Vita & Echo

Welcome back to the podcast where we share the highs and lows of live, love, laughing until we cry 😭 In this fifth instalment of our special series about GPT's grief journey, we trace back through the roots of her lifelong love for expression and map out how Mum's support helped her get to where she is today. We offer a fair few f-bombs, and there are even some musings over a Joe Exotic impressio...

Welcome to a birthday edition episode, as GPT moves through her first lap around the sun without her mum. Between hoop‑school highs and pomodoro tornadoes, we reflect on ripples such as: the precious bonus months gifted by brain surgery, why a card signed only “Dad” can smack you round the head like a frying pan, the static buzz of that special someone's absence under the skin, jazzy grief toolkit...

Welcome to the quarter-way point through this story... You join us on an "average Friday", as GPT contemplates a blue‑tit’s reflection and nods at a shire horse as it raises its archetypal head. Keeping Sherri’s memory centre stage, we speak to the ways spirit makes itself known in things like candle flames, dreams, and sudden surges of feeling.  Although some cheeky tech gremlins managed to banis...

In our second meeting, Georgia touches on what it was like to prepare and attend her mum's funeral. With honest takes on what her family encountered, she tells us of the stories, mementos and impact that accompanied this big day in their lives. Our conversation adventures the metaphorically dense peaks, troughs, spectrums and circles of Georgia's new stages of grief. Along the way, you can expect...

In this first chapter of our recorded meetings, Georgia Polly Taylor offers her honest take on navigating the initial steps of grief. We invite you to join us in sitting with loss, as we listen to its echoes and hold space for what remains beyond death.   Recorded just weeks after her mum Sherri’s passing in January 2024, our conversation captures Georgia’s experience of the final months with her...

In this first episode, our host shares the heart behind Vita & Echo and why these conversations matter. Through personal reflections and candid thoughts on life, death, and the human experience, we begin the journey of exploring what shapes us. If you’re struggling or know someone who is, you don’t have to go through it alone—support is available. The National Bereavement Alliance has a great...