After suffering debilitating illness and trauma in her early life, Jennifer Thompson Trepanier discovered something startling -- that joy is possible even in the hardest of times. To help others, particularly children with life threatening illness, she found her partners in love. Puppies! A family struggling with illness is greeted with a "pile of puppies", and a giant dose of joy, resilience and connection. "Puppies allow the heart to stay open even when it is breaking apart," Good Morning America said in their interview.