How do you keep living after experiencing the unimaginable?

For the Season 1 finale of The Road Leads Back to Me, Coral Seco sits down with Shannah Rodriguez-Torres, co-founder of Live Like Bella, for an incredibly vulnerable conversation about motherhood, childhood cancer, grief, faith, healing, and finding purpose after the loss of her daughter, Bella.

Shannah introduces us to the Bella she knew: funny, feisty, compassionate, curious, and always thinking about other people. She shares the story behind Bella’s famous Band-Aid drive, which began because Bella wanted fun Band-Aids during her own cancer treatments and ultimately resulted in thousands of boxes being donated for other children receiving care.

Shannah also opens up about the parts of grief we don’t always talk about: anxiety, guilt around experiencing happiness again, friendships that disappear, supporting a sibling through loss, and what grieving families actually need from the people around them.

Her advice? Sometimes you don’t need the perfect words. You just need to show up.

Today, Bella’s legacy lives through Live Like Bella, supporting families during cancer treatment, helping families with memorial expenses, and funding pediatric cancer research.

It feels especially fitting to close this first season with a conversation about what The Road Leads Back to Me has always been about: navigating the things that change us, finding meaning in what we’ve lived through, and discovering a way forward without pretending the past didn’t happen.

Because healing doesn’t mean forgetting. Sometimes it means learning how to carry the love forward.

💙 Thank you for joining us for Season 1 of The Road Leads Back to Me. We’ll see you in Season 2!