#296- One Family's Walk Through Loss with Frank Stepnowski and Sam Welch

About this episode

The episode discusses grief and loss through the lens of a family's experience and their new picture book.

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we’re going to sit with something that every one of us will face in our lives, but most of us struggle to talk about openly: grief. My guests are author and educator Frank Stepnowski and his daughter, Sam Welch. Together, they’ve created a beautiful and deeply moving picture book called Where Did Cain Go? A Family’s Walk Through Loss—a book that grew out of the death of Frank’s son and Sam’s brother, Cain, who died at just 13 days old from a congenital hea...

People in this episode

Host: Andy Vasily

Guests: Frank Stepnowski, Sam Welch

Topics covered

• grief
• loss
• family
• mental health
• education
• children's literature

Keywords

• grief
• loss
• family
• children's book
• mental health
• Frank Stepnowski
• Sam Welch
• Cain

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Where Did Cain Go? A Family’s Walk Through Loss

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