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
Travel and Vacation With my Disabled Son
In this episode, I share with listeners an inside look at just how complicated it is for me to bring my disabled son on vacation, or traveling anywhere for that matter.
May I first add, that as Daniel has aged and become a young adult, he is heavier and requires more assistance with mobility and transferring and caregiving in general. If we are blessed to be able to take Daniel on a vacation, the planning, traveling and staying is pretty much at a ridiculous level of being prepared.
In this episode I share the challenge we face with traveling with our son who is severely disabled.
We have never taken a vacation without Daniel, and work really hard to include him.
There is no easy way to travel with a severely disabled person.
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