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
Love in transition, healing from brokenness
The Adapted Life Podcast, by Julie Hasselberger
Season 4 Episode 35 "Love in transition."
Adapting in our brokenness.
Love is not static, it bends, breaks and mends across time. The loss of child shatters a family, but love finds ways to carry them forward. Growth in empathy, and emotional intelligence can reconnect partners even decades later.
Love is like "Kintsugi" The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, the cracks remain, but they shine.
Thought provoking questions are shared regarding our experience with adversity, loss, trauma, grief and how love in so many of our relationships is sometimes damaged and rebuilt.
We lost our beloved Daniel on January 12, 2024. Stay with me as I work through grief and finding purpose. It is early days. And very hard.
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