by Marcy Larson | Jul 23, 2026 | Grief, Podcast
Payton loved rainbows. She knew all the colors, knew them in order, and would paint them perfectly every time. But she always added a pink line at the bottom, because she simply could not understand why pink was not already there. Every single rainbow she ever painted...
by Marcy Larson | Jul 16, 2026 | Grief, Podcast
There is a line from Samuel Beckett that a friend whispered to Stephen outside the hospital room where his wife Kate was dying. I can’t go on. I’ll go on. It became, as Stephen says in his memoir, a pretty accurate summary of his life after Kate and Anna....
by Marcy Larson | Jul 2, 2026 | Grief, Podcast
This week’s episode didn’t happen the way we planned. It was supposed to be a livestream. And then, within the same week, both Gwen and I found ourselves facing something neither of us expected. My mother-in-law, who had been like a mother to me for nearly...
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 | Apr 9, 2026 | Grief, Podcast
We are not meant to do this alone. That is the thread that runs through every moment of this conversation, and these are the words Gwen chose to close with, because they are simply true. This episode is a replay of our recent live Q&A, a chance to follow up on the...
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