Braving the Bridge
The Bridge is where stories of resilience, reinvention and hope come together. Each episode explores a different life transition and the courage it takes to take the next step forward.
Episodes
What if the life you imagined is gone, but there's still a whole world waiting for you?
Two months after losing her husband, Ken, Heather found herself sitting alone in her living room, overwhelmed by grief and wondering how she was supposed to move forward. She knew she would miss him for the rest of her life, but she also knew she couldn't spend the rest of that life sitting in the same chair, drowning in everything she'd lost.
So ...
What happens when your mind is constantly preparing for the worst, and then some of the worst things actually happen?
This week on Braving the Bridge, Heather sits down with her longtime best friend, Kristie, for an honest, heartfelt, and sometimes hilarious conversation about living with anxiety while navigating life's biggest transitions.
For years, Kris has struggled with the endless cycle of what ifs. What if she gets sick? What ...
What happens when two people lose the same person, but lose completely different relationships?
This week, Heather sits down with her 22-year-old daughter, Olivia, for a conversation about grief, growing up, family, faith, mental health, boundaries, flying, and trying to build a future after losing someone who was always supposed to be part of it.
Olivia grew up with two dads. Her biological father has been an important, and sometime...
Sometimes the moment that changes your life isn’t a tragedy. Sometimes it arrives as an opportunity you never expected and asks you to completely rethink the life you thought you had planned.
In this episode of Braving the Bridge, Heather sits down with her sister and best friend, Sarah, to talk about the unexpected journey that brought a newborn baby into her family.
At 38, Sarah was already raising two children, includi...
What happens to you after the thing happens?
When life changes in an instant, it doesn’t just change your circumstances. It changes you.
In this episode of Braving the Bridge, Heather talks about the strange experience of getting to know yourself again after loss. The parts of the person you used to be that you desperately miss, the pieces that are still very much there, and the unexpected parts of yourself that begin to ...
Grief is something almost all of us will experience, yet somehow, we still don't really know how to talk about it.
In the first episode of Braving the Bridge, I share why I created this podcast and what life has looked like since the unexpected death of my husband, Ken. The unbearable first days, the physical side of grief nobody warned me about, the ridiculous things grief makes you do, and my late-night search for some kind ...
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