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"How many children do you have?" This simple question turns treacherous for grieving parents. Megan Hillukka's daughter, Aria, died of Sudde...
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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...
John and Melissa met back in the 90’s and dated for a few years before getting married. For John, this was a relationship like none other. M...
There’s nothing like grief to take us completely out of the moment. We get pulled into the past where we try to remember everything we can w...
In 1994, The Dougy Center had been around for just over a decade. It was also the year Hope Edelman published her groundbreaking book, Mothe...
Sweaters, shoes, a favorite coffee mug, the pen always angled a certain way - items, big and small, create the landscapes left behind when s...
