Grounding Grief

Mar 24 2024 13 ep. 18 mins 2
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Circumstances that cause us to grieve are guaranteed to knock on everyone’s door at least once, yet we often treat grief as taboo. Talking about it helps normalize it. We can learn from those who have endured it, so that we might better serve others who grieve, as well as prepare ourselves to find grounding in grief when it visits us.

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Anticipatory Grief

Mar 24 2024 12 mins  
Ann talks about her muddled thinking rooted in the choices a family faces when deciding where a loved one with a long-term illness will die, along with her anticipatory grief, as her father lies dying. [email protected]

Pets

Feb 21 2024 13 mins  
In response to a few requests, Ann introduces the conversation about losing pets, the ensuing grief, and her anticipatory grief about Flannery, Victoria's cat, dying before Ann does. She welcomes others who have lost pets to email her to share their stories at [email protected]@groundinggrief.com

Time

Jan 26 2024 16 mins  
Ann talks about the enduring nature of grief, how it can creep up unexpectedly, and time's capacity to soften it. [email protected]

Hope

Dec 27 2023 18 mins  
Author Liz Newman joins Ann to talk about the grieving process, sharing memories, and uncovering hope along the [email protected]

The Holidays

Nov 19 2023 14 mins  
Ann recalls the early steps she and her family stumbled through as they faced the first holidays without Victoria. [email protected]

Accepting Gifts

Oct 26 2023 12 mins  
Following their discussion on suicide, Ann and Vickie talk about uncovering transformative gifts in [email protected]

Suicide

Sep 28 2023 23 mins  
Vickie and Charlie became our friends through church. I remember when their son was born more than thirty years ago. Although they would divorce, they remained friends and raised him together. Just 11 days after Victoria's funeral, we would congregate in the same church at Charlie's. Like her death, his rocked our community. Warm, friendly, giving Charlie died by suicide.ann@ground

Listen

Aug 30 2023 10 mins  
Ann reflects on the first four episodes and the ongoing nature of grief, along with the importance of listening. She ends reading Cori Doerrfeld's children's story, The Rabbit Listened. [email protected]

Estrangement

Jul 04 2023 29 mins  
Maureen talks about the grief she has endured, and ways she has overcome it, as a result of undiagnosed narcissists in her life that have led to estrangement from her mother, sister, and her own [email protected]

The Unborn

Jun 03 2023 32 mins  
Brynne discusses the layers of grief she and her husband, Andy, have endured during their more than three year journey to become parents. [email protected]