If you are looking for a way to get your group involved in a good cause, with low effort, you should host an Apricity Hope Project HOPE DRIVE! Just like a food drive… except cozier! As AHP cares for caregivers of medically complex and disabled children, we are sending out care(giver) packages and hospital go-bags…
🌈 The Hope Full Tour — stories of loss, light, and the magic of living like Lorelei. The Apricity Hope Project is hitting the road! Our founder, Susan Geoghegan, is traveling across the country to share stories of hope, healing, and the heart behind Live Like Lorelei. Each stop on The Hope Full Tour will…
AHP founder, Susan Geoghegan, knows firsthand what it’s like to sit in the NICU as a new mom—exhausted, terrified, and completely unprepared for the life she suddenly found herself living. While most new mothers were navigating baby showers and sleepless nights, Susan was navigating monitors, feeding tubes, and a language no parent ever expects to…
A Weekend of S’more Fun, Connection, and Hope for All Families! 📅 March 20-22, 2026📍 Holiday TRAV-L Park📍 Virginia Beach, VA Are you ready to experience a weekend like no other? Camp: HOPE FULL is back for its fifth year, and it’s bigger and better than ever! This hybrid fundraising / community event welcomes families…
Go-Bag Alert: With the help of Retreat Alumni Mingo, AHP has officially landed at UVA! This month, one of our amazing “Mingo Mamas”, Isha, hand-delivered FIVE fully loaded caregiver hospital go-bags to the Complex Care Team at UVA Children’s Hospital—our very first connection with this incredible hospital. She met up with her “#1 favorite medical…
Growing up, a friend was someone you could share your snack with, tell your secrets to, and play with at recess. Of course, that changes with adulthood. But how does this change when you are a parent of a medically complex child? What does friendship look like when your days and nights are spend caregiving?…
Any parent of a child with a rare disease hopes for a cure, a treatment, anything to improve their child’s quality of life. We often hear about new developments in medicine for more common illnesses, but are our young zebras forgotten? Is someone doing something to help? Today, Susan gets to speak with Dr Keri-Lyn…
Our dear friend and former co-host, Diane, used to talk about two things sitting together at the same time without blending the two. Did you know what she meant by that? It seems like it resonated so well with some people, while Suz never fully understood it. Today, the girls re-visit that concept. They discuss…
To the moms who show up day after day—charting meds, advocating fiercely, loving deeply—we see you. We know your calendar is carved out by specialists, therapies, and surgeries. We know your phone battery is low not because you forgot to charge it, but because you’re managing a life that never hits pause. And we know…
Four Winners. Four Big Prizes. One Big Impact. All honoring our sweet Lorelei. Every summer, we raffle off something BIG in memory of Lorelei—a mermaid, rainbow-loving little girl whose bright spirit continues to guide our mission at The Apricity Hope Project. This year, four lucky winners will get to choose from some incredible summer prizes……
According to the google, anxiety is a normal human emotion characterized by feelings of unease, or fear about a future-oriented threat. Anxiety can have physical manifestations, along with mental, and can interfere with daily life. We have spoken about anxiety before. Today, the girls sit down to re-visit the subject. Medical motherhood comes with a…