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Serenity Rising: Healing with Cancer

Serenity Rising: Healing with Cancer

What Grief Builds When You Let It with Justin Anderson

Jul 28, 2026 · 39m

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What do you do with grief that has nowhere else to go? In this episode of Serenity Rising , Bron sits down with Justin Anderson, known to his community as J. Vaelorin, a network engineer turned dark fantasy world builder. After losing his grandmother to cancer, Justin channelled years of unspoken grief into VaelorinVerse , a fantasy universe where mental health is the magic system. This is a conversation about carrying loss forward instead of leaving it behind, and about what becomes possible when grief is finally witnessed . SHOW NOTES In this episode of Serenity Rising, Bron speaks with Justin Anderson, a network engineer from Muncie, Indiana who writes under the name J. Vaelorin. Justin…