by Marcy Larson | May 21, 2026 | Grief, Podcast
The flowers are blooming. The days are getting longer. The world looks like it is coming back to life. So why do so many of us feel so heavy? In this episode, Gwen Kapcia, social worker and thanatologist, and I sit down to talk about something grieving parents...
by Marcy Larson | May 14, 2026 | Grief, Podcast
Say my child’s name. It sounds like such a simple thing. And yet for so many grieving parents, it is the thing people around them are least willing to do. They look at you with that familiar expression, the one you can see right through, and they stay quiet,...
by Marcy Larson | May 7, 2026 | Grief, Podcast
Parent. Sister. Friend. That was the order Andrea established with her little sister Adrienne when Adrienne was just nine years old, fresh into a new life in Los Angeles after their mother signed over custody on the day after Christmas. Andrea was twenty-two. She had...
by Marcy Larson | Apr 30, 2026 | Grief, Podcast
Grief is permanent. But it doesn’t have to be all-consuming. That is the quiet, hard-won truth at the heart of this conversation with Wesley, Graham’s mom. And it is the kind of truth that only comes from ten years of living with loss. Graham was adopted...
by Marcy Larson | Apr 23, 2026 | Grief, Podcast
Some dates just carry weight. April 23rd. The anniversary of Taylor’s death. Two days after what would have been Andy’s 22nd birthday. When Jam reached out and asked to come back on, I looked at the calendar and knew immediately. There was no one else I...
by Marcy Larson | Apr 16, 2026 | Grief, Podcast
Abnormalities. That is the word that changed Matthew and his wife Hannah’s lives forever. They went in for a routine ultrasound, their almost two-year-old son Walker playing happily beside them in the waiting room, and left knowing that their lives would never...
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