In July 2005, Kim Forsythe lost her 2-year-old son, Tyler, to acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Even before that time, she had begun to realize how the emotions she was experiencing could be turned into something positive, something that could ease the pain of Tyler's passing while providing aid and comfort to others going through the same trauma.

"Tyler has helped me find my calling," Forsythe says, referring to The Tyler Foundation, an NPO which she and her husband created shortly after her son died and whose motto is to "make the fight a little easier and the future much brighter."

Tyler's cancer was discovered when he was just 1 month old, and while the following 22 months were undoubtedly some of the most painful of Forsythe's life, it also opened a new chapter for her. That chapter started with what she calls a "very sweet little series of folk tales."