PODCAST!

Well what next? I have written a book and am currently in the middle of editing the second one. When I found this thing called Podcasts. I have found some great ones. Ones on my favorite show, and some on true crime that I just can’t get enough of. I then tried to find some on grief. What I found were some good ones but I was so devastated to learn that the ones that I actually liked seemed to be pretty closed down. I tried on many accounts to talk with the writers and hosts of some of the podcasts. None answered. Now it could be because they are so popular that they don’t have time to answer every single email, or it could be that their personal life is just too busy and they just no longer read their email. After all I didn’t even get a reply saying thank you. Here is what I learned. I learned that after two years of being a widow, I am ready to talk!!! To talk about my experience and ask others about theirs. After all none of us grieve the same way, each loss in life is so different than the next. And they all hurt. You can’t learn about grief unless you talk about it. Now I know that this type of talk sounds so depressing but I want to focus not on the immediate grief but the grief years later. I really want to focus on how people found JOY after loss.

What I am hoping to do is teach people who are dealing with a recent loss that joy does come back into life and that the dark tunnel does end. I am also excited to introduce one of my most favorite people in the world, my little sister Jamie. She and I are three years apart to the exact day, and we have been through a life that is like none other. In that life we have found ways to laugh and find joy when the world seems its darkest. That is what our podcasts will be about. Finding joy. Like the lioness on a hunt, I think finding joy after a loss is the most important thing. In that hunt I can teach my children how to grieve and how to heal. Yes, loss hurts so deeply, but finding joy after is the balm that helps sooth the soul. With each weekly episode we talk to widows and widowers and those who have loss someone close to them and we dig deep to find out how Joy returned to life. I also plan on bringing in professional licensed counselors to help give tips on how to help family or even your friends get through a very difficult time of life.

Together Jamie and I hunt for the joy in life when it seems to be falling apart. I will share my own experiences and we will talk about everything that comes along with loss and coming back from that. Hope is what we plan on finding, because Joy comes with hope.

Dee