Episodes
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...