Episode 333: What Color is Your Heart?

Early in this conversation, Rachael shares a question her friends began asking her after the loss of her 12-year old daughter, Addy: What color is your heart today? It is a gentle question. One that does not demand explanation or insist on answers. It doesn’t ask for...

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...

Episode 323: Quinten’s Mom

“Now What?” This is the question Marie found herself asking after the devastating loss of her son, Quinten, to suicide. Overcome with grief, she felt lost and unsure how to move forward. But instead of succumbing to despair, Marie made a conscious...