When Grief is Unrecognized or Not Sanctioned.

This discussion features a thoughtful and compassionate look at Disenfranchised Grief - grief that is often not recognized or sanctioned. 

Our Founder, Judy Pedersen, discusses this important topic with her most recent guest, Mary Kaminsky, Director of Development for the Southern Tier Aids Program in New York. 

Mary brings depth, intelligence, and deep compassion to this topic as she discusses her work with those she serves now and during her earlier years as a hospice worker. 

Your stories are what make the grief to grit podcast richer and bring hope and healing to all.

Please share your stories, experiences, and any grief questions to [email protected]. or through our website at www.ourheartsofhope.org.

You can find grief to grit wherever you enjoy your podcasts.

The grief to grit podcast is a production of Hearts of Hope Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization offering a wide range of services to provide grievers the opportunity to find help, healing and hope.

Thank you for sharing a few minutes of your time and for making space to take care of your grief. Until next time, grieve on.

Your stories are what make the grief to grit podcast richer and bring hope and healing to all.

Please share your stories, experiences, and any grief questions to [email protected]. or through our website at www.ourheartsofhope.org.

You can find grief to grit wherever you enjoy your podcasts.

The grief to grit podcast is a production of Hearts of Hope Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization offering a wide range of services to provide grievers the opportunity to find help, healing and hope.

Thank you for sharing a few minutes of your time and for making space to take care of your grief. Until next time, grieve on.

What does it mean to experience loss and triumph as an elite athlete? And, can one person really make a difference in helping a young person achieve and excel?

In this episode, Judy Pedersen, founder and executive director of Hearts of Hope,  interviews JD Hawkins, retired teacher, athletic coach and student mental health  counselor. 

JD’s expertise includes working with elite athletes and their challenges as they experience loss and triumph. Following a student athlete’s death by suicide, JD became a mental health counselor and initiated numerous suicide prevention programs offered in high schools and colleges.

Listen as Judy and JD discuss these numerous challenges and how young people cope and move forward with with tenacity, drive and grit.

If you or someone you know is struggling, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, with prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones.

Your stories are what make the grief to grit podcast richer and bring hope and healing to all.

Please share your stories, experiences, and any grief questions to [email protected]. or through our website at www.ourheartsofhope.org.

You can find grief to grit wherever you enjoy your podcasts.

The grief to grit podcast is a production of Hearts of Hope Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization offering a wide range of services to provide grievers the opportunity to find help, healing and hope.

Thank you for sharing a few minutes of your time and for making space to take care of your grief. Until next time, grieve on.

The grief to grit podcast is all about how we can move forward in the difficult, awkward journey of grief to find meaning after loss. Host Judy Pedersen is a grief counselor who shares her twenty-plus years of experience with warmth, humility, and curiosity about how much she still has to learn. 

Through stories from her life and conversations with inspiring guests, Judy answers her questions—and yours—about where to get the help we need to feel empowered and hopeful. 

We’re a community of grievers here to ask hard questions, tell stories, and share the wisdom that makes the journey of grief a little more manageable when we are on it together. 

Your stories are what make the grief to grit podcast richer and bring hope and healing to all.

Please share your stories, experiences, and any grief questions to [email protected]. or through our website at www.ourheartsofhope.org.

You can find grief to grit wherever you enjoy your podcasts.

The grief to grit podcast is a production of Hearts of Hope Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization offering a wide range of services to provide grievers the opportunity to find help, healing and hope.

Thank you for sharing a few minutes of your time and for making space to take care of your grief. Until next time, grieve on.