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The Mike Litton Experience

Surviving the Unthinkable: Kim Cantin’s Journey from Tragedy to Triumph

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

Careers, Kids & Family, Business, Parenting

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What does it take to keep going after unimaginable loss? In this deeply moving episode of The Mike Litton Experience, Mike sits down with Kim Cantin — award-winning author of Where Yellow Flowers Bloom — to talk about love, loss, survival, and hope in the face of devastating tragedy. Kim’s story is one of extraordinary […]

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0:00.0

She was pushing on the walls of her entoment, right?

0:02.7

And it wouldn't budge.

0:04.0

Then she'd hear people walk by and she'd scream and they knew she couldn't, they couldn't hear her.

0:08.0

What torture is that?

0:09.4

What torture is that?

0:11.4

Can I even imagine.

0:13.1

Yeah.

0:14.0

I mean, her rescue was shown around the world.

0:16.1

I'm the poster child of bad things happen, you know.

0:20.0

Husband killed, son killed and missing, daughter

0:23.0

buried alive, dog dead, house and all contents totally obliterated and me severely injured.

0:29.2

That was a pretty, pretty startling jolt to my day-to-day life. One characteristic in common

0:35.9

is they adapt. They adapt to their situation. So

0:40.2

I had to adapt into my new reality from wife to widow, from co-parenting with my fabulous husband to

0:52.7

a single parent, from working to, to injured to work, right?

0:57.7

So I had to adapt into the new.

1:03.1

And adapting is being open and vulnerable to the help.

1:08.0

And people will show up and ask, raise your hand saying, I'm just going through

1:11.8

this. And the pile where they found some of my son's remains, it was graced with beautiful

1:17.4

yellow wildflowers. And the students clipped them and brought them to my house. And they said,

1:24.6

they put them in a vase and they said, life found away. And I said,

1:28.5

Love found away. Did you know there's a technology that's actually an app on your phone that

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