{"id":186251,"date":"2026-05-07T13:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186251\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:48:18","slug":"man-creates-burden-the-bear-after-life-changing-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186251\/","title":{"rendered":"Man creates ‘Burden the Bear’ after life-changing accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

ByMatteo Iadonisi<\/p>\n

Thursday, May 7, 2026 12:40PM<\/p>\n

\"Man<\/p>\n

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — After a life-changing accident, Eric Wyatt decided to create a line of plush animals to help others bear their own burdens.<\/p>\n

With a little help, they can ‘Burden the Bear’ instead.<\/p>\n

Wyatt created bears for anxiety, PTSD, and various types of cancer among others. He also decided to branch out beyond simply ‘burdens.’<\/p>\n

For example, he created ‘Inspire the Bear’ to promote autism acceptance.<\/p>\n

Wyatt’s business partnered with so many nonprofits that he decided to start his own. ‘Lifting the Burden’ acts as a sidekick to ‘Burden the Bear,’ providing grants to organizations to help acquire their own plushies.<\/p>\n

Watch the video above to learn more and visit BurdenTheBear.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByMatteo Iadonisi Thursday, May 7, 2026 12:40PM PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — After a life-changing accident, Eric Wyatt decided to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1874,79460,35631,79461,36882,22414,83092,83093,69,71,70,83091,59483],"class_list":["post-186251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-accident","tag-burden-the-bear","tag-comeback","tag-eric-wyatt","tag-grief","tag-healing","tag-life-changing","tag-lifting-the-burden","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-plush-animals","tag-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}