The Adapted Life, Finding Next

Send me a Text Message Episode 44: Trusting Your Energy Learning to Listen to Your Inner Knowing Episode Description Have you ever had a feeling that something wasn't quite right—but talked yourself out of it? Or sensed that a new direction was calling you—but doubted yourself because you couldn't explain why? In this episode, we're exploring what it means to trust your energy. Not...

Send me a Text Message Season 5 • Episode 43 Protecting Your Energy The Adapted Life: Finding Next In this episode of The Adapted Life: Finding Next , Julie explores the quiet but necessary practice of protecting your energy — especially after loss, caregiving, burnout, betrayal, trauma, or seasons of deep emotional exhaustion. As part of the Season 5 theme, Tending to the Energy , this conversati...

Send me a Text Message This is a guided meditation for anyone who is going through betrayal trauma or deep grief.  Or both.  You are not the storm.  You are the lighthouse my friends.  This is a healing meditation, and a poem of encouragement.  I Love you.  Please let me know if you like this meditation Support the show https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielsSpecialArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav https://...

Send me a Text Message In this episode, we talk about what we do once we are experiencing awareness of our energy.  Not fixing it, but just being aware of gentle ways to tend to that energy.  WHAT TENDING IS Tending to your energy is not about fixing yourself. It’s not about getting it right. It’s about noticing… and responding… with care. Moment by moment.   Gentle self care, can sometimes lessen...

Send me a Text Message EPISODE DESCRIPTION Have you ever reached the end of the day and wondered why you feel so exhausted… even when you didn’t “do” that much? In this episode, we explore a deeper understanding of energy—not just physical, but emotional, mental, and relational. Because often, it’s not about how much you’re doing… it’s aboutwhat you’re carrying. We gently look at the invisible way...

Send me a Text Message In this guided meditation, we just take a few minutes to focus on where our energy has been sent today, and peacefully call some it back to us.  Thank you for listening!  Support the show https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielsSpecialArt?ref=seller-platform-mcnav https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQr7Ot0J0o6_gRnG_fJvzDg

Send me a Text Message Episode Description In this opening episode of the new season of The Adapted Life: Finding Next, I reflect on the quiet but powerful ways that connection can begin to illuminate even the darkest seasons of life. Through personal storytelling, gentle reflection, I explore the idea that even the smallest spark — a moment of understanding, a shared story, or a simple human conn...

Send me a Text Message This is Julie Hasselberger.  Introducing Season 5 (not 60 of my podcast  The adapted life, Finding Next  This season, is about tending to the energy of being somewhere in the middle of healing from devastating loss and trauma, and the place of finding what comes next.  A gentle stepping forward into coming home to your true self, and managing the chaos of a reality that no l...

Send me a Text Message Hello,  In this episode I speak tenderly about how meditation has transformed my journey with grief and pain.  This is my first ever guided meditation, so I am sure it won't be perfect.   I have layered grief, and deep trauma.  It has significantly caused me so much difficulty in finding my way again.  This is why I added on "finding next", because this journe...

Send me a Text Message The Adapted Life Podcast, by Julie Hasselberger Season 4 Episode 35 "Love in transition."  Adapting in our brokenness.   Love is not static, it bends, breaks and mends across time.  The loss of child shatters a family, but love finds ways to carry them forward.  Growth in empathy, and emotional intelligence can reconnect partners even decades later.  Love is like &...

Send me a Text Message In this episode I want to take a gentle walk through discussing what happens when your caregiving world ends.   I offer a moment of calm meditation, as well as a journal prompt to think on at the end.  which is, " What truths have you faced when your role as a caregiver for your loved ended?"   The double loss refers to the loss of a loved one, coupled with the los...

Send me a Text Message Hi. My name is Julie Hasselberger.  I am going through some incredible grief and trauma healing.  My son passed away at 26 years old, and losing him left a hole in my heart.  Shortly after that, I experience some terrible relational trauma and felt myself in a spiral.   As I continue to seek what comes next for me at 59 years old, having everything change, I want to share th...

Send me a Text Message The Adapted Life, Finding Next  Podcast  Season 4 Episode 32 I have been wandering around in a place called grief and trauma.  As I write this, I can share that I most definitely am not the same person I was before my son passed away on January 12, 2024.   For 26 years I loved and sacrificed for my son.  But there is so much more to my story that was going on at the same tim...

Send me a Text Message 254 days ago, from the day I recorded this talk, my beautiful son Daniel passed away at the age of 26.   The journey I am on now, is really bizarre.  There is no linear progression as far as I am concerned.  Having been my son's full time care giver for his entire 26 years of life, made an indelible mark on my soul.  In the loss of my boy, and the beautiful life we had...

Send me a Text Message Even though I Grieve  Even though I grieve I can smile at your photo Even though I cry  I can feel grateful  Even though I am broken I can limp along today Even though I miss you I can create new memories now Even though you were always here I know that you are gone Even though my house is quiet I can still feel, and hear you Even though I grieve you son My love spans all ti...

Send me a Text Message The Adapted Life Podcast  Season 3  Episode 29  4 months of grieving.  This is a checking in, of sorts.  Before I begin, I would like to reach out and let you know that if you are also grieving, and that this resonates with you, please let me know.   Especially if you once had an overly full life of caregiving for someone who is now gone and you feel lost.   Or just that you...

Send me a Text Message The Adapted Life Podcast  Season 3  Episode 28 A new season.  A dark tunnel.  A lonely place.  A monsoon of tears. A red bird.  A sun rise.  A blanket.  A box of tissue.  A pile of cards.  An empty room.  The loss of a son.  The weight of grief.  One purple crocus.  Sickness.  A broken heart.  A hole in my soul. This, my friends is a very difficult conversation I am going to...

Send me a Text Message Episode 27   As caregiver for my son, who is 26 years old, I have had quite a journey.  There have been times, when I felt completely lost and down, out of sync with who I am.  Not even knowing what my core values are anymore, aside from the tough task of survival mode.  Part of self actualization, and striving towards a joyful life and soul purpose, is really taking stock o...

Send me a Text Message In this episode, I had been pondering the work I've been doing on self-love and releasing attachments.  I asked myself, what does this mean to caregivers who carry with them a lifetime of changes that traumatically altered the course of their lives.   While I do believe that letting go of attachments that result in negative results, is important, we also can't alwa...

Send me a Text Message Hello my adapting friends.  Welcome to Episode 25 of The Adapted Life Podcast. In this episode I wanted to talk about that word, health.  And its sister "self-care".  Taking care of our own health care needs is extremely complicated in so many ways.  We literally have our lives intertwined with the health care and well being of our loved one. (s). So there in lies...

Send me a Text Message In this episode, I wanted to talk about finding space outside of caregiving to do something that your intuition is calling you to do. As we know, carrying the weight of someone else's life and well being on our shoulders is a very heavy lift.  But this doesn't negate your passion and desire to do something that brings you joy, outside of the realm of caregiving.  I...

Send me a Text Message In this episode, I wanted to talk about my son's recent MRI, and what it really means to the entire big picture.  And I guess, what it doesn't.   Thank you for being here, at the adapted life podcast.  As with with my life, I am letting my intuitive thoughts and heart centered focus guide me as I unroll what "adapting" means to me.  My hope is that someon...

Send me a Text Message In this episode I discuss how I experience this "tilt" reaction to having been overwhelmed with a sudden and traumatic need to care for aging family members, on top of my responsibility as a caregiver Mom to my medically complex and disabled adult son.   The words "I'm tilted" kept popping into my mind, so I let it be there. As a 50 something year ol...

Send me a Text Message Episode 21 Season 2 In this episode, I am excited to be able to continue this journey with my listeners.  Sharing an overview of what happened in 2022, and looking into the new year, with curiosity and intention to continue following my heart on this purposeful mission.  There are significant challenges facing caregivers that resonate with me, and I talk briefly about my own...

Send me a Text Message Hello everyone, This is my 20 th episode.  Recorded just around the time of my son's 25th birthday (November 22nd) I was so grateful and musing the concept of my past 25 years as a musical montage.   I talk about a wonderful experience that I had, connecting with another mother of a 20 something year old disabled son.  For caregivers who can rarely get a break, this was...