{"id":61851,"date":"2026-06-26T16:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=61851"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:13:47","slug":"life-unfiltered-sean-adams-and-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=61851","title":{"rendered":"LIFE Unfiltered &#8211; Sean Adams and Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Life Unfiltered - Sean Adams And Grief\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fnearfm%2Flife-unfiltered-sean-adams-and-grief%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media; fullscreen; autoplay; idle-detection; speaker-selection; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale was joined by Sean Adams, IACP-accredited psychotherapist at Summit Counselling in Swords. Sean lost his father two years ago after years of illness including throat cancer, a laryngectomy and a spinal injury that left him tetraplegic. In this conversation he reflects on the particular grief of losing a parent you didn&#8217;t always find easy and what it means to keep understanding someone after they&#8217;re gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on Michael Harding&#8217;s book I Loved Him From The Day He Died, Sean and Maria talked about layered loss and accepting parents for who they were rather than who we want them to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can find more about Sean and Summit Counselling at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summitcounselling.org\">Summit Counselling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale was joined by Sean Adams, IACP-accredited psychotherapist at Summit Counselling in Swords. Sean lost his father two years ago after years of illness including throat cancer, a laryngectomy and a spinal injury that left him tetraplegic. In this conversation he reflects on the particular grief of losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":57124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,33],"tags":[30341,15195,26438,30340,27331,30339],"class_list":["post-61851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-listenagain","tag-i-loved-him-from-the-day-he-died","tag-iacp","tag-maria-mchale","tag-michael-harding","tag-sean-adams","tag-summit-counselling-in-swords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61852,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61851\/revisions\/61852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}