"She was very special, because she was always happy," said Cheryl Carswell. She lost her very special daughter, who was only 12, to cancer. It was her second child to die tragically. Years earlier she lost her first born to spina bifida.

"I had to be strong for my children that were left," she said.

While trying to be strong, she wanted to learn more about her grief. In her 40s, the high school dropout decided to go to college and become a counselor.

But it wasn't long before tragedy struck again.

"A week after I graduated my son was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, so my son passed away about 16 months later," she said.

Carswell pressed forward with her plan to become a licensed counselor. Years later, she gave birth to her dream: Georgia Family Crisis Solutions Counseling Center, a center that helps people make it through some of the obstacles she's faced.

"That's what we do here is help people understand it doesn't matter what we've been through. We live in the present in the right now," she said.

While Carswell will always remember her beautiful children, she says that she is living a meaningful life today, by helping others do the same thing.