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Honoring Your Grief with Dr. Gloria and Dr. Heidi Horsley
July 11, 2019
Dr. Gloria and Dr. Heidi discuss the different ways people grieve and respecting your grief style as well as the grief styles of others. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Honoring-Your-Grief-with-Dr.-Gloria-and-Dr.-Heidi-Horsley.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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What Grief Has Taught Me
July 9, 2019
My daughter Katie is now in heaven. Everything is new. Everything is different. Everything is devastatingly difficult. I’ve learned to walk, breathe, and exist without letting grief keep me down, because I’m learning to live with my grief. I know that grief will be my companion forever, so I must learn to get along with it. Losing my daughter has been the single worst thing that has happened to me, yet I feel I have learned so much. I struggle to say that there is good in Katie’s death, or any child’s death, but I will say that there has […]
The Grief of a Parent with Andy McNiel
July 2, 2019
At The National Alliance for Grieving Children, 23rd Annual Symposium on Children’s Grief; Andy McNiel talks about being grateful for what you have. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Be-Grateful-for-What-You-Have-with-Andy-McNiel.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Getting Back in the Dating Game After Loss with Abel Keogh
June 27, 2019
At age twenty-six, after the tragic suicide of his pregnant wife, Abel Keogh unexpectedly found himself a young widower and bereaved parent. Abel is a remarried and a relationship coach and the author of the memoir Room for Two and The Ultimate Dating Guide For Widowers. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Getting-Back-in-the-Dating-Game-After-Loss-with-Abel-Keogh.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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The Gift Of Tears and Forgiveness
June 23, 2019
Recently, I was watching a television interview with a woman who began to apologize to the reporter for “almost crying.” I understood that. Don’t let people see your hurt, don’t be a cry-baby. That was me, seven years before the death of our oldest child. That’s hen everything inside of me underwent radical changes, and these have all been for good in my life. It has been like having my senses heightened to what I have, not what I’ve lost. I found that I could be vulnerable. Like the shedding of tears. Crying for me was a private affair, something I could […]
A Funeral, a Wedding, Graduations and One Unwanted Guest
June 22, 2019
It has been six and a half years since our son, Mack, died suddenly on New Year’s Eve 2012, just shy of his ninth birthday. As the many of us who learn to live newly after loss, we take it on as a part of our lives and learn to carry Mack with us through life. So, as we entered this spring season of passages including a funeral, a wedding, and a handful of graduations, I was surprised by my fatigue. I have learned enough over the years to recognize when something is calling for my attention. In some ways […]
Why Join A Grief Group with Dr. Heidi Horsley and Dr. Gloria Horsley
June 18, 2019
On this show Dr. Gloria and Dr. Heidi Horsley discuss the positive benefits that can be gained by joining a grief group whether it is professionally or peer lead. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-Join-A-Grief-Group-with-DrHeidi-Horsley-and-DrGloria-Horsley.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Grief and the Battle Back to Happiness with Richard Pryor
June 13, 2019
Richard Pryor is an Entrepreneur, author and Life Coach. After the death of his son he found that his purpose in life was to help other move forward. His coaching practice serves bereaved parents as well as entrepreneurs in overcoming the challenges in business and life. He is the author of Warriors of Life, Conquering Grief and Battling your way back to happiness. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Grief-and-the-Battle-Back-to-Happiness-with-Richard-Pryor.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Developing A Culture of Kindness After A Suicide with Ronnie Susan Walker MS, LCPC
June 6, 2019
Ronnie Susan Walker is the Founder and Executive Director of the Alliance of Hope for Suicide Loss Survivors. Over the last ten years, Alliance of Hope has helped thousands of people deal with and heal from the complicated grief that follows loss of a loved one to suicide. Ms. Walker is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, who lost her stepson Channing, to suicide, in 1995. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Developing-A-Culture-of-Kindness-After-A-Suicide-with-Ronnie-Susan-Walker-MS-LCPC.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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