Send us a text Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Keem Fares, the mother of Karina, a spirited intelligent young gymnast, who died in a freak accident when she was 12 years old. In our conversation, we draw the connection from early grief to when we worked on the book Surviving My First Year of Child Loss in 2017 to now, 8 years after Karina’s death. I can highly recommend listening to this episode with Keem because she so beautifully describes how grief has affected her life, her relationsh...
Jan 30, 2023•42 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Send us a text Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Jessica Zucker who is widely known on social media due to the movement she started in response to her miscarriage. She openly talks about her 16-week miscarriage and the more recent trauma of her journey with breast cancer. Similarly to Jessica’s intent with her #IHadaMiscarriage movement, this podcast is encouraging people to speak about the trauma they have endured and the grief they are dealing with. Having chosen that path herself, Jessic...
Dec 19, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Send us a text Today on the podcast I have the honour to dive deep into loss and trauma with Rachelle Spencer, who I’ve known since 2016. She has experienced multiple miscarriages and an abusive, toxic relationship. Rachelle is proud of who she has become not because but despite of her grief and trauma. Rachelle found the support of a therapist instrumental in her healing and in making healthy decisions: ‘I know you mentioned therapist, but that was hugely instrumental for me to have a safe plac...
Dec 12, 2022•41 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Send us a text Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Brooke whose story could be one that movies are made of. She has experienced loss after loss culminating in a series of devastating and traumatic losses within the past 12 months. Listening to Brooke telling her life story is both devastating and shocking, at the same time as hope-inspiring in the way she’s living her life after loss with fierce resilience at the same time as grieving. She speaks candidly about the dark places she went throug...
Dec 05, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Send us a text Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Sharna who I’ve come to appreciate as a force for change in regard to the support offered to women in dealing with their pregnancy loss, a passion we have in common. Talking about her missed miscarriage Sharna shares: ‘…never experienced contractions before so I didn’t know that's what I was experiencing until I got to the hospital until they told me then what was going on. They also told me that one in four pregnancies ends in loss and I was...
Nov 28, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Send us a text Today on the podcast I have the pleasure to delve deeper with Katja Faber, who has been a guest on the Podcast in Season 1. If you haven’t already, go check out her episode which has been one of most downloaded and listener showed a clear interest to know more. Among other things, today Katja and I speak about the important topic of victim blaming and defamation, the changes in personality due to dealing with such a traumatic loss and the loss of innocence. Katja shares: ‘I cannot...
Nov 21, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Send us a text Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Joy, who I've known since 2015 as part of the May We All Heal community. This community was born out of a group of women from the Grieving Parents Support Network. They came together year after year during the month of May to focus on dealing with their grief using creativity. Joy has used a unique approach with her artwork, which can be seen on her Instagram channel . Joy describes how she moved from feeling ashamed for disassociating from h...
Nov 14, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Send us a text Today I have the pleasure to speak with Miten who I’ve known for almost 20 years through his and Deva’s music. Miten shares the traumas he’s experienced throughout his life and how he’s found the healing power of music. Miten says: ‘If there is one thing, I would say that's helped me, that is to sing. And as much as I can, I tell people, not just our community who are into singing anyway, but… church choirs. Find a choir, find a Gospel choir, you know - sing! Because when you are ...
Nov 07, 2022•47 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Send us a text Michael started with loss very early in his life when his mother got killed in a car accident leaving behind two boys and their father. Michael was 8 weeks old at the time and magically recovered after having almost all the bones in his tiny body broken. It took Michael a big part of his life to figure out how to deal with grief, depression, and suicidal thoughts at the same time while creating a legacy by offering programs to create awareness in young people about drinking and dr...
Oct 31, 2022•42 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Send us a text Lisa Boehm heard a knock at the door just as she had gone to bed, and it was the police coming to let her know that her teenage daughter had died in a head-on collision. Lisa tells us how she picked up the pieces of her shattered life and how she found ways to thrive and not just survive. From getting support from other moms in her community she now offers support to grieving moms. Lisa says: ‘I think I learned a lot from other grieving moms who were further down the path. Sometim...
Oct 24, 2022•42 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Send us a text Today I speak with Amie where she shares how her life started with the loss of connection to her father due to mental illness and the challenging relationship with her alcoholic mother. Amie then became pregnant for the first time, but her daughter Ruthie died after 33 days. At 36 years, Amie was diagnosed with neck cancer which was successfully treated. She then shares how they moved across the States and their truck caught fire with many of their belongings including Ruthie’s me...
Oct 17, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Send us a text Today Simone and I talk about losing the most significant men in her life. She dealt with the loss of her life partner through cancer, the sudden death of her father, and the dissolution of two marriages. After all these losses she investigated into the masculine, and she found an appreciation for the male aspect in her life and in herself. She describes the experience of grief’s intensity in the following way: ‘The pain and intensity of it has not lessened in those moments. Yes, ...
Oct 10, 2022•45 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Send us a text Today Sharon Ehlers and I dive into the topic of loss by suicide. We both share how we dealt with losing close people who took their own lives. Sharon has lost multiple people in her life, two of which died by suicide. She shares so generously about all the tools and resources she found along her way that helped her deal with the losses after she realized that she wasn’t coping at all with the first loss of her best friend Joy. Attending to her grief and learning about death opene...
Oct 03, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Send us a text Today I speak with my ex-husband and the father of our children. We reflect on eleven years since the death of our younger twin daughter A’Mya. In doing this we are spending time speaking about her, honoring her place in our lives, and, as I’d like to see it: spending time parenting her. Our conversation was moving and opened my eyes to parts of Chris’ grief that I wasn’t aware of. Chris says the following about his personal experience of grief: ‘It is a constant thing; it never g...
Sep 12, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Send us a text Today I speak with Callie about the loss of her first son Coley and how she created a legacy by creating an exhibition at Present Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC. Listen to Callie describing how she learned to intentionally grieve. One thing to definitely look out for in this episode is how she experiences grief loving her back. Callie says: ‘One thing I wish I had known was that it is still possible to have a relationship with your loved one who has died. It's certainly not a...
Sep 05, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Send us a text Today I speak with Kelsey about the loss of Nate, her husband, and the journey Kelsey took as part of dealing with his loss. She believes that: ‘The bigger the grief, the luckier you were.’ Kelsey shares so many different nuggets of wisdom that I found it hard to choose one to share with you below. Her way of looking at death and loss is different too many and honestly is refreshing. It will invite you to open your thinking and feeling about grief and trauma in a way you might nev...
Aug 29, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Send us a text Today I speak with Pinky who lost her son due to inflammation that affected his heart when he was just a few months old. The birth and the loss of Leonardo both happened during the Covid pandemic and both Pinky and her husband understandably felt extremely isolated in their grief. Pinky dealt with her grief by joining a grief support group and seeing a therapist. Someone she had met through a group on Facebook gave her the book Surviving My First Year of Child Loss as a support re...
Aug 22, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Send us a text Today I speak with Ian Weedon who has lost half of his family in the past few years. Listen to Ian telling us how he deals with loss and trauma in his later stage of life. Together, we also explore how the loved one’s presence can be felt in very different ways, not always the way we want or expect it. Ian’s life story shows the reality of living a life after loss. Ian says: ‘Of course, my life is very different. I only have the responsibility to my daughter now I don't have the r...
Aug 15, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Send us a text Today I speak with Amy Watson who has experienced stillbirth & miscarriage. She talks about pregnancy after loss, how she struggled but also how she supported herself through the different losses. The interesting part of her story is how differently she experienced her two losses and how she managed those differences. Amy says: ‘I call it Radical Self-Compassion, which means you love every part of you, including the grief, including the trauma, including the mess that it at al...
Aug 08, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Send us a text Today I speak with Kellie Sipos who I met as part of being a guest on her podcast, My Child Left Home for Heaven . Kellie has experienced multiple losses within her own family which started with her father’s suicide, followed by the sudden unexpected loss of her sister. In 2018 she lost her daughter Emilie through an accidental drug overdose after which Kellie candidly shares how she herself abused drugs to manage her own grief. Just a few months ago, her mother, who she cared for...
Aug 01, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Send us a text Today I speak with Domenique Rice who I have come to know as part of the Instagram community of bereaved parents supporting one another in the Grieving Parents Support Network. People come and go in this community, but Domenique has stayed actively involved and developed a voice to be noticed creating stillbirth awareness in honour of her son TJ. She says: ‘I need to parent my son and honour where I'm at. So that's the evolution, once again of the ‘stillbirth-Mama-fighting-for lig...
Jul 25, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Send us a text Today I speak with Turiya , who – among other losses and traumas - shares the turning point in her life when she lost her then 33-year-old husband Welf von Hannover in 1981. Her relationship with death, the impermanence of physical life significantly changed another time with the loss of her beloved partner Maja 6 months ago, where she experienced something, she never had before: ‘Then one night the message came, and it was: Love Is All. And there was such a strong feeling. Love i...
Jul 18, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Send us a text ‘When you decide that it is yours, you'll understand that along with that grief comes an amazing life of living after loss because you have something that no one else can ever, ever have. And that is the love, that is the love - that's the love that remains.’ Melo has experienced three multiple significant losses in a short time frame. In this interview, she explains how through grief it felt as if she lost her mind and found it again in her journey with grief and trauma. About th...
Jul 11, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Send us a text ‘I wish to be ok with it if for no other reason than I owed it to myself and to my still-living children and those that care about me. Because they have a right to have a full and beautiful life, and having a mother that's traumatised and overwhelmed by something that she has no control over is not doing anybody any favours.’ Katja’s story is extraordinary and has made waves in the media worldwide. Since the recording of this episode a few weeks ago the court case has taken place ...
Jul 04, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Send us a text Episode introduction ‘Whether healing is possible or not, is irrelevant. It has to be possible for me because this is the life that I want, and I am not willing to give up.’ Rachel Tenpenny gave birth to twin girls Aubrey and Ellie on June 24th, 2008. They both died a few days after their birth. Rachel talks to us about her grieving and healing story and how she came to strongly believe that healing is possible About this week’s guest Rachel Tenpenny is a grief expert, emotional w...
Jun 26, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Send us a text Welcome to HOW TO DEAL WITH GRIEF AND TRAUMA, a podcast where on each episode we will hear from people - like you – who have lived through heart-breaking losses and traumas. In this episode, you will hear about me, Nathalie Himmelrich, your host what this podcast is about and how it is structured, and what prompted me to start it Sign up here to receive notification of upcoming episodes being released: HOW TO DEAL WITH GRIEF AND TRAUMA Updates Links --> For more information, pl...
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