Life With Grief Podcast | Grief Support Podcast

Episodios

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  243. A Mother's Love and an Impossible Choice: Rosanna Brown on TFMR 17.09.2026 52m

  Drop me a message or voice note! What do you do when loving your baby means having to say goodbye to him before he's even born? In this episode I sit down with Rosanna Brown, who takes us inside one of the most misunderstood and least-talked-about kinds of loss there is: TFMR, termination for medical reasons. At her 20-week scan, Rosanna and her husband learned their son William had a condition that meant he would never survive outside the womb, and in the space of 24 hours, they were faced ...
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  242. 25 Years Later: A 9/11 Widow on Rebuilding Her Life with Tara Bane 10.09.2026 44m

  Drop me a message or voice note! Twenty-five years ago, Tara Bane's husband Michael kissed her goodbye, walked out the door, and never came home. He was working on the 100th floor of the North Tower on September 11, 2001. In this episode, Tara opens up about that day, the years of grief that followed, and how she eventually rebuilt a life she's proud of, including surviving the sudden loss of her mother just six years later, at only 19 years old. We talk about what it's really like to grieve...
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  241. Why Some Relationships Don't Survive Loss 07.09.2026 21m

  Drop me a message or voice note! Have you ever looked at a relationship that used to feel like home and suddenly felt like you were speaking a different language? That disorienting shift is something I hear about constantly from my clients, and it's something I lived through myself in the years after losing my parents. In this episode, I'm talking about outgrowing relationships after loss. That strange, often guilt-inducing experience of growing and evolving so much through grief that some r...
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  240. Losing a Son, Complicated Grief, and Learning to Live Again with Teresa Davis 03.09.2026 59m

  Drop me a message or voice note! There's a specific kind of grief that comes from losing a child. It's out of order, it defies everything we think we understand about life, and it changes you in ways that are almost impossible to put into words. In this episode, I sit down with Teresa Davis—grief mentor, author, registered nurse, and host of The Grief Mentor Podcast—to talk about the loss of her son Andrew, a corporate pilot who died in a plane crash in 2018 at just 32 years old. Teresa do...
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  239. Father Loss & Divorce: Finding Yourself Again After Compounded Loss with Emilie Eiden 27.08.2026 57m

  Drop me a message or voice note! I don't think I've had a conversation on this podcast that captures the sheer whiplash of compounded loss quite like this one. My guest today is Emilie Eiden—flight attendant, grief and trauma-informed coach, and the heart behind the Instagram community Emily in Transit—and her story is one of those that reminds you grief doesn't wait its turn. Emilie spent most of her twenties caring for her father as he lived with multiple sclerosis and cancer, watching him...
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  238. Becoming the Most Magnetic Person You Know After Loss 24.08.2026 28m

  Drop me a message or voice note! Can grief actually make you more magnetic? I know that might sound like a strange question—maybe even a little "woo woo"—but stick with me on this one. This episode was sparked by an afternoon walk with my daughter, an episode of Sahara Rose's Higher Self podcast, and my word of the year: magnetic. As I listened to her talk about what makes a person magnetic—present, authentic, unbothered by the small stuff—I couldn't stop thinking about how much of that we, ...
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  237. Sara Rian on Losing Her Mother to Suicide, Navigating Anger, and Finding Solace in Poetry 20.08.2026 56m

  Drop me a message or voice note! I sit down with poet, therapist, and author Sara Rian to talk about the day her world changed. Sara's mom, Susan, died by suicide in July 2018 when Sara was just 28, and this conversation goes straight into the parts of grief after suicide loss that so many of us are afraid to say out loud. We talk about what it's really like in those first immobilizing weeks. The police calls, the organ donation decision, planning a funeral while still in shock, and more. ...
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  236. The Courage and Permission to Explore After Loss: A Guided Meditation 10.08.2026 11m

  Drop me a message or voice note! This week's episode is a little different! Instead of my usual conversation, I'm leaving you with something to hold onto while I'm away. I'm off exploring Sicily with my husband and daughter, and it got me thinking about how loaded it can feel to want new experiences after loss—especially places or plans you once imagined sharing with the person you lost. So instead of a regular episode, I recorded a quick guided meditation on giving yourself permission to ex...
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  235. Using Greek Mythology to Heal Grief, Trauma, and Core Negative Beliefs with Dr. Gillian O'Shea Brown 06.08.2026 1h

  Drop me a message or voice note! I don't think I've ever had a conversation on this podcast quite like this one. Today I'm sitting down with Dr. Gillian O'Shea Brown, a psychotherapist, trauma specialist, and author who has found the most fascinating way to make trauma and grief work accessible: through Greek mythology. Gillian grew up in Ireland where emotions were something to be feared, not felt (hello, banshee folklore). That background shaped her belief that "the opposite of depression ...
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  234. The Shame Spiral: Why We Can Feel Behind In Grief 03.08.2026 28m

  Drop me a message or voice note! In today's episode of Mourning Sips and Soul Shifts, I'm talking about something I don't think gets named enough in grief: the shame spiral. That heavy feeling of watching everyone around you move forward—working, laughing, planning vacations—while you're still carrying the weight of your loss. If you've ever asked yourself "why am I not further along by now?", this episode is for you. We dig into: ✨ Why grief comes with a hidden layer of shame, and why that ...
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  233. What Men's Grief Really Looks Like: Roger Nairn on Father Loss, Guilt, and Letting Go of the Mask 30.07.2026 1h

  Drop me a message or voice note! Losing a parent changes you, but losing a parent as a man when you've been taught your whole life to keep it together? That's a different kind of grief. In this episode, I sit down with Roger Nairn, co-host of the Dead Dads Podcast, to talk about his father's death from cancer, his choice to pursue Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada, and what it's really like to grieve as a son when you weren't given the tools to feel your feelings. Roger opens up a...
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  232. Navigating Trauma, Burnout, and the Nervous System of Grief with Korie Leigh, PhD 23.07.2026 1h 1m

  Drop me a message or voice note! I first connected with Korie Leigh at GriefTastic and I knew I had to get her on the podcast, because we don't talk nearly enough about what it actually looks like to build grief-informed spaces, especially in the workplace. Korie's background is truly incredible. She started as a child life specialist in pediatric hospitals before going on to get her master's in thanatology and her PhD in transpersonal psychology. In this conversation, she opens up about how...
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  231. How to Navigate Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop After Loss 20.07.2026 29m

  Drop me a message or voice note! Why does happiness feel scary after you've lost someone? If you've ever caught yourself waiting for the other shoe to drop right in the middle of a genuinely good moment, this episode is for you. I'm unpacking why joy can feel unsafe after loss—especially after compounding or back-to-back losses—and what to actually do about it. I lost my mom and dad within six months of each other, both to cancer, and less than a year later I lost my 19-year-old dog, Princes...
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  230. Life After Diagnosis: Amanda Lentz on Grief, Identity, and Rebuilding After Cancer 16.07.2026 52m

  Drop me a message or voice note! In this episode I sit down with Amanda Lentz, host of Who We Become: Life Beyond Change, to talk about something we don't say out loud enough: that surviving a life-threatening illness comes with its own kind of grief. Amanda found out she was BRCA-positive at 28. She felt a lump in 2020, and at 34 (in the middle of COVID), she was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. In this conversation, she takes us through six months of chemo, a double mastectomy...
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  BONUS! Introducing Letters of Light: Monthly Grief Support Born From Loss, Nostalgia & My Dad's Letters 13.07.2026 14m

  Drop me a message or voice note! Surprise! I'm popping in with a bonus episode, and I am SO excited about it! 🥹 Today I'm officially introducing you to something I've been quietly working on for months and cannot wait to get into your mailbox. It's called Letters of Light, and it's a monthly letter set created specifically for grievers. And in this quick bonus episode, I'm walking you through everything. The story behind it, the why, and exactly what you'll find inside every single envelope....
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  229. From Sudden Mom Loss to Good Mourning: Sally Douglas on Grieving and Building a Life After Loss 09.07.2026 51m

  Drop me a message or voice note! Sally's mum Rose died suddenly in November 2019 from a prolonged seizure. No warning, no goodbye, just a 6am phone call that flipped her world upside down. She and her now co-host, Imogen, met at a support group for motherless daughters and turned their shared grief into Good Mourning, a podcast built on honesty, humor, and refusing to make grief feel taboo. In this episode, we get into: ✨ Sally's story of sudden loss and how she and Imogen built Good Mournin...
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  228. Why Grief Hurts: How Loss Shows Up in Your Body 06.07.2026 45m

  Drop me a message or voice note! Have you ever been deep in grief and wondered: why does my chest actually hurt? Why can't I sleep no matter how exhausted I am? Why do I feel like I'm getting sick all the time? If that's you, this episode is for you. In this episode, I'm breaking down how grief shows up physically in the body and, more importantly, why it happens. Drawing from Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor's book The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing, I walk...
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  227. Life Beyond Grief: A Reimagine Panel Conversation on Grief, Post-Traumatic Growth, and Reclaiming Joy 02.07.2026 1h 16m

  Drop me a message or voice note! What happens after the heaviest part of grief begins to lift and how do you actually start to feel alive again without feeling guilty about it? In this special episode, I had the honor of joining four incredible women for a Reimagine roundtable panel on life beyond deep grief. Together, we explored what it really looks like to move from surviving loss to slowly, imperfectly re-engaging with life—not by "moving on," but by holding both the sorrow and the joy a...
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  226. Navigating Widowhood, Sudden Loss, and Brain Fog with Heidi Dunstan 25.06.2026 50m

  Drop me a message or voice note! I'm sitting down with Grief Educator Heidi Dunstan, who lost her husband Mike unexpectedly to a heart attack in 2018—the day before her 40th birthday, after she performed CPR trying to save him. We talk about what early grief actually feels like (numbness, brain fog, trauma) and what it took to feel steady again. In this episode, we cover: ✨ Why the first 3-4 months are often the hardest, and what shifted for Heidi around the 18-month mark ✨ The brain fog of ...
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  225. Navigating the Messy Middle of Grief Between Heartbreak and Healing 16.06.2026 26m

  Drop me a message or voice note! If you're past the early, gut-punch stage of grief but nowhere near "healed", you might be living in what I call the messy middle. And it's one of the most disorienting, confusing, and misunderstood seasons of the entire grief journey. Let's talk about that in-between season where the shock has worn off, you're functioning, you're showing up, but something still feels off and you're not quite sure who you are anymore. It's confusing, it's uncomfortable, and n...