patience, time, and support.

Mettle Health will be offering Mettle Community meetings to support conversations related to members' concerns about care of themselves, or the care of another person, and to help create connections between people with similar experiences. Our hope is the meetings will provide a safe place for people to talk openly about challenges of living with serious illness, whether as a patient or caregiver.

The stories we tell ourselves are powerful, how to think about these narratives - where to hold on, and where to let go?

How to think about HOPE in the context of serious illness and end of life.

Mettle Health will be offering Mettle Community meetings to support conversations related to members' concerns about care of themselves, or the care of another person, and to help create connections between people with similar experiences. Our hope is the meetings will provide a safe place for people to talk openly about challenges of living with serious illness, whether as a patient or caregiver.

There aren’t a lot of places caregivers and patients can go to talk about stress of holidays when ongoing merriment is the expectation. Join this real time discussion on navigating the joys and pains of giving, and receiving, care during the holidays.

Disability is a minority group that any of us could join at any time. For something so normal, disability remains shrouded in shame.

Caregiving encompasses everything, from the emotional to the practical to the medical, the list is endless.

Patient-centered care means talking to, and learning from, people living with serious or chronic illness. How do they view their experience, what do they want more of from the medical team, what lessons have they learned? Join us for a special discussion co-hosted by members of the Mettle community.

Join BJ Miller, MD and Kate Cataldo,RN for a discussion on serious illness and end of life considerations for the LGBTQ+ community. LGBTQ+ individuals often face challenges and barriers to accessing health services and, as a result, can experience worse health outcomes, adding unnecessary suffering to an already difficult period.

Join BJ Miller, MD and Deven Kothari, MD for a discussion on navigating a hospital stay and ICU. There are times when the hospital can save your life, and times when it can cause damage. Knowing what goes on in the hospital system before you find yourself there can help prepare you in big ways for what’s to come, and what your preferences are.