Episode 329: What Is a Miracle? Patrick’s Mom
What is a miracle? The dictionary often defines a miracle as an extraordinary event—something that defies explanation or logic. For many of us who have lost a child, that definition can feel painfully incomplete. This week’s episode gently asks us to reconsider what a...
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...



