Alek Stewart has lived with seizures since he was a teenager. But a sudden and dramatic increase in frequency caused Alek and his wife Brittany to make adjustments to their daily lives, and inspired them to create a community, build epilepsy awareness, and support scientific research.
Category Archives: Family
Helping Your Teen Navigate Epilepsy
We talk to Angie Froehlich about parenting a teenage daughter living with epilepsy.
Mourning Your Idealized Life: Resilience, Love and Acceptance
Kelly and Miguel Cervantes discuss coping with the impacts and challenges of parenting a child with special needs in a never-seen episode recorded in November 2018.
Parenting, Epilepsy and COVID19
Hear how one mother is keeping her three children, one of whom has epilepsy, safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Growing Pains: Living with a Sibling with Epilepsy
Find out how growing up around siblings with epilepsy shapes children’s lives.
School Nurse Shortages: The Challenges Students and Families Face
Find out how one family impacted by epilepsy is affected daily by the national school nurse shortage.
Epilepsy and IEPs: Supermoms to the Rescue
Discover how developing individualized education plans (IEPs) can help children with epilepsy and special needs thrive in the classroom.
Married with Children…with Epilepsy
Kelly speaks with her husband, Miguel, about navigating the challenges that come with raising a child with epilepsy and how they keep their marriage going strong.