Hosted by Kris, Grace Lives Here is a podcast for anyone standing at the edge of change, after something has ended, before anything feels clear, and wondering what comes next.
This podcast is about rewriting your story in real time. It’s for people who don’t want to stay stuck where they are but don’t have it all figured out yet. Through honest conversation about grief, faith, identity, trauma, loss, healing, and starting over, each episode explores what it looks like to choose a second chapter, even while you’re still learning how.
This isn’t a podcast about quick fixes or perfect answers. It’s about finding light in the middle of the mess, taking the next step forward anyway, and allowing yourself to want more than survival, even when the road ahead feels uncertain.
Kris isn’t telling these stories from the other side. She’s walking through them too. If you’re ready to begin again, to tell the truth about where you are and where you’ve come from, and to believe there’s more waiting for you, this space is for you.
Welcome Home.
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The Day I Said Goodbye... And the Parts of Me That Remained Ep 19 Season One Finale
Season 1 Finale: The Day I Said Goodbye… and the Parts of Me That Remained
This episode is the hardest one I’ve had to record.
Not because I didn’t know what to say…but because I finally do.
In this Season 1 finale of Grace Lives Here, I share the day my mom passed—and what it felt like to walk through it, process it, and slowly begin to understand it from the other side.
This isn’t a detailed retelling of loss.It’s something deeper than that.
It’s about:
the moments leading up to goodbye
the guilt, the questions, and the things we wish we could have done differently
the quiet reality of grief after everything has already happened
and what it means to stand just outside the storm… changed, but still here
If you’ve ever lost someone you love…If you’ve ever questioned your decisions at the end…If you’ve ever wondered if what you did was enough…
This episode is for you.
Because it was enough.
And you are not alone.
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This is the closing chapter of Season 1.
Season 2 will be about what comes next—learning to listen, to heal, and to come back to yourself after everything you’ve carried.
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🎧 Grace Lives Here is a podcast for lives, interrupted… and slowly, gently, put back together.
12 May 2026
What She Already Knew: After the Diagnosis
I saw the radiology report before anyone called me.
I don't know exactly how. I just know it was there and I read it and the tears came before my brain had even fully processed the words.
Every instinct I had been pushing away and talking myself out of for months had been right.
All of it had been right.
And then I had to go back to work. Sit at her bedside. Smile. Make small talk. Carry the full weight of what I knew while pretending I didn't know it.
For days.
That specific torture — living in a twilight zone nobody else even knew existed — is what this episode is about.
It's also about the MRI she was terrified of that she somehow walked through with more peace than I had. About the phone call that made it official. About driving to the nursing home that night and finally saying the word I had been most afraid to say out loud.
Cancer.
And about what she said two days later when I asked her what was really going on.
She already knew.
She had known for two days.
And we had both been pretending.
This episode is also about the people who held me through it. The ones who let me fall apart without asking me to apologize for it. Who picked me up every single time without keeping score.
If you have ever carried something alone because you didn't know how to say it out loud — this one is for you.
I'll see you in there. 💙
Grace Lives Here is made from moments like this one.If your story connects to it, you’re part of it too.
You can reach me here:👉 https://secondstorystudios.org
Or email me directly at:👉 secondstorystudios.creative@gmail.com
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5 May 2026
i’m Staring Up at the Mountain, and I Just Want to Lie Down. Ep 17
This was a spur of the moment, off the cuff decision to record and just talk to you for a few minutes. I’ll be back next week with a full version and continuation of my mom’s story.
I hope you all have a great week!
This is me, being real.
And this is where Grace lives too.
Kris
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