How To Deal With Grief and Trauma

This episode explores how grief manifests physically in the body, featuring Dr.

This episode explores how secondary and vicarious trauma affects helpers, professionals, and close supporters who work with or care for trauma survivors, offering gentle guidance and a grounding practice.

This episode introduces complex trauma and complex PTSD in a gentle, non-graphic way, explaining what they are and how they differ from single-incident PTSD.

This episode explores the psychological impact of collective grief and trauma following a sudden tragedy, using a New Year's Eve fire at a Swiss bar as a case study.

This episode introduces a series on trauma by explaining what trauma is and isn't, focusing on why clear definitions matter to prevent minimizing experiences.

This episode introduces a special series exploring different types of trauma, explaining how each episode will cover what trauma is, how it manifests in daily life, and provide practical steps to help the nervous system feel safer, ending with grounding practices.

This episode features an interview with Amy Watson, a certified life and grief coach, discussing her personal experiences with stillbirth and miscarriage, the concept of radical self-compassion, and strategies for navigating pregnancy after loss.

This episode introduces a mini-series exploring the language and types of grief, loss, and trauma, focusing on cultural and intergenerational grief through personal stories and professional insights.

This episode introduces a mini-series exploring the language of grief, loss, and trauma, focusing on non-death losses like job loss and how to understand and process these experiences.

This episode introduces a mini-series exploring the language and experiences of grief, loss, and trauma, with a focus on migration-related grief, offering education and support for those affected or supporting others.

This episode features grief expert Rachel Tenpenny discussing her personal experiences with child loss and divorce, and her holistic approach to healing from grief and trauma.

This episode introduces dissociation as a common trauma response, explaining it as a protective mechanism on a spectrum and offering gentle guidance with a grounding practice.

This episode explores migration and displacement trauma, explaining how losing home, language, community, and identity can impact the nervous system, even when the move was chosen for a better life.

This episode explores attachment and relational trauma, explaining how safety in connections is formed and how relationship wounds can affect the nervous system long-term.

This episode features an interview with Catherine Lazar, who shares her experience of losing her son to stillbirth and how she created a podcast to help other grieving mothers find support and light in their darkness.

This episode explores society-shaped trauma, focusing on how poverty, insecurity, and social exclusion create ongoing stress and trauma pathways, offering gentle education and a grounding practice.

This episode introduces a mini-series exploring the complex language and experiences of grief, loss, and trauma, using Tanya's story of compounded grief as an entry point.

This episode features psychologist Jessica Zucker discussing her personal experiences with miscarriage and breast cancer, and her movement to encourage open conversation about reproductive trauma and grief.

This episode introduces a series on society-shaped trauma, focusing on discrimination and minority stress as forms of ongoing trauma that affect the nervous system.

This episode explores the often-overlooked trauma of chronic stress caused by a threatening environment, offering gentle insights and a grounding practice for nervous system safety.

This episode continues a Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month mini-series, featuring solo reflections and replays of popular conversations about grief, healing, and support.

This final episode of a Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month miniseries explores how to carry hope alongside grief and sustain support beyond the early weeks of loss.

This episode explores intergenerational trauma, explaining how stress and survival patterns are passed down through families and communities, with gentle guidance for listeners.

This episode explores developmental trauma, explaining how repeated childhood stress shapes the nervous system, emotions, and relationships, while offering gentle guidance and a grounding practice.

This episode features an interview with Rachel Spencer, who shares her journey through multiple miscarriages and an abusive relationship, highlighting how therapy helped her heal and build a successful jewelry business.

This solo episode is the fifth in a Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month mini-series, exploring love, longing, continuing bonds, and respecting boundaries for grieving parents.

This episode explores how public tragedies and disasters create community shock, affecting not only direct victims but also witnesses, first responders, and entire communities, with practical guidance for nervous system regulation.

This episode features an interview with trauma researcher Dr.

This episode is the fourth solo reflection in a miniseries on pregnancy and infant loss awareness, exploring how the body remembers grief and the importance of honoring significant dates.

This episode features an interview with Betsy Winter exploring somatic approaches to healing from child loss and developmental trauma.

This episode introduces a mini-series exploring the language of grief, loss, and trauma, focusing on how attachment wounds affect grieving processes.

This episode introduces a mini-series exploring the language of grief, loss, and trauma, focusing on identity-related grief through a personal story and professional insights.

This episode explores the concepts of small T and big T trauma, discussing their definitions, how they manifest in daily life, and their potential impacts on shame and comparison, while offering gentle guidance for nervous system support.

This episode introduces a three-part series on grief and trauma beliefs, focusing on common grief myths that are culturally transmitted but unsupported by evidence.

This trailer for Season 18 of 'How to Deal with Grief and Trauma' introduces upcoming content and shares the host's personal experience of consulting a medium.

This episode explores how trauma manifests physically in the body, emphasizing physiological responses over mental narratives and offering gentle guidance for nervous system safety.

This episode explores pre-verbal trauma, explaining how overwhelming experiences before language development affect the nervous system and offering gentle guidance for healing.

This episode introduces a mini-series exploring the language of grief, loss, and trauma, focusing on environmental grief through a personal story and offering educational insights for understanding and healing.

The host Nathalie Himmelrich introduces season 16 of her self-funded podcast on grief and trauma, marking her mother's 14th death anniversary from a stroke and reflecting on past episodes about suicide and collective grief.

This solo episode is part of a Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month mini-series, offering reflections and support for parents dealing with grief and trauma.

This episode features psychotherapist and author Siobhan Scott discussing her personal experience with grief and trauma after her husband's revenge suicide following her request for divorce, exploring the psychological impact of intimate partner abuse and the healing process.

This episode features an interview with Jennifer Beatty-Kwan, a medical doctor who shares her inspirational journey through grief after losing her daughter and her experience with pregnancy after loss.

This episode explores single-incident trauma, explaining how a single overwhelming event creates a clear 'before and after' in one's life and offering gentle guidance on recognizing nervous system responses and using grounding practices.

This episode introduces a miniseries for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, aiming to support grieving parents and educate those who want to help them.

This episode explores medical and birth trauma, discussing how experiences meant to help can involve fear and loss of control, and offers gentle guidance for nervous system safety.

This episode explores betrayal trauma, focusing on how broken trust in relationships disrupts reality and offers gentle guidance with a grounding practice.

This episode explores grief and trauma related to pregnancy and infant loss, offering insights for both those grieving and their supporters.

This episode focuses on pregnancy and infant loss awareness, with host Nathalie Himmelrich sharing her personal experience of losing her daughter Amaya and discussing the historical context, including President Reagan's role, to educate and support listeners dealing with grief.

Host Nathalie Himmelrich interviews Tamara Gabriel, a parent who lost her daughter Jenna in a car accident nearly 30 years ago, exploring long-term grief and healing milestones over the past decade.

In this episode, host Nathalie Himmelrich discusses World Suicide Prevention Day, emphasizing that suicide is preventable and sharing her personal story of losing her mother to suicide.

Nathalie Himmelrich introduces a miniseries episode exploring cultural myths about grief and how they complicate the grieving process.

This episode explores the language of grief, loss, and trauma, aiming to educate and support listeners in understanding their own experiences.

This episode explores developmental trauma and healing with guest Betsy Winter, who shares her journey of uncovering hidden trauma and navigating relationships after loss.

Host Nathalie Himmelrich introduces the podcast and her guest Whitney Lynn Allen, discussing their shared passion for normalizing conversations around grief and trauma.