Letters From My Son: Mitch Carmody

HEALING THE GRIEVING HEART
Letters From My Son
Host: Dr. Gloria Horsley
With guest: Mitch Carmody
April 27, 2006

G: Hello. I?m Dr. Gloria Horsley with my co-host Dr. Heidi Horsley. Each week, we welcome you to Healing the Grieving Heart, a show of hope and renewal for those who have suffered the loss of a child. Good morning, Heidi.
H: Good morning, Gloria.
G: I want to start the show today by talking to our audience about us and about what we?re doing in the field of grief and loss. First of all, I want to say that Heidi is located in New York City in Manhattan and I live in San Francisco in the city, so we are as they call it, bi-coastal, I guess, right, Heid?
H: Absolutely.
G: Can you tell our audience what you?re doing back there in New York?
H: Sure. I was originally brought back here because I work with siblings. They had a firefighter brother die in the World Trade Center attacks. I don?t know if any of you know this, but the only firefighters who died that day were males so out of the 343 firefighters who died, they were all men. So I run ongoing sibling loss workshops with the bereaved siblings and basically a lot of the themes that we talk about. We talk about a lot of things that are unique to sibling loss, but we also talk about how do we maintain emotional connections with our Read more

The Gift of Life: Organ Donation - Chet Szuber

HEALING THE GRIEVING HEART
The Gift of Life: Organ Donation
Host: Dr. Gloria Horsley
With guest: Chet Szuber
April 20, 2006

G: Hello. I?m Dr. Gloria Call Horsley with my co-host Dr. Heidi Horsley. Welcome to Healing the Grieving Heart. This is a show about dealing with the loss of a child and on today?s show, we?re going to focus on several very important topics. One is your physical health and how you cope with pre-existing health problems while you?re going through the physical and emotional stress of dealing with the death of a child and the second is organ donation. I?m very happy to say that I am a signed-up organ donor and our guest today is going to be talking about organ donation and giving you a little heads up on that as well as talking about his own life and his own story. Before we go with our guest Read more

Gender and Grief: Knowing our Differences, Knowing Our Strengths - Tom Golden

HEALING THE GRIEVING HEART
Gender and Grief: Knowing our Differences, Knowing Our Strengths
Host: Dr. Gloria Horsley
With guest: Tom Golden
April 13, 2006

G: Hello. I?m Dr. Gloria Call Horsley with my co-host Dr. Heidi Horsley. We want to welcome you to Healing the Grieving Heart. Healing the Grieving Heart is the show that gives support and advice to those who suffer the loss of a loved one and says we?ve made it and so can you. Today our show is pre-recorded so you will not be able to call in; however, you can email me and Dr. Heidi Horsley through our website, www.healingthegrievingheart.org. Also remember that these shows can be heard 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as they?re archived on the www.thecompassionatefriends.org website as well as our website, www.healingthegrievingheart.org and on www.voiceamerica.com website. Also, I?m happy to tell you that you can now download our show on I-tunes so that you?ll be able to listen to it when you?re out running or Read more

To Take Away the Hurt: Flavia Weedn

HEALING THE GRIEVING HEART
To Take Away the Hurt
Host: Dr. Gloria Horsley
With guest: Flavia Weedn
April 6, 2006

G: Hello. I?m Dr. Gloria Horsley with my co-host Dr. Heidi Horsley. Each week we welcome you to Healing the Grieving Heart, a show of hope and renewal for those who have suffered the loss of a child. We know you hurt. We?ve been there. We know that some days you go like you can?t get out of bed. We know how that is. We know how much you long for and love that person who you?ve lost in your life. Well, Heidi and our guest today and I are going to talk about this and talk about the hope and renewal that you can have and how you can get through those days. I want to start out with an email from Karl Snepp. Karl and I are on the national board of The Compassionate Friends, and he sent me part of an email he received from Ellen Geller. Ellen was a hospice nurse who worked with his son Dave while he was in his final months of, I believe he had a brain tumor. Well Karl and Ellen ? she?s one of those remarkable nurses that are in this world ? she?s kept in touch with Karl for the last 18 years and she just recently sent him an email and this is a little piece of it that Karl sent me. Ellen says:
Honestly, as I think of The Compassionate Friends, I think it?s the best organization. It really helps me when I?m working with my hospice families. I really love Healing the Grieving Heart series. So many people that I work with have listened to the show and where they have not found comfort elsewhere, they love and listen to those archived shows from The Compassionate Friends website.
That?s so great, Ellen. Thank you for emailing that to Karl. It?s great and Karl, thank you for sending it to us. And that reminds me, Heidi, that I want to tell people to remember that they can go to our website, www.healingthegrievingheart.org, and that they can download our shows now on Ipod. I think we have about 43 shows that you can download with our wonderful guests that we?ve had on the show. And also you can listen to our shows 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on the archives through The Compassionate Friends website. You can also email us through our www.healingthegrievingheart.org website. And I just wanted to remind you that today we are pre-recording the show so you won?t be able to call in, but keep the emails coming. We receive some wonderful emails. Well, Heidi, would you introduce our fantastic guest today.
H: Sure, I?d love to. Our topic today is To Take Away the Hurt. Our guest is Flavia Weedn. Flavia is one of America?s leading inspirational writers and illustrators. Encouraging the expression of real feelings, her concern to bring hope to the human spirit constitutes the core of Read more