Episodes
Dec. 10, 2014
Elder Roads
The world of elder care and assisted living can be exhausting and demoralizing. How does a daughter insure that the needs of her declining parents are met? How does she accept the deficits in a system of health care that some...
Dec. 3, 2014
At the Threshold
What inspires a person to offer song to people at the end of their lives? Kate Munger, as a lover of choral music, felt a profound calling to offer people who were dying, incarcerated, newborn or in comas to receive the preci...
Nov. 26, 2014
From Grief to Greatness
Caught off guard by the depth of his grief after the loss of his mother, Tom Sweetman searched for words of hope and encouragement, finding along with those two things encouragement to become his best self. Realizing he wante...
Nov. 19, 2014
Refined by Fire
For Mary Potter Kenyon, her husband's cancer treatment resulted in some very positive changes in her marriage. She and her husband loved better, deeper and with a greater appreciation for each other after going through that m...
Nov. 12, 2014
Light in Blue Shadows
Edie Hartshorne was a therapist, meditation practitioner and musician, comfortable with facilitating change and working for peace. But nothing could have prepared her for the loss of her 20 year old son and the possibility th...
Nov. 5, 2014
Death Midwife
When a couple gets pregnant or a baby is born, family and friends gather around the them, joyfully supporting the news. But what happens when something goes wrong, when they experience miscarriage or stillbirth? The surroundi...
Oct. 29, 2014
Return to Zero
Although losses can't be compared, the loss of a baby is something most of us find hard to imagine. Sean and Kiley Hanish lost their son when he was still born at full term. Ultimately, their experience Impelled them to creat...
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...