Episodes
Nov. 9, 2016
After
We hear quite a bit about the experience of cancer treatment; the shocking diagnosis, the decisions, the side effects. But how much do we hear about after, when most people with cancer must adapt to a new world view, lasting ...
Oct. 26, 2016
Catherine's Gift
How can grief be a road to freedom? When Kaye Cleave's 18 year old daughter died, she felt imprisoned by her loss, unable to even connect to any reason to live. Desperate, willing to try anything to find a way through the ago...
Oct. 12, 2016
This is Not a Journey
The death of Erica Buist's father-in-law sent her into a tailspin. The world suddenly seemed unpredictable and unsafe. She was unable to find her own ground and began to devise ways to stay in her apartment, working at home a...
Oct. 5, 2016
Dying in Dubai
Facing any significant loss challenges all our abilities and ideas about ourselves and our lives. But what happens when that loss is somewhere across the globe, in an unfamiliar and difficult environment? When Roselee Bloosto...
Sept. 28, 2016
Passed and Present
After a loss, it can come as a surprise that we still feel love for and feel connected to the person who is no longer in this world. How do we continue to find ways to carry out that relationship in our everyday life? Author ...
Sept. 21, 2016
Dear Andrew
How does a parent survive watching their 8 year old child hit by a truck and killed? How does the heart heal enough to welcome another child and to love her wholly? Robert Goor wrote letters to his son Andrew naming his deep ...
Sept. 14, 2016
Stitching the Heart Back Together
What is the connection between love, generosity and grief? In countless ways, our hearts close when we avoid the feelings connected to our small everyday losses. But in profound grief, our hearts break open and we learn how t...
Sept. 7, 2016
Invisible Heroes
What helps people recover from severe trauma? Belleruth Naparstek, a leading expert in healing from trauma, believes methods that employ imagery and activate the intuitive brain work much better than traditional talk therapy....
Aug. 31, 2016
5742 Days
When Anne-Marie Cockburn's fifteen year old daughter died of an Ecstasy overdose, her grief took her in some unexpected directions. She was compelled to write her way through the grief, overcoming an old hesitation to write, ...
Aug. 24, 2016
Life After
The time after a death is filled with detail, set against the backdrop of emotion. In an overwhelming expanse of paper and planning and demand, we often find it hard to cope. But Heather Vargas and Daniella Guzman, both consu...
Aug. 17, 2016
For the Journey
What happens when a couple, both dedicated supporters helping others through profound grief and loss, confront their own crisis? Robert and Andrea Zucker, faced with Andrea's cancer diagnosis, have devoted all their time, res...
Aug. 10, 2016
Internal Magnification
How is it that some of us live difficult early lives and find a way to a beautiful and meaningful adulthood, while others get lost along the way to addiction, depression, hopelessness and despair? Winston Price found in facin...
Aug. 3, 2016
Hope
What compels a successful film, television and commercial ad company to make numerous films about death? Sara and Bobby Sheehan have maintained a commitment to improving the conversation about end of life, guided by their own...
July 27, 2016
The Liz Army
Receiving a cancer diagnosis plunges your life into a whole new dimension, challenging what you thought it would look like. Receiving a brain cancer diagnosis at 29 is an even deeper challenge to all you know. When Liz Salmi ...
July 13, 2016
Peace and Hope in Troubled Times
When the twin towers fell in 2001, Elizabeth Hack was hit hard. She'd visited family many time there, considering it a home away from home. She felt the pain of all those losses and the impact of hopelessness and anger coming...
July 6, 2016
Whole Heart
Grief is a heroes' journey, sending us into our own wilderness and requiring that we step out into the unknown. What guides us on this fearsome path? And what might we find at the end? When Therèse Tappouni's 11 year old son ...
June 22, 2016
From Murder to Forgiveness
When Azim Khamisa's only son, twenty year old Tariq, was murdered by a fourteen year old boy, his immediate thought, beyond reason, was that two lives had been lost. Drowning in a sea of grief, he knew he had to bring meaning...
June 15, 2016
My Way
Watching our own parents face the end of their lives often illuminates questions about how we want to navigate that territory. What will support our own end of life experiences? What are the limits of medical intervention? Ho...
June 8, 2016
When Breath Becomes Air
When Dr. Paul Kalanithi faced a stage IV lung cancer diagnosis in his last year as a neurosurgical resident, his wife, Dr. Lucy Kalanithi faced it with him. In the twenty-two months that followed, they continued to work, had ...
June 1, 2016
The Forgiveness Project
Are there human acts that are un-forgivable? Perhaps, but as human beings, some of us are able to find a way to forgive the person or people who have hurt us. Marina Cantacuzino's mission is to collect the narratives of peopl...
May 25, 2016
Thoughts in Passing
For Claudia Bicen, curiosity about the meaning of life inevitably led to curiosity about facing death. But how would she explore that deepest of human questions? A self taught artist, she decided to interview and draw people ...
May 18, 2016
OK To Laugh
Keeping a sense of humor at the worst of times seems impossible until you're actually living through the worst of times. No one knows that better than Nora McInerny Purmort, whose husband died of brain cancer when she was 32,...
May 11, 2016
Art for Amaey
How does a parent cope with the illness of a child? We want to protect and insulate our children from all harm. But when a child is diagnosed with cancer, we watch them experience many pains and ills. Purvi Shah's son Amaey w...
May 4, 2016
Mountains of Light
In times of profound loss, what do we turn to? Some of us look for a way to express our experience through writing or art or movement. Some of us write. Some of us turn to the comfort of the natural world, finding our place i...