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Podcast: Beyond the Crucible
Episode: "Horrible and Beautiful" -- Lessons from Her Husband's Cancer Battle: Karen Austin: #147
Description: Karen Austin experienced both anguish and joy as she walked with her husband, Tracy, after a cancer diagnosis that took his life, but never his optimism and spirit. In our conversation this week with Karen, she shares with intimacy, vulnerability and, yes, humor about what she describes as her “crucible life” – the early death of her mother, her brother’s suicide and the cancer that took her husband in 2017 -- two months before their 20th anniversary. From the ashes of those tragedies, she explains, she taught herself how to thrive through grief and help others do the same as a certified...