Season Finale | Walking Miracle: Rewriting Life After Loss and Survival Emerge & Empower Podcast TV with Dr. LinJ To close out this season of Emerge & Empower Podcast TV, Dr. LinJ sits down with Cyndee Dhalai for a deeply moving conversation on resilience, grief, survival, and rewriting one’s life after unimaginable loss. Cyndee shares her journey as a daughter, sister, teacher, wife, counselor, mother, coach, patient, widow, and now author and poet. Often described as a living, walking miracle, she reflects on a life shaped by rejection, severe illness, medical impossibilities, and profound grief, including the loss of her husband of over 33 years. In this episode, Cyndee speaks openly about defying medical odds, learning to walk again after more than a decade in a wheelchair, living without medication due to extreme allergies, and navigating grief that is neither neat nor linear. Thriough her books Pieces of Me: Touch My Soul and Grief Is the Price You Pay for Love, she reminds us that while grief is the price we pay for love, healing is possible and life can still hold beauty, meaning, and light. This season finale is a powerful reminder that while we cannot choose every chapter of our lives, we can choose how we tell the story, even rewrite it with greater truth, compassion, and purpose.

When a Father’s Heart Breaks: Greg Linkowski on Loss, Healing, and Hope In this deeply moving episode of Emerge & Empower Podcast TV, Dr. Greg Linkowski returns with a story that touches the core of every parent’s heart. Known for his resilience and transparency as a trauma survivor, Greg opens up about one of the most painful chapters of his life, the loss of his son. With raw honesty and heartfelt reflection, Greg shares: • What it means to navigate life after an unimaginable loss • How grief reshaped his understanding of fatherhood, faith, and purpose • The moments that nearly broke him, and the grace that held him together • How he learned to breathe again, hope again, and live again. This episode is not just about loss, it is about love, legacy, and the quiet strength required to survive what should have destroyed you. Greg reminds us that even in the darkest valleys, healing is possible, and that telling your story can become a lifeline for someone else. This conversation is for every parent, every grieving heart, and every person searching for meaning after devastation

Season Finale | Walking Miracle: Rewriting Life After Loss and Survival Emerge & Empower Podcast TV with Dr. LinJ To close out this season of Emerge & Empower Podcast TV, Dr. LinJ sits down with Cyndee Dhalai for a deeply moving conversation on resilience, grief, survival, and rewriting one’s life after unimaginable loss. Cyndee shares her journey as a daughter, sister, teacher, wife, counselor, mother, coach, patient, widow, and now author and poet. Often described as a living, walking miracle, she reflects on a life shaped by rejection, severe illness, medical impossibilities, and profound grief, including the loss of her husband of over 33 years. In this episode, Cyndee speaks openly about defying medical odds, learning to walk again after more than a decade in a wheelchair, living without medication due to extreme allergies, and navigating grief that is neither neat nor linear. Through her books Pieces of Me: Touch My Soul and Grief Is the Price You Pay for Love, she reminds us that while grief is the price we pay for love, healing is possible and life can still hold beauty, meaning, and light. This season finale is a powerful reminder that while we cannot choose every chapter of our lives, we can choose how we tell the story, and even rewrite it with greater truth, compassion, and purpose. 

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A quiet Christmas season took a heartfelt turn in Oregon when a young couple decided to reach out to their elderly neighbor, who spent his days sitting alone.

What If Your Childhood Shaped Everything? Stacy Schaffer on Trauma, Play, and Healing In this powerful episode of Emerge & Empower Podcast TV, Dr. LinJ sits down with Stacy Schaffer, MA, LPC, a Licensed Professional Counselor, childhood trauma survivor, and therapist with over 20 years of experience helping children, teens, and families navigate grief, trauma, and healing. Stacy brings a rare and deeply needed dual perspective: she is not only a clinician trained in trauma-informed care, Synergetic Play Therapy, and EMDR, she is also someone who has lived through childhood trauma herself. With honesty, wisdom, and compassion, Stacy explores how the childhood experiences we never talk about quietly shape our behaviors, relationships, parenting styles, and sense of safety well into adulthood. In this conversation, Dr. LinJ and Stacy discuss: - How unaddressed childhood trauma becomes generational - Why children communicate pain through behavior, not words - The healing power of play, presence, and emotional safety - The courage it takes to break family silence and tell the truth - Why therapists must do their own healing work to truly help others This episode is for parents, caregivers, educators, church leaders, counselors, and anyone who has ever wondered why certain wounds still surface years later. It is an invitation to look back with compassion, not blame, and to move forward with hope, healing, and intention.

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