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This episode first aired in July of 2018. Since that time, Eidan's brain tumor began growing again in early 2019. On October, 26, 2019, just...
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Paul Denniston grew up with rigid cultural, religious, and gender expectations for what was appropriate when it came to expressing grief and...
Just over four years ago, Jenny Lisk's husband Dennis died of glioblastoma - brain cancer. This loss propelled her into a new world of solo-...
In 2013, Shelby Forsythia was barely into her twenties when her mom died of cancer. This loss propelled her into a search for information, u...
"How many children do you have?" This simple question turns treacherous for grieving parents. Megan Hillukka's daughter, Aria, died of Sudde...
Leslie Barber is the founder of Grief Warrior, a series of gift boxes designed for those in grief. The items in the boxes are informed and i...
Kao Kalia Yang and Shannon Gibney are writers, friends, and grieving mothers. Shannon's daughter Sianneh died at forty-one and a half weeks....
In 2018, The Dougy Center was selected as one of a handful of children’s bereavement programs to partner with StoryCorps and the New York Li...
In 2017, Caroline Wright was working on her third cookbook and raising two kids with her husband. Life was busy and full in only the way it...
Marisa Bardach Ramel was 17 when her mother Sally, received a stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis and given two months to live. While always...
Over the next few months, you'll hear short clips of these conversations in a series of mini-episodes. In this second mini-episode, Megan, M...
In 2017, Brittany and Jonas were raising two young children and pregnant with their third. Then, after returning home from a business trip J...
What is it about dark humor and why are we particularly drawn to it when wrestling with painful life events? Laughter, especially the kind t...
In 2017, pop singer-songwriter Neil Davis, was about to release his second album when his father died suddenly of cardiac arrest. In that mo...
Mary Plouffe, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who had a professional sense of how children understand death. This sense became more persona...