Tendrils of Grief
226 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago -Grievers and grief professionals share their personal stories and describe what was helpful for them or their clients in working through grief. This podcast will outline steps to have hope and build meaning into your life.
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Talking About Death and Dying with Sherrie Barch
July 25, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBSusan, your host, welcomes Sherrie Barch to today’s episode. Sherry is the CEO of two Forbes-ranked top executive search firms and a leadership consulting company. Sherrie is married with three sons. As a mom, she describes herself as a part-time pancreas for her two youngest sons who were both diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes within the same year. Playing this role for the last 12 years, she is relentlessly creating open and honest communication with her family and friends about this ch...
Life After the Death of Your Loved One with Carol Fitzgerald
July 18, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBSusan welcomes Carol Fitzgerald to today’s episode. Carol is a vibrant, passionate, fun-loving, young-spirited woman. Through coaching, searching, group settings, and the death of her husband, she learned three very important life lessons late in the game. She has longevity in her family background and since learning these lessons, she wants to live life to its absolute fullest with no regrets and offers ideas in her sixth book Living a Vibrant Life At Any Age: Creating Love, Joy, & Connect...
Grief Has No Due Date with Allison Perkins
July 11, 2022 08:55 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MBSusan, your host, welcomes a recurring guest to today’s episode, Allison Perkins. Allison lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and two sons. She is a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP), currently working with children with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders), and has also worked with adults in Skilled Nursing Facilities. Though professionally she is an SLP, she has always been passionate about writing. She has her own personal blog, HeartSoulStomach, which was created after her mother died...
No One Should Grieve Alone with Shirley Thiessen
July 04, 2022 09:03 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBSusan, your host, welcomes Shirley Thiessen to today’s episode. Shirley states that grief is our common human experience, and yet, we live in a death-denying, grief-avoidant society. Most people don’t know what is helpful to say or do in support of someone who is grieving, often, it feels awkward. Shirley was one of those people who felt uncertain about how to express empathy to people suffering a devastating loss. Then abruptly, grief ambushed Shirley’s family. Twelve days after...
Grieving the Loss of Who You Used to Be with Avery Thatcher
June 27, 2022 05:57 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBSusan, your host, decided to receive a special guest for today’s episode, Avery Thatcher, who is the CEO and founder of the Inner Stillness Outer Chaos Podcast and the Flow State Membership. When she started her career as a Registered Nurse working in the ICU, she noticed that the majority of the reasons people found themselves in the ICU were because of illnesses and diseases that could be linked to chronic stress. She decided to get out of the reactive side of medicine and now helps highl...
The Murder of My High School Daughter Forever Changed Me with Veronica Bratcher
June 20, 2022 04:00 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBSusan, your host, welcomes Veronica Bratcher to today’s episode. Veronica is a licensed mental health therapist and transformation coach, specializing in grief and trauma. She helps parents and professionals facing anxiety and mending broken hearts understand their own experience of loss so that they can find healing and deeper, fulfilling relationships with themselves and others in their life. She demystifies the healing process of bringing body and mind together through individual work as ...
A Tsunami of Misery with Yolanda Copes-Stepney
June 13, 2022 06:28 - 44 minutes - 61.2 MBSusan, your host, welcomes you to another episode of The Tendrils of Grief Podcast, this time she is accompanied by Yolanda Copes-Stepney who is a founder, development producer, anti-racism and EDI educator, and podcaster. After gaining her degree in journalism, she went on to become a PR, events, and digital content specialist working for national and global brands. In 2016 she founded Speak&Do, representing influencers, talent, and speakers. Yolanda considers herself an anti-racism a...
Honor Your Loss with Kathryn E. Nuñez
June 06, 2022 04:00 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBSusan is accompanied by Kathryn E. Nuñez in today’s episode. Kathryn is the founder of The Social Selling Agency. She is a LinkedIn Marketing Expert and a Top Visibility Thought leader. She is an authority on sales and, has built a rapid-growing following of over 30,000 professionals. Kathryn has a long grief story, that began when she was only 14 years old and is made of eight devastating losses. Kathryn learned to live and thrive while healing, and today she shares the tools that hav...
The Gifts in Grief with Jane Duncan Rogers
May 30, 2022 04:00 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MBSusan is accompanied to today’s episode by the award-winning coach and speaker, Jane Duncan Rogers who says “I was devastated when my husband died – this was not in our plans! My greatest fear had come true, my life had completely changed, I was on my own again at age 54, too young to be an old widow, but too old to be a young one. However, little did I know that three years on I would be publishing a book called Gifted By Grief. How could I be gifted by this terrible loss? And yet I was – a...
Losing a Parent: A Son’s Grieving Journey with Michael J. Florio
May 23, 2022 06:04 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBSusan, your host, welcomes Michael J. Florio to today’s episode. Michael is an American independent comic book editor and writer working out of Biloxi, Mississippi. He graduated from Full Sail University with his bachelor’s and master’s in creative writing for entertainment. Currently, he works as a copy editor and writer for Inked Studios, a small crowdfunding think tank that helps comics creators, new and old, market their books. His work can be found in various independent comics such as ...
Dealing with Unsolicited Grief Advice with Silke Herwald
May 16, 2022 06:23 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MBSilke Herwald is the Grief Specialist and inventor of the “Grief to Love” blueprint. Over the past 12 years, Silke has assisted hundreds of grieving clients online, in person, and with her “Grief To Love” courses. Silke supports bereaved women and teaches grief counselors, Hypnotherapists, and Psychologists her groundbreaking “Grief To Love” blueprint. She is an international speaker and grief awareness advocate. Silke understands the many misconceptions about grief and that ther...
Leaving Behind A Legacy with Jonathan Wess
May 09, 2022 07:20 - 33 minutes - 46 MBSusan, your host, welcomes you to another episode of The Tendrils of Grief Podcast. Today, she is accompanied by Jonathan Wess, CEO and Founder of TimeCapsule Family Connections, LLC, a company that is helping people everywhere to leave a legacy for their families after they’re gone. Jonathan founded the company in 2018. He graduated in Political Science, Entrepreneurship, and Human Resources from Canisius College, Class of 2021. He has more than 10 years of experience in business and manage...
Pet Grief: Losing the Unconditional Love of Your Pet with Dr. Michele Pfannenstiel
May 02, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes - 58.1 MBSusan, your host, welcomes Dr. Michele Pfannenstiel to today’s episode. Dr. Pfannenstiel is a veteran veterinarian turned business coach and food safety strategist. The products Michele has created have been transformative, generating millions of dollars in revenue for her clients in just a few years. Dr. Pfannenstiel is known in her industry for being an innovator, and she is on a mission to transform the lives of veterinarians across the country. Dr. Michele Pfannenstiel is sharing today...
The Silent Bond Between Mental Illness’s Stigma and Suicide with Marci Glidden Savage
April 25, 2022 07:04 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MBMarci Glidden Savage is the CEO of a family-owned packaging supply company. After experiencing the catastrophic impact of suicide twice, Marci emerges as a fierce proponent for eliminating the social stigma attached to mental illness which keeps many individuals battling depression and anxiety from seeking help. Marci is the author of And No One Saw It Coming, a book that she wrote with the intention of bringing more awareness to suicide, its prevalence in the U.S.A., how it impacts f...
Relating to the Spirit World with Christina Wooten
April 18, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes - 58.8 MBChristina Wooten is a Certified Psychic Medium who helps heart-centered women access the wisdom and support of the Spirit World to elevate their life. She enjoys teaching others to access their intuition and discover their own connection with the other side. She is also the host of Modern Life and Spirit Podcast where she shares topics such as intuitive living and integrating spiritual philosophy into everyday life. Christina shares in today’s episode how we can all learn to ask, reco...
Don’t Let Grief Become Your Identity with Reverend Mark Sowersby
April 11, 2022 06:33 - 36 minutes - 50 MBReverend Mark Sowersby has been married to his wonderful wife Jennifer for 17 years and is the father of four children. Mark has been an ordained minister with Assembly of God for over 25 years and is currently the Pastor of Calvary Community Church in Dudley, MA. Pastor Mark holds a BA in theology from Zion Bible College/Northpoint Bible College. In 2019, Pastor Mark went through a time of great healing. He began speaking about the experiences of his past and God’s grace and the trans...
Dating After Losing Your Partner: Are You Ready to Meet Someone New? with Sandy Weiner
April 04, 2022 04:00 - 43 minutes - 60 MBSusan, your host, welcomes Sandy Weiner to today’s episode. Sandy Weiner, is the founder of Last First Date and The Woman of Value, she is an internationally known TEDx speaker, dating and relationship coach, women’s empowerment coach, NLP certified coach, author, and podcast host. She believes a woman of value gets the respect she deserves in life and love. Sandy is the author of Becoming a Woman of Value: How to Thrive in Life and Love. Her work has been published in Mind Body Gre...
Grieving Doesn’t Have to Feel Lonely and Abandoned with Shannon MacFarlane
March 28, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutes - 84.1 MBSusan, your host, is accompanied by Shannon MacFarlane to today’s episode. Shannon is a compassionate human and grief enthusiast who creates art around big emotions (and teaches self-professed non-artists how to do the same). She started her first photography business in 2009 and decided in 2013 that end-of-life and medical stories were the ones that called to her, so she did what people told her she couldn't and became a grief photographer and memorial artist. Today, Shannon shares he...
Grief Is a Sneaky Monster with Sherrie Dunlevy
March 21, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes - 58 MBSusan, your host, is accompanied by Sherrie Dunlevy to today’s episode. Former NBC News Anchor Sherrie Dunlevy served the Wheeling, WV area for nearly 30 years, both on television and radio. Today, she is a best-selling author, inspirational speaker, and the Founder of the Graduating Grief Academy and online support community, host of the Graduating Grief podcast and is also an Aging Awesomely Coach. Her Number one best-selling book How Can I Help?: Your Go-to Guide For Helping Loved One...
AfterGrief: Reassembling Your Identity Long After a Loss with Peg Conway
March 14, 2022 04:00 - 33 minutes - 45.3 MBSusan, your host, welcomes Peg Conway to today’s episode. Peg writes and practices healing touch therapy in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she also volunteers at The Children’s Grief Center. Her essays about early mother loss and long-term grieving have appeared at The Manifestation, The Cincinnati Enquirer, and The Mighty. After earning a Master’s in Journalism and working in Corporate Communications, she became a certified Childbirth Educator and Doula. Peg is the author of The Art of Reassembly...
Grieving a Sibling with Alyse Oram
March 07, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutes - 51.1 MBSusan is accompanied to today’s episode by Alyse Oram. Alyse’s grief journey started in 2016 with the loss of a childhood friend, then her younger brother six months later. While processing her loss, she became aware of the limited resources available to sibling loss specifically and the discomfort she witnessed from others when discussing the topic. Alyse and her family created a local summer camp scholarship fund in honor of her late brother as a way of creating positivity from tragedy. W...
Normalizing Death: An Unavoidable Part of the Cycle of Life with Laah Wallace
February 28, 2022 05:00 - 42 minutes - 57.7 MBLaah Wallace is a writer and dreamer, a recovering social worker turned mushroom farmer and business consultant. Her personal and professional lives have been steeped in grief, each loss cumulative and heavy and left her floating and untethered after the loss of both parents and a sibling. As with the dynamism of loss and life, the grief waxes and wanes but is ever-present, now a welcome reminder of the collection of loves gained and loves transformed and the longing for a reconnection. ...
Raising Siblings Bereaved with Loss with Michele Benyo
February 21, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes - 60.9 MBMichele Benyo is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, parent mentor, and founder of Good Grief Parenting, whose purpose is to support parents who are raising young bereaved siblings after child loss. Her mission is to be a voice for the youngest of grievers and to help parents nurture and understand the unique needs of children who have lost a sibling in early childhood. When Michele’s six-year-old son died of cancer, her daughter said, "Mommy, half of me is gone." She was just 3 1/2 y...
Grief Is a Chronic Pain Experience with Elizabeth Kipp
February 14, 2022 05:00 - 34 minutes - 46.8 MBSusan welcomes Elizabeth Kipp to today’s episode. Elizabeth is a Chronic Pain Specialist, Yoga-Informed Addiction Recovery Coach, Ancestral Clearing® Practitioner, Yoga and Meditation Teacher, and international best-selling author of The Way Through Chronic Pain: Tools to Reclaim Your Healing Power. She focuses on helping people realize the power of their inherent healing. Elizabeth healed from over 40 years of chronic pain, including anxiety, panic attacks, and 32 years of addiction to p...
A Memoir: Another Way of Processing Grief with Caroline Nadine Helsing
February 07, 2022 05:00 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MBSusan, your host, welcomes Caroline Nadine Helsing to today’s episode. She is an alumna of The University of Hawaii. She currently lives in Newport Beach, California with her husband and their dog, Daisy. Unapologetic: Tales of the Original Party Crasher is her debut book and is the heartfelt story of a daughter processing the loss of her mother while she examines and celebrates her mother’s story through clues and memories left behind, she weaves an entertaining account of a complicated,...
Losses Are Inevitable, You Are Not Alone with Amanda Ferrat
January 31, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes - 53 MBAmanda Farrat is the founder of Value Yourself Counseling, a certified emotional wellness counselor, Advanced EFT Practitioner, and professional speaker. Amanda has a prolonged history of education and experience in the mental health and wellness field and social services. She received her undergraduate degree in Family Science from Montana State University and later pursued a Master of Social Work. Amanda left the program to attend to her own needs after facing numerous difficult losses in ...
Our Grief Is Unique with Dr. Kevin J. Payne
January 24, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBDr. Kevin J. Payne joins Susan in today's episode. He is a scientist, entrepreneur, and author. He's spent 15 years as a professor and a decade as a startup founder and consulting data scientist. He had the life he loved shredded by decades battling multiple sclerosis. When he lost everything he cared about, he decided to rebuild his life by facing the fear of his uncooperative body in the air and becoming a skydiver. 600 jumps later (and counting), he is at home in the sky. Born from ...
Signs: The Magic of Being Connected to Someone Who has Passed with Carmen De La Russe
January 17, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBSusan is joined in today’s episode by Carmen De La Russe who is a self-independent writer who decided to embrace her mother’s passing by writing poetry. Carmen is 28 years young, one year ago her mother passed away from complications of COVID and she is still learning to cope with this huge loss day by day. Carmen decided to write away all her pain and published her very first poetry book Poesia en Los Labios which is dedicated to her dear mother, Aurora. This book contains poems about ...
Grieving Through the Holidays with Susan Ways
January 10, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBSusan welcomes you to a special New Year’s episode of Tendrils of Grief Podcast. This is a solo episode, where Susan shares the tools that can help you make it through each day at this particular time of the year. Remember that it is ok not to be ok, and in your grief journey, there will be good and bad days. Listen to this episode and learn how to interrupt that deep grief for a moment, focus on something different, and find moments of peace in your life. Key Takeaways: How do you sh...
Sad, Lonely, Grieving, and Still Having a Good Life with Heather Dempsey
January 03, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes - 55.8 MBSusan welcomes Heather Dempsey to today’s episode. She is an emotional health coach and Mentor for life and business. Heather is a cat-loving foodie, personal development coach and self-care enthusiast who has helped hundreds of anxious and overwhelmed individuals and service-based entrepreneurs create radical emotional and mindset transformations so that they thrive. She supports her clients — from feeling hopeless, unhappy, and stressed, as if life would never going to be any different fro...
Grieving Is Also Learning How to Take Care of Yourself with Samantha Ruth
December 27, 2021 05:00 - 45 minutes - 61.9 MBSusan welcomes Samantha Ruth to today’s episode. Samantha is a Psychologist, Speaker, Best Selling Author, and the Proud Founder of Griefhab: a 24/7 support community open to anyone who has experienced a loss. She helps people around the world turn their pain into their power by guiding them to be their true selves not who they think they need to be, by embracing their differences, and by living life on their own terms. Samantha's mission is to change the way the world views both grief and...
Grief Is Personal and No One Should Tell You How To Grieve - with Katherine Barner
December 20, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MBKatherine Barner is a Grief & Trauma Expert, Award-Winning Author, and Licensed Psychotherapist. Katherine specializes in equipping Black women survivors of childhood sexual abuse as well as individuals recovering from significant loss with the skills to pursue and achieve, mental, emotional, and spiritual health leading to more productive and peaceful lives. Her ultimate goal is for survivors to know they do not have to live in the shadows of abuse. In today’s episode, Susan and Kathe...
Stillbirth: Loving Someone You Lost with Maria Price
December 13, 2021 05:00 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBMaria Price accompanies Susan to today’s episode. Maria is a teacher, a wife, and a mom. She is also the author of Love You Still, a memoir that chronicles Julia’s unexpected stillbirth at term, and the beginnings of the grief journey, complete with depression, a crisis of faith, and an unplanned pregnancy that followed. As Maria learns how to navigate life without her daughter and its impacts on her relationships and personal well-being, she has become passionate about breaking the silen...
Grief Should Never Be Done Alone with Heidi Dunstan
December 06, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutes - 58.9 MBHeidi Dunstan is a certified grief educator and best-selling author. Her passion to help others, learn more about grief, and how to support others who are grieving came after losing her husband unexpectedly almost three years ago. Her experience with friends and loved ones saying the wrong thing or completely disappearing gave her first-hand knowledge that many people have never learned how to grieve which often leaves grievers to grieve in isolation. Key Takeaways: Heidi shares her g...
Overcoming Survivors Guilt and Learning to Love Life
November 29, 2021 05:00 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBSusan welcomes Ria Ray, who is an artist, a creator, and a spiritual teacher. Her life took a defining turn when she was in her late twenties and a horrible accident took the life of her immediate family. Her need to make sense of this tragedy propelled her to look within and try to make sense of the world and understand the meaning of life. Walking through her grief, she found a determination to embrace life and love, which at the time seemed rather irrational. Ria is fully committed ...
Let Me Grieve: Gratitude and Resentment Can Coexist
November 22, 2021 05:00 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MBSusan welcomes Dr. Elizabeth Collins to today’s episode. She is the owner and director of The East West Company, an integrative wellness practice specializing in burnout recovery coaching, functional medicine, acupuncture, and more. She uses her combined backgrounds in both Eastern and biomedicines, along with her training in hypnosis to approach healing from a perspective that seeks to fully integrate the mind, body, and spirit. After experiencing and recovering from burnout, she made it h...
Getting Out of the Darkness
November 15, 2021 05:00 - 41 minutes - 57.5 MBSusan is accompanied by Leigh White, who is a Transformational Coach and Energy Healer based in Sydney Australia. Leigh has over two decades of experience in management and mentoring in the creative, publishing, entertainment, and community sectors, but her life was changed completely the day she received the news about the death of her brother who had committed suicide. She didn’t know what to do with her grief. Leigh reached out for the information and support needed to begin her healing ...
Nothing Is Really Ours
November 08, 2021 05:00 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MBSusan is accompanied to today’s episode by Kori Clausen, author of the book Paddle Out: Death Is Life-Changing. Kori does not consider herself a writer but instead claims that her husband Clint, who passed away, was the one writing it through her. Kori shares today about her grief journey and how she found peace in being present, allowing herself to feel, lowering the mean voices in her head, and experiencing gratitude for all the gifts life has granted her. Key Takeaways: Kori shares...
Sometimes You Just Need to Clear the Deck
November 01, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes - 63.3 MBReverend Anne Presuel, a recurrent guest on the podcast, joins Susan in today’s episode. Both Reverend Anne and Susan are connected in their spiritual paths, a relationship that started as a coaching-client relationship to experiencing loss and turning that around into a spiritual friendship. Key Takeaways: Reverend Anne shares her grief story and how her life pivoted unexpectedly as a result of it. The same day Anne published her book A Divine Intuitive Awakening she got a call fro...
A Horrific Death Followed By a Spiritual Healing and Awakening
October 25, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 60.5 MBIn today’s episode, Susan is joined by Myree Morsi, a soul guide and transformational therapist who since 1999 has supported people who are navigating their awakening, healing, soul alignment, and spiritual journeys. After successfully healing her own PTSD from childhood abuse, Myree is dedicated to helping others heal their trauma, claim their spiritual gifts, elevate as soulful leaders, stabilize, and befriend their awakening experiences in the midst of modern pressurized lives. She has wa...
The Sudden Tragic Death of our Teenage Daughter - facing the impossible
October 18, 2021 15:46 - 41 minutes - 57.3 MBDan and Nancy lost their daughter in a car crash and had to make the tough decision to take her off life support. Today, they help grievers get unstuck in their grief and help them with better coping mechanisms that refine the definition of what it is to be in grief. Learn about Dan and Nancy’s story on this week’s episode. Key Takeaways: A little bit about Dan and Nancy’s grief story with losing their daughter. Dan saw a little sparrow and he realized it was a sign that it was ti...
What’s It Like Surviving Near-Death Experiences
October 11, 2021 04:00 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBMichelle Clare is a Certified Medium, Angel Intuitive, Spiritual Coach, and Energy Healer. Michelle is in a unique position. She has survived three near-death experiences and each time she came out of this state, they’ve been profound. In this episode, she describes what these experiences are like, how she helps her clients reach her loved ones, and so much more! Key Takeaways: Michelle shares a little bit about herself and some of her near-death experiences. Michelle came back wit...
I’m So Sick of Being Stuck in My Grief
October 04, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 49.5 MBMichelle Chalfant is the Founder of The Adult Chair, Therapist, and a Holistic Life Coach. Michelle is also a podcast host, which dives into topics like psychology, getting unstuck, and how to work through your grief. Michelle’s work has deeply helped Susan on her grief journey and in this week’s episode, Michelle talks about learning how to work with your emotions (something we were never taught to do) in order for us to be emotionally healthy adults. Key Takeaways: Susan felt a lot ...
Suicide is On My Mind Everyday
September 27, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MBFrank King is a Suicide Prevention and Postvention Public Speaker and Trainer. He is also a Corporate Comedian and was a writer for The Tonight Show for 20 years. Frank shares his battle with depression and suicidal thoughts on this week’s episode, and why it’s so important to seek help when you seem to be spiralling down. Key Takeaways: A little bit about Frank and how he got into suicide prevention. Suicide runs in Frank’s family. He and his mother found one of his family members...
I Lost My Husband, My Mother, and Five Other Family Members Within Two Years
September 20, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MBKristyn Lohoff lost her father when she was just seven years old. Growing up without a father and seeing her friends go on “dad trips” always made her jealous, so when her husband passed, she felt such sadness in seeing her four daughters grow up without a dad as well. With the loss of seven family members in her life within a short timeframe, people around her didn’t know how to support her in her grief. Kristen shares her grief story and how she worked on honoring her husband after he pass...
How to Support a Child in Grief After a Parent Passes Away
September 13, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBJoin Susan on this solo episode as she talks about a grief situation that came up recently in her life. One of her friend’s daughters, who is college-aged, is still struggling with the death of her father 7 years later. She is stuck in a phrase that she can’t seem to get out of. How do we support the young adults and children in our lives who have experienced something very painful and traumatic? Susan shares tips and her advice on this week’s episode. Key Takeaways: How do children ...
Suicidal Ideation: After My Husband Committed Suicide, I Wanted to End It All
September 06, 2021 06:57 - 43 minutes - 59.2 MBJanie Dalrymple has been a nurse for over 17 years including hospital-based bedside care, home health, and the outpatient clinical setting. She has a strong neurology background and was a Clinic Coordinator for an ALS Clinic for several years. After the unexpected death of her husband and mother at a young age, Janie felt the need to advocate for others finding it difficult to navigate the healthcare system, including dealing with end-of-life issues. Janie shares what life looks like after h...
Why Is Connecting With Another Human Being Scarier Than Dying?
August 30, 2021 07:39 - 44 minutes - 61 MBDavid Richman is an Entrepreneur, Author, Public Speaker, Athlete and Philanthropist. David might not have lived to see 40. Overweight, a heavy smoker, in a destructive marriage trying to protect two kids, prone to extremes, he was not a happy man, but really wanted to be. After his sister became diagnosed with terminal cancer, that was the wake-up call David needed to live a more authentic life. In this week’s episode, David talks about his latest book, Cycle of Lives and digs deep into why...
Don’t Tell Me What To Do After My Spouse Dies
August 23, 2021 20:38 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBJill Johnson-Young is the Co-Founder and Clinical Therapist at Central Counseling Services, where she and her team provide the highest quality care for individuals and families seeking assistance with life's challenges. Jill’s areas of expertise include grief and loss, children's grief, dementia support for families, adoption related issues, LGBT issues, and so much more. Jill has lost two spouses to illness and shares her story on this week’s episode and the frustrating experience she had w...
The Tumor Was Coming Back and There Was Nothing I Could Do About It
August 16, 2021 01:00 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBAshley Jackson discovered that her husband had developed a rare form of cancer, with only a 35% chance of survival, this event has forever changed Ashley’s purpose in life. Not only was Ashley planning her wedding, but she also found herself being a caregiver to her future husband at the young age of 31 years old. Life threw Ashley into a hurricane, and with three years in, Ashley shares what her grief journey has been like and how she and her husband have adapted to this new normal of regul...