What do you say when the love of your life tells you she has tumors in her lungs and spine?
In this powerful episode of The Life Shift Podcast, I sit down with author Tony Stewart to explore how one phone call changed everything. After his wife Lynn was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Tony became her caregiver for six years, experiencing love, grief, and resilience in ways he never imagined.
This conversation explores what it means to show up fully, process grief in real time, and find presence even as everything shifts. Tony shares how writing, caregiving, and eventually saying goodbye shaped him and how others might find healing, too.
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📚 Book Mentioned:
- *Carrying the Tiger* by Tony Stewart
📌 Topics Covered:
- The moment everything changed
- Caregiving through terminal illness
- Emotional suppression and vulnerability
- Saying “enough” to treatment
- Finding peace in hospice
- How grief becomes part of you
- The healing power of writing
Chapters:
00:00 - A Life Changed by One Phone Call
02:15 - How “Carrying the Tiger” Began
05:05 - Learning to Express Emotion
08:00 - Grief, Generational Silence, and Belonging
13:17 - Grieving Isn’t Linear
16:11 - The Diagnosis That Split Time
21:30 - Choosing Presence Over Panic
25:20 - Hospice and the Decision to Stop Treatment
34:56 - What Dying Taught Me About Living
42:11 - Why This Story Needed to Be Told
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