Welcome to all there is. Wherever you are in the world or in your grief, I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad we're together. Today my guest is Robert Irwin. You may remember him from dancing with

the stars last year or remember his dad, Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter. Robert was just two when

Steve was killed by a stingray while diving. I've been thinking a lot about kids and loss

and how the death of a parent early on can completely change the trajectory of one's life.

It certainly did with me. And I worry at times about not making it to see my two little boys grow up

to be men. I think I will, but I like to talk to them a lot

about how even though my dad died when I was 10, I feel him in my heart now and how I believe he's

with me and with them and happy to see them growing up. I was really moved by an Instagram post I saw

this week from James Vanderbeek's daughter, Amelia.

She's just nine years old, and her dad died last month on February 11th.

Today is my dad's birthday, and the number one thing for somebody's passing is to talk to them and let your emotions out.

If you miss them, you can cry.

You can talk to them.

I talk to my dad every day.

And I start with a sentence and I say, hi, dad, I miss you and I love you so

much and I'll never stop loving you. And I just tell him about my day how I'm feeling. And I tell my family how I'm feeling. And I'm feeling and I tell my family how I'm feeling and I know he can hear me but I can't

hear him my mom can and you just you have to feel them in your heart because they're in your

heart they're watching over you.

There's no way when I was that age I could have said something like that so soon after my dad's death. Years before my childhood nanny, Mae McClinten, died after suffering from Alzheimer's,

she told me about something I said to her just days after my dad's funeral when I was 10.

I was hugging her and I said,

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