What's the difference between being alone and experiencing loneliness?  How do you cope with loneliness or with those around you?  How prevalent is loneliness in our society?  Today, Larry has a heartfelt conversation about this most challenging part of his own grief journey with two experts who have both studied loneliness extensively.  Dr. Louise Hawkley & Dr. Wendy Lichtenthal will share their wisdom, insight and practical advice for dealing with this surprisingly universal, human issue.

How does an NFL legend face the most heartbreaking loss of his life?  
Former Buffalo Bills Hall-of-Fame quarterback, Jim Kelly, joins Larry today                      and shares how he dealt with the loss of his 8-year old son, Hunter, to a terminal illness, has overcome multiple bouts with cancer and how his faith has shaped the way               he gets through everything life has thrown at him.

How do your memories, both good and bad, impact your grief?  Larry's guest today has devoted her career to studying how memories affect our experience of loss.  Dr. Mary Lamia, is a clinical psychologist, professor and author, most recently of the book, Grief Isn't Something To Get Over and she  will share her understanding of how our emotions and the persistence of memory are keys to understanding and adapting to death, as a part of life.
She also has deeply empathetic advice  for Larry, as he sorts through his emotions following the very recent loss of his mother.  http://marylamia.com

Here come The Holidays.  Parties, feasts, get-togethers, celebrations and more...the coming weeks are typically crammed with activities that can exhaust any person, but for someone who is grieving the approaching tidal wave of festivities presents a particular set of challenges.
Today, Larry opens up and shares his own holiday ups and downs as a recent widower and he'll also get some helpful advice on navigating  the holidays from an expert - Dr. Suzanne Degges-White, who offers valuable insight on how to get through the holiday months when you're grieving.

Zach Hoffpauir was an exuberant, gifted athlete, playing football and baseball with passion and intensity...described by those around him as always working to make everyone around him better.
He loved life, and lived it in a big way, until darkness fell when he died at age 26.
Today Larry connects with Doug Hoffpauir, Zach's father, in a conversation threaded with honesty, hope and even some humor, as he shines some light on Zach's remarkable life and how he and other parents who experience a loss of a child can find healing in unexpected ways.

If you are in distress, call the National Suicide Prevention hotline 24 hours a day at  800-273-8255, or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org for more resources.

How does a 15-year old golf prodigy get through the heart-breaking loss of her mother to breast cancer? Today, Larry’s guest is former LPGA star player and now Golf Channel analyst, Morgan Pressel, who shares some of the lessons learned since her mother passed away twenty years ago, at the very start of her golfing career. 
In this episode, she takes a look back at one of the most challenging periods in her life, her grief over her mother’s death and how she channeled it to help others. 

Is there a way to deal with the dreaded “grief ambush”? What is a good response to the well-meaning but awkward question, “how are you doing?” Have you ever wondered if there is a timeline to grief?

Today Larry’s guests are Mary Spooner and Erin Mayes — the thoughtful mother/daughter duo who lead a Grief Share support group that helps move people through the process of grief.

They’ll share actual, helpful ways of coping with grief as well as their own story of how the tragic loss of a family member moved them to find a way to help others who share the heartache of losing a loved one.

Host Larry Holm entered the grief world when his wife passed away from cancer in 2021.  
As he continues to navigate the landscape of his own grief, he wants to discuss this topic with others who are traveling the unmapped highway that can be so lonely, confusing and very frustrating.  
Through conversations with fellow grievers and experts in the field, Larry explores how to try and work through and move forward while dealing with the ramifications of life without your loved one.