Episodes
Feb. 13, 2019
A Chance to Say Goodbye
There are few things like losing a parent, even at an older age, suited to generating an inner discussion of loss and mortality. What makes for a good death? How can we contribute to everyone involved feeling good about our d...
Feb. 6, 2019
Until We Meet Again
When Melissa Lyons embarked on a radical sabbatical she expected a few months to reset and a return to her successful high-powered life. As the time extended, she felt lost, unsure what might happen next, she learned to let t...
Jan. 30, 2019
Advice for Future Corpses
How does a nurse relate to death. What has she learned by being close to the people who are experiencing the end of life? And how are her personal experiences with death influenced by her professional ones? Acclaimed author S...
Jan. 23, 2019
It Ends With Us
The Savages were a happy family with four boys. The older two were 18 and 19, one a year into college and the other just graduating from high school. Then they made a fateful error, mixing prescription drugs with alcohol. In ...
Jan. 16, 2019
Worth It
How can we possibly make sense from the death of a child. For most of us, especially parents, the thought is beyond comprehending, until that child is ours. But recognizing that children do, in fact, die and creating the best...
Jan. 2, 2019
Survivor
A cancer diagnosis is one of the hardest things we can face. Most of us have very little time to adjust to the profound life experience of cancer before we are immersed in treatment. We look forward to the day when we'll be d...
Dec. 12, 2018
Chronicles of a Catholic Housewife
In a life filled with learning, searching for meaning and intimately experiencing different parts of the world, Carmen Hartono came to a greater understanding of her spiritual home. How do her beliefs and practices help her, ...
Dec. 5, 2018
The Four Sacred Gifts
How has modern life disconnected us from our wisdom? Anita Sanchez shares the prophecies of indigenous elders who see a path towards reconnection and understanding.Join us to learn how to embody these principles; the power to...
Nov. 28, 2018
Death by Design
How does a successful career in film and television lead to a passion for supporting people to design their deaths? When a temporary pit stop working at a local hospice turned into a 17 year career collecting the stories of d...
Nov. 21, 2018
Opus Peace
5 nurses who helped veterans at the end of their lives noticed something they came to call soul injury. A result of unspent grief, Shane and guilt, it plagued the men. They decided to devote themselves to sharing the lessons ...
Nov. 14, 2018
Room for Grace
Daniel Kenner’s parents had always been loving, giving people who gave all they had to the world. Their ability to do that declined sharply when his father was diagnosed with dimentia and his mother, shortly after, with cance...
Nov. 7, 2018
The Promised Landing
As each year passes there is more and more open discussion about death. This leads naturally to a conscious consideration of how we want to die. Having lived through the difficult hospital deaths (despite preparation and livi...
Oct. 24, 2018
Crossing the Rubicon
When Heidi Connolly's husband died, she faced the prospect of living a very different life, without the support of the person she was closest to. But while she felt the loss keenly, she still felt as if she was communicating ...
Oct. 17, 2018
Not Silenced
When she discovered that her daughter was being abused by her ex-husband, Maralee McLean tried everything imaginable to protect her. But she encountered a system unwilling and unable to accept that they were being manipulated...
Oct. 10, 2018
Absentee
Mason Summit's father died when he was only 11. Now 22, how did the loss affect who he has become and how he relates to life? His career as a musician began after his father died, when he felt a strong need to express what he...
Oct. 3, 2018
Time Flies When You're Alive
How does a life change when the person you're closest to in the world dies? For Paul Linke, that person was his wife and the mother of his three children. When she died of breast cancer at 37, he entered a new landscape. As a...
Sept. 26, 2018
Welcome the Rain
AnnE O'Neil buried her grief in alcohol, following the model she witnessed in her family. Only when her life fell apart did she begin to see that she would have to develop a program to stay clean and sober. That would only be...
Sept. 19, 2018
An App for Grief
How can we use technology to reduce the isolation and alienation that often comes along with grief? When Kimberly Libertini and Robynne Boyd were facing profound loss, a friend connected them to exchange text messages and sup...
Sept. 12, 2018
An Ocean Between Them
This week we turn the tables to talk about Good Grief host Cheryl Jones and her novel, An Ocean Between Them. The story is about a mother and her lesbian daughter estranged and alienated. It is also a story of deep redemption...
Aug. 29, 2018
Notice of Release
What does it mean to forgive the person who has injured you in your life more than any other? There was no thought of forgiveness when Stephanie Cassatly's mother was murdered before Stephanie had even fully launched into adu...
Aug. 22, 2018
Going With Grace
Alua Arthur was an attorney working with the most difficult problems we could imagine; abuse, poverty and assault. But she had done the work with energy and joy until she suddenly found herself depressed and uninspired, lacki...
Aug. 15, 2018
Brother's Keeper
What would you do if you were wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to an indeterminate period in prison? Marvin Mutch served 41 years before he was finally exonerated. But instead of losing himself to bitterness or viole...
Aug. 8, 2018
Library Girl
What has compelled you after a loss? When Susan Hayden lost her husband it was sharing time and space with writers and musicians. Beginning as a way to focus on something besides grief after her loss, her Library Girl series ...
Aug. 1, 2018
Going Green
What draws a person to the funeral industry and then to green burial? For Elizabeth Fournier, it was many early losses and a fascination with how people said goodbye. But it was her clients who inspired her to seek greener pr...