Guest Interviews

This week is a continuation of last week’s episode as I talked with Erica Mitchell. Erica had a pregnancy loss and had to deliver her stillborn son, which was pretty traumatic. Last week we ended in the middle of Erica’s story of God allowing her to see her son, Sheldon, in heaven. She was so […]

This is the beginning of a chat I had in the Hope Mobile with a Wisconsin friend, Erica Mitchell. Today’s talk is quite a bit of the details (and I do mean details – as in possible trigger warning, which are important to her story) of Erica’s story of the traumatic pregnancy loss of her […]

When our child dies, most of us have an immediate support system. But as the weeks and months go by, those people usually go back to their lives and we are left still shattered. We feel like we are going crazy. People around us say that we should be “over this” by now and make […]

It is devastating enough to have one of our children die, but to have your only child leave this earth gives a parent even more difficulties to have to fight against in working through the suffocating darkness. Sara Nelson lost her only child, Jeanette, and feels called to help others through their grief, no matter […]

Ashley Pittman lost a set of twins, seven months into her pregnancy through premature labor. Will Jr. took his last breath in her husband’s arms and Aree’a took her last breath on Ashley’s chest. Ashley struggled with her grief for the next several years, believing her pain is what kept her connected to the twins. […]

This week is a continuation of my talk with Joe and Shaunda Knight in our Finding Joy Again series. (If you didn’t hear last week’s episode, I highly recommend going back to hear Shaunda share about her “Matt box” in Episode 66: Fighting for Joy.) This week the discussion covers: How easy it is to […]

Last week I started talking about scriptures that can be difficult to understand like having joy in trials or rejoicing always in the Lord. This episode was going to be part 2 of that discussion. Due to “the computer eating my homework”, I lost my notes and was unable to record what I had planned […]

The death of our child gives us so many mixed emotions about God. Here are just some of them: God betrayed me so I can’t trust Him anymore. I am so angry and confused with why God allowed my child to die. I know I had faith! Why didn’t my faith keep my child from […]

As I was doing some studying in the Word, looking at some of the parents in the Bible who had lost a child, I came across a scripture that just seemed to go totally against what I believe about God, and even what I have shared with others about God’s goodness, and how He doesn’t […]

Sometimes we know what we want to do to help our child leave a legacy, but we don’t know how to get started with raising money to support that cause. Professional fund raiser, Mary Valloni, and host, Laura Diehl, continue their talk from last week, and Mary shares some thoughts and encouragement in this area. […]

The last two episodes in this series on How to Help Your Child Leave a Legacy are with professional fundraiser, Mary Valloni. Since many of you are doing things in honor and memory of your children that involves raising money for your cause, I thought it would be helpful to get some tips from someone […]

This interview with Marcella Johnson is a continuation of last week’s talk (episode 44). In this discussion, Marcella shares about how she developed The Comfort Cub (the first weighted therapeutic bear) after the death of her son, who died in her arms fifteen minutes after being born. I personally know a mom who lost her […]

Laura’s guest for this and the following episode is Marcella Johnson. Over twenty years ago, Marcella knew she would be losing her son, George, at birth because of a rare, fatal disease that would not allow him to live outside the womb. This interview with Marcella is part of the “How to Help Your Child […]

Many parents who have lost a child either think about writing a book or have been told they should write a book. Obviously, it’s a great way to tell your child’s story and to help him or her continue to live on in the hearts and minds of others. But how do you do it? […]

Rick Kauffman calls himself a fixer and as a fixer, he was a total failure after his three-year-old daughter, Kelsey, drowned in a public swimming pool, eight feet in front of a life guard. Rick started getting involved with water safety, but he quit as things in his life went downhill. Rick ended up divorced, […]

This second episode of the Helping Your Child Leave a Legacy series is with guest, Crystal Webster, who lost her one and only child eight hours after birth. Several years later, after coming out of the debilitating darkness of grief, she discovered something she could do that would help others who found themselves in that […]

Today is an interview with the first guest for the How to Leave Your Child a Legacy Series. Patti has had quite the journey for over twelve years since the death of her daughter, Megan. I am sure you will take away some valuable thoughts, especially the word of encouragement that hope and helping others, […]

This is a bit of a different podcast, as host, Laura Diehl, invites her husband, Dave, to join her. Dave and Laura Diehl are the co-founders of the national ministry Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope), and in this podcast episode, they share their story, including: How their oldest daughter, Becca, died How what started […]

This subject directly affects podcast host, Laura Diehl. Laura got pregnant her summer out of high school and her boyfriend walked out on her. Shortly after Becca was born, Laura struck up a friendship with a co-worker, which turned into love and a marriage proposal. Little Becca was two years old when Dave and Laura […]

When our child dies, most of us don’t believe we can find our way out of the darkness, much less have a life with meaning or purpose again. Or if we believe it is possible, we don’t know how to get there. That is one of the purposes of Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope). […]

No matter how dark it is after the death of our child, as a follower of Christ, we all have a seed of hope inside of us. Host, Laura Diehl, and her guest, Glen Lord, talk about how to nurture that seed of hope so that it can grow, allowing you to live a life […]

Last week on episode 10, Laura and Kelly talked about the struggles we can have as believers in Christ, wondering where God is in the tragedy of the death of our children. This week the discussion turns to pregnancy and infant loss. Kelly starts out by sharing why she doesn’t like to use the term […]

This talk with Kelly Gerken was so full of good stuff that instead of editing things out, it was turned into two separate episodes. In this first half, Kelly shares her story about losing her twins, Faith and Grace, before they were born, along with her son Thomas six hours after his birth. Then Laura […]

This week Laura talks to Ron Kelly about a subject many of us are forced to deal with way too soon; going back to work when we are in such deep grief. This was a very packed discussion and longer than the normal podcast, but well worth it. Some of the things covered on this […]