-
Nathalie Himmelrich on Trauma and Its Impact on the Nervous System | Episode 40
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! For more information, please visit Nathalie’s website, join the podcast’s Instagram page, and subscribe to the newsletter to receive updates on future episodes here. Todays Episode All trauma involves grief but not all grief […]
-
Tori Press on When Grieving Dad Equals the Loss of a Challenging Relationship | Episode 39
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! For more information, please visit Nathalie’s website, join the podcast’s Instagram page, and subscribe to the newsletter to receive updates on future episodes here. I’m honestly a big fan of Tori and you’ll be […]
-
Mira Simone on Grief Literacy and Somatic Trauma Work | Episode 38
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! For more information, please visit Nathalie’s website, join the podcast’s Instagram page, and subscribe to the newsletter to receive updates on future episodes here. I’m so excited to talk to Mira, an inspirational woman, […]
-
John Henry Parker on How Helping Troubled Veterans Helped Him Deal With Grief | Episode 37
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! For more information, please visit Nathalie’s website, join the podcast’s Instagram page, and subscribe to the newsletter to receive updates on future episodes here. Today on the podcast I am speaking with John Henry […]
-
Shannon Traphagen on Vulnerability and Loneliness as a Widow | Episode 36
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 Shannon Traphagen about the loss of the love of her life and best friend from brain cancer. She so beautifully […]
-
Sarah Stillman on How Dealing With Trauma Does Not Prevent But Helps Prepare For Future Trauma | Episodes 34 and 35
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! Episodes 34 Episodes 35 Today on the podcast I am speaking with Sarah Stillman, who suffered preeclampsia and concealed placental abruption which led to the stillbirth of […]
-
Ana Vick on the Importance of Stillbirth Prevention | Episode 33
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 Ana Vick about the trauma of stillbirth and pregnancy loss. Ana believes in the importance of stillbirth prevention during pregnancy. Having […]
-
Estelle Thompson on How Art and Yoga Saved My Life | Episode 32
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 Estelle Thompson, who has been an inspiration for me for years. We’ve met on Instagram as part of a yearly event […]
-
Lisa Bolton on It is Never Too Late to Mourn Your Losses | Episode 31
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 Lisa Bolton who experienced multiple losses in her life. She talks about dealing with loss after loss, the intense grieving bringing her […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Rachelle Spencer on Being Proud on Who You’ve Become | Episode 23
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Brooke Carlock on If This Wasn’t Enough Already | Episode 22
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Sharna Southan on the Changes Needed in Pregnancy Loss Support | Episode 21
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Katja Faber on Continuing Living While Grieving After Homicide Loss Part 2 | Episode 20
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Joy Bornstein on Using Art to Cope with Loss and Trauma | Episode 19
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Miten on Life’s Trauma and the Healing Through Music | Episode 18
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Michael Gershe on the Loss of His Mother Through a Drunk Driver | Episode 17
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Lisa Boehm on the Loss of Her Teenage Daughter | Episode 16
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Amie Lands on Child Loss, Cancer, and Life’s Trauma | Episode 15
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Simone Surgeoner on Loss of Significant Men | Episode 14
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 the masculine, and she found an appreciation for the male aspect in […]
-
Nathalie with Sharon Ehlers on Dealing With Suicide | Episode 13
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 […]
-
SPECIAL Podcast Episode: Nathalie with Chris on Grief Eleven Years Later | Episode 12
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Callie Hawkins on Creating a Legacy | Episode 11
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Kelsey Chittick on Looking at Death Differently | Episode 10
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Pinky on Creating a Legacy After the Loss of Her Son | Episode 9
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Ian Weedon on the Loss of Half of the Family | Episode 8
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Amy Watson on Stillbirth, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy After Loss | Episode 7
Today I speak with Amy Watson who has experienced a stillbirth and a 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: […]
-
Nathalie with Kellie Sipos on Drug Abuse and Multiple Losses | Episode 6
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Domenique Rice on Unapologetically Grieving Out Loud | Episode 5
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 […]
-
Nathalie with Turiya Hanover on the Loss of Significant Partners in Life | Episode 4
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 and the impermanence of physical life significantly changed another time with the loss of her most beloved partner Maja just 6 months ago, where she experienced something, she never had before…
-
Nathalie with Melo Garcia on Compound Grief and Finding Someone Who Speaks Grief | Episode 3
‘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 […]
-
Nathalie with Katja Faber on Homicide Loss – Effect on the Victim’s Family | Episode 2 Part 1
‘I wish to be ok with it if for no other reason than I owed it to myself and I owed 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 […]
-
Nathalie with Rachel Tenpenny on Why and How Healing Is Possible | Episode 1
In this episode, we will be talking about child loss and loss through a divorce. I’m joined by Rachel Tenpenny, who is sharing her experiences and her insight that healing is possible. I promise that if you will be here listening until the very end, you will know why she is absolutely sure that healing […]
-
How To Deal With Grief and Trauma
A new podcast is coming your way: How To Deal With Grief and Trauma You can’t go through life without experiencing loss and trauma the question is how do we deal and live with the grief and pain? Join Nathalie Himmelrich, grief expert and author, talking to people who have experienced grief and trauma first-hand. […]
-
NEWS: Podcast coming soon!
I am excited to let you know that I have been working diligently on my podcast for the last few months and it is ready to be released in June. The podcast is called: How to deal with Grief & Trauma. I interview people like you, and together we find out how everyday people deal […]
Subscribe for updates
Nathalie Himmelrich
I accompany people therapeutically as a holistic counsellor and coach.
I walk alongside people dealing with the challenges presented by life and death.
I’m also a writer and published author of multiple grief resource books and the founder of the Grieving Parents Support Network.
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Affiliate Disclosure
Copyright © 2012 - 2022 Nathalie Himmelrich | All Rights Reserved