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
200 Four Years On: A Thank-You to Every Guest and Listener Who Built This Podcast
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...
199 Love Is All: Loss and What Death Cannot Take | Turiya Hanover
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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198 Why and How Healing Is Possible: The Episode That Started It All | Rachel Tenpenny
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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197 Trusting Your Nervous System Through Grief: Loss and Polyvagal Theory | Deb Dana
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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196 Can Anyone Tell Me? Essential Questions About Grief | Meghan Riordan Jarvis
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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195 Bringing Loving Awareness to Your Pain: Grief and Conscious Communication | James Fish Gill
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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194 Can Trauma Really Be Resolved in One Session? | Laney Rosenzweig
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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193 Grief, Trauma, Essence and Safety | Turiya Hanover
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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192 Grief for a Relationship That Never Truly 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...
