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Linda Goldman; Helping Children Deal With Death and Healing

Posted on June 30, 2011 - by admin

Linda Goldman Is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and is in private grief therapy practice for children, teenagers, families with prenatal loss, and grieving adults. She is the author of Life and Loss, breaking the Silence and Children also Grieve: Talking about Death and Healing. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/files/2011/05/Linda-Goldman_01.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Brian Schuff; Understanding Grief

Posted on June 23, 2011 - by admin

Brian Schuff is a professional writer whose mother died when he was eight years old, giving him a life-long interest in the subject of grief. He is the co-author along with Ron Marasc of About Grief: Insights, Setbacks, Grace Notes, and Taboos. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/files/2011/05/Brian-Schuff_01.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Dennis Apple; Learning to Cope After Loss

Posted on June 16, 2011 - by admin

Dennis Apple is the bereaved dad of Denny, age 18, who died in 1991 after a brief illness. Dennis counsels couples and individuals who are grieving the loss of a loved one. He serves as staff pastor at College Church of Nazarene in Oathe, Kansas with his wife, Buelah. He is the author of Life After the Death of My Son: What I am Learning. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/files/2011/05/Dennis-Apple_01.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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John Frykman; Risks of Substance Abuse After Loss

Posted on June 9, 2011 - by admin

John Frykman Ph.D. is a Lutheran Minister and American psychotherapist specializing in Brief Therapy, medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was the Founding Director of the Drug Treatment Program of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic in San Francisco and is noted for his problem solving, individualized approach to substance abuse therapy and solution focused brief therapy. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/files/2011/05/John-Frykman_01.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Michael Mims; Helping Families Deal With Loss

Posted on June 2, 2011 - by admin

Michael Mims is the president of Cherokee Casket Company a family owned business making children’s caskets since 194l. Michael realizes a families need for resources and is a longtime supporter of The Compassionate Friends. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/files/2011/05/Michael-Mims_06.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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The Healing Power of Reminiscence: Robin Edger

Posted on May 26, 2011 - by admin

Robin Edgar teaches reminiscence workshops for bereavement programs and for individuals wishing to record family histories. She points out the people use to sit around the campfire or fireplace and tell our stories but Somehow, the literate society got tricked into thinking that other people’s stories were more important than our own. She is the author of “In My Mother’s Kitchen”. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/files/2011/04/Robin-Edgar_091.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Harold Ivan Smith: Grief of U.S. Presidents and First Ladies

Posted on May 19, 2011 - by admin

Harold Ivan Smith is a grief specialist and educator at both Saint Luke’s Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, and the Carondolet Medical Institute in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Harold Ivan facilitates Grief Gatherings, which are storytelling groups for grievers. His primary research is on the grief of U.S. Presidents and First Ladies and he is a recognized as Fellow in Thanatology by the Association for Death Education and Counseling. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/files/2011/04/Harold-Ivan-Smith_01.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Deneene Florino: Surviving and Thriving After Loss

Posted on May 12, 2011 - by admin

Deneene Florino is a grief counselor and intuitive author. Under the teachings of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Deneene absorbed the wisdom of Ross’s knowledge about the process of dying and grief and found a calling in helping people to accept the unacceptable and overcome unbearable pain and grief. She is the founder of The Angel Tales Foundation and author of Angel Tales. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/files/2011/04/Deneene-Florino_01.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Pat Schwiebert: Mothers and Loss

Posted on May 5, 2011 - by admin

Pat Schwiebert, a registered Nurse has been working in the area of bereavement for over 25 years. Her teachers have been ordinary persons who were grieving the loss of special people in their lives and who taught her as she walked along side them in their sorrow. Pat shares a hospice ministry with her husband John and others in a large https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/files/2011/04/Pat-Schwiebert_01.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Bonnie Carroll; Families and Military Loss

Posted on April 28, 2011 - by admin

Bonnie Carroll, Founder and President of the Tragedy Assistance Program (TAPS), the national Veterans Service Organization providing comfort and care to all those grieving the death of a loved one in the military. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/www.opentohope.com/files/2011/03/Bonnie-Carroll.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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