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
Episodes
210 episodes
Grief and Trauma Podcast: 4-Year Anniversary Edition | 200
On the 21st of June 2026, this podcast turns four years old. In this anniversary episode, I step away from the interview format to speak directly to the people who have made this show what it is: the guests who gave their time and their honesty...
Loss and What Death Cannot Take: Love After Loss with Turiya Hanover | 199
In this final mini-series episode, I reveal and revisit number one — the most listened-to episode in the podcast’s history: my conversation with Turiya Hanover on the loss of significant partners in life.Turiya is the co-founder of Path ...
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How Healing Is Possible After Loss with Rachel Tennpenny Crawford | 198
In this mini-series episode, I revisit number two in the top ten most listened-to episodes: Episode 1 — the very first conversation I ever recorded for this podcast — with Rachel Tenpenny on why and how healing is possible after loss.
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Grief and the Nervous System: Polyvagal Theory for Loss with Deb Dana | 197
In this mini-series episode, I revisit number three in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my conversation with Deb Dana, clinician, consultant, author, and the world’s leading translator of Polyvagal Theory — on loss, the nervous sys...
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Grief: The Essential Questions Everyone Asks with Meghan R Jarvis | 196
In this mini series episode, I revisit number four in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my third conversation with Meghan Riordan Jarvis — psychotherapist, podcast host, TEDx speaker, and author — on the essential questions about gr...
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Grief and Conscious Communication: Meeting Your Pain with James Fish Gill | 195
In this mini-series episode, I revisit number five in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my double-episode conversation with James Fish Gill — heart coach, yoga teacher, and transformational facilitator from Australia — on bringing l...
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Trauma Resolved in One Session: Is It Really Possible? with Laney Rosenzweig | 194
In this mini-series episode, I revisit number six in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my conversation with Laney Rosenzweig, the developer of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) — an evidence-based, eye movement therapy that can r...
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Grief, Trauma, Essence and Safety with Turiya Hanover | 193
In this mini-series episode, I revisit number seven in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my third conversation with Turiya Hanover — co-founder of Path Retreats and the Path of Love process, therapist, and grief survivor — on the de...
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Grief After a Revenge Suicide: Surviving a Difficult Loss with Shavaun Scott | 192
Content note: This episode discusses suicide, intimate partner abuse, and traumatic loss.In this mini-series episode, I revisit number eight in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my conversation with Shavaun Scott<...
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How Long Does Grief Last? The Question Everyone Asks with David Kessler | 191
In this mini-series episode, I revisit number nine in the top ten most listened-to episodes of this podcast: my conversation with David Kessler on the question that almost every grieving person asks — how long does grief last?Davi...
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Grieving Someone Still Alive: Ambiguous Loss and Grief with Stephanie Sarazin | 190
In this mini-series episode, I revisit one of the top ten most listened-to episodes of the podcast: my conversation with Stephanie Sarazin on Ambiguous Grief — the grief that arises from losing someone who is still alive.Stephanie...
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Grief and Trauma Podcast: Top 10 Episodes Countdown | S19 Trailer
This podcast turns four years old on the 21st of June 2026. To mark the anniversary, I am counting down the ten most listened-to episodes in the show’s history — one mini episode at a time.In this trailer, I introduce the full countdown ...
What a Death Doula Knows About Grief (Part 2) with Sierra Campbell | 189
This is the second of a two-part episode. Check out part 1: 188 What a Death Doula Knows About Grief That Most of Us Don't (1/2) | Sierra CampbellWhat does someone who has spent more than three decades sitting with the dying act...
What a Death Doula Knows About Grief (Part 1) with Sierra Campbell | 188
This is the first of a two-part episode. Check out part 2: 189 What a Death Doula Knows About Grief That Most of Us Don't (2/2) | Sierra CampbellWhat does someone who has spent more than three decades sitting with the dying actu...
Grief and Trauma: How Your Personal Story Shapes It | 187
This episode is different. Instead of sitting across from a guest, I am the one in the chair.In this solo episode, I share my own personal timeline of grief, loss, and trauma — and trace how each experience shaped the ones that came afte...
Rebuilding After Devastating Loss: Battle-Tested, Not Broken with Amanda Anderson | 186
Nathalie and Amanda go beneath the speaker and the frameworks to the private, unscripted territory of grief. In this episode, we coverWhat it costs to hold it together when falling apart isn't an optionTh...
Grief Presumptions: The Assumptions We Make About Loss (Part 3) | 185
When someone is visibly grieving, the people around them quickly conclude, usually without adequate evidence. She isn't crying, so she must be coping. He went back to work, so he must be over it. They seem angry, not sad — that can't be grief.<...
Collective Grief and War Trauma: How Populations Heal with Dr Imke Hansen | 184
What happens when an entire nation is traumatised? How does collective grief differ from personal loss, and what does healing actually look like at that scale?In this episode, I speak with Dr Imke Hansen, trauma therapist, scholar of Eas...
Grief Preconceptions: Beliefs You Bring Before Loss (Part 2) | 183
Before a loss happens, most people already hold a set of beliefs about what grief will look like. These are not myths absorbed from the culture in general — they are something more personal: internalised convictions, absorbed through upbringing...
When Grief Equals Love: Loss and Continuing Bonds with Lizzie Pickering | 182
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/SupportGTPod...
8 Common Grief Myths That Keep People Stuck (Part 1) | 181
Grief myths are everywhere. They show up in condolence cards, in workplace bereavement policies, in the advice given by well-meaning friends and family and, often, inside the grieving person themselves. They feel like common sense. They are not...
News About the Upcoming Season | S18 Trailer
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/SupportGTPod...
How Trauma Affects the Body | The Many Faces of Trauma | 180
Trauma isn’t only a story in the mind—it’s also physiology, sensation, and nervous system patterning. In this final episode of the Many Faces of Trauma series, we explore how trauma can show up in the body through hyperarousal (fight/flight), h...
Dissociation: The Mind's Emergency Exit | The Many Faces of Trauma | 179
Dissociation is often misunderstood, but for many people it’s a protective nervous-system strategy—a way the mind and body reduce overwhelm when something feels too much to stay present for. In this intro-level episode, we explore dissociation ...
Complex Trauma and C-PTSD Explained | The Many Faces of Trauma | 178
Complex trauma forms through repeated or prolonged exposure to threat or chronic stress—often in contexts where escape isn’t possible and where relationships or systems meant to provide safety are also part of the problem. In this intro-level e...
