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Jenna Rogers Topic: Finding A Place of Hope
November 9, 2017
Jenna Rogers is the Director of Advancement for Faith’s Lodge, a retreat facility that supports parents after the death of a child. As a bereaved mother, Jenna is passionate about helping others who have endured this tragic loss. She created Noah’s Memorial SIDS Foundation in 2010 to help fund SIDS research and support families who have lost a child. http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/23110609/Jenna-Rogers.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Pamela Hagens: Helping Loved Ones After a Death
November 2, 2017
Pamela Hagens is a lifetime proponent of taking care of health through exercise and yoga. She currently teaches and inspires others on how to work with their grief through daily healthy practices. In July of 2013 she lost her 19-year-old son, Samuel. She is a frequent presenter at The Compassionate Friends national conferences. http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/23111314/Pamela-Hagens.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Wendy Lichtenthal: Helping Parents After the Loss of a Child
October 13, 2017
Dr. Wendy Lichtenthal is a researcher at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and many of her interests focus on grieving. She spoke with Dr. Gloria Horsley during the Association for Death Education and Counseling 2015 conference about how parents can heal after losing a child. “We are doing an intervention development study… focusing on finding meaning after the loss of a child,” she explains. An almost impossible task is finding meaning in your own life as well as the life of your child, she says. Meaning Center Grief Therapy is currently being tested with feedback […]
David Ferber: A Dad’s Grief
October 5, 2017
David Ferber is the father of Russell Ferber, who died in a car accident in 2002 at age 21. David soon joined, and then became the facilitator of a fathers group at The Compassionate Friends, the support group for grieving parents. The fathers group was an instant success, and it became a regular feature of New York chapter meetings. http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/03112253/David-Ferber.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Jill Harrington: Loss of a Young Adult
September 28, 2017
Dr. Jill Harrington is a social worker, clinician and researcher at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress who specializes in grief after losing a young adult. “Some in the military and some in the civilian world,” explains Dr. Harrington, who chatted with Dr. Heidi Horsley during the Association for Death Education and Counseling conference in spring 2015. Losing a young adult is a unique situation, she explains. Losing a young adult means the survivors have lost the past, present and all the potential for the future. It’s unlike losing a young child, who has a limited past, or […]
Fay Green: The Compassionate Friends
September 18, 2017
Fay Green is a leader at The Compassionate Friends organization in San Antonio, Texas, and recently talked with Open to Hope’s Dr. Gloria Horsley at the Association of Death Education and Counseling conference. Green’s latest project focuses on “group processing,” saying that it helps those who have lost someone “recognize that they’re not alone in their grief.” While every loss is different, the same emotions and feelings are often experienced in each situation. Isolation can exacerbate the grieving process, and a supportive community is critical. The Compassionate Friends is an organization for parents who have lost children, regardless of age. […]
Debbie Gossen: Remembering: Poetry and Pictures
August 10, 2017
Debbie Gossen is a registered nurse currently working in Oncology and a Nationally Certified Grief Management Specialist. Her daughter, Kristin Lund, died in 2001 at the age of 20 due to complications from an autoimmune disease. Following Kristin’s death a collection of her poetry and pictures were assembled in the book Life Is, Was, and Forever Shall Be –Love. http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/29102127/Debbie-Gossen.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Episode 110: Finding the Gifts in Grief with Bar Scott and Julie Lange Growth
August 3, 2017
On this show Dr. Gloria and Dr. Heidi Horsley interview singer-songwriter Bar Scott author of The Present Giver an account of Scott’s search for meaning and hope after her son Forest is diagnosed with terminal cancer and Julie Lange Groth bereaved mother of Justin and author of Healing What Grieves You and Life Between the Falls. The show closes with Bar Scott singing If There Is A Way.
Episode 109: Dealing With the Death of a Difficult Child
August 3, 2017
On this show Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Heidi Horsley speak with Marcia Alig, past president of The Compassionate Friends board, and long time volunteer, about the challenges of dealing with the death of a difficult child. The second guests, Bobbie Comforto LCSW and Anne Kane Ph.D., founders of the Grief Channel, share insights and skills needed to negotiate the journeys of loss, trauma and transition. The Show closes with singer, songwriter, and author Bar Scott, bereaved mom of Forrest, singing World on Fire.
