Dying of Laughter

Dean Lambert leads The Love Always Project, created to promote discussion about end-of-life issues, provide expert information and encourage people to preplan and pay for their funeral as the ultimate act of love for those they will leave behind.

Dean is a military brat who moved 18 times in 17 years. Today we discuss the loss of Dean's son, Adam. Adam was a USMC Corporal who served in Afghanistan and died by suicide a year after coming home at age 24.

Dean's home base was Flushing, Queens, where both of his parents grew up on the same block. He now live in Des Moines, Iowa with his Shiksa wife of 37 years.

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Today we explore Mackenzie's poetry, informed by their own losses. Their brother was killed in a car accident at 19 and their mom died 5 years later from breast cancer.

Mackenzie is an associate marriage and family therapist, certified iRest Yoga Nidra meditation teacher and trauma informed yoga teacher. They specialize in working with grief and loss, having served the bereavement department of Pathways Hospice as a grief counselor.

Mackenzie also specializes in LGBTQ+ issues, lifecycles and transitions, and has a particular affinity and skill for working with teens and young adults.

Mackenzie holds a Masters Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from The California Institute of Integral Studies, and a bachelors degree in Gender Studies from Syracuse University. Mackenzie is a writer and poet, small dog enthusiast, and ocean lover.