Episodes
Jan. 28, 2015
Getting the Most out of Life
Through the loss of two of the most important people in her life, Marilyn Ababio became deeply interested in supporting others to make the most out of their lives, and their deaths. Compelled to make her work accessible to pe...
Jan. 21, 2015
Cancer and Quality of Life
A few women with cancer felt isolated, unsupported and scared. They were also community activists. Out of their own need, they created a Center dedicated to women with cancer, planting the seeds for a community serving thousa...
Jan. 14, 2015
Permission to Mourn
Do we continue to transform with each new loss? Tom Zuba thinks so, and wants to share the profound lessons he learned grieving the loss, first of his 18 month old daughter, then years later his wife, and years after that one...
Jan. 7, 2015
Washing the Bones
Katherine Ingram opened the door to find the experience many of us dread on the other side; a police officer on telling her that her loved one would not be coming home. In her grief over her husband, killed in a plane crash, ...
Dec. 31, 2014
Leaning into Love
When a lifelong practitioner of Buddhism, philosophy and healing loses her husband, how does she grieve? Elaine Mansfield observed her own experience, capturing her grief in a beautiful book and ultimately answering the call ...
Dec. 24, 2014
From Mourning to Morning
Rabbi Melvin Glazer dedicates his life to helping people face loss because he has faced loss. Drawn to a life of service, he became a rabbi and then an expert in death and bereavement. What does he have to share about weaving...
Dec. 17, 2014
Long for This World
Betsy Rose has long used her music to express her deepest experiences, and has sung for others in order to open their hearts. So it was only natural that the loss of her father inspired her to create and compile songs she wro...
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...