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
Trusting your energy, Listening to inner knowing
Episode 44: Trusting Your EnergyLearning to Listen to Your Inner KnowingEpisode DescriptionHave you ever had a feeling that something wasn't quite right—but talked yourself out of it? Orsensed th...
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...
