Crystal Bridge Foundation was born from a life lived inside trauma — and a lifetime spent finding the way through it.
Meghan's father, Roy Sickner, was a larger-than-life figure in Hollywood. The Marlboro Man. Stunt double for Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, and Richard Harris. The man who conceived the original story for the landmark 1969 film The Wild Bunch. In 1972, Roy was severely injured on set and fell into a coma for six months. When he woke up, the family began a 33-year journey living alongside severe traumatic brain injury — until Roy's passing in 2001.
That was Meghan's introduction to trauma. Not from a textbook. From inside a family holding itself together around something most people have no words for.
Life then led Meghan through her own labyrinth — a dangerous lifestyle she found the courage to leave, debilitating back pain with no medical explanation that became a doorway to somatic healing, the loss of her mother at 27, the loss of her fiancé at 29, and two bouts of breast cancer. Each breaking point became a threshold. Each loss became a teacher.
What Meghan discovered — and what Crystal Bridge Foundation is built on — is that healing does not always begin in the mind. Sometimes it begins in the body. In the breath. In the nervous system finally feeling safe enough to let go.
"Our founder is not a clinician who studied trauma from the outside. She is a woman who lived it from birth, navigated it across a lifetime, and built a method that works — on herself first, and now on others."
