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...

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist who suffered a stroke at 37 and spent the next eight years working towards...

Rebecca and her husband Hal were on the brink of divorce when Hal was handed a terminal cancer diagnosis. He died just months later. Her...

In the wake of a terminal cancer diagnosis, Barbara and her late husband, Bob, kept on living. In fact, they partied. Barbara details how...

Reverend Deborah L Johnson (Rev D) shares the story of her remarkable call to ministry as a teenager and how she got there on her own...

Ever wonder why funerals look the way they do? Fourth-generation funeral director Todd Harra explains the evolution of the industry in...

Father and distinguished professor WJT Mitchell (Tom) lost his son, Gabe, to schizophrenia. Tom details how Gabe embraced the term...

Dr. Anita Sanchez shares Indigenous wisdom for living in today’s world. A big focus of the conversation is about forgiving the...