When One Person Struggles, Five Others Feel It
When a teenager struggles, the whole circle around them struggles too: parents performing normal at work, siblings who shrink their needs, grandparents who worry twice, and managers guessing at a drop in output. Chris Coulter of The MentorWell counts who's affected, what it costs families and employers, and why earlier awareness shrinks the load everyone carries.
My Dad Asked Me If Life Was Still Worth Living
After my mother died, my father walked into my room, sat down on my bed and asked whether I ever felt life wasn't worth living. I told him yes. I'd felt it after my daughter Maddie died. What followed was the most open conversation we'd ever had, and it taught me something about why almost nobody asks that question, and what happens when somebody finally does.
The Photo That Never Changes
In January 2017, twenty-one months after my daughter Maddie died at fourteen, I wrote about the photos on my fridge. Everyone else's get swapped out at the end of the school year. Hers does not. Nine years on, I'm putting the piece back up unchanged, with one correction: I was wrong about what her brothers were carrying, and wrong about why.
Father’s Day is My Third Hardest Day of the Year
For most people, Father's Day is a celebration. For Chris Coulter, it ranks third behind the day he lost his daughter Maddie and her birthday. A reflection on grief, fatherhood, and what it means to keep showing up.
Grief Doesn’t Follow a Schedule
Grief does not arrive on anniversaries and leave the rest of the year alone. It arrives in aisle seven. Eleven years after losing his daughter Maddie, Chris Coulter writes about what it means to stop being surprised by it.
Transforming Pain into Purpose: A Journey of Love, Loss, and Inspiring Change
Chris Coulter lost his daughter Madeline in 2015. Eight years later, he's still grieving and still building. This is the post where his pain became MentorWell's purpose, and where your quiet unease about your teen becomes worth paying attention to.