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Love Survives Grief

Love Survives Grief

By: Stephanie
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Let me introduce you to our new podcast;
Welcome to Love Survives Grief.
We’re so glad you’re here.

This podcast was born from grief and out of the kind of pain that changes you forever—the kind of loss that leaves a quiet, lasting ache in the background of your life. Grief didn’t just enter our story—it rewrote it.

Before everything changed, we were living what felt like the American dream—building a life, raising our family, and planning for a future we thought we could count on. In a moment, everything we knew—everything we believed our life would be—was gone. The life we had carefully built no longer existed in the same way. Since then, we’ve had to rewrite our story completely.

We’re not therapists, and we don’t have all the answers. We’re just two people learning, day by day, how to survive the unimaginable. We will share our own lived experience—raw, unfiltered, and ongoing. We know what it feels like to wake up in a reality you never chose, to carry love for someone who is no longer physically here, and to figure out how to keep going anyway.

Love Survives Grief isn’t about “getting over it” or tying things up in a neat, hopeful bow. It’s about what it really looks like to live after loss—the messy, complicated, heartbreaking, and sometimes even beautiful reality of carrying grief while continuing forward and finding ways to survive the unimaginable.

Here, we’ll talk openly about our journey. The heartbreak, the memories, the anger, the love, and even moments of unexpected light. We’ll talk about what helps, what doesn’t, and what grief really looks like behind closed doors.

Our hope is that if you’re walking a similar path, if you have lost someone you love, we want you to know-you’re not alone. Because if there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s this:
Love doesn’t end when someone dies. It changes, it stretches, it aches—it becomes something different—but it survives.
And somehow, through all of it, so do we.

Thank you for being here with us.

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Episodes
  • Episode 2: The Day Everything Changed

    Episode 2: The Day Everything Changed
    Jul 1 2026

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    November 17, 2019 began like any other Sunday.

    In this deeply personal episode of Love Survives Grief, Stephanie and Shaun take listeners back to the ordinary morning that forever divided their lives into a "before" and an "after." It was a day filled with routine, familiar moments, and no indication that their world was about to shatter.

    Together, they walk through the events of that morning—the normal rhythms of family life, the plans for the day, and the countless small moments that seemed insignificant at the time but would later become permanently etched into their memories.

    Then everything changed.

    The life they knew ended in an instant. The future they had envisioned disappeared, replaced by shock, confusion, and a pain no parent should ever have to endure.

    With honesty and vulnerability, Stephanie and Shaun share what happened that day, the emotions that followed, and the memories they continue to carry nearly seven years later. They discuss the details many people never see—the chaos, the disbelief, the unanswered questions, and the desperate hope that somehow this couldn't be real.

    This episode is one of the hardest stories they've ever told, but it is also the foundation of why Love Survives Grief exists. Because while November 17th marked the day their lives were forever altered, it also marked the beginning of a journey that would teach them what it means to survive the unimaginable while continuing to love a child who is no longer physically here.

    This is the story of the day everything changed.

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    51 mins
  • Episode 1: We Never Thought This Would Be Our Story

    Episode 1: We Never Thought This Would Be Our Story
    Jun 16 2026

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    In this opening episode of Love Survives Grief, Stephanie and Shaun introduce themselves not as experts or therapists, but as two ordinary parents whose lives were forever changed by unimaginable loss.

    Together, they share their earliest experiences with death and grief, how loss shaped them long before becoming grieving parents themselves, and the ways those past experiences compare to the devastating reality of losing a child. Through honest conversation, they reflect on the shock of entering a world no one ever expects to join and the loneliness that often follows traumatic loss.

    Stephanie and Shaun also open up about why they created this podcast: to give grieving families a place where hard conversations are welcomed, painful emotions are understood, and no one has to feel so alone in their grief. Love Survives Grief is a space for raw truth, healing, remembrance, and hope — a reminder that even after life’s darkest moments, love still survives.

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    33 mins
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