The Adapted Life, Finding Next
I’m Julie Hasselberger. For 26 years, I was the full-time caregiver for my beloved son Daniel, whose life was marked by profound disability and extraordinary beauty. This podcast began as a way to support other parents navigating the complex, often isolating world of special needs caregiving. But life changed — heartbreakingly and irrevocably — when my son passed away.
Now, The Adapted Life, Finding Next is a space for truth-telling, tenderness, and transformation. It’s about what comes after the role that once defined you is gone. It’s about grief, relational trauma, resilience, and the raw, ongoing search for next — for purpose, healing, and connection.
If you’re facing a season of reckoning, rebuilding, or rediscovery, I invite you to walk with me. You are not alone. This is the adapted life… and together, we’ll find what comes next.
The Adapted Life, Finding Next
Latest Episodes
Protect your energy, boundaries and self-love
Season 5 • Episode 43Protecting Your EnergyThe Adapted Life: Finding NextIn this episode of The Adapted Life: Finding Next, Julieexplores the quiet but necessary practice of protecting...
You Were Trying to Love, guided meditation
This is a guided meditation for anyone who is going through betrayal trauma or deep grief. Or both. You are not the storm. You are the lighthouse my friends. This is a healing meditation, and a poem of encouragemen...
Tending to your energy
In this episode, we talk about what we do once we are experiencing awareness of our energy. Not fixing it, but just being aware of gentle ways to tend to that energy. WHAT TENDING ISTending to your energy is not about f...
