Inspiring Journey of Ms. Lisa F. Crites: Patented Inventor of The Shower Shirt
Lisa F. Crites is the award-winning inventor of The SHOWER SHIRT®, having won a 2015 InnovateHER series, sponsored by the SBA, Washington Post
The Actual Art Of Healing- A Journey Of Lisa Crites
Healing is often portrayed as a straight line. You get sick. You get treated. You get better. There’s a before and an after, a clear point where everything is supposed to shift back into place.
When Survival Turns Into Responsibility
It is widely understood that surviving a life-threatening experience changes a person completely. Whether welcomed or not, that change settles in. The real questions often come later, when life slows down, and no one is watching.
Faith When Nothing Feels Certain
Lisa Crites’ story is one shaped by loss, illness, and an unflinching honesty about what it means to endure. As a cancer survivor and the author of Beautifully Unbroken, she does not present faith as something tidy or reassuring.
The Quiet Moments After Surgery That Changed Everything
Some inventions begin in laboratories. Others begin in boardrooms. Lisa F. Crites’ story began in a bathroom, standing inside a trash bag, trying to shower after a mastectomy.
When Grief and Diagnosis Arrive at the Same Time
For Lisa Crites, grief didn’t come in a neat, single chapter. It came layered. First, the sudden loss of her mother. Then, before the ground had time to settle, a breast cancer diagnosis.
The Parts of Recovery No One Prepares You For
Hospitals, doctors, nurses and their team of clinicians are usually phenomenal in getting patients through surgery. They are less prepared for what happens once you go home.