Don't Forget To Breathe: A Podcast for Living after Child Loss.
Don’t Forget To Breathe is a podcast for parents living after child loss, and for those walking beside them through grief.
Hosted by bereaved parents Bruce Barker and Kristin Glenn, this show offers honest, compassionate conversations about life after child loss, long-term grief, healing, and learning how to keep living while carrying profound loss. Together, Bruce and Kristin create a space where grief does not need to be explained, and where parents can feel understood, supported, and less alone.
Originally launched in 2020, the podcast began as a form of soul-cleansing and healing, as Bruce shared his journey as a father who suddenly lost his 20-year-old daughter in 2006, a tragedy no parent should ever have to endure. After a three-year hiatus marked by deep personal transformation, including divorce, closing a business, intensive therapy, and continued healing, the podcast returns with a renewed heart and a deeper, more expansive perspective.
With Kristin joining as co-host in Season 4, the conversation widens. Drawing from decades of lived experience, Bruce and Kristin are joined by parents who bravely share their stories of grief, resilience, and life after the loss of a child. Together, they explore how grief changes over time, and how sorrow, hope, love, and even laughter can exist side by side.
The podcast also creates space for spouses, family members, friends, and anyone walking beside a bereaved parent, offering insight into the realities of grief and the power of simply showing up with compassion and presence.
You’ll hear the shift in voice, perspective, and presence, from surviving to living. Wherever you are in or around grief, this podcast offers connection, understanding, and the quiet reassurance that no one has to carry loss alone.
Don't Forget To Breathe: A Podcast for Living after Child Loss.
The song, Don’t Forget to Breathe
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Don’t Forget To Breathe
I still talk to you in empty rooms
In the silence and the Sunday afternoons
Some days I laugh
Some days I break
Some days I don’t know
What my heart can take
And everybody says that time moves on
But they don’t know a love this strong
So we carry what we cannot leave
And somehow learn to breathe
So don’t forget to breathe
When the night gets hard to see
When the world keeps moving on
And you’re still holding on
There’s a place for every tear
Every memory still here
You are not alone tonight
We’ll sit with you awhile
And don’t forget to breathe
We speak their names around this fire
Like keeping love alive is our desire
And maybe grief’s just love that stays
Long after someone slips away
So pull your chair a little near
There’s healing in the stories shared right here
No fixing words
No grand relief
Just hearts that still believe
So don’t forget to breathe
When the ache won’t let you sleep
When the quiet feels too loud
And you can’t stand in the crowd
There’s a road we didn’t choose
Still we walk it two by two
You are not alone tonight
We’ll sit with you awhile
And don’t forget to breathe
Ahhhh
Love don’t end
It just changes shape again
Ohhhh
And the ones we miss the most
Still live inside these souls
So don’t forget to breathe
Through the heartbreak and the grief
There’s a light we cannot see
Still shining quietly
And if all you do today
Is simply make it through the pain
That is more than enough tonight
You’re still here and so are we
So don’t forget
Don’t forget to breathe
Don’t forget to breathe
Don’t Forget To Breathe
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Don’t Forget To Breathe
I still talk to you in empty rooms
In the silence and the Sunday afternoons
Some days I laugh
Some days I break
Some days I don’t know
What my heart can take
And everybody says that time moves on
But they don’t know a love this strong
So we carry what we cannot leave
And somehow learn to breathe
So don’t forget to breathe
When the night gets hard to see
When the world keeps moving on
And you’re still holding on
There’s a place for every tear
Every memory still here
You are not alone tonight
We’ll sit with you awhile
And don’t forget to breathe
We speak their names around this fire
Like keeping love alive is our desire
And maybe grief’s just love that stays
Long after someone slips away
So pull your chair a little near
There’s healing in the stories shared right here
No fixing words
No grand relief
Just hearts that still believe
So don’t forget to breathe
When the ache won’t let you sleep
When the quiet feels too loud
And you can’t stand in the crowd
There’s a road we didn’t choose
Still we walk it two by two
You are not alone tonight
We’ll sit with you awhile
And don’t forget to breathe
Ahhhh
Love don’t end
It just changes shape again
Ohhhh
And the ones we miss the most
Still live inside these souls
So don’t forget to breathe
Through the heartbreak and the grief
There’s a light we cannot see
Still shining quietly
And if all you do today
Is simply make it through the pain
That is more than enough tonight
You’re still here and so are we
So don’t forget
Don’t forget to breathe
Don’t forget to breathe
Don’t Forget To Breathe
