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 Power of a Spark
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Episode Description
In this opening episode of the new season of The Adapted Life: Finding Next, I reflect on the quiet but powerful ways that connection can begin to illuminate even the darkest seasons of life.
Through personal storytelling, gentle reflection, I explore the idea that even the smallest spark — a moment of understanding, a shared story, or a simple human connection— can begin to move us toward healing.
This season focuses on tending to the energy of our lives: noticing what restores us, what drains us, and how turning inward can help guide us toward what comes next.Keywords
• grief healing
• trauma recovery
• mindfulness and meditation
• life transitions
• emotional healing
• healing through storytelling
• finding purpose after loss
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