Grief with a Complex Relationship

Grief can have many layers. Grief especially can have layers when you had a complex relationship with the person you are grieving. Maybe there was abuse or abandonment. You might feel like you aren’t affected at all. Then you might wonder if you are heartless or if...

Grief Associated With Alzheimer’s

Watching your loved one slowly fade away over time is it’s own sort of torture. This is true with cancer. This is especially true with diseases such as Alzheimers, Parkinson’s, ALS, and Huntington’s disease. This episode I specifically talk about Alzheimers because of...

Anticipatory Grief with Erin Whalen, CEO of Compassionate Coaching

Sometimes the loneliest part of grief is that we don’t understand that what we are feeling or experiencing. Something feels off, but it doesn’t have a name. It just feels like a hovering, looming, broken feeling. This episode I talk with Erin Whalen. She founded the...

When People Stop Caring or Checking In

After a loved one dies a lot of people reach out to offer prayers and well wishes. Then it seems like over night, people disappear. You are left alone. You want support but you don’t know how to ask for it. Or you think people should just know what you need. This...

What To Say At A Funeral

Death makes people uncomfortable. You have a friend who just had a loved one die and you don’t know what to say to them.  You don’t want to make them feel worse, so you say the clique things. This can leave the griever feeling like a burden, overwhelmed, isolated, and...