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
Coming Home to Present, as a tool
Hello,
In this episode I speak tenderly about how meditation has transformed my journey with grief and pain. This is my first ever guided meditation, so I am sure it won't be perfect.
I have layered grief, and deep trauma. It has significantly caused me so much difficulty in finding my way again. This is why I added on "finding next", because this journey is just that, a journey.
I hope this meditation brings you some calm. I love visualizing the forest full of giant pines that we saw in the San Jacinto mountains in California where my daughter recently got married.
I'm trying to live each day, with the goal of existing and creating from my heart. It is about all my broken heart can spare. But I am here, dear ones. I am here because I know I am not alone in my pain.
Maybe we can step side by side and heal trauma together. Maybe even one little moment is enough.
Please feel free to leave me some feedback, you can find me also on you tube, instagram, Facebook, and here.
I have been hoping to learn how to be a meditation guide, which is what I am working on now. I thought... why not just try.
All my love,
Julie
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