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Abel Keogh: Getting it Together After Loss

Posted on September 26, 2013 - by admin

Abel Keogh is author of the memoir Room for Two, the story of the year of his life following his late wife’s suicide and the corresponding death of their unborn child. He is also the writer of the relationship guides Dating a Widower, Marrying a Widower, and Life with a Widower. Now remarried, he and his wife, Juile, are the parents of six children. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2013/09/Abel-Keough.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Steve Harris: Men and Grief: Dating and Re-marriage

Posted on September 19, 2013 - by admin

Steve Harris is the president of Creative Edge Communications, a production company in Southern California. He wrote and produced About Tomorrow, an hour-long CD full of encouragement for those in the first six months after loss, featuring interviews with real people who have been there, along with his own experience losing his wife to cancer. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2013/09/Steve-Harris_02.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Diane Dettmann: Sudden Death of a Husband

Posted on August 15, 2013 - by admin

Diane Dettmann is the author of Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widow’s Story of Love, Loss and RenewaI, a memoir about the sudden death of her 54-year- old husband. She is also a contributing author for the “Women’s Voices For Change” website. Diane’s writing has been featured on other online sites and in various print publications. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2013/07/Dianne-Dettman_02.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Sandi Amorello: Irreverent Widowhood

Posted on July 11, 2013 - by admin

Sandi Amorello is an artist, author, speaker, serial entrepreneur, and single mother of three. Ten years ago she lost her husband and college sweetheart, Drew, to pancreatic cancer. She is the author of The Irreverent Widow: Shockingly True Tales of Love, Death and Dating…With Children in Tow. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2013/06/Sandy-Amorello_01.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Judy Schreiber-Mosher, LCSW; Transforming Your Life 

Posted on June 6, 2013 - by admin

From her husband’s death through her first three years of widowhood, Judy Schreiber-Mosher felt that the world had ended, but over time she found that the world transformed due to her willingness to ceremonially disperse ashes around the world; learn to eat, sleep, and travel alone; and eventually to date again. She is the author of Tincture of Time. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2013/04/Judy-Sch-Mosher.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Kyle Shelton: Dating and Remarriage After Spouse Loss

Posted on April 4, 2013 - by admin

Kyle Shelton was born in Alabama and has lived in northeast or central Alabama most of his life. Kyle’s wife Kathy died suddenly due to a drug interaction. As a male in grief he struggled to express his emotions and to connect with others while dealing with parenting and remarriage. Kyle is a writer for Open to Hope and teaches ninth grade. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2013/04/Kyle-Shelton.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Laura B. Hayden: Spouse Loss

Posted on March 15, 2013 - by admin

Laura B. Hayden spent her childhood in Brooklyn, NY, and her teens in Enfield,CT, where she went on to teach. She and her husband were raising their daughter and son when she was widowed. Ten years later she began writing Staying Alive: A Love Story. Told with the grit and wit of a survivor, her family’s experience may be considered a quiet triumph. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2013/03/Laura-Hayden.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Jeffrey Berman: The Healing Power of Writing

Posted on February 14, 2013 - by admin

After the death of his wife, Barbara, in 2004, Jeffrey Berman began teaching courses on Love and Loss at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He realized the importance of death education, particularly, the healing power of writing. His new book, Death Education in the Writing Classroom, is the first book to show how students can use the healing power of writing to cope with the deaths of loved ones. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2013/02/Jeffery-Berman.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Carol Scibelli: Healing With Humor

Posted on January 31, 2013 - by admin

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Terry Jones-Brady; Finding Love and Happiness After Profound Loss

Posted on November 22, 2012 - by admin

Terry Jones-Brady is a strong and deeply spiritual person. Both of Terry’s daughters were born with cystic fibrosis. Terry began an unfathomable journey and survived not two but three deaths. After the deaths of her daughters, her husband died by suicide. She grieved, searched for understanding, and finally, found love and happiness again. She is the author of Mosaic Heart: Reshaping the Shards of a Shattered life. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2012/10/Terry-Jones.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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