We talk with Susan Hannifin MacNab about the sudden loss of her husband, and raising her young son on her own. In her journey to deal with grief and mourning, she fell back into her training as a social worker and began to work through her loss. In her work she came to began to work up the multi-award winning book called the A to Z Toolbox.
Tonight we talk with Joy Gandell of the podcast - "Being with Joy". We will talk about her daughters cancer diagnosis, and how it affected the family mentally and emotionally. We will talk about the remission process, and how shes doing with her health now, but also how the family worked to become Focused on Forward through this process.
This week we have a great conversation with the amazing Mel Butcher. Mels story starts in her youth, but didnt really bloom until the year 2009 when she made some major decisions in life - leaving her steady job, leaving an unhealthy relationship, and trying to figure out her next step.
This is a replay of a discussion we had with Nancy Sovran. Nancy is the executive director of a very important charity called Wish Upon A Teen. She not only has a personal interest in the success of the charity, but she has a personal experience with her daughter Hope and how Wish Upon a Teen helped hope during an extended hospital stay.
In this episode we have an open conversation with Jenny Marie about her relationship with her mother as she was growing up. The verbal, physical and mental abuse she endured were very trying and caused some issues along the way. But shes also very clear about how and why she chose to forgive her mother and how she is moving forward in life.
5/28/21 Live Show
Fellow podcaster and host of the Nowhere To Go But Up Podcast, Sean Dustin, joins us to talk about his journey through life dealing with abuse, addiction and prison, how he made changes to that story, and what hes doing now.
Larry Sprung lost his brother in law Keith Milano to suicide years ago, and since then, he and his wife have been working hard to raise suicide prevention awareness. In fact - Larry now sits on the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Board as a very active member.
This week on our live show we sit down with the amazing voice actress Anna Graves ( Duchess Satine Kryze on Star Wars Clone Wars) to talk about being the parent of an autoimmune child, what that means in a COVID world, and how they have adapted their life to be "Focused on Forward" If you have questions for Anna about her experiences with this topic
Tracy Lowry is the host of the Mulitform PTSD podcast. I had the pleasure of being interviewed on her show (also released today - go check it out!) and talking about why I started this podcast.
But here we talk with Tracy about being a survivor of sexual assaults and how that
On 5/14/21 at 8pm EST we will talk with Kate Wallinga - the host of the podcast "Ignorance Was Bliss". Kates podcast is about making just about anything sound normal, from PTSD to podcasting to serial murder. She also has her own story of overcoming after having broken her back in 2014.