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
The Double Loss
In this episode I want to take a gentle walk through discussing what happens when your caregiving world ends.
I offer a moment of calm meditation, as well as a journal prompt to think on at the end.
which is, " What truths have you faced when your role as a caregiver for your loved ended?"
The double loss refers to the loss of a loved one, coupled with the loss of dedicating your life to creating the world of caregiving. Everything you had been doing ends. It is a very confusing time, and it has left me completely lost and not sure of who I am now.
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