Terrible things happen to even the most together people. Good moms are not safe from bad and tragic events in the lives of their kids. And bright and deeply spiritual people need help and support too. The suicide of a son rocked the world of this mom. Hear how she found comfort, strength and the loving support from another mom who knew how to care effectively. She also knew the pain of a son’s suicide.

Some people are made to make a difference in other people’s lives. They have the heart to do it, the examples to show the value of caring and the convictions that fuels the fire to make a difference through caring. Are you one of those people? Should you make this a priority in your life? How can you position yourself to be ready to care for people when they are in a dark hole?

A cool job is not enough to make one happy when divorce puts you in a deep emotional hole. What does someone in a deep emotional hole need the most? Why is it normal to resist what is most needed? Hear what happens when this musician and sound professional took the chance to share his story with a trusted Stephen Minister. The results will amaze and encourage you. Maybe other men in a dark place will man-up to talking to another man so their lives can experiencing emotional, relational and spiritual healing too.

Is there more to serving people than performing tasks and doing good deeds? Can you make a difference in another person’s life? Is it possible to help someone who is experiencing something you have never experienced at a level darker than any place you have lived? Watch how this man overcame his doubts and questions and learned to walk alongside a man in a dark place. A life was changed and a friendship was begun.

Men think they can solve their own problems. Engineers think they have the power to figure everything out. The male engineer could not find the answers to his dark place in life due to a divorce. All he needed was to talk to someone, but he was reluctant to talk with anyone. He did not want counseling. Watch how he learned to relate in a healthy open one to one relationship that resulted in happier emotions, healthier interpersonal skills and healing in his spirit.

A continuation of Episode 1

Can you help someone when you have needs of your own? Can you help someone if you have junk in your story? Can you care effectively for someone even if you have doubts about your abilities and do not have any training to be a caring professional? Hear how this woman followed the training of Stephen Ministry to learn how to care with presence and listening. Her caring worked when nobody else’s did. Her care changed a life.

What is the best way to care for a mom going through a divorce, who has three teenage children and one who almost succeeds at suicide? The circumstances are overwhelming. She does not know where to turn for help. Emotional exhaustion makes it hard to think. Advice is not the answer. So what is? Hear her tell what she really needed, how she found it and how a person with caring skills that helped her through this terrible time

Welcome to this journey of the Who Cares? podcast. Your care matters. People feel better when they know that you care about  them—especially in the hard times.

So, “Who cares? Well we all care about people and things to some extent.

But in this podcast, we are here to search for answers to the question, “How can we care better?”

Join us as we sit down with people who received care in their grief, and others who have offered care to people grieving.

This our journey to learn to care better.