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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Michele Neff Hernandez, Author, “Different After You:  Rediscovering Yourself and Healing After Grief and Trauma”

About Harvey's guests:

Today’s guest, Michele Neff Hernandez, is an advocate, teacher, leader and author who exemplifies the meaning of personal growth, transformation and healing following one of life’s most tragic and traumatic events: the death of a spouse.  

In 2005, when our guest was only 35 years old with 3 children under 15 and 3 step-children in their late teens, her husband Phillip was suddenly killed in a cycling accident, plunging her into the devastating world of grief, despair, loneliness and profound heartbreak.  Over the next year, as she struggled through unknown emotional territory, she conducted in-depth interviews of 30 different widows across America.  

That experience led her to create a non-profit organization called Soaring Spirits International, whose mission is to provide a space for widowed people to connect, to foster resilience, and to develop resources for grief recovery and the successful rebuilding of meaningful and satisfying lives.  Soaring Spirits International is the premier peer-based support organization for widows in the world, guiding people from great pain to personal empowerment.  

Our guest is also the creator and director of the innovative Camp Widow Program.  She’s won numerous awards for her work helping thousands of people navigate widowhood, and in 2021, she was named a CNN Hero.  In addition to being the CEO of Soaring Spirits International and the executive director of Soaring Spirits Canada, she’s also the director of the Soaring Spirits Resilience Center located in Kerrville, Texas, whose mission is to research and build resilience in people who are bereaved.   

Our guest has also written a compelling and insightful book entitled, “Different After You:  Rediscovering Yourself and Healing After Grief and Trauma”, in which she shares how she took the worst tragedy of her life – the loss of her beloved husband - and developed the coping mechanisms and skills to transform her pain into healing and positive change, and to turn surviving into thriving.  This heartfelt and very helpful book is relevant not only to those who’ve become widowed, but to anyone who’s suffered ANY kind of catastrophic loss due to illness, divorce, an accident, the death of a family member or close friend, and even the loss of a career or a longtime home. 

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To see more about Michele Neff Hernandez, go to:

https://micheleneffhernandez.com/ 

https://www.facebook.com/michele.n.hernandez 

https://twitter.com/MicheleNeffHer1

https://www.instagram.com/micheleneffher/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY_8sMcexydgS5yaX4reKdQ

https://soaringspirits.org/

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How do you handle the loss of a spouse, or someone close to you? Our guest on this week's POP talk is best-selling author Mike Nappa, who lost his wife prematurely and wrote Reflections for the Grieving Soul, based on his experiences.  Mike is an award-winning author and editor of Christian books and ministry resources and has sold over two-million copies of his books worldwide. He is a contributing writer for Crosswalk, Christianity.com and Beliefnet. He also co-authored a number of books with his wife, Amy, before losing her to cancer in 2016.  

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