by JHFHBrightSighted | Jul 3, 2025 | Blog, News, Podcast
This week’s episode is a special live recording from Northshire Bookstore in Saratoga Springs, where Heather sits down with author Casey Mulligan Walsh to talk about her deeply moving memoir, The Full Catastrophe. Orphaned by twelve, the only surviving sibling, and...
by JHFHBrightSighted | Jun 12, 2025 | Blog, News, Podcast
Dr. Al Freedman knows firsthand what it’s like to be a parent in the rare disease world—his son Jack lived with Spinal Muscular Atrophy for 26 years. In this conversation, he joins Heather to talk about the deep grief and isolation that comes with rare parenting, and...
by JHFHBrightSighted | Mar 13, 2025 | Blog, News, Podcast
Grief is never one-size-fits-all. Heather sits down with the Best family—Lisa, along with her adult children, Aly and Tyler—to talk about life after the sudden loss of their husband and father, Bob Best, who passed away on May 7, 2018. They share how the same loss can...
by JHFHBrightSighted | Jan 2, 2025 | Blog, News, Podcast
Kate Snedeker was still in college when she faced the unimaginable: losing her father to glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive and deadly cancers. In this episode, she opens up about navigating profound grief, the life-changing moments that shaped her, and how she...
by JHFHBrightSighted | Dec 26, 2024 | Blog, News, Podcast
Susan Lieu’s story is anything but ordinary. She’s the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, a truth-seeker, and the author of The Manicurist’s Daughter, a memoir about family, loss, and the impossible beauty standards. In this episode, Susan opens up about losing her...
