Beautiful Tragedy

Carrie shares how her tribe helped her through the aftermath of the death of her son. She also shares how there have been things that have been said to her that have been helpful and other things that have actually hurt. What she is saying is her own experience and not meant to condemn. She hopes that by sharing, it can help others find words that are helpful.

Carrie talks about how Love Like Jackson came to be. Starting a foundation during a pandemic can be a challenge but she didn’t let that stop her. She also shared about the impact that had been made with Team Jackson St. Baldrick's. Team Jackson St. Baldrick's have raised $130,000 for osteosarcoma research.

Carrie speaks with Dion Walker Sr., the father of Matthew Walker, who is a 4 time cancer survivor and has had 3 bone marrow transplants. We talk about his son’s 6 year fight, how they have survived having their life continuously flipped upside down and how important it is going to therapy. 

Carrie shares about how music therapy can be very helpful for children when they are grieving. She talks with the owners of Music Therapy STL, Tracie Sandheinrich and Jamie Kennington. They talk about how their company, Music Therapy STL came to be and how music therapy can help grieving children as well as people of all ages. Carrie also shares how therapeutic songwriting, one useful tool used in music therapy, was a helpful tool for her son, Ivan. 

Carrie does not claim to be an expert, she just wants to share the things she has learned in her own journey. She shares how trying parenting while grieving can be. She also shares her own experience with the different ways that her son shows his grief and hopes that it can encourage another parent in an impossible situation.

Carrie wants to share her experience so that she can help others through this grieving process. She is raw and vulnerable with her emotions to give a voice to an incredibly difficult topic, child death. She tries to share insight that she needed after her son died.

My beautiful tragedy is a podcast discussing grief, advocacy and child loss. Meghan Riordan Jarvis, grief/trauma therapist and writer, interviews Carrie Schmitt and they discuss surrogacy, child loss and grief. The goal of this podcast is to shed light on difficult subjects such as child loss, grief and childhood cancer advocacy. Carrie wants to help other bereaved parents in any way she can.