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
What is 24/7 caregiving like?
In this episode, I discuss what my life entails as a 55 year old caregiver/Mom for my severely disabled son. It has evolved into caregiving with resilience, but the journey has not been easy. Please join me, in my adapted life, as I share how I've made it this far, and expand into ways that we can connect in the future. For this episode, I hope to begin to illustrate in your mind, what happens when your child is too disabled to ever live independently. How to cope and deal with the challenges, and how to develop yourself in the process.
I am thrilled to be podcasting, because I have visualized this for years.
You can learn more about us on my YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQr7Ot0J0o6_gRnG_fJvzDg
I am hoping to find sponsorship opportunities
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