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
Pattie Gallant Part 2: Painting Beauty with His Ashes
We’re back this month for the second half of our conversation with Pattie Gallant, a bereaved mother who shares her story of losing her son Evan to cancer, and the journey she is now on 9 years later—leaning into his legacy—to find peace. ...
Pattie Gallant: Anticipatory Grief
There is no handbook for grieving the loss of a child. We learn to grieve exactly where we are. Words of wisdom from Pattie, a bereaved Mom whose son Evan died from cancer at age 21. Pattie shares her anticipatory grief as she prepared for her ...
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 ...