May 28, 2026
Darius made Kelly a mama at eighteen years old.
Then he made her a nurse.
And years later, after he was gone, he made her something else entirely, a certified grief counselor, an entrepreneur, and the founder of something beautiful that would not exist without him.
That is the thread running through this entire...
May 21, 2026
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 experience but rarely hear discussed directly - the way...
May 14, 2026
Say my child's name.
It sounds like such a simple thing. And yet for so many grieving parents, it is the thing people around them are least willing to do. They look at you with that familiar expression, the one you can see right through, and they stay quiet, thinking their silence is a kindness.
Cindy knows that look...
May 7, 2026
Parent. Sister. Friend.
That was the order Andrea established with her little sister Adrienne when Adrienne was just nine years old, fresh into a new life in Los Angeles after their mother signed over custody on the day after Christmas. Andrea was twenty-two. She had not planned any of this. But she looked at her...