Grief & Happiness

If you've ever believed grief and joy can't coexist, episode 444 of Grief and Happiness will change your mind. Cancer survivor Harriet Cabelly shares the mindset that carried her through diagnosis: it's not what happens to you, but what you do with it. Sitting with pain, not rushing past it, is the real path to a life worth living. In This Episode, You Will Learn: (00:03) Introducing Harriet Cabel...

What can you do today to make someone else’s day? What can you do to make your day? Let's Connect: You can join the Grief and Happiness Alliance which meets weekly on Sundays by clicking here You can order the International Best Selling The Grief and Happiness Guide by clicking here. You can order Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief by clicking here at Amazon: You can listen to my podcas...

If you've ever wondered how one family turned six deaths and a murder into a story of survival, episode 442 of Grief and Happiness is for you. Author Phyllis Karas shares the story behind her memoir Curse of the Blumenthals: a 1935 drunk-driving accident that killed six relatives and the murder her cousin Ronnie committed 18 years later. Her memoir shows how naming our grief, instead of burying it...

Let's Connect: You can join the Grief and Happiness Alliance which meets weekly on Sundays by clicking here You can order the International Best Selling The Grief and Happiness Guide by clicking here. You can order Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief by clicking here at Amazon: You can listen to my podcast, Grief and Happiness, by clicking here Request your Awaken Your Happiness Journali...

If you've ever wondered how a dying loved one's request could become a calling, episode 440 of Grief and Happiness is for you. Ceramic artist Rae Delai shares how a promise to her dying aunt led her to leave nursing and open White Lily Urns, crafting memorial pieces — including a teapot urn for a young woman lost to anorexia and a reef urn that becomes part of the ocean. In This Episode, You Will...

Let's Connect: You can join the Grief and Happiness Alliance which meets weekly on Sundays by clicking here You can order the International Best Selling The Grief and Happiness Guide by clicking here. You can order Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief by clicking here at Amazon: You can listen to my podcast, Grief and Happiness, by clicking here Request your Awaken Your Happiness Journali...

If you've ever felt hijacked by grief at the worst possible moment, Episode 438 of the Grief and Happiness Podcast is for you. Grief guide Sylvia Wolfer reveals why exhaustion, fogginess, and emotional overwhelm are real biological responses to loss — not weakness — and shares the simple scheduling technique that helped her stop being ambushed by grief and finally feel in control. If grief has eve...

I focus on being kind, but now I’ve realized the importance of receiving as well as giving. Let's Connect: You can join the Grief and Happiness Alliance which meets weekly on Sundays by clicking here You can order the International Best Selling The Grief and Happiness Guide by clicking here. You can order Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief by clicking here at Amazon: You can listen to m...

If you've ever been told to "move on" from grief, Episode 436 of the Grief and Happiness podcast will change how you think about healing forever. Michael Reed, who lost his wife and both daughters in the Gatlinburg wildfire, reveals why the five stages of grief are a myth and shares the moment he finally smiled at a memory before the tears came. In This Episode, You Will Learn: (00:04) Introductio...

Think about the friends you have in each of these categories and their impacts on your life. Think about renewing some friendships. Let's Connect: You can join the Grief and Happiness Alliance which meets weekly on Sundays by clicking here You can order the International Best Selling The Grief and Happiness Guide by clicking here. You can order Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief by clic...

If you've ever felt overwhelmed by grief and wondered how to move through it, Episode 434 of the Grief and Happiness podcast offers something tangible. Day Schildkret shares how the Morning Altars practice emerged from his own devastating loss and has since transformed how thousands of people around the world work with grief, celebration, and change. Through simple acts of gathering natural materi...

How do you define “Compassion”? Link to Compassion: Davis, CA Let's Connect: You can join the Grief and Happiness Alliance which meets weekly on Sundays by clicking here You can order the International Best Selling The Grief and Happiness Guide by clicking here. You can order Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief by clicking here at Amazon: You can listen to my podcast, Grief and Happiness...

If you've ever wondered how grief can become a gateway to self-discovery, Episode 432 of the Grief and Happiness podcast is for you. Author Lori Carlson-Hijuelos shares the story behind A Writing Marriage — a memoir woven together with the final unfinished manuscript of her late husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos. Through writing inside a cathedral, Lori finds not happiness in...

Focus on what serves you, what heals you, and your balance will return. Let's Connect: You can join the Grief and Happiness Alliance which meets weekly on Sundays by clicking here You can order the International Best Selling The Grief and Happiness Guide by clicking here. You can order Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief by clicking here at Amazon: You can listen to my podcast, Grief and...

If you've ever felt pressure to hold it together after loss, Episode 430 of the Grief and Happiness podcast is for you. Widow, author, and mentor Lisa Woolery shares the unfiltered reality of grief — from bank meltdowns to ill-fated dating attempts — and makes a compelling case for why laughter is one of the most powerful healing tools available. Giving yourself permission to be a hot mess, she sa...

Do you get in your own way? Let's Connect: You can join the Grief and Happiness Alliance which meets weekly on Sundays by clicking here You can order the International Best Selling The Grief and Happiness Guide by clicking here. You can order Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief by clicking here at Amazon: You can listen to my podcast, Grief and Happiness, by clicking here Request your Aw...

If you've ever questioned whether beauty can come from the worst moments of your life, Episode 428 of the Grief and Happiness podcast is for you. Widower and author Danny Lesslie shares how losing his wife Raffaella to Stage 4 cancer led him to write their co-authored memoir Thank You, Cancer — and what he discovered in her unedited journals after she was gone. He also opens up about the miraculou...

What is the difference for you between mourning and grief? Let's Connect: You can join the Grief and Happiness Alliance which meets weekly on Sundays by clicking here You can order the International Best Selling The Grief and Happiness Guide by clicking here. You can order Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief by clicking here at Amazon: You can listen to my podcast, Grief and Happiness, b...

If you've ever avoided thinking about death — your own or someone else's — episode 426 of Grief and Happiness is exactly what you need to hear. Death doula and soul coach Julie Wright Halbert joins Emily to challenge everything we've been taught about the end of life, and why dying people deserve the same celebration as newborns. Raw, surprising, and deeply comforting, this conversation will chang...

You are as young and you act and feel. Let's Connect: You can join the Grief and Happiness Alliance which meets weekly on Sundays by clicking here You can order the International Best Selling The Grief and Happiness Guide by clicking here. You can order Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief by clicking here at Amazon: You can listen to my podcast, Grief and Happiness, by clicking here Requ...

If you've ever wondered how love could deepen in the face of the unthinkable, episode 424 of Grief and Happiness is for you. David Marsden shares the remarkable story of his late-in-life relationship with journalist Alicia Shepard — a partnership that survived two stage 4 cancer diagnoses and a role reversal between patient and caregiver that brought them closer than ever. Through loss, David reve...

What signs that you experience remind you of your loved ones. Let's Connect: You can join the Grief and Happiness Alliance which meets weekly on Sundays by clicking here You can order the International Best Selling The Grief and Happiness Guide by clicking here. You can order Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief by clicking here at Amazon: You can listen to my podcast, Grief and Happiness...

If you've ever turned to creativity to make sense of loss, episode 422 of the Grief and Happiness podcast is for you. Author and grief specialist Laing F. Rikkers shares how losing her sister during the pandemic led her to a simple but powerful healing framework: walk it, talk it, write it. Through morning pages and botanical poetry, she transformed her grief into an award-winning book — and shows...

What do you have planned for the rest of your life? Let's Connect: You can join the Grief and Happiness Alliance which meets weekly on Sundays by clicking here You can order the International Best Selling The Grief and Happiness Guide by clicking here. You can order Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief by clicking here at Amazon: You can listen to my podcast, Grief and Happiness, by click...

If you've ever felt torn between honoring your grief and allowing yourself to be happy, Episode 420 of the Grief and Happiness podcast is for you. Author Steve Beal Sr. shares how years of visiting aging family members and simply showing up became the foundation of his book Generation Jumping. Through storytelling and faith, Steve makes a compelling case that sorrow and happiness are not opposites...