While We're Waiting® - Hope After Child Loss | Podcast Guru

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This is a podcast FOR bereaved parents BY bereaved parents. Join your host, Jill Sullivan, as she talks with parents who have lost children of all ages to all types of circumstances. This is a podcast of stories ... stories of devastating loss and grief and heartbreak and struggle ... and stories of hope and healing and faith, and yes, even joy. Underlying every conversation will be the hope we have in Jesus Christ, which makes it possible to not just survive the loss of a child, but to live well while we're waiting to see them again in Heaven one day. Visit our website at www.WhileWereWaiting.org for more information about our nonprofit ministry to bereaved parents.

Recent Episodes

327 | Messy Mourning (Part Two) with Jackie Baker

How do we keep moving forward after the loss of a child? In the second half of my conversation with Jackie Baker, author of Messy Mourning: Hope for Mothers Grieving the Loss of a Child by Suicide, we turn to some of the practical challenges grieving parents face as they learn to live with loss. Jackie shares four lies grieving mothers often believe - including the painful thoughts that we somehow failed our child or could have prevented what happened - and points us back to what is tr...

44 MIN

326 | Messy Mourning (Part One) with Jackie Baker

Every child has a story that is so much bigger than the way their life ended. In this first half of my conversation with Jackie Baker, author of Messy Mourning: Hope for Mothers Grieving the Loss of a Child by Suicide, Jackie introduces us to her son Sebastian—a bright, curious, athletic, artistic young man who was deeply loved. She also shares about the struggles he faced and the journey her family walked before his death by suicide nearly nine years ago. Jackie speaks honestly about those e...

54 MIN

325 | Courage in the Corners (Part Two) with Josie Doll

Josie Doll joins me again today, as we continue our conversation from last week. Together we explore the meaning behind her book’s title - "Courage in the Corners" - a phrase her son Christian often used in hockey. For Josie, it's become a powerful picture of grief: having the courage to take the hits, get back up, and keep going. If you missed the first half of our conversation last week, you may want to click HERE to listen. Josie shares openly about her struggle to trust...

33 MIN

324 | Courage in the Corners (Part One) with Josie Doll

My guest on the podcast today is my friend Josie Doll, who I had the opportunity to meet when we hosted a While We're Waiting Weekend in Alberta, Canada last spring. In this first half of our conversation, we get to know her 15-year-old son, Christian—a funny, compassionate young man and natural leader who loved hockey, golf, his friends, and his family. Josie takes us back to the summer night in July of 2024 when Christian was struck by a vehicle while riding his moped with friends. Sh...

34 MIN

323 | Still Trusting God (Part Two) with Marty and Missie Durapau

In last week’s episode, we met Marty and Missie Durapau and heard about the loss of Missie’s 14-year-old son, Mason, after a golf cart accident on Easter Sunday in 2024. We also heard about the week they spent praying and believing God for a miracle ... and what it meant to keep trusting Him when that miracle didn’t come in the way they had hoped. If you missed the first half of our conversation, you can find it HERE. Today, we’ll talk more about Mason’s decision to be an organ d...

55 MIN