
Epsiode 51 - Free Smiles: The Tiny Act That Lifts a Grieving Heart
What if the simplest thing you did today — curling up the corners of your mouth — could make you feel even 1% better? In this solo episode, host Lisa Hartung laces up her running shoes and shares a re...
26 Huhti 6min

Episode 50 - It Takes a Village: How Schools, Friends, & Communities Can Support Grieving Children with Carrie Silver of A Haven
According to A Haven, one in five children will experience the death of someone close to them before they graduate high school. That means grief is already in your classroom, your neighborhood, and yo...
19 Huhti 43min

Episode 49 - The Whole Family Grieves: Supporting Every Child in the House, Even When They Grieve Differently with Carrie Silver of A Haven
Grief doesn't arrive at the door of a family and touch everyone the same way. One child draws. Another runs. Another goes silent. And somewhere in the middle of it all is a caregiver trying to hold ev...
12 Huhti 49min

Episode 48 - Fought the Fight: Grief, Easter Sunrise, and Finding Joy Again
Easter has a way of cracking grief wide open. In this solo episode, Lisa shares a raw and vulnerable reflection on how the season of resurrection intersects with loss. From waking up before dawn in a ...
5 Huhti 19min

Episode 47 - When Men Get Breast Cancer: Jake Messier on Stigma, Stage 4, and Breaking the Silence
What happens when a man is diagnosed with a disease the world has decided belongs to women? Jake Messier, known as @theguywithstage4breastcancer, is living that answer every single day. After a stage ...
29 Maalis 1h

Episode 46 - When Grief Becomes a Calling: How Kelly Edmondson Turned Loss Into Light with Timely Presence
What do you do with your grief when you've spent 25 years as a nurse helping families through their hardest moments and then overnight, you become the family in need? That's the journey Kelly Edmondso...
22 Maalis 51min

Episode 45 - It's Okay to Say Died: How to Talk to Children About Death at Any Age with Carrie Silver of A Haven
What do you say when a child asks, "Is Mommy coming back?" This week, Lisa sits down with Carrie Silver, Clinical Director of A Haven, a nonprofit child and family grief center in Exton, Pennsylvania,...
15 Maalis 46min

Episode 44 - Still Raising Hell at 97: Alton "Honky" Hartung on Living Life to the Fullest in Maine
In this episode, Lisa sits down with her grandfather, Alton "Honky" Hartung who recently turned 97 and is still living alone and driving! Honky is a living piece of American history who has no intenti...
10 Maalis 1h 18min



















