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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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Richard Rosser; Keeping the Creative Spirit after Loss

Posted on April 26, 2012 - by admin

Richard Rosser is a Children’s Author/Playwright/Cartoonist. While in high school, his brother died in a car accident. Richard has worked in the entertainment business since college. After watching a man […]

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Gabrielle Michel; Pregnancy and Infant Loss

Posted on April 19, 2012 - by admin

Gabrielle Michel is an interfaith minister, spiritual counselor, Grief Recovery Specialist and the Founder/President of Graceful Grieving, Inc., nonprofit organization. She’s a compelling, relatable writer and speaker on the topic […]

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Dr. Katherine Shear; The Grief Journey

Posted on April 12, 2012 - by admin

Dr. Katherine Shear, M.D., is the Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University School of Social Work and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.  She is also […]

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Padraig Greene; Handling Easter After Loss

Posted on April 5, 2012 - by admin

Padraig Greene has been a priest for 35 years working in high schools, retreat work, adult education and parish ministry.  He has worked in family ministry in both Ireland and […]

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Dean Smith Topic: Forgiving Murder

Posted on March 29, 2012 - by admin

Dean Smith is the founder/director of ‘Live To Forgive. His passion is to help people break free from the burden of inability to forgive. Dean’s inspiring messages about forgiveness and love […]

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Basia Mosinski, LCAT, ATR-BC, MFA; Step-child Loss

Posted on March 22, 2012 - by admin

Basia Mosinski, is an Art Psychotherapist in Private Practice in NYC. Basia attributes her career choice in Art Therapy to the traumatic death of her 10 yr old stepson. She […]

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Larry M. Barber, LPC-S, CT; Embracing Grief with Hope and Promise

Posted on March 15, 2012 - by admin

Larry Barber’s wife Cindy and two year old daughter Katie died from injuries suffered in a traffic accident in 1993.  As a widowed single parent he raised two surviving children, […]

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Diana M. Cimador Roscigno; Crazy Is Normal After Loss

Posted on March 8, 2012 - by admin

Diana Roscigno is a wife, mother, nurse, bereaved parent and author. After the death of her son, Mark Anthony, age 18, in an automobile accident Dina began a life dedicated […]

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Al Johnson: Topic: About God after the loss of a child?

Posted on March 1, 2012 - by admin

Al became a bereaved parent on March 18, 1989 when he and Vickie’s seven year old son Nicholas died from leukemia.  Since that time he has participated in Compassionate Friends, […]

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Stephanie Benbenek; Death of a Son

Posted on February 23, 2012 - by admin

The news that her only child, Clarke, was killed in a freak car accident, could have ended author Stephanie Benbenek’s life as well. Instead, she wrote a story to help […]

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