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Feeling discouraged? Relax and tune into the Open to Hope podcast and hear Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Heidi Horsley interview guests with inspiring stories about recovery from loss.

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Writing Your Way Through Grief: Janet Burroway

Posted on December 3, 2015 - by admin

Janet Burroway is the author of plays, poetry, children’s books, and eight novels including The Buzzards, Raw Silk, Opening Nights, and the Bridge of Sand. Her Writing Fiction, (9th edition), […]

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Mary Fetchet: Long-term Services for Victims’ Families

Posted on December 1, 2015 - by admin

Mary Fetchet is the co-founded Voices of September 11th in 2001 following the death of her son Brad on 9/11.  A clinical social worker, she created a new paradigm in […]

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Coping with Life Threatening Illnesses: Bruce Postman

Posted on November 26, 2015 - by admin

Bruce Postman has directed over 40 documentaries, many award winning, about coping with life threatening illnesses. He has worked with Cancervive, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, City […]

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Grief to Grace : Mary Potter Kenyon

Posted on November 19, 2015 - by admin

Mary Potter Kenyon is the author of three books. Her most recent is Refined by Fire: A Journey of Grief and Grace, which details her process of grief and healing […]

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Family Lives On: Christine Cavalieri

Posted on November 12, 2015 - by admin

Chris Cavalieri is the Executive Director of Family Lives On with the mission of supporting the lifelong emotional well being of children whose mother or father have died. Their tradition […]

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Military Loss and Support: Zaneta Gileno

Posted on November 5, 2015 - by admin

Zaneta M. Gileno LCSW is the Director of Community Based Care for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors of military loss (TAPS). She is the liaison for the TAPS Board […]

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Elaine Mansfield: Death of a Husband Guest

Posted on October 29, 2015 - by admin

Elaine Mansfield leads workshops and bereavement support groups and writes for Hospice and Palliative Care of Tompkins County in Ithaca, NY. Her writing reflects her forty years as a student […]

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David Zeigler: Dealing With Loss Through Film Making

Posted on October 22, 2015 - by admin

David Zeigler, a Guggenheim Fellow, has been making documentary films for twenty years. His first narrative feature, Sweet Old World, is drawn from his own experience following the death of his nine-year-old […]

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Dr. Gloria Horsley and Alan Petersen: Don’t Let Loss Cripple Your Spirit

Posted on October 15, 2015 - by admin

Dr. Gloria Horsley president of the Open to Hope Foundation and Alan Petersen executive director of The Compassionate Friends discuss their grief journey and how they and others have coped.  […]

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Judy Lipson: Death of a Sibling

Posted on October 8, 2015 - by admin

Judy Lipson lost her sister Jane at age 22 in 1981 in an automobile accident, and sister Margie at age 35 in 1990.  Judy suppressed her grief for 30 years […]

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