Life With Grief Podcast | Grief Support Podcast

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If you're past the early, gut-punch stage of grief but nowhere near "healed", you might be living in what I call the messy middle. And it's one of the most disorienting, confusing, and misunderstood seasons of the entire grief journey.

Let's talk about that in-between season where the shock has worn off, you're functioning, you're showing up, but something still feels off and you're not quite sure who you are anymore. It's confusing, it's uncomfortable, and not enough people are talking about it.

I'm getting real about why the messy middle is one of the most disorienting—and also very important—seasons of the grief journey. Because here's what I truly believe: healing is not a destination. It's a continuous process, and this in-between place? It's not a detour, it's the work.

We dig into:
✨ What the messy middle actually looks and feels like, and why it's more valid than you think
✨ Why this phase is doing something really important in you, even when it doesn't feel that way
✨ The truth about healing that nobody tells grievers in this season
✨ Three mindset shifts to help you stop fighting the in-between and start working with it
✨ A simple grounding tool to come back to when the confusion gets loud
✨ Why curiosity about what's next isn't a betrayal of your grief

If you've been feeling lost in the in-between, I hope this episode feels like a deep exhale. You're in one of the most quietly powerful seasons of your entire healing journey.
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Losing a dad changes everything, and no one talks about the full picture of what that actually looks like. In this special episode in honor of Father's Dat, I'm joined by two incredible women who get it: Liz Quinn, host of the Healing Hearts podcast, and Nicci Scimone, certified grief coach. Together, we open up about losing our dads, the ripple effects that followed, and what it really means to rebuild your life after father loss—especially when you're also navigating motherhood.

Liz lost her dad Edward to stage IV esophageal cancer in 2018, right as she was also supporting her mom through Alzheimer's and her eventual passing. Nicci lost her dad Donny 13 years ago to complications from a stem cell transplant following leukemia remission, and I share my own story of losing my dad Greg to prostate cancer just six months after losing my mom.

We go deep on the things people don't say out loud: the paperwork, the funeral decisions, the vulnerability, the rebuilding, the continuing bonds, and how we're passing our dads' legacies on to our own children.

In this episode, we dig into:
✨ The full, unfiltered reality of losing a dad and what the "after" actually looks like
✨ How father loss disrupts your identity, motivation, and sense of home
✨ Navigating layered grief and multiple losses in a short window of time
✨ The grief brain fog no one warns you about
✨ The unspoken logistics of loss: paperwork, funeral decisions, and estate overwhelm
✨ Continuing bonds and keeping your dad's presence alive even now
✨ Sharing your dad's legacy with your children
✨ Finding community, grace, and joy while still carrying grief

This episode is for anyone carrying father loss, fresh or long-standing.

Connect with Liz and Nicci:
https://lizquinnheals.com/
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https://www.nicolescimone.com/
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Learn more about Letters of Light 💌✨ https://lossesbecomegains.com/letters
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What happens when the person who holds space for the dying suddenly becomes the one who needs to be held?

I sat down with J.S. Park, hospital chaplain of 11 years at a Level 1 trauma center, for one of the most profound conversations I've ever had on this podcast. 

And before we even hit record, life had already handed us a plot twist: our original recording date had to be pushed because J.S.'s own mother was struck by a drunk driver and became a trauma patient at the very type of hospital where he works. Just sit with that for a moment.

What followed was a conversation I'll never forget, and one I know you won't either.

We talk about:
✨ What it's really like to be a chaplain in a Level 1 trauma center
✨ What J.S. learned about grief from suddenly being "on the other side" when his mom became a patient
✨ How he processes the emotional residue of caregiving
✨ The concept of being a "mid-road companion"
✨ Asynchronous grief in families and why everyone grieves on a different timeline
✨ Why rituals and storytelling at the bedside matter more than most people realize
✨ The grief literacy gap
✨ End-of-life lessons: what people actually regret, and how J.S. is living differently because of it
✨ His book, As Long As You Need

Whether you're a grieving person, a caregiver, or someone who loves someone who is hurting, this episode is going to meet you exactly where you are.

Connect with J.S.:
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Learn more about Letters of Light 💌✨ https://lossesbecomegains.com/letters
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Have you ever grieved someone who's still alive? Or lost yourself so completely inside a relationship that when it ended, you didn't even know who you were anymore?

In this episode, I'm sitting down with the incredible Jess Prudhomme—podcaster and host of The Great Detour—to talk about one of the most misunderstood forms of grief out there: divorce grief and identity loss.

Jess married her high school sweetheart at 17. By 35, her marriage was over—and so was the version of herself she'd built around it. What followed was a deeply honest reckoning with grief, self-worth, and what it actually means to come home to yourself.

In this episode, we get into:
✨ What disenfranchised grief is and why divorce grief is so often dismissed
✨ Grieving a living person , and the unique pain of losing someone who's still here
✨ Losing your identity, your future plans, and the life you thought you'd have
✨ How therapy, journaling, and solitude became part of Jess's healing
✨ Leaving a 10-year career to take a sabbatical and rebuild from the inside out
✨ Solo travel as a tool for healing
✨ How a trip abroad sparked the creation of The Great Detour podcast
✨ Finding alignment in friendships, career, and self after major loss
✨ Why the losses that break us open can also bring us home to ourselves

Whether you're navigating a divorce, the end of a relationship, a career loss, or any kind of identity shift, this episode is going to make you feel deeply seen.

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Have you ever woken up and panicked because you couldn't quite remember the sound of your loved one's voice, or the exact way they laughed? That quiet, creeping fear of forgetting is one of the most common and least talked-about experiences in grief. 

And if you've felt it, you are so not alone... and you are absolutely not failing them. Six years out from losing both of my parents I'm still navigating this fear myself, and today I'm sitting with you in it, breaking down why it happens, what it actually means, and what you can gently do about it.

In this episode, we explore:
✨  Why the fear of forgetting your loved one is so common in grief
✨ The shame spiral that tends to come with it 
✨ The neuroscience of grief and memory
✨ What neuroscientist and author Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor says about how the brain works
✨ Why the feeling of someone stays encoded in you even when the specific details start to fade
✨ The continuing bonds framework
✨  Gentle, low-pressure ideas for preserving memories and staying connected to your person

Whether you're newly grieving or years out from your loss like me, my hope is that this episode leaves you feeling seen, validated, and a little more at peace with the perfectly imperfect way your brain holds onto the people you love.

Resources mentioned:
📖 The Grieving Brain by Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor
Learn more about Letters of Light 💌✨ https://lossesbecomegains.com/letters
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