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88 Rachel Tenpenny | Grieving Parents 10 Years Later

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: bit.ly/SupportGTPodcast. 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. About this week’s episode Welcome to a special series of podcast

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Imagine Walking A Mile In A Parent’s Life After Child Loss

The other day I was taken by surprise as I watched Monica Lewinski’s TED talk “The Price of Shame.” As she was talking about the impact of social shaming, cyberbullying and the culture of public humiliation, one line especially stood out: “Imagine walking a mile in someone else’s headline.” In her talk, as Monica Lewinski

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60 Heidi Horsley From Sibling Loss, Identity Loss to Opening to Hope

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: bit.ly/SupportGTPodcast. 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. About this week’s episode Like Reid and Jon in the previous

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coco buchmann

46 Coco Buchmann on Motherloss After 23 Years of Anticipatory Grief

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: bit.ly/SupportGTPodcast. 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’ve known Coco personally as we studied Somatic Experience, Peter

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Shannon Traphagen

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

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Sarah Stillman

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

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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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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

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Callie Hawkins

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

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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

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