Holding the Light Podcast

Child loss, universally, has been called the single, most devastating experience a family can face. It is a very personal journey, with no handbook for survival. Sharing our stories of love and loss offers validation, hope, and healing. Join Monica and Colby Charette in a very unique, mother-and-son podcast, as they share their personal grief journey, and those of others, with intimate interviews each episode that offer powerful experiences, candid advice for friends, retrospective lessons learned, insight and encouragement, and everything in-between. If you have experienced child loss, or care about someone who has, we invite you to hold the light with us, and keep coming back for inspiration and hope.

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May 15, 2022 Trailer of Holding the Light: Podcast hosts Monica & Colby Charette share the love and loss of Cassidy, and the motivation to launch Holding the Light Podcast.

SEASON 1: May - December, 2022

Episode #1 5/15: Linda Hartkopf, Grieving a Child Lost to Addiction

Episode #2 6/1: Emily Bessey: Finding Space for Grief and Gratitude After Losing a Second Child

Episode #3 6/15: Ed Gould: A Father's Loss

Episode #4 7/1: Ann Ryan: Learning to Live Again

Episode #5 7/15: Jeanine Deas: Still to Be Born

Episode #6 8/1: Stephanie Bartholomew: The Grief Secretary (Part 1, The First Days and Weeks)

Episode #7 8/15: Stephanie Bartholomew: The Grief Secretary (Part 2, Long After the Funeral)

Episode #8 9/1: Holly MacKenzie: Surviving My Only Sibling

Episode #9 9/15: Helen Beesley: Giving the Gift of Life

Episode #10 10/1: Monica Charette: My Grief Season

Episode #11 10/15: Amanda Garay: Losing My Brother to Suicide