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Grief & Happiness

Grief & Happiness

Di: Emily Thiroux Threatt
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Aloha! Welcome to the Grief and Happiness podcast. My name is Emily Thiroux Threatt, and I am your host. I am the author of Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief, The Grief and Happiness Handbook, and creator of Grief and Happiness Cards: Gentle Support for Dealing with Grief and Finding Happiness

My purpose with the Grief and Happiness Podcast is to demonstrate to people who are dealing with grief and loss that they can grieve and be happy at the same time. The wide variety of guests address the myriad of issues that arise with loss and the spectrum of how grief and happiness relate. After a loved one dies, often people say they will never be happy again. By covering thought-provoking topics like creativity, compassion, community, purpose, inner peace, strength, coping, surrendering, and resilience with authors, speakers, coaches, and friends, listeners find inspiration and confidence guiding them on their grief journey. Each week the podcast showcases an interview with an inspiring guest and an additional brief podcast with a message of support and comfort.

Anyone dealing with grief or loss can come to the Grief and Happiness podcast to find comfort, support, love, and happiness. You are welcome here to learn ways to live your best life.

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  • Me

    Me
    Nov 6 2026

    What would you write in your own obituary?


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    3 min
  • The Grief Nobody Names: Angela Ricketts on Mourning a Child Who Is Still Here

    The Grief Nobody Names: Angela Ricketts on Mourning a Child Who Is Still Here
    Nov 3 2026
    If you’ve ever felt a sadness you couldn’t name, episode 468 of Grief and Happiness is for you. Author Angela Ricketts shares how her son’s rare, blinding eye disease left her grieving for years before she recognized it as grief. After losing her father, she turned to clay and made Sight Stones, showing how joy and sorrow can live side by side.In This Episode, You Will Learn:(00:56) How Sight Stones and Angela’s book fund eye disease research(02:48) Kai’s rare diagnosis and the disease that blinded her grandfather(04:45) Realizing a mother’s fear was grief after losing her father(06:00) How the creator of Seeds of Happiness inspired Sight Stones(09:09) “Never Lose Sight”: choosing your focus when it’s hard to see(16:43) “Share my story”: how Kai’s openness helped strangers open up(22:52) From “the stuck place” to the happiest time of her life(25:58) How music became Kai’s outlet as his vision fadesAngela “Annie” Ricketts is a St. Louis entrepreneur, artist, and author, and the founder of Sight Stones, a nonprofit funding research into inherited retinal diseases. She co-founded Better Life Home Cleaning with her husband, Matthew, in 2008. When her son Kai was diagnosed with choroideremia, the rare, progressive condition that blinded her grandfather, she returned to the clay worry stones she made as a child with her potter father. Each stone has a hole to look through and carries the message “Never Lose Sight,” also the title of her new book, with a foreword by John O’Leary. All proceeds from the book and stones fund research.Angela shares a grief many people overlook: a mother’s grief over her son’s fading sight. She had no word for it until she lost her grandmother and father and felt the same weight. Clay became her way through, and a chance meeting years earlier with Mark Borella, creator of Seeds of Happiness, led to the studio where her volunteers now gather weekly. She talks openly about the “stuck place” she reached and the message each stone carries: we choose what to focus on, even when we struggle to see. Kai’s choice to share his story has led strangers to share theirs, and music has become his outlet. Today, Angela says, joy and grief live side by side, and she is the happiest she has ever been.Connect with Angela Ricketts:WebsiteInstagramFacebookYouTubeBook: Angela Ricketts – Never Lose SightLet's Connect: WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTwitterPinterestThe Grief and Happiness Alliance Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    33 min
  • Suicide Grief Lasts Longer, and No One Warned Her: A Mother on the Shame and “What Ifs” Books Skip

    Suicide Grief Lasts Longer, and No One Warned Her: A Mother on the Shame and “What Ifs” Books Skip
    Oct 20 2026
    If you’ve tried to comfort a mother who lost a child to suicide, or lived it, episode 466 of Grief and Happiness is for you. Jackie M. Baker shares why suicide grief lasts longer, how shame and “what ifs” isolate parents, and how journaling healed her. Saying yes to help and finding beauty in brokenness helped her laugh again.In This Episode, You Will Learn:(00:43) Meet Jackie: pediatric nurse practitioner and mom of two(01:19) Losing her son to suicide and the journey to Messy Mourning(08:46) Reading her journal aloud to a grief counselor to release her pain(12:27) Finding beauty in her brokenness, one sunrise at a time(13:37) Saying yes and offering grieving friends practical help(17:32) Leading GriefShare and the pastor who urged her to grieve openly(21:09) Back at work as a nurse practitioner through grief fog(29:16) Free suicide loss resources, from laments to “things that help, things that hurt”Jackie M. Baker is a writer, storyteller, and pediatric nurse practitioner based in Vancouver, Washington. After her 23-year-old son, Sebastian, died by suicide in 2017, she began writing through her grief, which led to her debut book, Messy Mourning: Hope for Mothers Grieving the Loss of a Child by Suicide, a companion offering honest reflection and hope. Her work covers grief, faith, motherhood, and healing, and she writes on Substack. Jackie also leads a GriefShare group at her church, supporting widows, widowers, and parents through loss.In this episode, Jackie tells Emily how Messy Mourning came to be. After losing Sebastian, who struggled with bipolar disorder and depression, she became an empty nester within six months and took a creative nonfiction class. She wrote a memoir first, then started over on her writing coach’s advice. Finding little written on suicide loss, she saw that this grief often lasts longer and carries extra shame, guilt, and “what ifs.” Jackie explains how reading her journal aloud to a grief counselor released grief the body would otherwise carry, and how she looked for “beauty in my brokenness” daily. She also learned to say yes, accepting offers of help and taking a youth pastor’s advice to keep meeting with her church group of girls so they could see her grieve and keep living. She closes with free resources from her website, including a “things that help, things that hurt” list and songs of lament.Connect with Jackie M. Baker:WebsiteInstagramFacebookSubstackBook: Jackie M. Baker – Messy MourningLet's Connect: WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTwitterPinterestThe Grief and Happiness AllianceBook: Emily Thiroux Threatt - Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    33 min
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