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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

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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…

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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

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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

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The Right Kind of Grief and Trauma Support

What is the right kind of grief support and how can I find it? This is the question that each and every one of you reading this will have asked yourself. Where to find support? I did too when I was freshly bereaved. Luckily I had a wonderful General Practitioner who referred me to a

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We Must Learn to Look at Grief, Even When We Want to Run Away by Dr Puri

Must read article It just seemed that the writer speaks grief and healing language with the absolute same tonality as I do. Here is what she wrote: Can we instead move forward with grief? Can we find a way to integrate loss into life, to carry it with us? Can we feel tragedy together, without

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Grief Quote by Nathalie Himmelrich

💭 I daydream…

I daydream about … 💫 who they would have become ✨ Last night I went to Ananda Mae’s parents’ evening at the school. Every parent had to introduce their child given it was a new formation of kids. As I heard the other parents describe their child, mentioning their siblings, I went off daydreaming about

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The Relationship Between Trauma & Grief

Many of the people I have been working with have shown signs of Trauma & Grief intertwined. So, you might wonder, what is the difference and how do I know whether I or someone else is experience grief, trauma, or both? Defining experiences Normal Grief, as defined by MedicineNet, is: The normal process of reacting

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Best Questions to ask – Supporting Questions

“The answers you get depend on the questions you ask.” ― Thomas S. Kuhn, Author of the book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Supporting yourself or someone else through the throws of grief and trauma really depends on the conversations that are happening, inside and outside. It is about the thoughts we have in our minds

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