How To Deal With Grief and Trauma

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...

Send us Fan Mail This is the first of a two-part episode. Check out part 2: 189 What a Death Doula Knows About Grief That Most of Us Don't (2/2) | 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 care...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is different. Instead of sitting across from a guest, I am the one in the chair. In this solo episode, I share my own personal timeline of grief, loss, and trauma — and trace how each experience shaped the ones that came after it. From what I learned about grief growing up, through infertility, miscarriage, the death of my daughter A’Mya three days after she was born, the suicide of my mother four and a half months later, a significant trauma in my adult life, se...

Send us Fan Mail Nathalie and Amanda go beneath the speaker and the frameworks to the private, unscripted territory of grief. In this episode, we cover What it costs to hold it together when falling apart isn't an optionThe parts of the story that resist being turned into a growth toolThe difference between resilience as armour and resilience as a path back to yourselfWhat genuine support actually looks like in the darkest hoursWhere grief still lives in the body today, and how to tend ...

Send us Fan Mail When someone is visibly grieving, the people around them quickly conclude, usually without adequate evidence. She isn't crying, so she must be coping. He went back to work, so he must be over it. They seem angry, not sad — that can't be grief. These are presumptions. In Part 3 of this three-part series, Nathalie examines how presumptions about grief operate in real time, in specific moments, and why they cause a different kind of harm from grief myths and preconceptions. What...