Sorry To Hear That
SEASON TWO IS ON ITS WAY! The second and final season of Sorry To Hear That will give you more insight about grief and how we have all learned how to deal with it. The grief that follows isn’t so easy, but guests on the show are making it through. Guests tell stories about themselves, the loved one they lost, and how they have managed the business of death. These are their stories told to you about sadness, grief, and the small victories that help them move forward. Sorry To Hear That.
Episodes
Trigger warning. This episode has some discussion about suicide.
Ansel speaks about his father, Charles, who passed away in 2018 from kidney and heart complications after he stopped taking his medication.
Ansel discusses losing his father, navigating his new normal, and his many struggles with his “grief shroud”, a way to describe the emotions that can come over you while dealing with the loss of a loved one. Ansel recogniz...
CJ speaks with Pam who lost her father, Hollis, in February.
Pam discusses the relationship that she has with Hollis and how they were able to more fully develop their relationship before he died. Even though Hollis wanted a more casual memorial service, Pam and her siblings decided to have a Scottish wake.
Grief has surprised Pam as she adjusts to living without her father present.
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Join the host, CJ, as she discusses her own struggles with grief and loss after losing her mother to a car accident in 2017.
Reflecting on “the fog”, the confusion of not knowing where to turn when she expected her mother to be there forever, and forgiveness are tackled in the first episode of the brand new podcast, Sorry To Hear That.
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Marcus lost his mother, Brenda, right before Christmas of his senior year of high school 17 years ago.
As he has made big choices and little choices, including college, graduate school (twice), ministry, and now in his second church as a pastor - Brenda has missed a lot.
The conversation with Marcus is about grief and loss, but, perhaps more importantly, also about wonder, curiosity, and the big “what if”. What if his mothe...
CJ has lost both her parents. In this episode, she talks about her father, Michael, who passed away in July 2013 as she reflects on Father’s Day.
While Michael was not her biological father, he filled a hole in her heart for a very long time and smoothed away at least some of the rough edges. They had a special relationship full of long talks and a lot of time spent together. Unfortunately, after a surprise call, CJ rushed...
Meet Lashelle as she speaks with CJ about her mother, Linda.
Linda had “the perfect storm with the worst outcome” after suddenly falling ill and being put on life support for 10 days.
Lashelle’s life was forever changed after she received the phone call that sent her across the country to her mother’s bedside.
Exploring Lashelle’s journey and uncovering the many layers that come with grief makes her story a relatable one, i...
CJ speaks with B. Pagels-Minor (@bpagelsminor on Instagram and Twitter) about their mother, Suzi Anne Franklin who died in 2012 of complications from Epiglottitis, a swelling of the epiglottis which is a part of the mouth located near the back of the throat.
This led to B. feeling as though they have much to accomplish in as little time as possible considering Suzi Anne died at the young age of 48. Dealing with their mothe...
CJ speaks with Halle Marenger as she talks about her infant daughter, Lilah.
While Halle had a young son at home, she and her husband were over the moon to be expecting a little girl. She would make their little family complete, especially after 3 previous miscarriages.
After many challenges and seven weeks of bed rest in the hospital, little Lilah was born on December 9, 2018, in an emergency C-section after she had stoppe...
ABOUT CJ’S DIARY
CJ’s Diary is an episode where she discusses some of her thoughts from an interview or happenings in the world that may change the way we interact with the stories being told on the podcast. CJ’s Diary will evolve over time and is an opportunity to hear her unabashed thoughts.
ABOUT THIS EPISODE OF SORRY TO HEAR THAT
This week CJ discusses Mother’s Day in CJ’s Diary. It has been almost three years since she...
Kim, co-host of the podcast Millenial Vibes, joins CJ to talk about her father, Kenneth.
Their relationship was and is special - she’s daddy’s little girl through and through. Her father lost his eyesight because of a tumor that began on his retina which caused him to go blind shortly after a risky surgery. The last time he saw Kim physically, she was 10 years old.
Through it all, Kim thought of her father as her “Superman”...
Luke has known grief for a long time and CJ speaks with him about his parents, Thomas and Cynthia.
Thomas passed away from cancer in 2009, and a few short years later, in 2012, Cynthia passed away for fairly unknown reasons.
While his father came as a shock to his system, his mother was his true support. Her passing away so suddenly both had and has made him critically change the way he interacts with the world, his own lif...
Chris’ brother, Derrick, was just 53 years old when he suffered a sudden stroke.
While scary and unexpected, Derrick seemed to be on the mend in the hospital. Then suddenly, while still in the hospital, Derrick suffered a heart attack. Seven days later, Chris and his mom made the decision to take Derrick off of life support.
Chris speaks with CJ about his brother, Derrick, and how he has had to learn how to deal with the af...
Their passings were similar but different - needing family to advocate for stays in the hospital - but one was in the hospital during COVID and the other was not. Their treatment by health professionals and their ability to show them love by the family also was different.
Grie...
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The show may reflect some lived experiences in the community of grievers and those that support them. CJ discusses...
Her grandparents, both living in Assisted Living Facilities (ALF) in South Florida had been ill for a while. Jules and her family would spend as much time as they could heading to Miami to be able to spend the time with them that they could. Even prior to COVID, there was a ...
William, now known as WilliMo because of an old email address, passed away and July 2020 marks 10 years.
Learning what grief is and what it is not has been a large part of what Darcy has learned in the last decade.
Darcy and CJ have been friends for about 9 years and they have an in-depth discussion about how...
With the number of losses that Cindy discussed with CJ, she showed a rather philosophical point of view where even though they were gone, she could appreciate each of them - her father, mother, sister, husband, and friend - as vehicles of long-lasting memories...
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