Coming Back: Conversations on life after loss

After being flooded with overwhelming joy at her mother's funeral of all places, Dr. Gladys Ato recognized that within all of our goodbyes, there is good. Combining her loss-saturated childhood with …

Coming Back is taking inspiration from grief and will be released in seasons going forward. Plus, Coming Back is now on Spotify! And my annual list of five grief must-reads for 2018.

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My heart has been asking me to take a break for a while. I'm finally answering its call. Please stay tuned for future episodes of Coming Back in 2018.

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Why do we need to "do something" after a loss? Thoughts on the Texas shooting and needing to take action (in response to violence, gun reform, the NRA, etc.) in the midst of devastation featuring ins…

Eileen Doyon lost her mom and brother when she was 23, but grief didn't really hit her until she watched her father die from lung cancer in her early fifties. The depth of losing him launched her int…

Alexia Leachman of The Fear Free Childbirth Podcast lost her mom at 30. This loss sent her on a massive personal journey, where she ended up learning the tools and techniques that helped address her …

The last thing holistic psychiatrist Maureen Magauran expected to feel after her younger sister died was joy. But there it was, in the dark void of her grief. Also on the show, I answer a personal qu…

"The Hotel Artist" Catherine Rains faced a triple-whammy of devastation—breast cancer, a divorce, and being pulled away from her beloved art. We're talking about the mindsets she used to come back fr…

Lila B never expected her boyfriend's Type 1 Diabetes to kill him. But when he didn't come home from the supermarket one day, she was devastated when a search and rescue mission found him in the lake…

What is love? NYT Bestseller The Five Love Languages was written to help us understand how to express and experience love through five set "languages": receiving gifts, words of affirmation, acts of …

Heather Kelly of Money Making Sense was suddenly terminated from her stable, full-time job, leaving her with tons of questions and emotional whiplash in the form of PTSD. Also on the show, I air a li…

I've gotten some "haters" in the past few weeks and felt compelled to ask myself, "Why do I keep doing this?"

Call or write in with your thoughts on the next "Fun One" episode—E20: Grief and The Five…

Tracey Lewis-Stoeckel's life was upended when her husband surprised her with divorce. She and her kids were forced out of their home one week before Christmas and Tracey was shortly faced with leavin…

Courtney Violet Bentley, host of Fit, Fierce, and Fabulous Podcast wrestled with anorexia, bulimia, and a toxic "lack of" mentality after losing her father and grandfather. When her grandmother died,…

Vasavi Kumar was arrested for assaulting her boyfriend which woke her up to loss of control, loss of identity, and loss of self. We go deep on anger and comparison, taking responsibility for our situ…

After being struck by a car at age four, Eve Chalom lost her sense of hearing. While she regained some of her ability within six months, the emotional and energetic consequences of the accident stuck…

Christina Lerchen of The Best Unexpected left her longtime career as beauty blogger after her best friend was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer in 2011. She gave birth to her stillborn daughter j…

Holistic dietitian Cindy Klinger watched her father struggle with akathisia, a deadly side-effect of antidepressant and antipsychotic medications that eventually led him to suicide. I answer a listen…

Sometimes grief just looks like this. This is my truth in the immediate aftermath of heartbreaking news. I'll go back to my usual format next week.

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Thank you for being a friend! Death, divorce, and diagnosis were running themes on The Golden Girls, and our girls Dorothy (Bea Arthur), Rose (Betty White), Blanche (Rue McClanahan), and Sophia (Este…