How To Deal With Grief and Trauma

Episodes

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  Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day: How to Build Real Support for Grieving Families | 207 14.10.2026 31m

  Send us Fan Mail Today, 15 October, is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. In this episode I move beyond what to say and focus on how to build support around a grieving family, and how to keep it going over time. For grieving parents, I share practical questions to help you find the right support for yourself, ways to support each other as a couple when you grieve differently, and how to include and protect your other children. For grandparents, aunts and uncles, I introduce the Circle...
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  Breast Cancer Awareness Month: The Hidden Grief and Trauma of Breast Cancer | 206 09.10.2026 32m

  Send us Fan Mail October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and most of what we see is about early detection and survival. Both matter. But there is a side of breast cancer that rarely makes it onto a poster: the grief and the trauma. The losses that happen long before, and very often without, any death. The fear that stays in the body after treatment ends. And the quiet exhaustion of the people standing beside someone who is ill. In this episode, I map out how many people are affected worldwi...
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  Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month: Dos and Don'ts for Bereaved Parents and Supporters | 205 01.10.2026 21m

  Send us Fan Mail 31 Days PAIL Companion: Start here October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and on 15 October, families worldwide light a candle at 7 pm for the International Wave of Light. In this episode, I look at where this month came from, why pregnancy and infant loss remains one of the most silenced losses, and what both grieving parents and their supporters can do differently. I bring together the 2025 Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness mini-series (episodes 142 to 157)...
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  The Questions We Ask About Memory After Grief and Trauma | 204 23.09.2026 26m

  Send us Fan Mail Grief and trauma both change how memory works, and almost everyone going through either one ends up asking the same handful of questions. In this episode, we go through eleven of the most common ones: five about what trauma does to memory of the event itself, and six about what grief does to memory of the person who died. For each one, we look at what the research and clinical literature say is happening, so the goal isn't to explain the pain away, but to show these are docum...
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  Grief, Shame, and the Soul's Work: A Conversation with Francis Weller Part 2 | 203 17.09.2026 30m

  Send us Fan Mail This is Part 2 of the Conversation with Francis Weller. If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, start here. There are voices in the grief world that stop you in your tracks — not because they are loud, but because they carry something true. Francis Weller is one of those voices. I have followed his work for some time, moved by the depth of his writing and the rare quality of his presence, and I have long wanted to bring him into this conversation. Today, that moment has arrive...
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  Grief, Shame, and the Soul's Work: A Conversation with Francis Weller Part 1 | 202 11.09.2026 39m

  Send us Fan Mail There are voices in the grief world that stop you in your tracks — not because they are loud, but because they carry something true. Francis Weller is one of those voices. I have followed his work for some time, moved by the depth of his writing and the rare quality of his presence, and I have long wanted to bring him into this conversation. Today, that moment has arrived, and I am genuinely looking forward to what we will explore together. Francis brings to this work somethi...
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  Grief and Time: What 15 Years Taught Me About Loss vs. Grieving | 201 03.09.2026 51m

  Send us Fan Mail This episode is different. Instead of sitting across from a guest, I am the one in the chair. Fifteen years ago, my daughter Amaya was born at 34 weeks and 5 days — about five weeks early — alongside her identical twin sister, and died two days later after we made the hardest decision of our lives. In this solo episode, recorded on the anniversary itself, I walk you through that week in the NICU — and then through what fifteen years of time has, and hasn't, done to my grief. ...
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  Grief and Trauma Podcast: 4-Year Anniversary Edition | 200 21.06.2026 17m

  Send us Fan Mail On the 21st of June 2026, this podcast turns four years old. In this anniversary episode, I step away from the interview format to speak directly to the people who have made this show what it is: the guests who gave their time and their honesty, and the listeners who showed up week after week — in the hardest seasons of their lives — and kept listening. This episode is a thank-you, a reflection, and a request. I talk about what four years of conversations about grief and trau...
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  Loss and What Death Cannot Take: Love After Loss with Turiya Hanover | 199 18.06.2026 13m

  Send us Fan Mail In this final mini-series episode, I reveal and revisit number one — the most listened-to episode in the podcast’s history: my conversation with Turiya Hanover on the loss of significant partners in life. Turiya is the co-founder of Path Retreats and the Path of Love process, a therapist and course leader with over five decades of experience. In Episode 4, she speaks from inside fresh grief — the recent loss of her beloved partner Maja — while also bringing the hard-won wisdo...
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  How Healing Is Possible After Loss with Rachel Tennpenny Crawford | 198 16.06.2026 9m

  Send us Fan Mail In this mini-series episode, I revisit number two in the top ten most listened-to episodes: Episode 1 — the very first conversation I ever recorded for this podcast — with Rachel Tenpenny on why and how healing is possible after loss. Rachel’s twin daughters, Aubrey and Ellie, were born in 2008 and died a few days after their birth. In the years that followed, she made a promise to them: to learn how to heal after loss and share what she learned. She is a grief expert, emotio...
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  Grief and the Nervous System: Polyvagal Theory for Loss with Deb Dana | 197 14.06.2026 10m

  Send us Fan Mail In this mini-series episode, I revisit number three in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my conversation with Deb Dana, clinician, consultant, author, and the world’s leading translator of Polyvagal Theory — on loss, the nervous system, and what it means to trust your body through grief. Deb brings both her professional expertise and something deeply personal to this conversation: the recent death of her husband Bob, and her own experience of navigating grief through the...
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  Grief: The Essential Questions Everyone Asks with Meghan R Jarvis | 196 12.06.2026 9m

  Send us Fan Mail In this mini series episode, I revisit number four in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my third conversation with Meghan Riordan Jarvis — psychotherapist, podcast host, TEDx speaker, and author — on the essential questions about grief, loss and trauma. Meghan joins me for the third time, and this conversation goes deepest. We explore the intersection of grief and trauma, what neuroscience and bioscience tell us about what grief actually does to the body and brain, and t...
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  Grief and Conscious Communication: Meeting Your Pain with James Fish Gill | 195 10.06.2026 8m

  Send us Fan Mail In this mini-series episode, I revisit number five in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my double-episode conversation with James Fish Gill — heart coach, yoga teacher, and transformational facilitator from Australia — on bringing loving awareness to pain, grief, and longing. Fish introduces the concept of conscious communication and applies it to grief: rather than dismissing, fixing, or minimising pain, what if we simply witnessed it — with honesty, with love, and with...
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  Trauma Resolved in One Session: Is It Really Possible? with Laney Rosenzweig | 194 08.06.2026 9m

  Send us Fan Mail In this mini-series episode, I revisit number six in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my conversation with Laney Rosenzweig, the developer of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) — an evidence-based, eye movement therapy that can resolve the symptoms of PTSD, grief, depression, anxiety, and more, often in just one to three sessions. Laney is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over three decades of experience and the founder of the Rosenzweig Center for Rapid ...
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  Grief, Trauma, Essence and Safety with Turiya Hanover | 193 06.06.2026 9m

  Send us Fan Mail In this mini-series episode, I revisit number seven in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my third conversation with Turiya Hanover — co-founder of Path Retreats and the Path of Love process, therapist, and grief survivor — on the deep connection between grief, trauma, essence, connection, and safety. Turiya first appeared on this podcast in Episode 4, which became one of the most downloaded episodes in the show’s history. In Episode 64, we go furthest: into what grief do...
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  Grief After a Revenge Suicide: Surviving a Difficult Loss with Shavaun Scott | 192 04.06.2026 9m

  Send us Fan Mail Content note: This episode discusses suicide, intimate partner abuse, and traumatic loss. In this mini-series episode, I revisit number eight in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my conversation with Shavaun Scott, a psychotherapist and author who shares the story of her husband’s revenge suicide — an act carried out on the very day she asked for a divorce, after 17 years in an abusive relationship. Shavaun brings nearly 35 years of clinical experience and 20 years of pe...
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  How Long Does Grief Last? The Question Everyone Asks with David Kessler | 191 02.06.2026 9m

  Send us Fan Mail In this mini-series episode, I revisit number nine in the top ten most listened-to episodes of this podcast: my conversation with David Kessler on the question that almost every grieving person asks — how long does grief last? David Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on grief and loss, the author of six books, including Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, and the founder of grief.com. He co-authored two books with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and his work has rea...
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  Grieving Someone Still Alive: Ambiguous Loss and Grief with Stephanie Sarazin | 190 31.05.2026 9m

  Send us Fan Mail In this mini-series episode, I revisit one of the top ten most listened-to episodes of the podcast: my conversation with Stephanie Sarazin on Ambiguous Grief — the grief that arises from losing someone who is still alive. Stephanie is a writer, researcher, and ambiguous grief guide, and the author of Soulbroken: A Guidebook For Your Journey Through Ambiguous Grief, winner of the 2023 Nautilus Books Gold Award. She shares how her own mid-life trauma led her to define ambiguous...
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  Grief and Trauma Podcast: Top 10 Episodes Countdown | S19 Trailer 25.05.2026 5m

  Send us Fan Mail This podcast turns four years old on the 21st of June 2026. To mark the anniversary, I am counting down the ten most listened-to episodes in the show’s history — one mini episode at a time. In this trailer, I introduce the full countdown and share what to expect from the mini series. Guests include David Kessler, Deb Dana, Meghan Riordan Jarvis, and more. The countdown starts now. Full episode archive: nathaliehimmelrich.com/episode-overview-latest-episode-first/ If this podc...
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  What a Death Doula Knows About Grief (Part 2) with Sierra Campbell | 189 13.05.2026 38m

  Send us Fan Mail This is the second of a two-part episode. Check out part 1: 188 What a Death Doula Knows About Grief That Most of Us Don't (1/2) | Sierra Campbell What does someone who has spent more than three decades sitting with the dying actually know about grief, and what can that teach the rest of us about living? Today's guest is an elder caregiver, end-of-life doula, and founder of a leading end-of-life education platform. She began working in care at sixteen, opened her own home car...