ALS is a heartbreaking disease. Just ask my guest Rachael King. Her husband, health care activist Ady Barkan, recently died from...

This episode is all about how to talk to kids about death. Experts Elena Lister and Michael Schwartzman both have decades of experience...

Leslie Gray Streeter tells it like it is. Her husband, Scott, suddenly died one night when he was just 44 years old. Leslie chronicles...

Sunita Puri is a palliative care doctor who chronicles her journey through medical school, fellowship and finding her specialty in her...

This week, we’re re-releasing one of our earliest episodes, and still one of my favorite conversations. Author and activist Valarie Kaur...

Michael Wiegers is the Editor-in-Chief at Copper Canyon Press, an independent nonprofit press that publishes award-winning poetry. Under...

In her memoir, Poor Your Soul, Mira Ptacin explores the grief associated with losing a baby which is often hidden behind closed doors....

Losing a parent and life partner to cancer can shake the family foundation. Leaving the remaining widowed co-parent to navigate their own...

Don Rosenstein and Justin Yopp are both psychiatrists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They started a support group...

Katy Butler is a journalist and author of two books, who spent years listening to hundreds of people’s stories of good and difficult...

Lynne Twist is a globally recognized philanthropist and author of two books, including “The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship...

Dr. Edward Creagan spent four decades at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, working as a cancer specialist and then helping to develop the...

In our holiday episode, we’re highlighting some of my favorite conversations from this year, in hopes that you hear what you need. The...

If you’ve ever felt like you needed permission to grieve, or your grief just wasn’t understood by others, this book and this episode is...

Larisa Garski and Justine Mastin are practicing therapists who have authored two books together. Their narrative approach to therapy...

Barbara Karnes is a pioneer of the modern hospice movement in the United States. She got her start as a hospice nurse when medical...

Poems are tools for existential work and Claudia Castro Luna’s poetry is our guide to a deeper understanding of place and belonging....

Lucinda Herring has over 20 years of experience as a licensed funeral director and a home funeral guide. Her book, “Reimagining Death:...

Dacher Keltner is the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and a professor of psychology at the University of California,...

Sheldon Solomon, a professor of psychology at Skidmore College, has spent his professional life studying humans’ fear of death and the...