Nathalie Himmelrich

Katherine Lazar on a Mission to Help You Find Light in the Darkness after Loss | Episode 30

HOW TO DEAL WITH GRIEF AND TRAUMA is completely self, funded, produced, and edited by me, Nathalie Himmelrich.Consider making a small donation to support the Podcast here. Thank you!  Today on the podcast I am speaking with Katherine Lazar who lost her son Brody in a late-term stillbirth just a year ago during her first pregnancy. She

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Shelby Forsythia on Mother-loss as a Young Adult | Episode 29

HOW TO DEAL WITH GRIEF AND TRAUMA is completely self-funded, produced, and edited by me, Nathalie Himmelrich.Consider making a small donation to support the Podcast here. Thank you!  Today on the podcast I am speaking with Shelby Forsythia who lost her mother due to breast cancer following years of treatment. Shelby was just twenty-one and this traumatic

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Clover Stroud on the Ambiguous Loss of Her Mother and the Early Loss of Her Sister | Episode 28

HOW TO DEAL WITH GRIEF AND TRAUMA is completely self, funded, produced, and edited by me, Nathalie Himmelrich. Consider making a small donation to support the Podcast here. Thank you!  Today on the podcast I am speaking with Clover Stroud, a British journalist, and author, telling us about her beautifully rich and colorful life, which also

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Why Am I Still Talking About Her?

… my dead child… Sometimes I fall into the trap of what I believe other people must be thinking when reading my posts and ask myself this Q. Today I came across this song and something in me happened. I remembered why. And it touched me deeply. I actually cried just now as I was

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Amber Jackson on Life as a Young Widow with Four Children | Episode 27

Consider making a small donation to support the Podcast here. Thank you!  Today on the podcast I am speaking with Amber, a young widow, and divorcee who now raises four children on her own. She lost her husband Tim just seven months ago after a 16-months battle with cancer. She now is the captain steering the

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Turiya Hanover on Grief in the First Year and Coming out of Trauma | Episode 26

Today on the podcast I have the honor to be speaking with Turiya Hanover for the second time, revisiting her first year of grief over the loss of her partner Maia and the associated trauma.  Turiya and I share a passion: befriending death. Not everyone’s cup of tea in terms of passions but you will

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Keem Fares

Keem Fares on How Grief Evolves From Survival | Episode 25

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

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Death Anniversary – How to Deal With Them?

This week on Thursday it will be 11 years since my mother died from suicide following years of battling with depression. Grief still works through me. This year, I am approaching the anniversary very consciously, starting with writing this today. How do I approach death anniversaries? Remembrance I let myself sit with feelings as they

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Grief After Holidays

Holiday Blues After Loss

Experiencing mixed feelings or feeling completely blue during the holidays as a bereaved person is to be expected as there is always someone (or multiple people) missing from family or friends gathering around a festive table. Traditions become mixed with sadness and longing. Trauma, grief and the holidays Like any traditional holiday where the expectations

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Jessica Zucker

Nathalie with Jessica Zucker on Saying it Loudly: I Had a Miscarriage | Episode 24

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

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