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
219 episodes
18 Miten | Life’s Trauma and the Healing Through Music
Today I have the pleasure to speak with Miten who I’ve known for almost 20 years through his and Deva’s music. Miten shares the traumas he’s experienced throughout his life and how he’s found the healing power of music.Miten says:...
17 Michael Gershe | The Loss of His Mother Through a Drunk Driver
Michael started with loss very early in his life when his mother got killed in a car accident leaving behind two boys and their father. Michael was 8 weeks old at the time and magically recovered after having almost all the bones in his tiny bo...
16 Lisa Boehm | The Loss of Her Teenage Daughter
Lisa Boehm heard a knock at the door just as she had gone to bed, and it was the police coming to let her know that her teenage daughter had died in a head-on collision. Lisa tells us how she picked up the pieces of her shattered...
15 Amie Lands | Child Loss, Cancer and Life’s Trauma
Today I speak with Amie where she shares how her life started with the loss of connection to her father due to mental illness and the challenging relationship with her alcoholic mother. Amie then became pregnant for the first time, ...
14 Simone Surgeoner | Loss of Significant Men
Today Simone and I talk about losing the most significant men in her life. She dealt with the loss of her life partner through cancer, the sudden death of her father, and the dissolution of two marriages. After all these losses she investigated...
13 Sharon Ehlers | Dealing With Suicide
Today Sharon Ehlers and I dive into the topic of loss by suicide. We both share how we dealt with losing close people who took their own lives. Sharon has lost multiple people in her life, two of which died by suicide. She shares so...
12 SPECIAL: Nathalie with Chris | Grief Eleven Years Later
Today I speak with my ex-husband and the father of our children. We reflect on eleven years since the death of our younger twin daughter A’Mya. In doing this we are spending time speaking about her, honoring her place in our lives, and, as I’d ...
11 Callie Hawkins | Creating a Legacy
Today I speak with Callie about the loss of her first son Coley and how she created a legacy by creating an exhibition at Present Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC. Listen to Callie describing how she learned to intentionally grieve. One thin...
10 Kelsey Chittick | Looking at Death Differently
Today I speak with Kelsey about the loss of Nate, her husband, and the journey Kelsey took as part of dealing with his loss. She believes that: ‘The bigger the grief, the luckier you were.’ Kelsey shares so many different nuggets of wisdom that...
9 Pinky | The Loss of Her Son and Creating a Legacy
Today I speak with Pinky who lost her son due to inflammation that affected his heart when he was just a few months old. The birth and the loss of Leonardo both happened during the Covid pandemic and both Pinky and her husband understandably fe...
8 Ian Weedon | The Loss of Half of the Family
Today I speak with Ian Weedon who has lost half of his family in the past few years. Listen to Ian telling us how he deals with loss and trauma in his later stage of life. Together, we also explore how the loved one’s presence can be felt in ve...
7 Amy Watson | Stillbirth, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy After Loss
Today I speak with Amy Watson who has experienced stillbirth & miscarriage. She talks about pregnancy after loss, how she struggled but also how she supported herself through the different losses. The interesting part of her story is how di...
6 Kellie Sipos | Drug Abuse and Multiple Losses
Today I speak with Kellie Sipos who I met as part of being a guest on her podcast, My Child Left Home for Heaven. Kellie has experienced multiple losses within her own family which started with her father’s suicide, followed by the sud...
5 Domenique Rice | Unapologetically Grieving Out Loud
Today I speak with Domenique Rice who I have come to know as part of the Instagram community of bereaved parents supporting one another in the Grieving Parents Support Network. People come and go in this community, but Domenique has stayed acti...
4 Turiya Hanover | The Loss of Significant Partners in Life
Today I speak with Turiya, who – among other losses and traumas - shares the turning point in her life when she lost her then 33-year-old husband Welf von Hannover in 1981. Her relationship with deat...
3 Melo Garcia | Compound Grief and Finding Someone Who Speaks Grief
‘When you decide that it is yours, you'll understand that along with that grief comes an amazing life of living after loss because you have something that no one else can ever, ever have. And that is the love, that is the love - that's the ...
2 Katja Faber | Homicide Loss – Effect on the Victim’s Family Part 1
‘I wish to be ok with it if for no other reason than I owed it to myself and to my still-living children and those that care about me. Because they have a right to have a full and beautiful life, and having a mother that's traumatised and overw...
1 Rachel Tenpenny | Why and How Healing Is Possible
‘Whether healing is possible or not, is irrelevant. It has to be possible for me because this is the life that I want, and I am not willing to give up.’ Rachel Tenpenny gave birth to twin girls Aubrey and Ellie on June 24th, 2008. T...