Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes: Happiness in Spite of Grief

Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes: Happiness in Spite of Grief

June 12, 2026 · 51 min

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Kim Hodous discusses her journey of finding happiness after the loss of her children and how she helps others cope with grief.

Kim Hodous Talks About Happiness in Spite of Grief Our guest today is Kim Hodous, who is with us for the third time. Kim has lost two children, tragically, and yet she is a happiness expert! She is a simply indomitable woman. First, she lost her two-year-old daughter, Chelsea, to leukemia, when Kim was a young mother, just thirty-one years old, and with four children under the age of five. And Kim had dealt pretty well with Chelsea’s death, by writing four books and spending a beautiful 15-year career as “The Happiness Speaker”, teaching companies how best to have happy employees. But she also tells us that she didn’t have the luxury of having those little children to raise in 2022, when her 29-year-old son, Rob, died of a drug overdose, because all her children were grown up by then, and out of the house, in 2022. Fortunately, though, soon after Rob died, within just a few months, Kim discovered The Grief Recovery Method. And wow, you have got to say, this is one resourceful woman! Kim got herself certified in The Grief Recovery Method, and she began to deal with her own grief by helping other mothers deal with suffering the grief of the loss of a child. Kim’s son, Rob, soon…

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