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. If you want to be inspired by others who traveled through their grief and trauma, found that healing is possible, and came out the other end knowing they can survive and thrive in life after loss. For more info: www.nathaliehimmelrich.com

Podcasting since 2022 • 177 episodes

How To Deal With Grief and Trauma

Latest Episodes

169 The Many Faces of Trauma | Betrayal Trauma: When Trust Becomes Unsafe

Betrayal trauma can be uniquely disorienting because it not only breaks trust—it can disrupt your sense of reality and self-trust. In this episode, we explore betrayal trauma as a nervous system injury that often leads to hypervigilance, rumina...

February 07, 2026 • Season 16 • Episode 169 • 15:08

168 The Many Faces of Trauma | Intergenerational Trauma: What Gets Carried Forward

Intergenerational trauma is what happens when the impact of trauma is passed down through families and communities—through nervous system patterns, emotional rules, family roles, and the stories we inherit about safety, trust, and worth. In thi...

February 05, 2026 • Season 16 • Episode 168 • 14:01

167 The Many Faces of Trauma | Developmental Trauma: A Brief Map (Building on Earlier Episodes)

Developmental trauma often forms through chronic, repeated stress during childhood—especially when safety, support, and repair are inconsistent. In this episode, you’ll get a clear, non-overwhelming map of what developmental trauma is, why it a...

February 02, 2026 • Season 16 • Episode 167 • 14:56

166 The Many Faces of Trauma | The Wound in the Bond: Attachment & Relational Trauma

Attachment and relational trauma can be hard to name because it often doesn’t come from one dramatic event—it forms through patterns over time: inconsistency, emotional absence, unpredictable caregiving, chronic criticism, or rupture without re...

January 31, 2026 • Season 16 • Episode 166 • 17:46

165 The Many Faces of Trauma | Before Words: Understanding Preverbal Trauma

Preverbal trauma can be hard to name because it often isn’t stored as a clear story. In this episode, we explore how early experiences, which occur before language development, can shape the nervous system through implicit memory and felt sense...

January 28, 2026 • Season 16 • Episode 165 • 17:08

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I'm even afraid to listen, because I lost my husband suddenly, 13 years ago and our daughter, suddenly by suicide, 3 years ago, and I've not embraced either very well. It's just my son and me now. Our story is too sad, too tragic. We are not victorious; we are surviving. I think I've done - well, almost the best I could- but it hasn't helped my son. He found my daughter in our garage and took her down.

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