Let’s Talk Death:
Conversations to Inform and Inspire
It’s time to take the “taboo” out of the topics surrounding dying, death, and grief.
Our core belief here at HealGrief is that no one should ever grieve alone, that is why we are always evolving to bring you more social support services and programs! Let’s Talk Death, is our newest venture.
Our goal with this program is to help inform our HealGrief community and the community at large about issues related to grief and loss, while also inspiring individuals to further explore topics that feel relevant in their life.
This web-based show is a hybrid between a podcast and a webinar. Every month we will bring you a 15-20 minute pre-recorded episode that lets you listen in to a casual conversation with guests and show hosts. Let’s Talk Death episodes will bring you topics such as end of life issues, pre-planning, and grief as seen by researchers, authors, bereavement support professionals, bereaved individuals, and community members. *
Would you like to be a guest speaker here on Let’s Talk Death? Then tell us about yourself in a submission inquiry. Inquiry request
*As we value the opinions and beliefs of all our guests, they are not necessarily the views and opinions of HealGrief® and its programs.
Meet your Hosts
Fran Solomon
Fran is the Founder of HealGrief® a 501(c)3 non-profit providing the tools, resources and programming to guide one’s journey with grief into a healthy post bereavement growth after a death.
Andy McNiel MA
Andy is an author and educator on topics related to grief and loss. He is a managing partner with The Satori Group, offering education in grief and loss support, and providing management and consulting to nonprofit organizations.
We are honored to be co-hosting Let’s Talk Death because we believe these “tough topics” should have a place in our society and we hope to provide another way for people to find hope in the midst of grief. you can listen to all Let’s Talk Death episodes in many of you favorite podcast applications.
Meet Our Guests
Anita Moorjani
Author, Dying To Be Me
In this episode, Anita speaks about her near-death experience, what it taught her, and how it made a profound difference in how she chooses to live her life today.
Scarlett Lewis
Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation
In this episode, Scarlett shares how her son’s message inspired her to create the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation. Six year old Jesse Lewis saved lives but lost his own as his friends escaped the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
Kara Bowman, LMFT
Author, Heartbreak to Hope, Poems of Support for Grief and Loss
In this episode, Kara speaks about the importance of diving deeper than just questioning what’s wrong? Instead, she encourages an answer to the question, what happened to you? In that answer, healing begins.
Mark Anthony
Author, Fourth-Generation Psychic Medium
In this episode, Mark shares his childhood experience as a psychic medium and what it was like being the child of psychic medium parents. He also shares the importance of signs and how we should trust them as messages from those who have transitioned.
Paul Perry
Documentary Filmmaker, Author
In this episode, Paul is asked, when, during your research in the afterlife, did you become a believer? Paul recalls a particular woman whose experience led him to believe her consciousness truly did leave her body.
Raymond Moody, M.D. Ph.D.
Founder, Life After Life Institute, Author
In this episode, Raymond shares how his interest in the afterlife began. The afterlife was very counterintuitive to his way of thinking. Yet today, he can’t think his way out of it.
Kyle Lowder
Emmy-Nominated & Award Winning Actor & Producer
In this episode, Kyle recalls his first grief experience at the age of 16, after the death of his best friend was killed in an auto accident. He touches on how his personal experience with death loss helped him in his character role in the soon to be released motion picture film, The Ravine.
AnnaLynne McCord
American Actress, Writer, Director & Producer
In this episode, AnnaLynne reveals her personal experience of death loss and how that affected her as a child. She exposes her moment contemplating suicide and how recalling the grief she and her mother experienced after her grandfather’s suicide interfered with her ability to take her own life.
Dr. Christopher Kerr
Hospice Palliative Care-Buffalo, CEO & CMO
Author, Death Is But A Dream
In this episode, Dr. Kerr shares his research on the dreams end-of-life patients experience and how he inadvertently realized a connection to his personal experience as a 12-year-old boy at his father’s bedside during his own dad’s end-of-life.
Joyal Mulheron
Founder, Evermore
In this episode, Joyal shares she encountered few support systems before, during, and after the death of her daughter. Given the significant hardships families face, Joyal shares her hopes, and efforts to change the landscape for bereaved families because losing a child…changes everything.
Jason Holzer
Author, Shattered by Suicide, Renewed by Resilience
In this episode, Jason shares his story about the day he learned of his father’s suicide. He speaks about how “just” being heard had an impact on his ability to move forward and how the birth of his firstborn set him on a personal mission of instilling positive affirmation and self-worth into the daily lives of youth.
Dr. Katherine Shear
Founder & Executive Director, Center for Complicated Grief
In this episode, Dr. Shear shares her journey into the field and speaks about the method used in diagnosing and treating what some commonly refer to as complicated grief.
Dr. Jeff Spiess
Author, Dying with Ease
In this episode, Dr. Spiess recognized how the medical community failed patients that they could no longer help. This awareness led him towards deepening relationships with those dying, and how it led him to author, Dying with Ease: A compassionate Guide to Making Wiser End-of-Life Decisions.
Hope Edelman
Author
In this episode, Hope shares her story about her grief after her mother lost her battle to cancer and how the “dark ages” of grief left her with no support. Now decades later, she writes the AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss.
Dr. Santosh Kesari
Neurologist & Neuro-oncologist, Chair & Professor, Saint John’s Cancer Institute
In this episode, Dr. Kesari talks about his 20 years of working with patients suffering a deadly disease. He speaks about how his patients and their families are like his own and how his connection to them gave him a deep understanding of living and dying.
Dr. Akanksha Sharma
Neurologist, Neuro-oncologist & Palliative Medine, Pacific Neuroscience Institute
In this episode, Akanksha shares how a patient under her care became the inspiration for her work in palliative medicine. She shares her perspective on the need for doctors to have “the conversation” with patients facing a terminal illness and their families.
James Mueller
Author, Lyrics of a Broken Heart
In this episode, Jim talks about his son’s challenging life, the impact Luke’s death had on his family dynamics, how new family bonds needed to be formed. He discusses how his personal journaling, now a book called “Lyrics of a Broken Heart: A Father’s Journey Toward Wholeness,” transformed his grief into hope and healing.
Dr. Sharon Prentice
Author, Becoming Starlight
In this episode, Dr. Prentice talks about how her faith was shattered after her daughter’s death and the anger she lived with until her husband’s death. She speaks of her “shared death experience” during her husband’s death eight years later and how that restored her faith and ability to love and be happy again.
Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D.
Portland Institute for Loss and Transition
In this episode, Dr. Neimeyer helps us take a more in-depth look into the idea of how we can utilize meaning-making in our grief while talking about how it has made a positive impact on his journey.
Paul Malley
Aging with Dignity, President
In this episode, Paul helps demystify advanced care planning while talking about the numerous benefits it may provide for individuals and families. He also discusses why he connects deeply to the mission of Aging with Dignity.
Dr. Donna Schurrman
Doughy Center, Executive Director, Author, Never the Same: Coming to Terms with the Death of a Parent
In this episode, Dr. Schurrman discusses how our society can influence how we grieve. Her candid nature helps us feel empowered to take our grief back as our own and make sure we honor our own journey.
Mary Robinson, MA, CT
Imagine, Executive Director & Founder
In this episode, Mary shares about her father’s death and the traumatic events that followed. And how she and her brother, teens at the time, down a path of challenging behaviors. She said, “We are not bad kids; we were just sad kids.”
Ora Nadrich
Institute for Transformational Thinking, Author
In this episode, Ora Nadrich inspires us to think about our innate skill of mindfulness as a superpower in our lives. She helps us look at the benefits of mindfulness and how the courage to be present can help us fully appreciate our grief journey.
Tricia LaVoice
Author, Wishes for the Mother’s Heart
In this episode, Tricia LaVoice shares her personal experience to help us see that even though we may not always talk about our struggles, we are more alike than we are different amid grief. She highlights how finding connections and outlets for our grief can help us see that grief doesn’t always have to be such a lonely journey.
Heather L. Servaty-Seib, Ph.D., HSPP
Purdue University
Co-Author, We Get It
In this episode, Dr. Servaty-Seib‘s passion for the grieving young adult population shines through as she helps to raise awareness about the unique issues she sees not only on her campus, Purdue University, but also themes that have emerged from her research.
Dr. David Fajgenbaum
Castleman Disease Collaborative Network, Co-Founder & Executive Director
Co-Author, We Get It
In this episode, Dr. Fajgenbaum discusses how his personal experiences with grief had led him to not only look for every opportunity to live life to the fullest and look for hope in some of the darkest times but how to also write about it to inspire others.
Briana Megid
Young Adult
In this episode, Briana Megid shares her experience and why advocating for suicide awareness is so important in her life.
Susan Mah
The Loss Project, Founder
In this episode, Susan Mah helps us explore The Loss Project, what it means to her, and how art can be an excellent outlet for grief and healing.
Kate Etter
Medical Student
In this episode, Kate shares her story on what it was like to be a bereaved young adult attending college. She speaks about how she seeks to incorporate grief work into her practice and to ensure her patients feel supported in times of grief.
Renee Lund
Student
In this episode, Renee talks about her experience as a 7th grader knowing that her mother was going to die and the journey of her grief, before, during and after her mom’s death.
David Forstadt
Jade Recovery, CEO
In this episode, David Forstadt helps us take a more in-depth look into the intricacies that can be woven between the unique issues individuals can face in coping with painful life experiences such as grief and addiction.
Kate Longly
Photographer
Emma Payne
Grief Coach, Founder
In this episode, Emma discusses her own experience with grief and how the silence of others led her on a journey to create Grief Coach, a text messaging service empowering others to support those they love after a death loss.
Denny Strickland
Singer, Song Writer
In this episode, Denny talks about the “Real World” issues that families face and how they are often amplified during the holiday season. Denny also shed’s light on why he connected with HealGrief.
Scott & Pammy Kramer
Dancing While Cancering, Co-Founders
In this episode, the Kramer’s share how their daughter, Maddie, only 2 1/2 years old, gave them life and inspiration even in her death. They share how they speak of Maddie every day talking with her little sister, who only had Maddie alive for less than a year.
Alexa Bigwarfe
Author, Sunshine After the Storm: A Survival Guide for the Grieving Mother
In this episode, Alexa shares her story on what would have been her daughter’s 8th birthday. She speaks on the struggles of grieving a twin’s death while celebrating the other’s birth and the choice she made, turning her anger into healing.
Alicia Coppola
Actress, Author, Gracefully Gone
In this episode, Alicia Coppola introduces her book, Gracefully Gone, and gets real about how her grief journey has changed her life and encourages all of us to “be loud” when it comes to grief.
Peggy Talken
Founder, Pink Star Foundation
In this episode, Peggy shares her story about her beloved daughter and how forgiveness played such an essential role in her grief journey. Forgiveness allowed her to begin her journey to heal after her daughter was killed in a fatal boating accident.
Jillian Blueford
Grief & Loss Scholar
In this episode, Jillian shares how as a teenager, after her mother died, she maintained A’s in school, kept good friends, and never got into trouble. So everyone thought she was okay and a “good griever.”
Clarissa Thibeaux
Actor, Podcast co-host, Abandonment Issues
In this episode, Clarissa goes back in time and shares her experience after her father died from cirrhosis of the liver and kidney failure when she was 11 years old and became an orphan at age 12 when her mother lost her two-year battle to cancer.
Sarah Corbett Lynch
Actress, Author, Singer-Songwriter
In this episode, Sarah shares her story about her journey with grief and how she hopes her books inspire and help others to find hope and happiness again, as she did.
Colet Abedi
Writer, Author & Producer
In this episode, Colet shares her personal story with grief, how it changed her life, and changed her too. She speaks about how others were waiting for her to be back to herself. They didn’t understand that grief and its impact changed her forever.
Heidi Herzon
Executive Producer for Film & Television
In this episode, Heidi has an honest and hope-filled conversation about her experience as a grieving young adult. She shares her perspective on how this has helped shaped her life and encourages others to embrace grief in their own way.
Lynn Snyder
Common Ground Grief Center
In this episode, Lynn speaks about her calling and how she turned it into a bereavement care center for children and the inspiration behind her new book, Little Ruby’s Big Change- Talking with Children About Loss, Change and Hope.
Ilene Smith
Author, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
In this episode, Ilene speaks about Somatic Experiencing and the important role it played on helping her to heal through her own personal grief journey after her husband’s death.
Kimberly Carter-Gamble
Producer, Director & Writer
In this episode, Kimberly shares insights into her raw experience of grief. She journeyed around the world in search of alternative healing methods and how she integrated them into her healing.
Brook Griese, PhD
Judi’s House & JAG Institute, Co-Founder
In this episode, Brook talks about a touching moment that brought clarity to her professional path and the much needed work of Judi’s House and the JAG Institute, where practice informed evidence and research come together.
Dale Larson
Professor, Researcher, Author
In this episode, Dale shares his experience after his brother’s death and grief journey and how his brother’s death may have led him to his work.
Greg Adams
The Center for Good Mourning, Program Coordinator
In this episode, Greg shares his experiences with grief as a young boy and the inspiring lessons he learned. He shares the inspiration to his book, Adam Gets Back Into The Game and his hope to inspire children of all ages.
Allison Gilbert
Author, Speaker, Journalist
In this episode, Allison shares her personal journey with grief and speaks passionately about the importance of keeping memories of loved ones alive and her Memory Bash® events to celebrate them.
Miki Speer
Author, Musician, Talk Show Host
In this episode, Miki speaks to her experience as a 13-year-old who struggled to “feel” normal after her mother’s death and why she had to finally embrace her grief, about ten years later.
Cheryl Jones, M.S.
Grief Counselor, Educator, Radio Host
In this episode, Cheryl shares her story about living with her wife’s cancer for about ten years, the grief following her death, and how it led to her work as a bereavement care professional.
Joe Asteroid
English Singer-Songwriter
In this episode, Joe shares her personal journey and recalls the news of her mother’s losing battle with cancer, and how her grief connected her with a meaningful friendship and influenced her writing and music.
Heron Wolf
Italian Singer-Songwriter
In this episode, Heron shares his grief story and how it connected him to a meaningful friendship. He speaks about how grief influences his music and connects him to his audience.
Guy Casablanca
Funeral Director, Mortician, Speaker, Author
In this episode, Guy shares his passion for his work and the inspiration that lead him to co-author, along with his brother, The Dying Art of Leadership: How Leaders Can Help Grieving Employees Excel at Work.
Harold Ivan Smith
Speaker, Author, Counselor, Grief Educator
In this episode, Harold shares a childhood experience that remains very present today, which perhaps led him into the bereavement care field and his writings. Harold speaks about his most recent book, Almost Everything Worth Knowing about Harry S Truman and the grief experienced in Truman’s life.
Martha Handler
Actress, Author, Conservationist
In this episode, Martha talks about her grief journey and how wolves seemed to play a role in her life. She shares her experiences of seeing decedents and spirits and how her friend’s son channeled through her and inspired her writing.
Bonnie Carroll
Founder, TAPS
In this episode, Bonnie shares her story about her grief experience and the support she hoped to find. Although services were available, she explains why they weren’t helpful and how that disappointment led her to the creation of TAPS, Tragedy Assist Program for Survivors.
Noah Cochron, MSW
Co-Founder, COVID Grief Network
In this episode, Noah shares their grief experience of being an adolescent when their father died and then a young adult when their mother died. Living in a world as a young person without parents “with big grief and big love” led them to their work.
Chloe Zelkha
Educator, Spiritual Caregiver, Co-Founder, COVID Grief Network
In this episode, Chloe shares her grief experience as a young adult and the reckoning that we can all die at any moment. How that awareness brought sadness, rage, and also wisdom and a deepening for her own story.
Kelly Pascuzzi
Co-Producer, The Ravine
In this episode, Kelly talks about a calling she and her husband had to create a fictional motion picture based on personal experience. Her hope is to bring a universal message of hope and forgiveness.
Robert Pascuzzi
Author & Co-Producer, The Ravine
In this episode, Robert talks about a calling he had to author the novel, The Ravine and how it developed into a fictional motion picture. He spoke about his journey creating the film and how amazingly each actor was able to portray the true grief experience through the various characters throughout the film.
John Abraham
Founder, Choice with Dignity
In this episode, John talks about his work with Choice and Dignity, a right to die nonprofit organization offering end-of-life advocacy to enable everyone to have a “good death.”
Joanne Steen
Author & Founder, Grief Works
In this episode, Joanne reflects on her experience after the death of her husband and how that experience inadvertently shaped her career and the work she know does.
Ken Ross
President, EKR Foundation, Photographer
In this episode, Ken shares his journey caring for his mother in the last years of her life and what it was like to be Elizabeth Kubler Ross’s son. Ken also speaks about his passion as a photographer.
Ken Doka
Author, Speaker, Consultant
In this episode, Ken shares how he inadvertently ended up working with children with cancer and how that experience shaped his career and life’s work. Ken also speaks about his research with disenfranchised grief.
Ta’Shay Mason
Author, Army Veteran, Facilitator
In this episode, Ta’Shay shares her memories back to when she was a nine-year-old little girl and experienced grief after her father’s death. She shares about the impact suppressing her emotions had through her adult life, and as a mature woman, she is finally facing her grief.
Vivian Nunez
Writer, Speaker, Content Creator, Founder, Too Damn Young!
In this episode, Vivian shares about her grief experienced when her mother died as a ten-year-old, and then her primary care-giver, her grandmother, died as a young adult attending college. She shares how she sought support and others who would understand, but there weren’t any.
Barbara Karnes, R.N.
Hospice Innovator, Speaker, Author
In this episode, Barbara shares an experience from when she was a 16-year-old nurse’s aide asked to sit with someone dying. Terrified to do so, she was told to let them know, meaning the nurse’s station, when they died.
Lynne Hughes, C.E.O.
Comfort Zone Camp (CZC)
In this episode, Lynne shares her grief experience after her mother died when she was nine years old. Three years later, the day before junior high started, her father died, leaving her an orphan. Not wanting to be known as the girl with the dead parents, she showed up that first day of school.
Ronnie Walker MS, LCPC
Founder & Executive Director, Alliance for Hope
In this episode, Ronnie shares about the suicide of her 21 year old step-son. She says, “when he ended his life, it was like a grenade that exploded in our household.” Although she was a counselor at the time, she said nothing had prepared her.
Carol Schoneberg
Hospice Educator & Grief Counselor
In this episode, Carol shares an experience of grief. She was in her early 20’s when a friend jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. It was the first suicide or death she had experienced of a close friend. She remembers how nobody talked about it; no one talked about anything.
Tara Ferriola, Psy.D.
Author, Love Legacy Guidebook
In this episode, Tara explains, as she got older, she wishes she had more memories and connections to her grandmother, who died when she was nine. She shares how her children’s book became that tool to create them during her mother’s end-of-life.
Dr. Joshua Black
Grief Researcher, Speaker, Author, Podcast Host: Grief Dreams
In this episode, Dr. Black shares how life after his father’s death had no color. Until one morning, he remembered his dream of having a loving and peaceful exchange with his father. Life was full of color again.
Grace Rector
Author, The Rector Girls
In this episode, Grace shares how her writing, The Rector Girls, about her and her mother’s life was cathartic and painful at the same time, evoking hours of tears.
Jacob Cooper, LCSW
Certified Reiki Master, and Certified Hypnotherapist
In this episode, Jacob shares his near-death experience as a young child of three years old and how that experience led him into his career and writing.
Reid Peterson
Founder, The Grief Refuge App
In this episode, Reid shares how surprised he was about the level of grief he experienced after his step-fathers death and how it brought to surface grief from his Dad’s death from years earlier.
Anthony Mercer
Coach, Author: Sports Heaven: Why Sports is a Haven for the Fatherless/Motherless Child
In this episode, Coach Mercer shares how he thought his father was coming back at the age of six. It wasn’t until he was ten that he realized he wasn’t, and grief set in, and how then, sports became his grief therapy.
Dr. Martha Calihan
Author, A Death Lived
In this episode, Martha shares how her witnessing the terminal diagnosis and the end-of-life of her husband was an experience that was a mindful one. She shares her intimate story to show others how the conversation of death can be meaningful and powerful.
Barbara Becker
Author, Heartwood, the Art of Living with the End in Mind
In this episode, Barbara shares how she witnessed her friend, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, living her fullest life. It was that experience that Barbara began to learn how to live life with the end in mind.
Julie Ryan
Psychic & Medical Intuitive
In this episode, Julie shares how her career as a medical device industry inventor sparked her interest in energetic healing and how that led her into the psychic world.
Bryan Jung
Founder, This Is Why
In this episode, Bryan shares his story remembering back to nine when his father was shot and then confusion over his death just before his 11th birthday.
Theresa Anthony
Author, 13th Station and Hope Springs from a Mother’s Broken Heart
In this episode, Theresa shares why she chose to reopen the wounds of grief as she wrote My 13th Station, a memoir to her son whose life was lost to suicide.
Amanda Alvarez, IBCLC
International Board of Lactation Consultant
In this episode, Amanda addresses the vital need to care for lactating mothers whose child did not survive and how important their milk is for the survival of babies whose mother may have died.
Gina Harris
Singer, Songwriter, Actor
In this episode, Gina shares about her grief and how it transformed her creative path. She now believes that everyone you miss is waiting inside you.
Tracy Chang
MA, LMFT
In this episode, Tracy speaks on why grief and loss became her specialty and focus in her practice. She talks about the importance of empowering people to grieve honestly.
William Peters
Founder: Shared Crossing Project, Author
In this episode, William shares about his near death experience, and talks about how his accident shattered his hopes and dreams. Yet the experience led him to a path of hope as he witnessed desperation in others.
David Richman
Author: Cycles of Life
In this episode, David shares his experience moving from despair to hope while at the same time his sister is transitioning from hope to death, dying from a terminal disease, and how that changed his life’s meaning.
Dr. Philip Lister
Author: A Short Good Life
In this episode, Philip shares how all his medical degrees might have helped his family and daughter through her life’s transition to death, it never prepared him for his grief as a bereaved father.
Scott Huffaker
Author: Lost Arrows: Coping with the Death of a Child
In this episode, Scott shares his grief and how, through his experience, he hopes to offer comfort to the unanswered questions grieving parents often face.
Michelle Post, MA, LMFT
International Life Strategist, Grief Coach
In this episode, Michelle shares her passion for helping those through trauma and speaks about the differences between grief counseling versus grief coaching.
Robert Kabacy, Esq.
Author: About Me, Information You Will Need When I’ve Passed
In this episode, Robert shares how his personal grief experience led him to write a guide that helps others navigate through the steps necessary after someone has died.
Judge Karen V. Johnson (Retired)
Faculty at the Four Winds Society, Master Practitioner of Energy Medicine, Author
In this episode, Karen shares her journey following the overdose that led to her son’s death and how it transformed her own path to growth and spirituality.
John Byrne Barry
Author: When I Killed My Father: An Assisted-Suicide Family Thriller
In this episode, John speaks about his personal story and how writing his book led to many conversations with others who shared similar experiences about one’s conflict over assisted suicide.
Zander Masser
Author, Unburying My Father
In this episode, Zander shares how going through his father’s photos created a new relationship with his father, almost a co-dependency. For Zander to tell his father’s legacy, he needs his father’s photographs. And his father needs Zander to share his story.
Michael Wohl
Award-Winning Film Maker, Author: In Herschel’s Wake
In this episode, Michael speaks about how the intimate care of his father’s body and the planning for his father’s funeral led to forgiveness. He talks about how the experience altered his life in a positive and meaningful way.
Dean Lambert
End-of-Life Planning Advocate, Leader, The Love Always Project
In this episode, Dean shares memories of his time with his son hours before his son’s suicide. Dean shares his experience finding his son’s body and the blessings he found in the tragedy.
Daniel Kenner
Actor, Playwright, Verbatim Theatre, Author: Room for Grace
In this episode, Daniel shares his experience about his time spent with his dying mother. During her last year, he spent hours with her weaving together the life stories of his parents.
Marni Blank
Mediator, Lawyer, Death Doula
In this episode, Marni, a lawyer responsible for her mother’s advanced directives, shared her emotional block around completing paperwork that had to do with her mother’s death.
Francesca Lynn Arnoldy
Doula, Death Literacy advocate, Researcher & Author
In this episode, Francesca shares how love, compassion, and intuition drew her to lean into a loved one’s end of life as they transition to death and how that was the seed to becoming a death doula.
Alexandra Vassilaros
Pulitzer Finalist, Playwright, Mother, Founder: Make Meaning Workshop
In this episode, Alexandra shares how as a writer, she had no words to express the grief she experienced after her husband’s death. Yet today, she looks back and finds the beauty and love her experience brought to her “new self.”
Colin Campbell
Writer, Director, Playwright, Author, Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose
In this episode, Colin brings us back in time to the tragic day when his two children died in a car crash after being hit by a drunk driver. He shares how instrumental community was and continues to be in his journey to live life.
Amanda Davis
Teacher, Artist, Writer & Author
In this episode, Amanda shares how, as a teenager, art became her way of coping. Yet it was only later in the years that she realized it and developed it into a tool of expression.
Michele Neff-Hernandez
Author, CEO, Soaring Spirits
In this episode, Michele shares how difficult it was to find others who understand her grief as a newly bereaved widow, how she lost her sense of self, and the challenges she faced finding her new self.
Marie Antoinette Kelley
Artist & Author
In this episode, Marie Antoinette shares about her childhood experiences with spirituality. Today, she believes death is not the end. Rather, it’s a transition to the spiritual realm. It’s a continuum of spirit.
Scott Grossberg
Consultant, Guide & Author
In this episode, Scott recalls the words of a hospice nurse caring for his father. During his end of life, she said, “Your father is on a wonderful adventure.” That moment was so profound, it changed the trajectory of his life.
Oshri Hakak
Musician, Artist & Author
In this episode, Oshri shares how his grief connected him to a lifelong friend he never met and how they coauthored When Their Bodies Leave Them.
Matthew Kennedy
Ceramic Artist, One-of-a-Kind Urns
In this episode, Matthew shares the story of his mother’s long journey with addiction to medically prescribed opioids and the trauma and the relief of her death.
