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News & Views

My conversation with Gloria Steinem about HEARTWOOD:

My conversation with Albert Flynn DeSilver

NBC-WNDU-TV Author Barbara Becker – One Book, One Michiana

Katie Couric Media: Barbara Becker opens up about her book Heartwood, which many call a life-changing read

Kirkus Review: A graceful meditation on divine deliverance.

Publishers Weekly talks with Barbara Becker: Whatever Comes

Publishers Weekly Starred Review: Barbara Becker’s Heartwood

USA Today Network:  Two authors, in two 9/11 books, search for meaning in the Twin Towers

Spirituality & Health: Can Trees Help Us Face Mortality? Barbara Becker Shares on Living Mindfully with the End in Mind

Tricycle Magazine: Accepting Death to Live More Fully

Tricycle Magazine: Honoring the Water Children

Shelf-Awareness Review: An invaluable resource in living a life filled with meaning

The Lion’s Roar Review: Life, Loss, and Connection

When you have breast cancer surgery on the day your first book is published: Medium

Navigating Life’s 10,000 Joys and 10,000 Sorrows NextAvenue PBS

The Day My Father Asked If It Was Time to Let Go:  Mom’s Don’t Have Time to Write

Letting Go of Silence in the Wake of Miscarriage:  Literary Hub

The Silence of Miscarriage at Work:  Working Mother

Memento Mori: Musings on Death and Life:  Haverford Magazine

Palm Beach Daily News Summer Reading List:  Barbara Becker’s Heartwood

Living and Working More Boldly, with the End in Mind:  Interview with Katya Andresen

Community Television for the Southern Berkshires: Living with the End in Mind

Alzheimer’s Today, Featured Book (p 13)

Book Review,  The American Thanatologist:  Heartwood

Thrive Global: 5 Things You Need to Heal after a Dramatic Loss or Life Change

Book Review,  Dead Good Reading:  Heartwood

UU World Unitarian Universalists Embrace Eco-Friendly Funeral Options

Book Critic Caroline Leavitt Speaks with Barbara Becker:  Heartwood

Seniority Magazine: 4 Ways to Find that Holiday Feeling Wherever You Are

SAMPLE of PODCASTS, RADIO & TV

Public Radio, Studio Tulsa (encore):  Barbara Becker Here & Now

Public Radio, The Jefferson Exchange Heartwood: Living Fully with an Eye on Death

Alaska Public Radio, Your Health Connection Heartwood: Living with the End in Mind

Podcast Tricycle’s Life as it Is:  Barbara Becker with Sharon Salzberg

Podcast Exit Interview:  Barbara Becker of Heartwood

Podcast Raging Gracefully:  Barbara Becker with Nina Collins

Podcast Harvesting Happiness:  Meaning-Making with Barbara Becker and Lisa Cypers Kamen

Mind Body Spirit FM: Barbara Becker with Kari O’Driscoll

KUCI 88.9FM Barbara Becker of Heartwood

Podcast Your Superior Self: Barbara Becker and Trey Downes

Podcast Writing 4 Your Life: Barbara Becker’s Heartwood

Podcast Let’s Talk Death: Barbara Becker author

Podcast Be: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

Podcast Maybe Magic: Author Roundtable

Podcast End of Life University: Heartwood, Barbara Becker

Blog Talk Radio Feisty Side of Fifty: Barbara Becker

MIAMI BOOK FAIR & and other event recordings here

My conversation with Krishna Das on spiritual life and service:

iHeart Radio program on interfaith families: 

The Swastika in our Neighborhood:

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