A Bedside Campfire

10/12/2025

Here's the latest https://tangentialmango.substack.com/p/yes-we-can
Take good care ✨💜✨🔥✨

A Bedside Campfire Moth to a Flame

07/12/2025

For those helping someone on the road to recovery: remember it's a *nonlinear* journey

An ABC Small Bite to help get everyone on the same page

03/16/2025

Curious about how to communicate with your Care Team? Check out this Small Bite from A Bookish Collective with tips and tricks from an experienced Healthcare worker: https://abookishcollectivellc.substack.com/p/questions-and-feedback-in-a-healthcare

03/14/2025

Here's the latest post from A Bookish Collective: https://abookishcollectivellc.substack.com/p/give-this-some-thought Don't have a pet? Take a stone for a walk :)

11/27/2024

Have you ever used Discord? I'm exploring its utility in the development of a Community of Support around the topic of Care and Healthcare Navigation. Here's my blog/podcast about social media and creating a support community, including a dive into the nuance of connecting online https://open.substack.com/pub/tangentialmango/p/a-bedside-campfire-discord?r=18lwku&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

There's a link to A Bedside Campfire Discord Server at the end of the post. Hope you enjoy -- Welcome to the dialogue!

Exploring tools on the internet, and playing with ideas

11/08/2024

Truth and love have been smacked down, so many more times in history before today. Truth, because it’s often inconvenient, and love because it is vulnerable.

But truth is like gravity, and carbon, and the sun behind an eclipse: it’s still there. And love stays alive if you tend it like a flame. If you feel crushed by unkindness today, it’s a time for grieving, reaching out to loved ones, noticing one bright color somewhere in the day. Remembering what there is to love. Starting with the immediate, the place and people we can tend ourselves, and make safe. We can’t save everything all at once, but it’s still worth saving something. Because there are so many of us to do it.

And we are all still here today, exactly as we were yesterday. Like gravity, and carbon, and the sun behind an eclipse.

11/25/2023

Prairie Path Pop-Up is today at Retro Glow Cycles -- 307 S. Main Street, Lombard 10AM - 3PM. Jessie Hammersmith will be there to discuss A Bedside Campfire and our upcoming events. Make us a stop on your Small Business Saturday adventure!
Can't make it today? Sign up for email updates here:

Use this form to RSVP for an upcoming Bedside Campfire event and/or to receive email communication from the team about future events and offerings. Event Address: Helen Plum Library 411 S Main St, Lombard, IL -- 1st Floor Conference Room Contact us: [email protected] Instagram: ...

11/19/2023

A Bedside Campfire is a meet-up and conversation for folks providing care in the community. Curious? Come get a taste at the Prairie Path Pop-Up Saturday, November 25 from 10AM - 3PM at Retro Glow Cycles on Main Street in Lombard.

Jessie Hammersmith will be there to answer questions about the power of Storytelling to heal and thrive as caregivers in the community. Ready to sign up? Use the link below to get email updates and/or attend an upcoming event. See you soon! https://forms.gle/tbyXQWdWP7opsR9LA