Episodes
May 7, 2014
A Fresh Chapter
When breast cancer interrupted her successful life, Terri Wingham found herself depressed and isolated, with no bridge back from illness to purpose. Taking a chance by going on a volunteer trip to Africa, she found a passion ...
April 30, 2014
1000 Mothers
Lorrain Taylor's worst nightmare began on a typical February day in 2000. Her sons, twins, were murdered together in a parking lot while trying to start a car, victims of a random shooting. How did Lorrain heal and begin her ...
April 23, 2014
Two Rare Birds
How would it change you to lose most of your family in a few short years? Lily Myers Kaplan has written an intimate and compelling memoir, Two Rare Birds: A Legacy of Love about the painful, exhausting, challenging and ultima...
April 16, 2014
Cultivating Resilience in Times of Loss
As a child, Marianna Cacciatore lost her best friend, who was murdered on her way home. Isolated with her grief, Marianna learned young the value of developing skills to support ourselves through loss. Deeply believing in the...
April 9, 2014
My Gift of Grace
Do you like to play cards? And sit around the kitchen table talking with family, with friends? But are there those conversations you find it hard to have? How do you want to die? For that matter, how do you want to live? The ...
April 2, 2014
I Dont Wanna Be Pink
What if you had changed your life to make it everything you dreamed of and then were diagnosed with breast cancer? And your usual way of coping was to apply a strong wit to every experience? And you’d done stand-up comedy, ho...
March 26, 2014
In the Afterloss
From 1985 to 1995, Benjamin Allen lost his wife Lydia and their two children to AIDS, contracted through a blood transfusion during childbirth. Grieving these unimaginable losses, Benjamin felt his way to a deeper life. He sa...
March 19, 2014
Music for a Meaningful Life
How can music deepen our experience of life,especially when life is difficult? As a result of the challenges
March 12, 2014
Cracking the Code: Finding our Way to Irresistible Justice
How can we create an open conversation about the damages and continued disconnects which resultfrom racism?
March 5, 2014
The Conversation
Have you had a conversation with the closest people to you about how they want to die? The Conversation Project believes we all need to have those conversations and offers invaluable insights into how to bring them about. Joi...
Feb. 26, 2014
Keep Going: From Grief to Growth Episode
Aimee DuFresne lost her father and young husband within a year of each other. Devastated by the loss, she had to choose how to continue living her life. Ultimately, she found the courage not just to live but to create a life ...
Feb. 19, 2014
Unfinished Conversation
How would you find your way through the pain and betrayal you would feel if you lost someone you loved to suicide? Robert Lesoine found his way through the agony of losing his closest friend; first by writing his pain into a ...
Feb. 12, 2014
A Song, The Ground Beneath You
Melanie DeMore, an outstanding and internationally recognized vocalartist, embodies her own principle that music can be a force for socialand political change.
Feb. 5, 2014
Hard is Hard
Join me when guest Ash Beckham talks about having the hard conversations. How did she learnabout that? By coming out as a lesbian
Jan. 29, 2014
A Place of Rest in the Middle of Things
Frank Ostaseski, a widely respected authority on compassionate end of life care, urgesus to turn toward suffering.
Jan. 22, 2014
Nothing Short of Joy
Julie Genovese struggled for the first several decades of her life with deep shame and self criticism as a result of the cruel bullying and medical torture she experienced as a child. Originally believing that her dwarfism an...
Jan. 15, 2014
Death as a Life Guide
Already fascinated by the mysteries of death, sociologist Michelle Peticolas deepened her own understanding of death, and of grief, when she was faced with the deaths of both her parents within the same year. Join us as we ex...
Jan. 8, 2014
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...
Dec. 18, 2013
At Death’s Door
What does a palliative care chaplain have to tell us about facing death and living life? Denah Joseph has sat with over a thousand dying people and their families. Her own early experiences with death led her to seek answers ...
Dec. 11, 2013
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...
Dec. 4, 2013
I LOVED IT ALL
Angelo Merendino is a photographer who started taking pictures of his wife as soon as he fell for her. His photo journaling became a calling when, five months after they were married, Jennifer was diagnosed with breast cancer...
Nov. 27, 2013
How Grief was Good for My Soul
I wouldn’t ask my guests to do something I wouldn’t do myself, so on this debut show, I’ve invited Marianna Cacciatore to interview me. Marianna is Executive Director of Bread for the Journey and host of Ordinary People Doing...