What's Your Grief Podcast

A loss of any kind can lead to difficult identity changes. Shifts in one's sense-of-self, roles that no longer need to b... Read more

One emotional experience that many grieving people find particularly confusing is the realization that their thoughts, e... Read more

Grievers are often challenged to find effective coping tools to help explore, understand and process the complicated exp... Read more

What have you stopped doing since experiencing the death of your loved one?  More specifically, what do you no longer do... Read more

Feelings of guilt and regret are common after the death of a loved one. These two complicated emotions often go hand in... Read more

Simply put, grief can make you feel like you're going crazy.  Anyone who's experienced a loss knows how disorienting gri... Read more

With over 150 million social media users in the US alone, we can no longer conceptualize grief support and support syste... Read more

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 1 of the What's Your Grief Podcast. This season we're going to shake up our format a little... Read more

When something sad, bad, or anxiety producing happens in the life of someone we care about, our immediate instinct is to... Read more

When the world changes, the way we operate in the world has to change. Grief forces us to make new decisions about the t... Read more

After the death of a loved one, it is easy to find yourself engaged in negative coping.  These types of coping allow for... Read more

It's hard to imagine what grieving the death of a loved one is like until you've experienced it first hand.  Many grieve... Read more

The theory behind the 'five stages of grief', laid out in Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's book On Death and Dying, seems to be ... Read more

As if parenting we’re hard enough, you’ve recently experienced the death of someone you love. You’ve done your best to s... Read more

Sigmund Freud first proposed the concept of ‘defense mechanisms’ as an element of his influential theory of personality.... Read more

With decades of grief theory that focused on closure, acceptance, and moving on, it is no wonder that so many grievers ... Read more

When times are hard, the support of friends and family members can go a long way.  Yet unfortunately after the death of... Read more

Do you consider yourself an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert?  Although many aren't sure what these terms really mean ... Read more

There is a common misconception that death is the only loss that results in grief.  Although the loss of a loved one is ... Read more

After the death of a loved one, things like feeling better, letting go of belongings, making changes, and just generally... Read more