Life With Grief Podcast | Grief Support Podcast

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  232. Navigating Trauma, Burnout, and the Nervous System of Grief with Korie Leigh, PhD 23.07.2026 1h 1min

  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 29min

  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 52min

  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 14min

  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 51min

  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 45min

  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 16min

  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 50min

  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 26min

  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...
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  224. Navigating Father Loss: Grief, Identity & Rebuilding Your Life with Liz Quinn and Nicci Scimone 15.06.2026 1h 23min

  Drop me a message or voice note! Losing a dad changes everything, and no one talks about the full picture of what that actually looks like. In this special episode in honor of Father's Dat, I'm joined by two incredible women who get it: Liz Quinn, host of the Healing Hearts podcast, and Nicci Scimone, certified grief coach. Together, we open up about losing our dads, the ripple effects that followed, and what it really means to rebuild your life after father loss—especially when you're also n...
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  223. 11 Years at a Trauma Center: A Hospital Chaplain's Guide to Grief, Death, and Living with J.S. Park 11.06.2026 1h 6min

  Drop me a message or voice note! What happens when the person who holds space for the dying suddenly becomes the one who needs to be held? I sat down with J.S. Park, hospital chaplain of 11 years at a Level 1 trauma center, for one of the most profound conversations I've ever had on this podcast. And before we even hit record, life had already handed us a plot twist: our original recording date had to be pushed because J.S.'s own mother was struck by a drunk driver and became a trauma...
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  222. Divorce, Disenfranchised Grief, and Finding Yourself Again with Jess Prudhomme 04.06.2026 1h

  Drop me a message or voice note! Have you ever grieved someone who's still alive? Or lost yourself so completely inside a relationship that when it ended, you didn't even know who you were anymore? In this episode, I'm sitting down with the incredible Jess Prudhomme—podcaster and host of The Great Detour—to talk about one of the most misunderstood forms of grief out there: divorce grief and identity loss. Jess married her high school sweetheart at 17. By 35, her marriage was over—and so was...
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  221. The Fear of Forgetting Our Loved Ones: Navigating Grief and Our Memory 01.06.2026 34min

  Drop me a message or voice note! Have you ever woken up and panicked because you couldn't quite remember the sound of your loved one's voice, or the exact way they laughed? That quiet, creeping fear of forgetting is one of the most common and least talked-about experiences in grief. And if you've felt it, you are so not alone... and you are absolutely not failing them. Six years out from losing both of my parents I'm still navigating this fear myself, and today I'm sitting with you in ...
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  220. Twin Loss, Father Loss, Divorce, and the Power of Forgiveness with Robin Ducharme 28.05.2026 57min

  Drop me a message or voice note! What happens when grief keeps finding you in different forms, at different stages of life? In this episode, I'm joined by Robin Ducharme, author and founder of Real Love Ready, for a truly honest and vulnerable conversation. Robin shares the story of losing her twin brother Reese suddenly to a heart attack in 2012, and the profound, beautiful experience she had with his spirit that same night. She also opens up about losing her father just weeks after ...
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  219. Suicide Grief, Self-Blame, and the Mindset Shift That Changes Everything with Toni Filipone 21.05.2026 54min

  Drop me a message or voice note! What happens when the grief you're carrying is the kind most people don't know how to talk about? Toni Filipone knows, and she's here to walk you through it. I'm sitting down with Toni Filipone, an international, multi-certified grief expert, author, speaker, and the founder of MasterGrief, a global platform helping people heal after loss all over the world. With over 30 years of experience in personal development alongside leaders like Tony Robbins, Toni has...
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  218. What Kind of Griever Are You? Understanding Your Grief Style and Why It Matters 18.05.2026 28min

  Drop me a message or voice note! In this episode, I'm diving into one of my favorite topics—grieving styles—and why understanding yours can be such a powerful part of your healing journey. Because here's what I want you to know before we even get started: there is no right way to grieve. There is only your way. I'm pulling from real research here, specifically the work of psychologists Terry Martin and Kenneth Doka, who identified a spectrum of grieving styles that explains so much about why...
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  217. Navigating Suicide Loss: How One Mom Turned Losing Her Son into Purpose with Erin Blechman 14.05.2026 52min

  Drop me a message or voice note! When grief becomes the very thing that leads you to help others heal, that's when loss truly starts to become a gain. In this episode, I'm sitting down with Erin Blechman—mom, certified grief educator, and suicide loss survivor—for a conversation that is raw, real, and so deeply needed. Erin shares the story of her son Max, a wildly creative, deeply sensitive, and brilliantly funny young man who lived with medication-resistant depression and epilepsy, and who...
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  216. Mother's Day Without Your Mom: An Conversation About Grief, Healing & Moving Through It 06.05.2026 1h 2min

  Drop me a message or voice note! Mother's Day can be one of the most painful days of the year when you're missing your mom. And if you're dreading it, this episode is for you. In this special panel episode of the Life With Grief Podcast, I'm joined by three incredible women—Liz Quinn, Sara Rian, and Chelsea Ohlemiller—for an honest, heartfelt conversation about what it's really like to grieve your mother, navigate Mother's Day without her, and find your way forward without losing the love yo...
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  215. Podcast Update! + The Sacred Pause: Giving Yourself Permission to Pivot After Loss 04.05.2026 53min

  Drop me a message or voice note! Have you ever found yourself doing all the things, showing up, checking the boxes, keeping the pace, but quietly wondering if something needs to give? If you've been feeling that pull to pause, pivot, or finally make room for the thing that's been calling to you... this episode is for you. This week, I'm getting really real with you. I'm sharing a personal update about Mourning Sips & Soul Shifts—and more importantly, the why behind it. Because the honest...
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  214. Is Your Grief a Spiritual Awakening? Signs, Spirit Guides & Trusting Your Intuition with Jessica Rachel 30.04.2026 57min

  Drop me a message or voice note! Have you ever felt like loss cracked something open in you, like it changed not just your heart, but the way you see the world? You're not imagining it. I'm sitting down with Jessica Rachel, spiritual medium and intuitive coach, to talk about exactly that. Because here's what I'm learning more and more: grief has a way of awakening us. And your intuition? It's been there all along, just waiting for you to tune in. In this episode, Jessica and I dig into: ✨ ...