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
HOW DARE YOU DO SOMETHING ELSE! (but really, its ok)
In this episode, I wanted to talk about finding space outside of caregiving to do something that your intuition is calling you to do.
As we know, carrying the weight of someone else's life and well being on our shoulders is a very heavy lift. But this doesn't negate your passion and desire to do something that brings you joy, outside of the realm of caregiving.
I have been working on pushing into my purpose, but sometimes I realize that I get slowed down, interrupted by life, and thrown off track. So I started asking myself why, kind of like the 5 why analysis I used to use back in the old days of being an HR manager in a manufacturing company.
I want you to know, from my heart, that you are not alone. I am not alone. We are on a special life journey, that sometimes feels like we are on a different planet.
I hope you are enjoying the "adapted life podcast" and I would love so much to hear from you.
You can find me on instagram @jhasselberger
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