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Bereaved But Still Me

Bereaved But Still Me

De: Anna Jaworski
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"Bereaved But Still Me" is a podcast for the bereaved community that was formerly known as "Heart to Heart with Michael." As we entered Season 5, we decided to rebrand our podcast to make it easier for the bereaved community to find us.

We are happy to announce that "Heart to Heart with Michael," was nominated for a 2020 WEGO Health Award. "Heart to Heart with Michael" was a finalist in the Health Podcast category. This was a great honor for our podcast.

"Bereaved But Still Me" is a product of the Hearts Unite the Globe Network of Podcasts. Our Host is Michael Liben, our Producer is Nancy Taylor Jensen, and our Executive Producer is Anna Jaworski. Our monthly program has been designed to empower, educate, and support the bereaved community. New episodes are broadcast every 1st Thursday of the month.
For more information about the "Bereaved But Still Me," please check out our website: www.heartsunitetheglobe.org and look at the "Bereaved But Still Me" tab.

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/bereaved-but-still-me--2108929/support.Copyright Anna Jaworski Higiene y Vida Saludable
Episodios
  • When A Dream Shuts Down: Grieving A Business Closure After COVID-19

    When A Dream Shuts Down: Grieving A Business Closure After COVID-19
    Apr 2 2026
    (00:00:00) Introducing Christina Vidovich
    (00:01:40) Dance Studio As Family
    (00:02:22) COVID Closes The Doors for Good
    (00:08:28) Creating a Goodbye Without Ritual
    (00:15:55) Releasing Blame and Reclaiming Worth
    (00:21:21) Turning Grief into a New Voice
    (00:26:18) Women Getting Visible and Brave Stories

    A studio can be more than a business. It can be your calendar, your friendships, your creative outlet, your sense of worth, and the place where you watch other people become themselves. When that disappears overnight, the grief is real, even if no one brings flowers or holds a service.

    We sit down with Christina Vitovich, international speaker, producer, and founder of Women Getting Visible, to name a loss that often goes unseen: grieving the end of a livelihood and the identity wrapped around it. After spending more than 20 years building a thriving ballroom dance community, COVID forced a permanent closure, and the shock hit her nervous system hard. Christina talks honestly about insomnia, the hollow quiet of an empty room, and the strange pain of losing something that is not a person but still feels like family.

    We also dig into what helps healing actually begin. Christina shares the ritual she created to say goodbye, why it took years to speak about dance again, and how acceptance grows when you stop treating an uncontrollable event like a personal failure. From there, the conversation turns practical and hopeful: transferable skills, finding your voice again, and building community without a brick-and-mortar space through podcasting, speaking, and women’s events around the world.

    If you are facing career loss, business closure, identity shifts, or complicated grief, you will leave with language for what you feel and steps to keep moving forward without pretending it did not hurt. Subscribe, share this with someone rebuilding after a loss, and leave a review so more listeners can find support.

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    31 m
  • A Near-Death Encounter, A Father’s Legacy

    A Near-Death Encounter, A Father’s Legacy
    Mar 5 2026
    Grief isn’t an ending; it’s a relationship that changes. Judy Tashbook Safern joins us with a story that stops the clock: cascading surgeries, pneumonia, and a coma that opens into an enveloping light and a felt encounter with God. She returns with a message—“you are necessary”—only to learn that her father, a larger-than-life psychoanalyst and professor who built Jewish community in West Texas, has been diagnosed with advanced liver cancer and passes within days. The timeline feels like a switch, a mystery that begs hard questions about fate, faith, and why one life continues while another concludes.

    We explore the details that make this more than a headline. Judy paints her father through action: freezer trucks of kosher meat hauled across states, hand-typed holiday invitations posted around a university and an Air Force base, and a seven-hour drive to Dallas and back for Passover staples. When she wakes, pain floods back; survivor’s guilt arrives fast. Grounded in Jewish mourning practices—shiva, shloshim, and a year of gentler abstentions—she sits shiva alone on a hospital floor, 10,000 miles from her family, learning how ritual can still hold when improvised. She also draws on a lineage tied to Rabbi Isaac Luria to give vocabulary to the inexplicable, without forcing certainty where only awe belongs.

    What follows is a living bond. Judy senses her father in small joys and sharp wit, at Seders where his annual pilgrimage becomes family lore, and in quiet moments when purpose feels like a vow. The lesson she brought back from the light reframes worth beyond roles—parent, partner, child—while still honoring how love threads those roles with meaning. If you’ve wondered whether the dead keep shaping our days, or how to carry a legacy without being crushed by it, this conversation offers language, practice, and hope.

    If this resonated, subscribe, share with a friend who needs it, and leave a review to help others find the show. Tell us: how do you keep your continuing bonds alive?






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    34 m
  • The Intimacy of Death

    The Intimacy of Death
    Feb 5 2026
    A heartbeat in your ear changes how you see a person. That’s where we begin—with the intimacy of listening and the quiet vigilance of an anesthetist whose job is to guide people to the brink and bring them safely home. Frank Jaworski has lived at that edge for decades, and he joins us to share what most of us never witness: how dignity is protected in the operating room, what families truly need in the ICU, and why the smallest human gestures can calm a storm of fear.

    Frank takes us from early regret after his mother’s death to a clear-eyed choice to spare his father futile procedures, revealing how experience reframes hope and mercy. He explains the real work of anesthesia—constant scanning, pattern recognition, and presence—while separating sleep, anesthesia, and death with honesty that reassures rather than frightens. We talk about awareness under anesthesia, the art of waking someone with their own name, and the role of humor when it helps and restraint when it doesn’t. Along the way, we visit the hardest rooms: resuscitations that look like violence because they must be, the unforgettable sight of broken ribs in the pursuit of a heartbeat, and the moral whiplash of organ donation after brain death when the machine turns off and the caregiver walks away.

    What emerges is a practical, compassionate guide to the end of life. You’ll hear how to talk with clinicians, why planning matters, and how presence—touch, voice, and attention—transforms final moments into something sacred. This conversation offers comfort without illusion, clarity without coldness, and a reminder that love shows up in the smallest, steadiest ways.

    If this moved you, share it with someone who needs the language for a hard conversation. Subscribe for more stories at the intersection of grief, medicine, and meaning, and leave a review to help others find their way here.

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    43 m
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