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SubscribeHaving feelings of regret that you weren’t there when your loved one died? Join Dr’s Gloria and Heidi Horsley and their guest Lindsey Whissel Fenton, bereaved daughter, Emmy award-winning filmmaker, international speaker, outreach strategist, learning designer, and grief educator. She is the creator of the Speaking Grief Documentary and its sister-initiative, Learning Grief.
Read MoreWondering how you balance grief as life continues? Join Dr’s Gloria and Heidi Horsley and their guest Louise Strasenburgh. Learn how Louise survived the 2011 deaths of her 26 year old son and her mother only five weeks later and in between being present for her daughter’s wedding. Louise is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, co-leader of The Compassionate Friends in Boston and the author of The Space In My Heart.
Read MoreThe Death of a Child is Unique When Ruby Cooper was 16 years old, she gave birth to twins, and she told this story as part of The Moth Radio Hour podcast, https://themoth.org/stories/giving-and-receiving. One baby died at birth and the other was a boy later diagnosed with cerebral palsy. In was 1960, and her son’s doctor recommended that Ruby place her son in an institution so that he could be “with his kind.” Ruby responded that she was his mother and thus “his kind,” and she would raise him herself. Overwhelmed with the responsibility of raising a son with special […]
Read MoreThe Lessons of Grief Grief is ugly. It is raw, relentless, and merciless. It does not come gently or leave quietly. Grief stormed into my life like a natural disaster, shattering everything I once knew and leaving me with a version of myself I no longer recognize. It did not ask for permission and knew no boundaries. Grief is powerful and invades my entire body. It gives pain a new definition. Grief makes me cry until I am tearless and gasping to breathe. Until every muscle in my body aches from the sobbing, and I feel hollow. The emptiness it […]
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