Episodes
Oct. 22, 2014
Living From the Heart
How does a lifelong spiritual seeker face a serious cancer diagnosis? She commits to learning all she can from the experience. She gathers a team together of medical professionals, friends, healers and supporters who form a s...
Oct. 15, 2014
At the Intersection of Quantity and Quality: End of Life Care
Has the medical world forgotten how to help people die? New technologies have made it possible to prolong life, even at the cost of that life being one the patient wants to live. As Jessica Nutik Zitter began her medical care...
Oct. 8, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: More Evidence of Love
Claire Bidwell Smith found out at 14 that both her parents had cancer. She spent the next ten years interweaving a halting journey to maturity with their declines and deaths (her mother when she was 14 and her father when she...
Oct. 1, 2014
From Heartbreak to Bliss
How did Laura Mayer's find her way to a blissful life? It all began when she was diagnosed with an illness, at age 14, that was considered terminal. This led to many painful years, trying to heal. Believing that a healing in ...
Sept. 24, 2014
Cinco Vidas: Five Lives
After a cancer diagnosis when she was a teenager, Britta Aragon knew intimately what can happen to a person's body when they are undergoing cancer treatment. Perhaps without her even knowing it, this led to a career in skin c...
Sept. 17, 2014
Hello from Heaven
Have you ever lost a loved one and then imagined what they would say if they could communicate with you?Chelsea Hanson turned her grief into beautiful poems based on just such a thought. From there, she formed a business, pro...
Sept. 10, 2014
From Ashes to the Moon
When a life has been filled with abuse, loss and disappointment, it's often hard to come through it with hope and optimism! Lina Jones found her way by exploring the depth of her own spiritual connection and, over time, gaini...
Sept. 3, 2014
Medical Intuition
Grief is a fully human experience, involving the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of us. Every aspect of our being can either flow through the complexity of grief or get blocked. As a medical intuitive, Lyn W...
Aug. 27, 2014
Shoshana's Legacy
One week before her due date, in 1985, Deb Rich gave birth to her daughter Shoshana, who was stillborn. How did she heal from this crushing loss and commit to a life helping others to cope with the grief of losing a child? Wh...
Aug. 20, 2014
Tender
What would happen if a community began to work towards taking back the responsibility for burying its members? In an industrial town in Australia, residents are working towards just that! They want the chance to honor their g...
Aug. 13, 2014
Invisible Child
Millions of children in this world grow up neglected, cast aside and abused. How does someone turn such a childhood into a life of meaning, value and mission? Cynthia Luce experienced such a childhood and now advocates for ch...
Aug. 6, 2014
Bad to the Bone
Life-changing events happen to us unpredictably, at all moments of our lives. David Tucarro, a Mikisew Cree First Nation from Ft. McMurray, Canada, was struggling to find his identity and feeling hopeless, even before leukemi...
July 30, 2014
Mother in the Middle
We've all heard about the sandwich generation; parents of young children taking care of aging parents. What if you add Alzheimer's and a PhD in studying the brain? How do the two experiences, watching a brain fail and watchin...
July 23, 2014
Three Months
When the person you love most in the world faces a crushing pancreatic cancer diagnosis, how do you cope? How do you face it? How do you take care? Deitrich Stroeh faced the loss of his beloved wife by accepting the heartbrea...
July 16, 2014
From Mindfulness to Mendfulness
How can we practice mindfulness to mend our hearts? Can our own creativity and exploration of our internal landscape offer us solace in times of loss? As an artist, educator, and spiritual practitioner, Jan Phillips has worke...
July 9, 2014
On Loss and Living Onward
The Bradfords were an active and energetic family of 6 who traveled the world, living in numerous locations and happily adjusting to each new environment. Then, just as they were embarking on a move from France to Germany, so...
July 2, 2014
The Gifts of Grief
Sometimes the worst thing you can imagine leads you to your calling. For Nancee Sobonya, that was the death of her father at 17. How did that early loss lead to a lifetime of healing work as a grief counselor, filmmaker and w...
June 25, 2014
Kitchen Table Wisdom
For sixty years, Rachel Naomi Remen has lived with a diagnosis, Crohn's disease, that was considered universally terminal when she was first diagnosed. How did that affect her life? She became a physician who worked with term...
June 18, 2014
An Uphill Climb
What does rock climbing have to do with helping underserved, traumatized kids find their motivation and healing? Dr. Clifton Hicks learned early, through his own experiences, that the physical challenges of the outdoors, espe...
June 11, 2014
Look for the Good
What helps us to find our way back to optimism and gratitude after a terrible experience? For Anne Kubitsky, it was inviting strangers to share what they were grateful for. First, she sent out some postcards addressed to hers...
June 4, 2014
Shaken But Not Stirred... A Chemo Cocktail
If you were diagnosed with breast cancer, could you keep your sense of amusement? For Joules Evans, it was a must. As a writer and an acitvist, she couples a fierce fighting spirit with a wry sense of humor. Thinking globally...
May 28, 2014
How Does Your Garden Grow?
When Kelly Carlisle left the military, life became more difficult. She was suddenly unsure where she belonged and what would give her new life meaning. She was not always appreciated for the service she had given. Starting ou...
May 21, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Embracing Dynamite: New Life Through the Power of Sound and Spirit
Join me as we talk about how the worst time in Amikaeyla’s life led to Music As Medicine, programming she developed which successfully helps people in the United States and around the world (including recently in Israel, Jord...
May 14, 2014
It is Well With My Soul
Recovering from a divorce and dealing with his father’s terminal diagnosis, Robert Pruitt faced the lowest point in his life. But hearing his father was ill, he knew he would regret missing any of it. In the next three months...