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
202 episodes
192 Grief for a Relationship That Never Truy Was: Surviving a Husband's Revenge Suicide | Shavaun Scott
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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191 How Long Does Grief Last? The Question Everyone Is Asking | David Kessler
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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190 The Grief No One Talks About: Mourning Someone Who Is Still Alive | Stephanie Sarazin
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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S19 Trailer - 4 Years. Top 10 Episodes. The Conversations That Reached You Most
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 ...
189 What a Death Doula Knows About Grief That Most of Us Don't (2/2) | Sierra Campbell
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...
188 What a Death Doula Knows About Grief That Most of Us Don't (1/2) | Sierra Campbell
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...
187 How Your Personal Story Shapes Your Grief and Trauma Experience
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...
186 Battle-Tested, Not Broken: How to Start Rebuilding After Devastating Loss | Amanda Anderson
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...
185 Grief Presumptions: The Assumptions We Make About Loss (Part 3 of 3)
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.<...
184 Collective Grief and War Trauma: How Entire Populations Heal | Dr Imke Hansen
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...
183 Preconceptions About Grief: The Beliefs You Bring Before Loss (Part 2 of 3)
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...
182 Lizzie Pickering | When Grief Equals Love
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...
181 8 Common Grief Myths That Keep People Stuck (Part 1 of 3)
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...
Season 18 - Trailer: News About the Upcoming Show
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...
180 The Many Faces of Trauma | How Trauma Can Affect the Body
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...
179 The Many Faces of Trauma | Dissociation: The Mind’s Emergency Exit (Intro-Level)
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 ...
178 The Many Faces of Trauma | Complex Trauma & C-PTSD (Intro-Level)
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...
177 The Many Faces of Trauma | Helping Professionals & Partners: Secondary and Vicarious Trauma
When you support someone through trauma—professionally or personally—your nervous system is not a neutral observer. Secondary traumatic stress can create trauma-like symptoms through exposure to others’ distress, while vicarious trauma can grad...
176 The Many Faces of Trauma | Community Shock: Disasters & Public Events (No War Content)
Community shock happens when a public tragedy or disaster disrupts a community’s sense of safety and predictability, creating a ripple of nervous-system activation far beyond those directly involved. This episode is the Trauma Types companion t...
175 The Many Faces of Trauma | Migration & Displacement Trauma: Losing Home, Language, Self
Migration and displacement can be traumatic not only because of what prompted the move, but because the nervous system loses multiple safety cues at once—home, language, social rules, community, and familiar identity. In this episode, we explor...
174 The Many Faces of Trauma | Society-Shaped Trauma (Part 2): Poverty, Insecurity & Social Exclusion
Chronic scarcity and instability can shape the nervous system in ways that look like anxiety, irritability, shutdown, or “burnout,” even when a person is working incredibly hard to survive. In this episode, we explore poverty, insecurity, and s...
173 The Many Faces of Trauma | Society-Shaped Trauma (Part 1): Discrimination & Minority Stress
Discrimination and minority stress can create a chronic nervous-system load: not only dealing with the moment, but also anticipating bias, managing risk, and constantly scanning for safety and belonging. In this episode, we explore minority str...
172 The Many Faces of Trauma | When the Environment Is the Threat: Chronic Stress Without an Exit
Not all trauma comes from a single event. Sometimes the trauma pathway is the environment itself—ongoing pressure, instability, or threat with little realistic ability to escape or recover. In this episode, we explore “chronic stress without an...
171 The Many Faces of Trauma | Medical & Birth Trauma: When Help Hurts
Medical and birth trauma can happen when care meant to help also involves fear, helplessness, loss of control, or violations of consent and dignity. In this episode, we explore why “routine” experiences can still leave lasting nervous system im...
170 The Many Faces of Trauma | Single-Incident Trauma: When “Before” and “After” Split
Single-incident trauma can create a sharp “before and after” in the nervous system—where an overwhelming event leaves the body stuck in protection long after it’s over. In this episode, we explore how trauma memories can be stored as sensory fr...
