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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

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How To Deal With Grief and Trauma

22 Brooke Carlock | If This Wasn’t Enough Already

December 05, 2022 • Season 2 • Episode 22

Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Brooke whose story could be one that movies are made of. She has experienced loss after loss culminating in a series of devastating and traumatic losses within the past 12 months.

Listening to Brooke telling her life story is both devastating and shocking, at the same time as hope-inspiring in the way she’s living her life after loss with fierce resilience at the same time as grieving.

She speaks candidly about the dark places she went through while grieving and how she got help when she was suicidal.

The truth is that there are people like Brooke who have no choice but to live with multiple traumatic losses. The question is: how do we meet them? How do we enable ourselves to hold space for someone and their situation?

Regarding the people who helped Brooke the most, she says:

‘I want to be strong, and I want to keep going and find meaning in things. I'm just like a go-go-go person and the most helpful thing for me was people saying: ‘Slow down and breathe. You need to feel this and not rush through it, not ignore it, not medicate it.’

About this week’s guest

Brooke Carlock has experienced more grief and loss in her lifetime than most...
Read Brooke's bio here.

Topics discussed in this episode

Loss of her favourite grandfather when Brooke was 10-year-old
Loss of her sister leaving behind young children, and multiple losses in the close family
Divorce
Most recently her father (heart attack), closely followed by her stepmom (overdose) and dealing with both funeral arrangement
News of the terminal illness of her mother
Loss of her daughter Libby through a car accident
Dealing with the dark places in early grief and suicidal thoughts