When someone is deep in grief, the people closest to them often want to help — but don’t know how. And the grieving person? They’re often too exhausted to explain. In this episode, relationship coach and author Joelle Lydon breaks down what’s really happening in relationships when grief enters the picture, how both partners can […]
Belongings, Meaning, and the Complexity of Letting Go When a person dies, their physical possessions become something more than objects. They become containers for memory, relationship, and identity — both the deceased’s and the bereaved person’s. The sweater that still carries a scent. The handwriting on a grocery list. The reading glasses left on a […]
Curating Grief: Choosing What to Keep, Release & Create After Loss Belongings can hold more than memory — they can hold identity, connection, and unfinished emotion. In this episode, Charlene Lamb shares her Curating Grief framework, inviting us to move beyond “keep or toss” and instead approach memory with intention. We discuss: The emotional meaning […]
The Physiological Dimension of Grief Grief is not only an emotional experience. It is a physiological one. Loss activates the nervous system in measurable, predictable ways — producing states of hyperarousal, hypoarousal, and dysregulation that affect cognition, behavior, physical health, and the capacity to process the loss itself. For helping professionals, understanding the neurobiological underpinnings […]
Polyvagal Theory & Grief: Grounding Tools to Calm Your Nervous System Grief isn’t just emotional — it’s physiological. In this episode, we explore how grief impacts the nervous system and why you may feel anxious, shut down, exhausted, or on edge. Joined by Gabrielle Juliano-Villani, we discuss polyvagal theory, grounding techniques, and practical tools to […]
When life knocks us down, most of us have ways of coping. We lean on the people we trust. We throw ourselves into work for a while. We exercise. We spend time with friends. We distract ourselves with hobbies. We remind ourselves of other difficult things we’ve survived and draw confidence from knowing we’ve gotten […]
Honoring the person you loved doesn’t have to follow a script. Five guests from the GRIEF Ladies Podcast — one for every letter of the GRIEF framework — share how they encourage grieving people to celebrate a life, keep a memory alive, and carry love forward in ways that feel true to them. G · […]
The first year after a loss is unlike anything else you will experience. And yet most people go into it completely unprepared because nobody talks honestly about what it actually feels like. That’s not because people don’t care. It’s because grief is still one of the most underdiscussed experiences in our culture. We show up […]
One of the most disorienting parts of grief is not just losing someone you love — it is losing the version of yourself that existed alongside them. Your roles change. Your sense of purpose shifts. The questions get bigger and harder to answer. In Episode 6 of the GRIEF Ladies Podcast, Karyn and Kelly close […]
Grief can make it hard to know where to start. Each expert in this post is a guest from the GRIEF Ladies Podcast, and each one was asked a single question: what is one actionable step a grieving person can take right now? Their answers span every letter of the GRIEF Ladies framework — and […]
