Life With Grief Podcast | Grief Support Podcast

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What happens when grief keeps finding you in different forms, at different stages of life? In this episode, I'm joined by Robin Ducharme, author and founder of Real Love Ready, for a truly honest and vulnerable conversation.

Robin shares the story of losing her twin brother Reese suddenly to a heart attack in 2012, and the profound, beautiful experience she had with his spirit that same night. 

She also opens up about losing her father just weeks after closing Reese's estate (after serving as executor twice in two years, something so few people talk about), navigating separation and divorce, and ultimately surviving a toxic second marriage. Through all of it, she found her way to forgiveness, relational literacy, and love as the through-line of everything.

We dig into:
✨ The sudden loss of her twin brother Reese and the incredible experience she had with his spirit the night he passed
✨ Planning a funeral with your brother's guidance, including why shot glasses were the perfect send-off
✨ What it actually means to be executor of an estate, and doing it twice, back-to-back
✨ Losing her father shortly after closing Reese's estate, and how grief compounded on grief
✨ Why divorce is a legitimate grief process, and why no relationship should ever be called a failure
✨ What relational literacy is and the skills Robin teaches through Real Love Ready
✨ Forgiveness as non-attachment: not condoning, not forgetting, but releasing
✨ Self-forgiveness and why Robin believes it's often the hardest kind

This one goes deep, and I think it's going to hit home for many of you.

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https://geni.us/RealLoveReadyBook
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What happens when the grief you're carrying is the kind most people don't know how to talk about? Toni Filipone knows, and she's here to walk you through it.

I'm sitting down with Toni Filipone, an international, multi-certified grief expert, author, speaker, and the founder of MasterGrief, a global platform helping people heal after loss all over the world. With over 30 years of experience in personal development alongside leaders like Tony Robbins, Toni has dedicated her life to helping people understand grief, master their emotions, and rebuild a life they actually want to live. 

She's also the author of In the Trenches: A Coach's Walk Through Grief, which shares her own raw and honest story of loss and the tools that helped her move forward.

Toni's expertise isn't just professional. It's deeply personal. Three and a half years ago, she lost her partner Terri to suicide. That loss cracked her open, reshaped her work, and gave her an entirely new lens for what it means to truly grieve.

In this conversation, we get into ALL of it:
✨ What makes suicide grief uniquely traumatic and complicated
✨ The shock, denial, and self-blame that so many suicide loss survivors experience
✨ The concept of "causation bias"
✨ A powerful mindset shift: moving from "what if" to "even if"
✨ Why you can't go back to the life you had before loss, and what it looks like to build a new one
✨ Honest thoughts on grief groups, including what to look for and what to walk away from
✨ The difference between grief and mental illness
✨ Finding daily "pockets of joy" and what that actually means

Whether you're navigating suicide loss, supporting someone who is, or just trying to understand what healthy grief can actually look like, this episode will leave you feeling seen, equipped, and a little less alone.
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/mastergrief/
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https://www.facebook.com/people/MasterGrief/61576327545212/
 https://mastergrief.com/
Click here to get your copy of Love Like Thunder, Grief Like Rain: https://earthgrief.love/
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📖 Life Beyond Grief Substack: https://taraaccardo.substack.com/

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In this episode, I'm diving into one of my favorite topics—grieving styles—and why understanding yours can be such a powerful part of your healing journey. Because here's what I want you to know before we even get started: there is no right way to grieve. There is only your way.

I'm pulling from real research here, specifically the work of psychologists Terry Martin and Kenneth Doka, who identified a spectrum of grieving styles that explains so much about why we all move through loss so differently.

Here's what we cover:
✨ The difference between intuitive and instrumental grieving, and why both are completely valid
✨ The five griever types: The Feeler, The Doer, The Blender, The Bottler, and The Spiraler, and how to identify which one you are
✨ How attachment theory connects to the way you experience and express grief
✨ Why some people bottle their grief inward, and how it can quietly show up in the body instead
✨ What's happening for the Spiraler, and why feeling stuck or consumed by grief doesn't mean you're failing
✨ How to use your grief style as a map, not a box, so you can start giving yourself exactly what you need
✨ A Soul Shift prompt to close the episode and carry into your week

If you've ever looked at someone else's grief and thought how are they doing that?—or looked at your own and thought what is wrong with me?—this episode is for you.
Click here to get your copy of Love Like Thunder, Grief Like Rain: https://earthgrief.love/
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When grief becomes the very thing that leads you to help others heal, that's when loss truly starts to become a gain.

In this episode, I'm sitting down with Erin Blechman—mom, certified grief educator, and suicide loss survivor—for a conversation that is raw, real, and so deeply needed. Erin shares the story of her son Max, a wildly creative, deeply sensitive, and brilliantly funny young man who lived with medication-resistant depression and epilepsy, and who she lost to suicide in June 2020, right in the thick of COVID.

Here's what we dig into:
✨ The early grief fog: numbness, depression, yearning, and an anger that surprised even her 
✨ How journaling became a lifeline and eventually evolved into a book
✨ The coping tools that helped her survive: creating a memorial garden and finding her people in a suicide loss support group
✨ Her path to becoming a certified grief educator who now leads online grief groups and speaks publicly about suicide loss
✨ The cultural problem of grief illiteracy
✨ Parental guilt, the brutal "what ifs," and how Erin learned to reframe them into "even ifs"
✨ Why healing in community isn't just helpful, it's transformative

If you've ever lost someone to suicide, loved someone who struggled, or just needed a reminder that your grief doesn't have to look a certain way to be valid, this one's for you.

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https://www.instagram.com/erin.blechman/
https://erinblechman.com/
https://www.facebook.com/erin.blechmanauthor
Click here to get your copy of Love Like Thunder, Grief Like Rain: https://earthgrief.love/
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Mother's Day can be one of the most painful days of the year when you're missing your mom. And if you're dreading it, this episode is for you.

In this special panel episode of the Life With Grief Podcast, I'm joined by three incredible women—Liz Quinn, Sara Rian, and Chelsea Ohlemiller—for an honest, heartfelt conversation about what it's really like to grieve your mother, navigate Mother's Day without her, and find your way forward without losing the love you carry for her.

Each of us shares our own story of loss:
💔 Tara's mom, Lori, passed away from esophageal cancer in 2019
💔 Sara's mom, Susan, died by suicide in 2018
💔 Chelsea's mom, Rita, passed away in 2017
💔 Liz's mom, Colleen, died in 2020 following an Alzheimer's diagnosis

Four different losses, four different journeys, one shared truth: grief doesn't follow a timeline, and you don't have to face Mother's Day alone.

In this episode, we cover:
✨ The early days of grief: silence, trauma, confusion, and those overwhelming "never again" thoughts
✨ How grief shifts over time: identity changes, finding community, writing as healing, and reaching new life milestones without her
✨ Experiencing motherhood without your own mom by your side
✨ The duality of joy and grief, holding happiness and heartache at the same time
✨ Practical ways to approach Mother's Day that actually help
✨ Why grief is deeply personal, and why every loss, every relationship, and every timeline is valid

Whether you lost your mom recently or years ago, whether this is your first Mother's Day without her or your tenth, this conversation will remind you that what you're feeling makes complete sense, and that you are not alone in it.

🎙️ Listen now and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it this Mother's Day.
Connect with each of us through our websites:
https://lossesbecomegains.com/
https://lizquinnheals.com/
https://www.sararianbooks.com/
https://hopeandharshrealities.com/
Click here to get your copy of Love Like Thunder, Grief Like Rain: https://earthgrief.love/
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📖 Life Beyond Grief Substack: https://taraaccardo.substack.com/

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