Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D.

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.

Dr. David Fajgenbaum

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.

Heidi Herzon

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.

Paul Malley

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.

Heather L. Servaty-Seib, Ph.D., HSPP

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.

Kate Longly

In this episode, Kate gives us a glimpse into what it's like to be a photographer capturing the powerful memories of a family during one's end of life. Memories are not just about capturing the happy moments but taking time to capture a moment in time and a way of life.

Ora Nadrich

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.

Scarlett Lewis

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.

Tricia LaVoice

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.

Briana Megid

In this episode, Briana Megid shares her experience and why advocating for suicide awareness is so important in her life.

David Forstadt

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.

SusanMah

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.

Alicia Coppola

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.

Dr. Donna Schurrman

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.

Emma Payne

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

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.

Anita Moorjani

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.

Chloe Zelkha

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.

Colet Abedi

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 her grief journey and its impact on her life had forever changed her.

Dr. Sharon Prentice

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.

James Mueller

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.

Scott & Pammy Kramer

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.

Dr. Christopher Kerr

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 bed side during his own dad's end-of-life.

Jason Holzer

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 he now works with.

Mary Robinson

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.”

Peggy Talken

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.

Kelly Pascuzzi

In this episode, Kelly talks about a calling she and her husband had to create a fictional motion picture based on personal experience. She shares how hope played a crucial role in her healing. Through The Ravine, Kelly hopes to bring a universal message of  hope and forgiveness to her audience.

Robert Pascuzzi

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.

Joyal Mulheron

In this episode, Joyal shares how after spending more than a decade to improve the health and wellbeing of all Americans, Joyal 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.

Katherine Shear, M.D.

M.D.

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.

Ilene Smith

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.

Renee Lund

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.

Kate Etter

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.

Kyle Lowder

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

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.

Kimberly Clark-Gamble

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

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.

Lynn Snyder

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.

Allison Gilbert

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.

Greg Adams

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.

Miki Speer

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

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.

Sarah Corbett Lynch

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.

Heren Wolf

In this episode, Heren 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.

Joe Asteroid

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.

Harold Ivan Smith

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.

Bonnie Carroll

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 ofTAPS, Tragedy Assist Program for Survivors.

Martha Handler

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.

Dr. Jeff Spiess

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.

Alexa Bigwarfe

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 twins death while celebrating the others birth and the choice she made, turning her anger into healing.

Noah Cochron

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.

Hope Edelman

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.

John Abraham

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."

Dale Larson

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.

Guy Casablanca

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.

Joanne Steen

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

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 aphotographer.

Ken Doka

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

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

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.

Jillian Blueford

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

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.

Barbara Karnes

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

In this episode, Lynne shares her grief experience after her mother unexpectedly 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.

Carol Schoneberg

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.

Ronnie Walker

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.

Santosh Kesari

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.

Akanksha Sharma

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.

Tara Ferriola

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.

Joshua Black

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.

Jacob Cooper

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.

Grace Rector

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.

Reid Peterson

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

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.

Martha Calihan

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

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.

Kara Bowman

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.

Julie Ryan

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

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.

Mark Anthony

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.

Amanda Alvarez

In this episode, Amanda addresses the vital need to care for lactating mothers whose child did not survive and the vital role they may play in the survival of others.

Theresa Anthony

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.

Gina Harris

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

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

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

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.

Philip Lister

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

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

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

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.

Karen V. Johnson JD (Retired)

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

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

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

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

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 blessing he found in the tragedy.

Daniel Kenner

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.

Matthew Kennedy

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.

Marni Blank

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.

Alexandra Vassilaros

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Francesca Arnoldy

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.

Raymond Moody

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.

Paul Perry

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.

Susan McCue

In this episode, Susan shares her story of dying now that she has entered hospice for comfort care related to a progressive disease with no cure. She hopes to die peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones while sharing tall tales and laughter.