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 15 - December 15, 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 y Only Sibling 

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