Grief in Brief

EP 86: What's Your Grief? with Litsa Williams

Litsa is the Program Director and Co-founder of What's Your Grief?. WYG is an online support and resource for all things grief. WYG has an emphasis on the unique experience and relationship we all have with loss. By sharing, exploring, and expressing we find that what is most personal applies to all. Further, they accentuate the benefit of community and the need for psychoeducation to compliment the compassion we all need for healing. Whether you are a griever, professional or someone supporting a griever WYG can be a home base. In this episode, Ken and Litsa discuss how What's Your Grief? came to be. Further, they discuss the need for continual education as we are all touched by loss. https://whatsyourgrief.com/ [https://whatsyourgrief.com/] Enjoy this episode? Please give us a 5-star rating and share with someone who could benefit. Thanks for helping us get the show to more people who need it! Follow Ken on Instagram HERE [https://www.instagram.com/healingforgriefandloss/] Download Ken's free PDF, "What to say when you don't know what to say" HERE [https://wild-bonus-665.myflodesk.com/d5o8y3gjpe]

EP 85: Sibling Loss and the Forgotten Grievers with Annie Sklaver Orensteinn (A re-broadcast)

The grief market may have a number of resources, guides and/or supports for the death of a spouse or parent. What about when your sibling dies? There are scant if any resources available. Annie discovered this after her brother was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. In fact, much of what is available is how siblings can care for their grieving parent. Feedback, that can be minimizing, is what siblings need to do, not how they feel. The lack of understanding and attention to sibling loss inspired Annie to write her book; Always A Sibling; the Forgotten Mourners Guide to Grief. For anyone who has lost a sibling this book is a valuable resource. Enjoy this episode? Please give us a 5-star rating and share with someone who could benefit. Thanks for helping us get the show to more people who need it! Follow Ken on Instagram HERE [https://www.instagram.com/healingforgriefandloss/] Download Ken's free PDF, "What to say when you don't know what to say" HERE [https://wild-bonus-665.myflodesk.com/d5o8y3gjpe]

EP 84: A reluctant father and navigating intense loss with Charles Bock (A re-broadcast)

Charles' new book is titled I Will Do Better; a Father's memoir of heartbreak, parenting and love. This unflinching memoir comes from the heart and goes right to the heart as six months into parenting his daughter (Lily) his wife and life partner Diana was diagnosed with cancer. Cancer took Diana's life three days before Lily turned 3. Finding himself a widower his process begins of learning to parent while grieving. With a delicate, yet forceful blend of acknowledging pain and inserting humor Charles discusses this undertaking, and the book, with Ken. Enjoy this episode? Please give us a 5-star rating and share with someone who could benefit. Thanks for helping us get the show to more people who need it! Follow Ken on Instagram HERE [https://www.instagram.com/healingforgriefandloss/] Download Ken's free PDF, "What to say when you don't know what to say" HERE [https://wild-bonus-665.myflodesk.com/d5o8y3gjpe]

EP 83: Us, After; A Memoir of Love and Suicide with Rachel Zimmerman

This is the title of Rachel's book in which she writes of the life with her husband and family before and after his death by suicide. She called upon her skills as a journalist to see where there is a story, dig deep and write it. Rachel has done just that in this poignant memoir. How does she take the first steps after the sudden and traumatic death of her husband while raising two young children? In this episode Rachel talks of the benefits of community, asking for help and using her available resources to move forward. She further discusses the beneficial need to keep her children in their routines and patterns which can be so grounding. With an emphasis on growth, positivity and hope Rachel book will be resonant with anyone who has lost someone. https://www.rachelzimmerman.net/ [https://www.rachelzimmerman.net/] Enjoy this episode? Please give us a 5-star rating and share with someone who could benefit. Thanks for helping us get the show to more people who need it! Follow Ken on Instagram HERE [https://www.instagram.com/healingforgriefandloss/] Download Ken's free PDF, "What to say when you don't know what to say" HERE [https://wild-bonus-665.myflodesk.com/d5o8y3gjpe]

EP 82: A Discussion of Historical and Intergenerational Trauma and Healing with Serena Cardoso, PhD, LMHC

These terms and concepts are part of our vernacular but what do they mean and what do they look like? Further, we know that things like identity, language, and stories can get lost from generation to generation. However, they may also hold some of the roots to healing. We can learn and heal from our past and how our ancestors lived. How do we navigate and shift from post traumatic stress to post traumatic growth? In this lively discussion, Ken and Serena discuss these critical concepts.