Grief, Gratitude & The Gray in Between

Kristina Cunningham shares her grief journey after the passing of her first born son Mason, who was 19 months. Mason was “the physical embodiment of Joy". Kristina was 10 weeks pregnant at the time of his passing and shares about her grief journey, as well as how her health was affected by her grief. Kristina and her friend Steffanie Empey started their blogcast titled Sunflowers and Red Feathers...

Christine Soutter Suau, is the founder and President of the WhyNotDevin Foundation to Ende DIPG, a non profit that raises money to provide financial and emotional support for families of children with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) brain tumors. Chirstine is also the founder of Meant to Bee ME, a motivational speaker, blogger and podgaster -SHE-nanigans with Christine & Jenn. She is a sin...

On this episode I chat with Katrina Weller. After experiencing the death of her mum at age 15, followed by the loss of four more relatives and her newborn nephew within a six year timeframe, Katrina became increasingly aware of the lack of conversation, discomfort and misunderstanding towards grief and loss. She became a voice of advocacy within her own respective network and decided to extend thi...

Romy Devack started SINCERELY after working in the fashion industry for over a decade, as an expert consultant across celebrity and retail. When her father, Stephen Devack, passed away after a sudden bout with cancer in September 2014, she planned to tattoo his signature on her body as a way to honor his memory and keep a part of him with her at all times. Her mother, however, quickly shot down th...

Andy McCall is an international Self-Published Author of the book "Pigtails and Steel", which can be found on Amazon. He is an Elementary School teacher as well as a High School Football coach. But the most important role he has in life, is being a dad and a devoted husband. In this podcast we talk about his first born, Penelope Clair, she is his Why! Penelope was the light of his life. She had ma...

Martha Eugenia Muñiz Ibáñez es Instructora en bailoterapia y fitness, Coach de Vida con maestría en terapias holísticas y hace numerología Tántrica. Comenzó su despertar espiritual en el 2008 y en el 2010 empezó a estudiar la espiritualidad de diferentes tradiciones Indias como el Hinduísmo,el Sijismo, Tolteca y Ho'oponopono. (Hawaiana) Un accidente casero marcó su vida al estar en las puertas de...

Faith Fuller Wilcox believes that self-expression through writing leads to healing. Her writing is reflective of a growing body of medical research about “narrative identity,” which illuminates that how we make sense of what happens to us and the meaning we give to experiences beyond our control directly impact our physical and psychological outcomes. Faith learned these truths firsthand when her...

Neil D. Beresin is a counselor and interfaith chaplain, and specializes in helping individuals navigate the unstable and disorienting waters of grief and loss. Neil has worked with individuals and families in hospitals, hospice, nursing homes, schools, and private practice. Multiple lenses frame his practice, including the work of theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel, Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön, psych...

Olivia shares her grief journey after the death of both her parents. Her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when Olivia was only 15. She was on remission for a few years and then it came back again when Olivia was living out of the country for college. She would travel back and forth from Munich to Rome, to take care of her mom when she was sick. Her mom died of cancer a few years after her diag...

Abigail Johnston is a daughter, mother, wife, and attorney who was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in June of 2017, close on the heels of a early stage diagnosis in March of 2017. In reality, the breast cancer had already spread to Abigail's bones before she felt the lump in her breast. The first few months after her diagnosis were a whirlwind and full of many profound changes, but Abigail...

Rachel Engstrom M.S.W., C.H.E.S has written a groundbreaking memoir/self-book on her experience as a young cancer wife then widow. With the increasing number of young women and men becoming widows/widowers due to not only cancer and serious illnesses, but also now Covid 19, this resource is needed more now than ever. Rachel shares her journey in a raw and honest way, while providing step by step r...

Camilo Russi es el fundador del Congreso Internacional de Cierre de Ciclos, el evento que, por primera vez en la historia, reunió 20,000 personas para hablar abiertamente sobre la muerte y aprender a vivir en paz duelos y cierres de ciclo. Camilo es acompañante de duelo, guía de libertad personal, y líder en la educación sobre la muerte. Se entrenó como ingeniero, y hace más de una década se dedic...

Born in Cali, Colombia, Carolina Ravassa has appeared on The Affair opposite Dominic West, Mr. Robot with Bobby Cannavale & Rami Malek, and has done a few shorts with Reggie Watts. She produced, directed, and starred in the webseries Hispanglosaxon, which won an Imagen Award for Best Webseries. She is known for her voice work in the video games Overwatch (Sombra), Valorant (Raze), Grand Theft Auto...

Linzi Meaden lost her only sibling, Stuart, to suicide in June 2020. Totally unexpected and totally devastating for those left behind. To help with her grief, she has written a book “What Suicide Left Behind” due to be published on Amazon in May 2021, just shortly after their side by side birthdays, 28 & 29 April. She has also created an online community for those grieving the loss of loved ones t...

Susan Kendal became a widow, 6 years ago. Her husband passed suddenly of an unexpected heart attack while getting ready for work. Grief does occur in different times and 6 weeks after she and her husband got married, at 18 and 21, her best friend & brother-in-law died. So, their kids actually grew up their entire lives knowing about death. Which she feels it was probably good in retrospect. She al...

Joan Poggio is an independent filmmaker with over 20 years experience. Born and raised in Colombia, in 2004 he fell in love with Kenya while filming a series for Animal Planet Latin America. Since then he has lived in Nairobi with his family, and has travelled consistently around Africa telling unique and exciting stories. Joan loves telling stories that depict the beauty, strength and contradicti...

Victoria Moore became a widow in May 2019, after losing her husband Marcus to suicide. She never expected to be a widow at 37 and raise her 7 and 9 year old children on her own. Grieving the death of her husband was hard, but even harder was telling the children that their dad had died. In that moment she had to make a decision; Her children had lost their dad to suicide and she could not let them...

Ana Milena Carrasco comparte con su historia de duelo después de la muerte de su madre. Ani vive en Estados Unidos, y pudo viajar a Colombia para estar con su madre en sus últimos días de vida. Al principio le era muy difícil compartir sobre su fallecimiento y revivir todas la emociones, pero a medida que pasa el tiempo, se ha dado cuenta que en realidad al contar su historia, limpia su alma. Su d...

Jennifer Hepton is a Conscious Life & Parenting Coach who works with women in their motherhood journey to move from a place of conditioning and overwhelm to mindfulness and consciousness. She is a pregnancy loss and grief awareness educator and supports women that have experienced infertility, pregnancy loss, pregnancy and parenting after loss and trauma. Jenn uses her knowledge and training of tr...

Kathryn Monaco-Douglas shares her journey of when she became a widow over 20 years ago when her husband Larry died, they had been married for over 19 years and had 3 kids. She had to learn how to do things on her own, because Larry used to take care of everything and was also the financial provider. Kathryn started searching for bereavement groups, and found very few options for support. That is w...

Megan Hillukka is a bereaved mother, with 6 children, 5 who are still here. She was 36 weeks pregnant when her daughter Aria, who was 15 months old, died in her sleep. She also experienced PTSD from finding her daughter Aria when she died, and has done the work to find healing in her brain and her life. From this, Megan wants everyone to know that PTSD is not a life sentence, and that healing is p...

Andrea Freemyer, PhD- Self Love Coach, Body Connection Guide , and Breathwork Facilitator. Deeply committed to helping people walk through their shadows and alchemize their pain so that they can embody their light and reclaim their power. She is a self-love coach, body connection guide and Breathwork facilitator. In her own words “I spent many years of my life as a high-functioning perfectionist a...

Pixie Lighhorse is the author of the Prayers of Honoring series, “written to restore bonds between people and nature while healing interior patterning and spiritual/religious trauma. Lighthorse’s books of prayer, boundaries, and greater sources of inner peace and wisdom. She works with themes of restoration of voice, liberation of soul, and vitality of body. Earth and all living things are her ins...

Farin Schlussel is the Assistant Director of Marketing for Avery Books and TarcherPerigee, two nonfiction publishing imprints at Penguin Publishing Group (a division of Penguin Random House, LLC). She loves helping readers find the new book that will change their lives and help them think differently. She shares her grief journey after her father, who she had not spoken to in over 10 years, passed...

Miguel Sancho (a former ABC producer)is the author of MORE THAN YOU CAN HANDLE: A Rare Disease, A family in Crisis, and the Cutting-Edge Medicine That Cured the Incurable. Listen to this candid and brutally honest conversation about how he and his wife Felicia Morton discovered that their son, Sebastian, had chronic granulomatous disease, CGD a deadly immune deficiency, and their quest to find a c...