Let's Talk Death! ... a HealGrief® program

In this episode, Scott shares his grief and how, through his experience, he hopes to offer comfort to the unanswered questions grieving parents often face.

Scott Huffaker is a diverse businessman who is an entrepreneur, banker, investor, and musician. Born out of the death of his son, Scott is also an author of his newly published book, Lost Arrows: Coping with the Death of a Child.

Scott considers himself an ordinary guy who has had some extraordinary experiences that have allowed him the insight he shares to questions such as, why do I feel so alone? How long will I be broken? Will I ever be myself again? to name a few.

Scott, his wife Tammy, and two youngest children live on the Gulf Coast. He is the father of six children and three dogs.

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In this episode, Michelle shares her passion for helping those through trauma and speaks about the differences between grief counseling versus grief coaching.

Michelle Post is a licensed mental health provider, consultant, coach speaker, retreat leader, international life strategist, business coach, and grief coach. She has specialized in grief, loss, trauma, anxiety, and stress management since 2002.

Today, through her business, Post International, Michelle specializes in helping people identify and achieve their personal goals by coping with the issues causing them distress, stress, burnout, or compassion fatigue. Michelle uses transparency, vulnerability, and personal experience in her teaching. She recently innovated and integrated basic "desert-island" effective techniques and tools into her practice to help you #IgniteYourLife.

Michelle enjoys gardens; she paints, cooks, and records her weekly podcast "Keeping Your Sh*t Together in a Stressed World" with her colleague, Scott Grossberg, Esq.

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In this episode, David shares his experience moving from despair to hope while at the same time his sister is transitioning from hope to death, dying from a terminal disease, and how that changed his life's meaning.

David Richman is an author, public speaker, and endurance athlete whose mission is to form more meaningful human connections through storytelling. His first book, Winning in the Middle of the Pack, discussed how to get more out of ourselves than ever imagined. With Cycle of Lives, David shares stories of people overcoming trauma and delves deeply into their emotional journeys with cancer.

He continues to do Ironman triathlons and recently completed a solo 4,700-mile bike ride. 

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In this episode, Philip shares how all his medical degrees might have helped his family and daughter through her life's transition to death, it never prepared him for his grief as a bereaved father.

Dr. Philip Lister is an adult and child psychiatrist in private practice in New York City. He received his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine and moved to New York to enter psychiatric training. Trained in adult and child psychiatry at the Payne Whitney Clinic of Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Lister joined the voluntary faculty there supervising residents and teaching medical students. Overlapping with residency and fellowship, he trained in adult and child psychoanalysis at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He then joined the faculty at the Psychoanalytic Center, participating in the basic course surveying the work of Freud.

Most recently, he has trained with MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies). That training prepared him to be a team of therapists offering research participants MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in a Phase 3 study to determine whether MDMA will provide a new, more effective treatment for entrenched, treatment-resistant PTSD [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder]. The research is currently underway.

Dr. Lister is here with us today as a father and author of A Short Good Life, and he shares Liza's story of facing death.

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In this episode, William shares about his near death experience, and talks about how his accident shattered his hopes and dreams. Yet the experience led him to a path of hope as he witnessed desperation in others.

William Peters holds degrees from Harvard's Graduate School of Education and UC Berkeley and is a practicing grief and bereavement specialist. William has worked as a hospice volunteer with the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco and as a teacher and social worker in Central and South America. 

Recognized in the field of shared death studies, he has spent decades studying end-of-life experiences. William is the founder of the Shared Crossing Project and director of its Research Initiative. He is the author of At Heaven's Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better.

His work on end-of-life is informed by his therapeutic work with individuals and families, personal experiences with death and dying across cultures, and his family's own end-of-life journeys.

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In this episode, Tracy speaks on why grief and loss became her specialty and focus in her practice. She talks about the importance of empowering people to grieve honestly.

Tracy Chang, MA, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles who works with individuals throughout California. She specializes in working with high-achieving adults who are navigating personal and professional existential challenges. In addition, she supports individuals grieving a death loss and those coping with life changes and transitions. 

Tracy has had specialized training and experience working with grief and loss and is passionate about empowering people to grieve honestly. As a strengths-based therapist, Tracy blends her clinical knowledge with meaning-based exploration to help clients expand their awareness, boldly reimagine the status quo and live in alignment with their true selves.

Tracy earned her BA in Psychology from Mount St. Mary’s University and MA in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University. For over ten years, she has been in practice, working in inpatient and outpatient settings with clients of diverse backgrounds and ages. In addition, she is a Clinical Supervisor who provides supervision to Associate therapists in California and private consultation to professionals and companies worldwide.

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In this episode, Gina shares about her grief and how it transformed her creative path. She now believes that everyone you miss is waiting inside you.

Gina Harris is a singer/songwriter and actor who has performed in theaters and jazz clubs in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. A protégé of Columbia Recording Artist, Lilian Loran, and a veteran of the Groundlings, Gina had a lead role in Peter Ustinov’s Broadway and national touring productions of Beethoven’s Tenth.

“The Magic of Ordinary Things” came to Gina in a series of dreams and recovered memories after the deaths of her parents and beloved singing teacher.  It provided a glimmer of hope in a dark time when she thought her life was over. It tells of how missed moments and things once taken for granted become the steppingstones to a new life – even when things seem hopeless.

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In this episode, Amanda addresses the vital need to care for lactating mothers whose child did not survive.

Amanda Alvarez, a graduate of the University of South Alabama and Spring Hill College, is an IBCLC, International Board of Lactation Consultant dedicated to helping families achieve informed, safe, and comfortable lactation and infant feeding goals.

Amanda currently works at Mothers' Milk Bank of North Texas as an Education and Enrichment Manager. She provides clinical lactation care, manages a multi-site Baby Cafe Cluster, and directs other educational programming for the organization.

She represents Mothers' Milk Bank of North Texas and Tarrant County Breastfeeding Coalition through leadership and participation in multiple local reproductive health coalitions, including Texas Breastfeeding Coalition, United States Breastfeeding Committee, and the United States Lactation Consultant Association.

Amanda lives with her husband, their three children, and a menagerie of pets. She enjoys running, cooking, travel, and volunteer work in social justice.

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In this episode, Theresa shares why she chose to reopen the wounds of grief as she wrote My 13th Station, a memoir to her son whose life was lost to suicide.

Theresa Anthony is the author of two books and has a twenty-five-year career as a freelance writer. In the mid-nineties, Ms. Anthony began writing as an op-ed guest column contributor, sharing her musings about parenting, education, cultural issues, and much more.

In 2019, Theresa changed genres and tackled a very personal and emotionally difficult project, culminating in the memoir, My 13th Station, the story of her son Matthew's battle with depression and alcoholism during the final years of his life. As painful as it was to reopen the wounds, she has found that writing an honest accounting of his struggle has benefited many people.

Theresa continues her writing with her newest book, Hope Springs from a Mother’s Broken Heart, capturing 11 stories from other mothers on how they survived the loss of a child.

Theresa is a devout Catholic and credits her strong faith for her resilience and optimism. In addition to her beloved son, she is blessed with two wonderful and accomplished daughters and four beautiful grandchildren. When not writing, she enjoys the outdoors, spending time with friends and family, Zumba classes, and creating Catholic-inspired artwork and jewelry for her Etsy shop, SoulStirringsGifts.

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In this episode, Mark shares his childhood experience as a psychic medium and what it was like being the child of psychic medium parents. He also shares the importance of signs and how we should trust them as messages from those who have transitioned.

Mark Anthony, Psychic Explorer (also known as The Psychic Lawyer), is a fourth-generation psychic medium who communicates with spirits. He is an Oxford-educated attorney licensed to practice law in Florida, Washington D.C., and before the United States Supreme Court.

This Psychic Explorer travels to mystical locations in remote corners of the world to examine Ancient Mysteries and Supernatural Phenomena. 

Mark appears nationwide on TV and Radio, including CBS TV’s “The Doctors” and Gaia TV’s “Beyond Belief with George Noory.” In addition, he is the co-host of “The Psychic and the Doc” on the Transformation Network. 

He is a featured speaker at conferences, expos, and universities, including Brown, Columbia, Harvard, and Yale. 

Mark Anthony is a columnist for “Best Holistic Life Magazine” and the bestselling author of Never Letting Go and Evidence of Eternity. His high anticipated cutting-edge new book, The Afterlife Frequency, will be released in October 2021.

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