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11 Callie Hawkins | Creating a Legacy
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09/05/22 • 41 min
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 thing to definitely look out for in this episode is how she experiences grief loving her back.
Callie says:
‘One thing I wish I had known was that it is still possible to have a relationship with your loved one who has died. It's certainly not a relationship that you anticipate. It's not the relationship that you even necessarily wanted or had dreamed of or could have imagined. It is beautiful all at the same time.’
About this week’s guest
Callie Hawkins is a grief activist and bereaved mother whose son, Coley, died of unexplained stillbirth in February 2018 -- one day after his due date. In her professional role as Director of Programming at President Lincoln's Cottage -- a historic site and museum in Washington, DC where President Abraham Lincoln and his family moved after the death of their son, Willie -- Hawkins curated Reflections on Grief and Child Loss, an exhibit that connects the Lincoln family's experience with the deaths of their children with modern families who have lost children across age and experience. Callie, her husband Jason and their living son, Fletcher, live with a deep and abiding love for Coley in the greater Washington, DC area.
Topics discussed in this episode
- Callie’s son Coley dying from stillbirth
- Guilt and shame
- Coley’s legacy
- Grief loving me back
- Intentional grieving
- Exhibition at Lincoln’s Cottage
Resources mentioned in this episode
- Reflections on Grief and Child Loss, exhibit at President Lincoln's Cottage
- Video of the exhibit
- Washington Post article about the exhibit
- Callie's article My Grief is My Superpower
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Season 10 - Trailer: News About the Upcoming Show
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11/12/24 • 5 min
Welcome again to the How to Deal With Grief and Trauma Podcast Season 10.
HOW TO DEAL WITH GRIEF AND TRAUMA is completely self-funded, produced, and edited by me, Nathalie Himmelrich.
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Today marks a significant milestone as we step into the 10th series of the podcast, and this season we celebrate a landmark achievement—our 100th episode!
Let's have a look back at the most popular episodes so far:
- E4 Turiya Hanover | The Loss of Significant Partners in Life
- E51 James Fish Gill | Bringing Loving Awareness To Your Pain Part 1
- E1 Rachel Tenpenny | Why and How Healing Is Possible
- E64 Turiya Hanover | Grief, Trauma, Essence, Connection and Safety
- E40 Nathalie Himmelrich | Trauma and Its Impact on the Nervous System
This season, we’re welcoming back grieving parents who shared their stories with me over a decade ago during the interviews for my first book, Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple. That book recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, and as we hear from these parents again, we’ll learn how their journeys have evolved over the years and how they continue to live with loss and love.
This season, I’ll explore how our nervous system processes traumatic loss and what happens when grief and trauma intertwine. I'll share some more insights from Polyvagal Theory and how this understanding can help you partner your body to regulate itself.
Season 10 of the podcast will restart next Monday with episode #91. If you'd like to receive updates to never miss an episode and receive special invitations, only sent out to newsletter subscribers, please sign up for the weekly newsletter on nathaliehimmelrich.com.
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98 Keem Fares | Grieving Parents 10 Years Later
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02/18/25 • 43 min
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About this week’s episode
Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Keem Fares again, the mother of Karina, a spirited intelligent young gymnast, who died in a freak accident when she was 12 years old.
In our conversation, we look back over a decade since Karina’s death, from the early grief to when we worked on the book Surviving My First Year of Child Loss in 2017 to now, 10 years after Karina’s death and the year that Karina would turn twenty.
I highly recommend listening to the first episode (S3E25) with Keem, where she beautifully describes how grief has affected her life, her relationship, and her faith and how it has evolved from pure survival to how she experiences it now.
About this week’s guest
Keem Fares is a non-profit professional who holds a leadership position in financial operations. Originally from Mexico herself, she met her husband in Cairo, Egypt, where they lived for 15 years before moving to San Diego, California in 2011.
Keem struggles to rediscover herself after the accidental death of her 12-year-old daughter, Karina, in 2015. She finds joy in her son Mark, and together with her husband, they rely on their faith in hope. They established Karina’s Joy Foundation to perpetuate Karina’s joyful spirit and giving nature through youth scholarships and acts of kindness.
- Keem’s link: Instagram
Resources mentioned in this episode
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94 Rachel Tenpenny McGonigle | Managing the Holidays While Dealing With Grief and Trauma
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12/16/24 • 48 min
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About this week’s episode
As the holiday season approaches, emotions around grief and trauma can intensify, especially during family gatherings. Tune into this episode with one of our favourite guests on the podcast, Rachel Tenpenny McGonigle (E1, E50 and E88) to gain insights into dealing with grief and trauma and explore effective ways to manage Christmas and grief. We will delve into how to navigate family gatherings when you as a member are dealing with recent loss and/or trauma.
We aim to offer a safe space where you as the listener can find solace, learn, and empower yourself through shared experiences and professional guidance.
About this week’s guest
Helping people through grief is Rachel’s passion. After her twin baby daughters Aubrey and Ellie died in 2008, she made a promise to them that she’d learn how to heal after loss and share what she learned with everyone who wants to heal too. Rachel has spent over a decade making good on her promise and has helped hundreds of clients build a meaningful and purposeful life after loss.
Find out more on Rachel’s website: thegriefgal.com
Resources mentioned in this episode
Other episodes with Rachel:
- S1 E1 Why and How Healing Is Possible
- S5 E50 Cultivating Healing Versus Coping Mechanism
- S9 E88 Grieving Parents 10 Years Later
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21 Sharna Southan | The Changes Needed in Pregnancy Loss Support
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11/28/22 • 38 min
Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Sharna who I’ve come to appreciate as a force for change in regard to the support offered to women in dealing with their pregnancy loss, a passion we have in common.
Talking about her missed miscarriage Sharna shares:
‘...never experienced contractions before so I didn’t know that's what I was experiencing until I got to the hospital until they told me then what was going on. They also told me that one in four pregnancies ends in loss and I was like: “Well, then why do I feel like I'm the only one? Why is there not enough information? Why does no one talk about this?” I felt like I was living under a rock, like where have I been my whole life to not know about this?’
About this week’s guest
Sharna Southan is an ICF-certified coach, a mum to her rainbow baby, a business owner and a wife. She followed her heart and soul into business after her own pregnancy loss in 2017. Sharna firmly believes that our adversity gives us an opportunity to grow.
She founded The Institute of Healing through Pregnancy Loss supporting loss parents with her transformative Pregnancy Loss recovery method and teaching her signature Pregnancy Loss PractitionerTM️ Certification Program.
Topics discussed in this episode
- Dealing with the loss of her father at the age of nineteen, led to depression, anxiety, panic attacks
- Missed miscarriage and the trauma of miscarrying
- Feeling isolated in not knowing that 1 in 4 pregnancies ends in loss
- Lack of information and support on what miscarriage means emotionally, and physically and what it may require in care
- Finding help through professional support
Resources mentioned in this episode
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20 Katja Faber | Continuing Living While Grieving After Homicide Loss Part 2
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11/21/22 • 35 min
Today on the podcast I have the pleasure to delve deeper with Katja Faber, who has been a guest on the Podcast in Season 1. If you haven’t already, go check out her episode which has been one of most downloaded and listener showed a clear interest to know more.
Among other things, today Katja and I speak about the important topic of victim blaming and defamation, the changes in personality due to dealing with such a traumatic loss and the loss of innocence.
Katja shares:
‘I cannot image that however much I have come to accept the reality, that I’m a loss mother I will ever accept that Alex is dead. These are just two things that I can know for myself that this is something I am now. That my son does not live anymore, I still struggle with. And I always will.’
About this week’s guest
Katja Faber is the mother of three children. Following her 23-year-old son's murder in Switzerland, she used her legal training to work closely with lawyers and the State Prosecutor to secure justice for her dead son. Through her writing at Still Standing Magazine and other grief-related publications she hopes to break the taboo of homicide loss and child loss. She runs her own fruit farm and is an advocate of ecotherapy as a means of finding healing following traumatic loss. Katja is a certified Compassionate Bereavement Care® counselor through the Center for Loss and Trauma in partnership with the MISS Foundation and the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Trust.
Make sure to listen to the podcast to the very end as there are some gems to be found there. I am sure you will enjoy and learn from today’s episode.
Katja’s Links:
- Website
- Articles on Still Standing Magazine
- Facebook page
Topics discussed in this episode
- The challenges of being in court, both as a grieving mother and as a plaintiff
- The invaluable support of friends and family
- Victim blaming and defamation
- The changes in her personality
- The loss of innocence
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73 Marc Hauser | How Adverse Childhood Experiences Shape Vulnerable Minds
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04/15/24 • 44 min
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About this week’s episode
If you’ve been listening to the How to Deal with Grief and Trauma Podcast for a while you will have heard me or our guests speak about the term ACEs, short for Adverse Childhood Experiences before. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic experiences that children experience before the age of 18 that can have lasting impacts on their mental health, physical health, and general well-being. As a psychological therapist and grief and trauma expert, I am faced with people’s life experiences on a daily basis and can see the impact and effect Adverse Childhood Experiences have on a person’s life, both past and present.
About this week’s guest
Marc Hauser’s scientific research, including over 300 published papers and seven books, has focused on how the brain evolves, develops, and is altered by damage and neurodevelopmental disorders, with an emphasis on the processes of learning and decision-making, as well as the impact of traumatic experiences on development. His educational and consulting work has focused on the implementation of quantitative, brain-based methods for teachers, clinicians, and doctors working with children who have different disabilities, including especially those that result from a history of traumatic experiences.
Marc has earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Bucknell University, a PhD from UCLA and Post-doctoral fellowships from the University of Michigan, Rockefeller University, and University of California-Davis. For almost 20 years he was a Professor at Harvard University. In 2013, he founded the company Risk-Eraser, dedicated to providing software and consulting to programs focusing on students in special education.
- Website: marcdhauser.com
- LI: @mdhauser
- FB: www.facebook.com/MarcDHauser
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69 Mary-Frances O’Connor | The Grieving Brain
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03/18/24 • 53 min
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About this week’s episode
Mary-Frances’s book The Grieving Brain has inspired me from the moment I started reading it. I recommend it to so many of my therapy clients who express a desire to understand grief – I’ve lost count. As a neuroscientist, she shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning.
So I’m very excited today to be speaking with Mary-Frances, neuroscientist and author of the book The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss, and to find out even more about the science behind grief and all that Mary-Frances and her colleagues have researched in their lab.
I have been excitedly and patiently waiting for today’s episode to find out even more of my favourite topics: grief and trauma and to have Mary-Frances enlighten our brains on those topics in a language that we can all understand.
About this week’s guest
Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab.
Her research focuses on the physiological correlates of emotion, in particular, the wide range of physical and emotional responses during bereavement, including yearning and isolation. She believes that a clinical science approach toward the experience and mechanisms of grieving can improve interventions for prolonged grief disorder, newly included in the revised DSM-5.
- Website: maryfrancesoconnor.org
- Twitter: @doctormfo
- Instagram: @doctormfoconnor
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Mary-Frances’ book: The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Lov
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89 Martina Sandles | Grieving Parents 10 Years Later
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10/21/24 • 44 min
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About this week’s episode
Welcome to a special series of podcast episodes in honour of the 10th anniversary of my first book, Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple, published in 2014. To mark this milestone, I’m reconnecting with the same parents I initially interviewed for the book, offering a unique opportunity to revisit their stories and gain a deeper understanding of their journeys—now, with the perspective of a decade.
In recognition of October being Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, this series is dedicated to showcasing how grieving parents have coped with their loss and trauma over the years. These episodes aim to offer a long-term view of life after the loss of a pregnancy or infant, providing comfort, insight and hope to those who may still be navigating their own grief.
Additionally, I’m excited to offer Healing Steps, my audio course, at 25% off this month. Use the coupon code HSOCT24 to access the course and begin your journey toward healing.
About this week’s guest
Martina Sandles is Hannah’s mother, who would have been 39 years old this year. Here is what she shares with me all these years later: “Quite a few of my friends had weddings or became grandparents and are involved with a little once again. I am grieving the lost dream of all those milestones we didn't get to experience with her, and I still wonder what kind of woman she would have been and what path in life she would have chosen. We could see characteristics emerging and loved her personality, traits I feel we need in the world. It is more a dream of the 'what ifs' and wishing that her siblings would have had a big sister to go to or who would have modelled things for them. Hannah, and my/our living with her till her death, has shaped me and my development so much, I wonder what parts of me would have lived on in her. Not that this is passed on consciously, but by living with each other, sharing values and ways of livin
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97 Tori Press | California Wildfires: Loss and Trauma in the Face of Natural Disaster
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02/03/25 • 41 min
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About this week’s episode
I’ve spoken to today’s guest Tori in S4 E39 so I recommend listening to her personal story there.
For today's episode, I invited Tori to speak with me about her experience, who is living just miles from where wildfires in California have recently devastated an entire community. Together, we talk about what it’s like to be so close to this kind of tragedy, the emotional impact on both survivors and those supporting them, and what we can do to help.
About this week’s guest
Tori Press is an artist, author, and anxious human being. She spent 10 years as a graphic designer before quitting to create some space in her life. In 2016 she bought herself a set of markers and began drawing pictures inspired by her yoga practice, mental health struggles, and everyday life. This decision started her on an extraordinary adventure of self-discovery and human connection. Her drawings help her cultivate mindfulness, gratitude, and self-acceptance–and she hopes they do the same for others!
She is the author of two books: How to Feel Better, a companion and workbook for dealing with tough times (including grief and loss), and I Am Definitely, Probably Enough (I Think).
Tori’s links: Website | Instagram
Resources mentioned in this episode
Another episode with Tori:
S4 E39 When Grieving Dad Equals the Loss of a Challenging Relationship
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How To Deal With Grief and Trauma currently has 104 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Suicide, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Grief, Personal Journals, Murder, Mental Health, Podcasts and Trauma.
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The episode title '21 Sharna Southan | The Changes Needed in Pregnancy Loss Support' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on How To Deal With Grief and Trauma is 40 minutes.
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