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Nancy Gershman Topic: Healing Through Art

Posted on March 23, 2017 - by admin

Memory artist Nancy Gershman creates a picture of a memory you have — or wish you had — of your loved one. Her digitally-created photographs are prescriptive: either factitious, embellished or totally made up, depending on your preferred story. Learn more at Art For Your Sake (dot) com. http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/28064228/Nancy-Gersham.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Heather Stang Topic: Calming Your Mind And Restoring Your Spirit Time

Posted on March 16, 2017 - by admin

Heather Stang is the author of Mindfulness & Grief, and a contributor to Techniques of Grief Therapy: Assessment & Interventions. Her inspiration for helping others stems from her uncle’s death by suicide and her stepfather’s sudden death following a surgical procedure. She offers free guided meditations at MindfulnessAndGrief.com. http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/28063840/Heather-Stang.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Charles Sidoti Topic: Simple Contemplative Spirituality

Posted on March 9, 2017 - by admin

Charles W. Sidoti, BCC, is a clinically trained, board certified, Chaplain (NACC), and Coordinator of Spiritual Care at South Pointe Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Health System. He is the author of two books, Living at God’s Speed, Healing in God’s Time, published in 2011, and Simple Contemplative Spirituality, published in 2016. http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/13175144/Charles-Sidoti.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Jeanne Weaver: Death of A son in Military

Posted on February 23, 2017 - by admin

After her son, Todd, was killed, Jeanne turned to her God-given talent to help her learn how to navigate through her new state of being. Art was her vocation. She would now use it therapeutically. Jeanne created 21 oil paintings and later a book Losing Todd. A Mother’s Journey. http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/15064713/Jeanne-Weaver.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Melanie Warner: Topic-Defining Moments: Coping With The Loss of a Child

Posted on February 20, 2017 - by admin

Melanie Warner is an author and speaker for over 25 years. She is the founder of the new Defining Moments book series that offer positive stories of hope and inspiration from people who have overcome extreme challenges in life. In 2005, Warner lost her son, which inspired her to write this book as a resource for other parents who have experienced the loss of a child. Melanie@MyDefiningMoments.com or visit: www.mydefiningmoments.com http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20130510/Melanie-Warner.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Tambre Leighn MA, CPC, PCC, Eli-Mp: From Grief To Growth

Posted on February 16, 2017 - by admin

Tambre Leighn, MA, PCC, ELI-MP, is a certified professional coach specializing in grief recovery and founder of WellBeyondOrdinary.com. After navigating the impacts of various kinds of losses in her own life, Tambre made it her mission to help others. Her approach to grief focuses on how to “grow through it, not just go through it” while honoring the loss. http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/06115829/Tambre-Leighn-.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Harriet Hodgson: Raising Grandchildren

Posted on February 9, 2017 - by admin

Harriet Hodgson has been a freelancer for 37 years and is the author of 35 books. In 2007 four family members, including her daughter (mother of her twin grandchildren, and the twin’s father) died. John and Harriet became the twin’s legal guardians and cared for the twins for seven years. http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/06112911/Harriet-Hodgson.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Allison Gilbert: Ways to Remember

Posted on February 2, 2017 - by admin

Allison Gilbert is the author of Passed and Present, Parentless Parents and Always Too Soon. She is also coeditor of Covering Catastrophe, the definitive historical record of how broadcast journalists covered 9/11. Allison’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, and on NPR, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, CBS, and ABC. http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/18141428/allison-gilbert.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Amy Sky: Healing Of Music

Posted on January 26, 2017 - by admin

Looking for music to heal? If so join singer songwriter Amy Sky as she and Dr. Heidi Horsley and Alan Pedersen, Executive Director of The Compassionate Friends, discuss with Amy “LIV ON,” a collaborative album with Olivia Newton-John, and Beth Nielsen Chapman. Listen in and be inspired by the power of music to heal. http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/17132811/Amy-Sky.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Heidi Horsley: Bonding With Surviving Siblings

Posted on January 19, 2017 - by admin

What was your response to the deaths of Carrie Fisher and a day later her mother Debbie Reynolds’s? On this show Dr. Gloria and Dr. Heidi Horsley discuss Facebook posts and media that saw it as a positive for a mother to join her child in death. Reuniting comments can be disturbing and hurtful to surviving siblings. Join us for tips on nurturing bereaved siblings. http://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/opentohope.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/17132509/gloria-and-Heidi.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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