The Adapted Life

About The Adapted Life

I’m Julie Hasselberger. For 26 years, I was the full-time caregiver for my beloved son Daniel, whose life was marked by profound disability and extraordinary beauty. This podcast began as a way to support other parents navigating the complex, often isolating world of special needs caregiving. But life changed — heartbreakingly and irrevocably — when my son passed away. Now, The Adapted Life, Finding Next is a space for truth-telling, tenderness, and transformation. It’s about what comes after the role that once defined you is gone. It’s about grief, relational trauma, resilience, and the raw, ongoing search for next — for purpose, healing, and connection. If you’re facing a season of reckoning, rebuilding, or rediscovery, I invite you to walk with me. You are not alone. This is the adapted life… and together, we’ll find what comes next.

Publisher

Julie Hasselberger

Category

business · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Jun 2021

Latest episode

17 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

46 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Jul 2026

   Season 5 Episode 45

   Send me a Text Message Episode 45: What Happens When You Can’t Feel Your Own Energy? Finding Your Way Back to the Place Where Life Flows Again Have you ever felt like you’ve lost access to yourself? Not because you’ve stopped caring. Not because you’ve lost your dreams. But because somewhere between trauma, grief, ADHD, caregiving, chronic stress, and simply being human, your energy became scattered. In this deeply personal episode of The Adapted Life: Finding Next, Julie shares the honest r...

2. 

   4 Jun 2026

   Trusting your energy, Listening to inner knowing

   Send me a Text Message Episode 44: Trusting Your Energy Learning to Listen to Your Inner Knowing Episode Description Have you ever had a feeling that something wasn't quite right—but talked yourself out of it? Or sensed that a new direction was calling you—but doubted yourself because you couldn't explain why? In this episode, we're exploring what it means to trust your energy. Not blindly. Not perfectly. But with curiosity, discernment, and compassion. Our energy is constantly communicating ...

3. 

   28 May 2026

   Protect your energy, boundaries and self-love

   Send me a Text Message Season 5 • Episode 43 Protecting Your Energy The Adapted Life: Finding Next In this episode of The Adapted Life: Finding Next, Julie explores the quiet but necessary practice of protecting your energy — especially after loss, caregiving, burnout, betrayal, trauma, or seasons of deep emotional exhaustion. As part of the Season 5 theme, Tending to the Energy, this conversation reflects on what happens when we become more aware of where our energy is going… and realize t...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

8,222,581

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

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Quality

50

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

60

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