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Remembering the Ones You've Lost

May 18

50 mins

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Episode Description

Hunter Prosper talks to three strangers who have experienced the death of someone they love to understand how loss reshaped their lives—and how they continue to honor those who are gone.

Meet this episode's strangers:

- Jen, whose younger sister Christie was murdered along with her dog Hunter, and how that single phone call split her life into “before” and “after.” She describes the shock of an unexpected, violent death, the feeling of becoming “untethered,” and the help she’s found through a sibling-loss support group. Jen now says her sister’s name every day to honor her memory.

- Arielle reflects on losing both of her grandfathers, and how learning their stories after their deaths revealed the ways their paths mirror her own. She also explains why asking older adults about their lives is one of the most powerful ways to keep their legacies alive after they are gone.

- Isabel opens up about the night a police officer rang the doorbell at 4 a.m. to tell her family her older brother Jack was in the hospital after a car accident. Jack did not make it. Years after his death, she still feels his presence, and reflects on how even though she is now older than he ever was, he still feels like her older brother.

Topics:

- Sibling bonds and "first best friends"

- Preserving intergenerational legacies through storytelling

- Spiritual signs and synchronicity

- Grief support groups and community

- Fostering dogs and giving back

- How grief transforms over time

- Radical vulnerability as survival

- Living in honor of loved ones

- The power of narrative

- Intuition vs. Anxiety

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