Holding the Light: Sharing Hope After Child Loss
Holding the Light: Sharing Hope After Child Loss is a podcast for grieving parents, siblings, family and friends navigating life after the loss of a child.
Co-hosted by bereaved mother and her son Monica and Colby Charette, this podcast offers honest conversations about child loss, grief, and healing. Through personal stories, guest interviews, and reflections, we explore what it means to carry and witness grief, find connection, and live with love after unimaginable loss. Whether you are a grieving parent, sibling, family member or supporting someone through child loss and seeking to better understand grief, this podcast provides comfort, validation, and hope.
Topics include:
· living with child loss
· grief after losing a child
· supporting bereaved families
· navigating relationships and family grief
· finding meaning and legacy after loss
We are here to say their name with you. You are not alone. Together, we are Holding the Light.
Holding the Light: Sharing Hope After Child Loss
Latest Episodes
Joyce Vigue-Morrissette: Caregivers Grieve Too
This month on Holding the Light, we welcome Joyce Vigue-Morrissette — a retired nurse who shares what grief looks like from the caregiver’s side of child loss. Joyce called into our Listener Line after hearing Holly Caron's episode "Grief Has N...
Jessica Ashe: When Grief Finds Its Voice
We are joined this month by a fellow bereaved mother who shares how losing her son five years ago reshaped her life, and led her to advocate for change. She is also the current United States of America Mrs. Maine—someone who chose to carry her ...
Holly Caron: Grief Has No Timeline
For any parent listening to this podcast who worries that time hasn’t ‘fixed’ their grief—this conversation is proof that there is no timeline we need to meet. Eighteen years after losing her daughter Heather to brain cancer, Holly Caron ...
Zorimar Bentancourt: Murder Can't Silence A Mother's Love
This episode honors the enduring bond that even murder cannot break. We sit down with Zorimar Betancourt, whose world shattered when her son Stefano was carjacked and murdered while she drove behind him, trying desperately to help him on the ph...
Chris Wilson: A Father's Grief
This episode is dedicated to the fathers who grieve quietly but love loudly. We’re asking what it means to lose a child from a father’s perspective. Chris Wilson is here to bravely share with us the heartbreak of losing his oldest son Andrew in...