Sacred Arc

What does it mean to continue living after losing a child? In this deeply personal episode of Sacred Arc, Kimberley sits down with Adam, Isaac's father, for an honest conversation about fatherhood, grief, healing, spirituality, and learning to navigate life after unimaginable loss. Together they reflect on who Isaac was beyond the tragedy, the unique experience of fathers grieving a child, ret...

Why them and not me? It's a question that quietly follows many grieving people. Whether after the loss of a child, spouse, sibling, friend, fellow veteran, or someone lost to suicide, survivor's guilt can leave people carrying questions that never seem to have clear answers. In this deeply personal episode of Sacred Arc, Kimberley explores the emotional reality of survivor's guilt, inc...

What happens after survival? For many veterans, first responders, and trauma survivors, the hardest battles aren't always the ones fought in public. Sometimes the deepest struggles begin after coming home. In this episode of Sacred Arc, Kimberley sits down with veteran, father, community leader, and Rally Point Events founder Lance Yearby to discuss military service, trauma, resilience, purpos...

Every family carries stories. Stories about love, survival, resilience, heartbreak, and the people who shape us long before we understand their impact. In this episode of Sacred Arc, Kimberley sits down with her cousin Carol for a deeply personal conversation about growing up in the same family system while experiencing life in very different ways. Together they explore childhood memories, father...

Season 4 of Sacred Arc begins with a conversation about the power of storytelling. Over the last season, we explored many different forms of grief …the loss of parents, children, partners, siblings, grandparents, and beloved pets. But behind every loss is a person. A life. A story. And often, stories that have never been fully told. In this opening episode of The Stories We Carry, Kimberley reflec...

There are some people who know our story in a way no one else ever can. They remember the house you grew up in, the family traditions, the inside jokes, the childhood memories, and the versions of you that existed long before adulthood. When a sibling dies, it isn’t only the loss of a brother or sister. It can feel like losing a witness to your life. In this episode of Sacred Arc, we explore the o...

There are some losses that change a person forever. And child loss is one of them. In this deeply personal episode of Sacred Arc, we explore the unimaginable reality of losing a child...including sudden loss, illness, miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, losing an only child, and grieving while still parenting surviving children. Kimberley also shares personal reflections about her son, Isaac, he...

Losing a parent is more than losing a person. It can feel like losing part of your history, your foundation, your childhood, and the people connected to your beginning. In this episode of Sacred Arc, we explore the layered reality of parent loss including complicated relationships, grief mixed with guilt, unresolved pain, family role shifts, and the emotional experience of losing the people who kn...

Losing a partner or a spouse is more than losing a person. It's losing routines, shared history, imagines futures, and the quiet everyday moments that once shaped your life together. In this episode of Sacred Arc, we explore the layered grief of partner loss, identity shifts, complicated relationships and the painful reality of learning how to exist inside a life that no longer looks the way you e...

Mother’s Day can be beautiful. But for many people… it can also be incredibly painful. In this special episode, recorded on Mother’s Day itself, I talk about the complicated reality of grief during a holiday centered around motherhood, family, love, and connection. This episode is for: * the people grieving their mothers * the mothers grieving children * those carrying complicated relationships *...

For many people.... losing a grandparent is the first experience of grief. But, it's not always treated that way. Because it's expected. "Part of Life." Because people often assume it should be easier to process. In this episode, we talk about what this kind of loss actually feels like, beyond what people say about it. The connection grandparents often represent. The way their pr...

Pet loss is one of the most common experiences of grief...and one of the most minimized. In this episode, we talk about what it really feels like to lose a pet. Not something small and replaceable but as a meaningful relationship. Because grief isn't measured by category. It's shaped by connection. And, for many people, pets are part of their daily lives in a way that is constant, groundin...

In the first two seasons, we explored grief in a broader way. What it is, how it forms and how it shapes the way we move through life. But this season.... we're going closer. Into the griefs themselves. The specific types of loss people carry and the ways that those experiences live in us. In this episode, we open Season 3 by creating a foundation for what's ahead. A space that acknowledge...

There's a way that we speak to ourselves that we don't always question. The pressure. The criticism. The expectation to do better, be better, handle things differently. And, for a lot of us...that voice feels normal. In this episode, we talk about compassion...not as a concept, but as a practice. What it looks like to turn toward yourself instead of away. To notice the way you respond to y...

Forgiveness is often misunderstood. It's not always a conversation. It's not always a reconciliation. And it doesn't bring immediate peace. In this episode, we explore what forgiveness actually looks like, especially when it's complicated. When the person who hurt you is still in your life. When they aren't capable of accountability. Or when they are no longer here at all. We t...

Boundaries are often talked about like they’re simple. Like you just decide… and everything changes. But for many of us especially if we grew up in complicated environments, boundaries don’t come naturally. They come with guilt. With second-guessing. With the feeling that we’re doing something wrong just by having needs. In this episode, we talk about what boundaries actually look like in real lif...

Sometimes the question isn’t Why did this happen to me? It’s why do I keep choosing this? In this episode, we talk about how the relationships we experienced in childhood shape the relationships we find ourselves in later in life. How familiarity can feel like love. How we’re drawn to what feels known even when it isn’t healthy. And how patterns we didn’t consciously choose can quietly repeat them...

Some of the most complex grief doesn’t come from losing someone. It comes from loving someone who couldn’t fully show up. In this episode, we talk about the kind of grief that exists inside complicated relationships...with parents who were present in some ways, and absent in others. Parents who struggled. Parents who loved you but also hurt you. Parents who were dealing with their own pain, addict...

Some children didn’t grow up loud. They grew up listening. In this episode, we explore the kind of silence that wasn’t personality... it was protection. We talk about: • learning early to manage the emotional temperature of the room • becoming “the strong one” because someone had to • caretaking when it wasn’t a choice • how silence follows us into adult relationships • and what it means to reclai...

Some childhood stories are clear. Some had real harm. Real fear. Real betrayal. And some were quieter. Messier. More complicated. In this episode, we explore what it means to grow up in systems where there were villains… and where there weren’t. We talk about loving parents who caused damage. Loving parents who were limited but not malicious. Loving someone who couldn’t fully show up. And grieving...

Season two begins at the beginning. Before the loss. Before the silence. Before we learned how to cope. In this episode, we explore how childhood shapes the way we grieve, attach, protect, and survive. We talk about how children don’t grieve like adults and how they process loss in waves, through behavior, through the body, and often without language. We look at how adaptation can look like identi...

Season One didn't end the way I originally thought it would. But maybe that's fitting. In this companion episode, I'm sharing 50 things I've learned about grief. Some of them are tender, some uncomfortable, some surprisingly funny, and some I wish I never had to learn at all. This isn't a clinical breakdown. It's not a lecture. It's more of a grief hangout. The kind where we sit down together and...

When Grief and Joy Learn to Coexist What if "moving on" was never the goal? In this episode of Sacred Arc, Kimberley explores what it means to carry love forward after loss, not by leaving grief behind, but by letting it change shape. We talk about the return of joy, the guilt that can follow it and the quiet ways love continues through new traditions, meaning, and presence. This episode gently ch...

I didn’t know who would find this podcast. I only knew I needed to record it. Sacred Arc began as a quiet offering... for anyone whose grief needed language, witnessing, or simply a place to land without being fixed. I never imagined how far it would travel, or how many of you would recognize yourselves in these words. If you’re listening from another country, another season of life, another kind...

Most people don’t say the wrong thing because they’re cruel. They say the wrong thing because they were never taught how to meet grief. When someone we love is grieving, words often rush in where presence should be. Comfort turns into fixing. Silence turns into forced meaning. Fear turns into phrases that unintentionally isolate the person who is already hurting. This episode exists because grief...