Honest conversations about life, friendship, family, loss, resilience, purpose and the choices we all make as we navigate life's blessings and bruises.
Ep.11: Palliative Care Is About Living, Not Dying: A Conversation About Hope with Dr. Adam Rapoport
In this incredibly heartfelt and inspiring episode of Still Here: Blessed and Bruised, Lynda and Jon welcome Dr. Adam Rapoport, a paediatric palliative care physician at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. With extraordinary kindness, compassion and wisdom, Dr. Rapoport challenges one of the greatest misconceptions about palliative care: It is not about dying. It is about living. He explains that palliative care is about comfort, connection, quality of life and helping child...
2 Nov 2026
Ep.10: Grief Is More Than Death: How We Learn to Live With Loss With Dr. Sara Dimerman
Loss touches all of us, often in ways we don’t expect. And while we all experience grief, we don’t always know how to talk about it or how to help those we love through it. In this heartfelt episode of Still Here: Blessed and Bruised, we sit down with Dr. Sara Dimerman, psychologist, bestselling author, and parenting and relationship expert, to explore how loss shapes us, especially in childhood. Dr. Dimerman reminds us that grief is not limited to death. We also grieve the loss of relationsh...
26 Oct 2026
Ep.9: The Power of Being Understood: From Addiction to Recovery with Jason Schwartz
What happens when the people around you think you have the perfect life, but inside, you feel completely alone? In this deeply moving and candid episode of Still Here: Blessed and Bruised, Lynda and Jon welcome 25-year-old Jason Schwartz, a trained peer support specialist, mental health and recovery advocate, and author of the blog If You’re Reading This. Jason shares his remarkable journey through childhood loneliness, devastating loss, addiction and ultimately, recovery. When Jason lost his...
15 Oct 2026
Ep.8: Why Goodbyes Are So Hard
In this episode, Lynda and Jon continue their conversation about why sameness, predictability and familiarity can feel so comforting after childhood loss. For both of them, routine is a choice. Knowing what to expect creates a sense of security and control when they learned far too young that life can change without warning. Their conversation turns to goodbyes and reveals something fascinating: the same kind of loss can leave people with completely different responses. For Jon, saying goodby...
5 Oct 2026
Ep.7: Where We Belong
In this episode, Lynda and Jon explore the powerful need to belong, to be in places where we feel known, recognized, comfortable and embraced. As they talk, they realize just how deeply this need may be connected to what they each experienced as children. Both had the rug pulled out from underneath them by profound loss, and neither had people around them who openly talked about what had happened or helped them make sense of it. Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that throughout their lives they...
30 Sept 2026
Ep. 6: Better or Bitter: The Choices That Shape Our Lives
In this episode, Lynda and Jon explore one of the most powerful things we have control over: the choices we make about how we respond to what happens to us. Life will bring challenges, disappointments and losses we never would have chosen. But we can choose whether those experiences help us grow or leave us stuck. We can become better, or we can become bitter. Lynda shares how she tried to help her father become more present after the devastating loss of his wife and two daughters, but withou...
24 Sept 2026
Ep. 5: Resilience: What Does That Really Mean?
We often hear that kids are resilient. That after loss, they’ll “bounce back.” But what does resilience really mean, and does anyone ever simply get over losing someone they love? In this episode, Lynda and Jon challenge the idea that grief follows a timeline, or that a year is somehow the magic amount of time after which life should return to normal. Often, in an effort to make grief less uncomfortable, people stop mentioning the person who died. Pictures come down. Conversations move on. Ye...
19 Sept 2026
Ep. 4: Making Space for Grief, Making Space for Joy - with Andrea Warnick
In this special episode of Still Here: Blessed and Bruised, Lynda and Jon welcome Andrea Warnick for a captivating and deeply meaningful conversation about grief, children, honesty, and the importance of keeping our relationships with those who have died alive through stories and memories. Andrea explains that while people are usually well-intentioned when responding to grief, they are often misguided. Despite growing research, awareness, and resources, she believes we are still living in a “...
17 Sept 2026
Ep. 3: If We Had Today’s Technology Back Then
In this episode, Lynda and Jon imagine how profoundly different their childhood experiences of grief might have been if today’s social media, technology, online resources and constant ability to connect had existed when they were children. For Lynda, social media might have meant feeling far less alone after the plane crash that killed her mother and two sisters. Beyond her immediate family and friends, she had no way of knowing how many people had been affected by the tragedy or how many str...
10 Sept 2026
Ep. 2: Advice We Finally Understand
Some advice stays with us from the moment we hear it. Other advice takes years and a whole lot of life experience before we finally understand what it really means. In this episode, Lynda and Jon talk about the advice they heard when they were younger: what they listened to, what they ignored, and what they had to grow into. They explore what it really means to have peace of mind, go with the flow, live in the moment, stop sweating the small stuff, and focus on what matters most. But more imp...
7 Sept 2026
Ep. 1: Why We’re Still Here - Blessed and Bruised
In the first episode of Still Here: Blessed and Bruised, lifelong friends Lynda and Jon share why these words - still here, blessed and bruised - describe their lives so perfectly. Both experienced profound loss and tragedy as children, long before they had the tools to understand what had happened or how it would shape them. They were left still here, and somehow had to figure out what came next. Now, almost 70 years later, they can look back and see both the bruises they still carry and the...
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