by Marcy Larson | Aug 6, 2026 | Grief, Podcast
Jamie’s mother gave her a gift years before she knew she would need it. Her mother would say, “During times of darkness, find a little bit of light. Stand in it. Be still and wait for the next bit. Then walk to that light.” It sounds simple. And then...
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 9, 2026 | Grief, Podcast
Bryan carried the sadness. That was his decision. Not the devastation, not the incapacitation, but the sadness. A conscious, daily choice to let his broken heart stay open rather than rebuild the walls around it. And in doing so, he discovered something he did not...
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...
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