Episode 328: Christmas Memories: Holding Love, Grief, and Hope Together
This week’s episode of Always Andy’s Mom is a replay of a Christmas Memories Livestream—an offering created with and for the Always Andy’s Mom community. In this episode, Gwen and I read Christmas memories that were shared with us by bereaved parents from around the...
Episode 327 – When Grief Blows Up the Dresser – Billy’s Mom
In this powerful episode of the Always Andy’s Mom Podcast, I’m joined by Lisa Oris, mom to Billy and founder of the nonprofit Grief Guide, for a conversation that gently dismantles many of the myths our culture holds about grief. Lisa offers a metaphor that lands...
Episode 326: Grief as a Dance – Not a Journey – Drew’s Momma
Today’s conversation with Drew’s Momma, Melissa, is one that lingers long after the episode ends. She lost her vibrant, adventurous son Drew twenty-five years ago, and in the decades since, she has come to understand her relationship with grief in a way that feels...
Episode 325: Pike’s Mom
When Mika’s 13-year-old son, Pike, was diagnosed with leukemia, she was devastated — but not in the way most people might imagine. Only a year earlier, Mika herself had been diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of lymphoma. After rounds of chemotherapy and a...
Episode 324: Josh’s Mum
Shortly after Leigh’s 22-year-old son, Josh, was killed in a plane crash, her best friend looked her straight in the eyes and said some of the most beautiful words a bereaved mother can ever hear: “Your grief doesn’t scare me.” When she told me that during this week’s...
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