Open to Hope Podcast

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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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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Jennifer Collins Taylor; Conversations about Death

Posted on February 16, 2012 - by admin

Jennifer has a MSW focused in end of life care and is an author of  Living Life Dying Death: Guide to Healthy Conversations about Death and Dying. The book delivers […]

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Jenny Wheeler; Finding Hope After Father Loss

Posted on February 9, 2012 - by admin

Jenny Wheeler is the teenaged author of the national award-winning book, WEIRD IS NORMAL WHEN TEENAGERS GRIEVE. She was 14 when her beloved father died of cancer, and she wrote […]

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Carole Brody; Widows wear Stilettos

Posted on February 2, 2012 - by admin

Widowed at age 40 after caring for her husband Mike, a police officer, in a two-year battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Carole and her young daughter were left in […]

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Allen Klein; The Healing Power of Humor

Posted on January 26, 2012 - by admin

Allen Klein discovered the therapeutic value of humor when his wife died at the age of thirty-four. He now shows others how to lighten up loss. He is the recipient of […]

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Kim Kluxen Meredith; Who wants to be a widow at 40

Posted on January 19, 2012 - by admin

Kim Kluxen Meredith credits her colorful childhood in the small town of Ames, New York for her strong character which she later had to call upon when she was widowed […]

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Anne H. Berenberg; Parenting Grieving Children

Posted on January 12, 2012 - by admin

Anne has deep personal and professional experience with parenting grieving children.  Anne’s husband died suddenly of a heart attack when her sons were 9 and 4.  Four years later, a […]

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Jeffery Kauffman LCSW; Shame

Posted on January 10, 2012 - by admin

Jeffrey Kauffman is a psychotherapist in private practice in suburban Philadelphia who specializes in the treatment of grief and trauma. His most recent publication is The Shame of Death Grief […]

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Sara Ruble; Trusting Love…Even in Death

Posted on January 5, 2012 - by admin

Sara Ruble is a bereaved mom whose only child, Scott, died suddenly at age nineteen. Her life would never be the same. A sign came the day after Scott’s funeral […]

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