Female Voices: Life and Loss

Episode 3 ~ The Losses We Don’t Always Talk About: Understanding grief beyond death and finding language for what you’re carrying. Loss does not always arrive with a funeral, a sympathy card, or people checking in. Sometimes it arrives quietly—and leaves you wondering whether what you are feeling even counts as grief. In this solo episode, Teresa Reiniger explores the losses that are often minimiz...

Sometimes one honest story can reach a place that advice never could. It can give language to what we have carried quietly and remind us that we are not the only ones. In this solo episode, Teresa Reiniger reflects on six years of podcasting and the stories that have shaped both Female Voices: Life & Loss and her own understanding of grief, resilience, motherhood, infertility, caregiving, divo...

Episode 1 ~ SIX YEARS LATER: What Loss, Healing, and Storytelling Have Taught Me Some stories begin with a microphone. Others begin with a loss no one knows how to name. In the Season 3 premiere of Female Voices: Life & Loss, host Teresa Reiniger reflects on six years of podcasting, storytelling, grief work, and creating spaces where women can feel less alone. The podcast began in 2020 as Labo...

Some seasons of love require us to show up even when we are tired, overwhelmed, and grieving before the goodbye ever comes. In this heartfelt episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, host Wayna Berry sits down with her mother, Laverne Hill, for a deeply personal conversation about caregiving, dementia, family responsibility, faith, and the emotional weight of caring for someone through their fin...

Episode 75: God Told Me to Write One Million Cards | Healing Through Kindness & Connection What if healing wasn't found in doing more—but in slowing down enough to listen? In this heartfelt episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, Teresa Reiniger welcomes Sue Neumann, founder of the Million Card Ministry and advocate for healing through travel, connection, and intentional acts of kindnes...

“Sometimes losing the relationship is what finally forces you to find yourself.” In this deeply emotional and vulnerable episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, host Wayna Berry sits down with therapist, educator, advocate, author, and community leader Dr. Camesha Hill-Carter to discuss the painful unraveling of her 18-year marriage — and the difficult journey of rediscovering who she was after...

Episode 73: What if the most powerful thing you could do for someone going through a difficult season… is simply listen? In this heartfelt and compassionate episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, Teresa Reiniger sits down with Laramie Cooley for an honest conversation about grief, emotional wellness, family support, and the importance of connection during life’s hardest moments. After experien...

“Some stories shape us through presence. Others shape us through silence.” In this deeply honest and emotional conversation, Brittany Raji Alberty joins Teresa Reiniger to explore the untold stories women carry — the lessons never spoken, the grief hidden beneath motherhood, and the healing that comes when we finally understand our mothers differently. Brittany shares the deeply personal experienc...

Episode 71: “The Unknown of the Unknown" | Growing Up After Losing Both Parents at One Year Old What happens when you grieve people you can’t even remember? In this deeply moving episode of Female Voices, Life & Loss, Teresa Reiniger sits down with Lisa Webb to explore a rarely discussed kind of grief—the lifelong ache of losing parents before memories were ever formed. Lisa lost both of...

What if the stories you quietly listen to… start changing your life? In this deeply personal Episode 70 of Female Voices, host Teresa Reiniger and co-host Wayna Berry bring someone special from behind the scenes into the spotlight—Donna Ben, the podcast editor and social media manager who has listened to every story of grief, healing, and resilience shared on this platform. For the first time, Don...

Grief doesn’t need perfect words—it needs real presence. In Episode 69 of Female Voices, hosts Teresa Reiniger and Wayna Berry dive into one of the most uncomfortable yet universal human experiences: how to support someone who is grieving. Most people don’t avoid grieving loved ones because they don’t care—they avoid them because they don’t know what to say. In this honest and heartfelt conversati...

You’re not stuck because you’re failing… you’re stuck because you’re carrying more than you realize. In this deeply honest and transformative conversation, Teresa sits down with board-certified nurse coach Alison Tindall to explore the hidden layers behind weight, grief, identity loss, and emotional burnout. Alison shares her personal journey through pregnancy loss, infertility, postpartum depress...

What if grief isn’t just emotional—but financial, physical, and deeply tied to your identity? In this powerful episode of Female Voices: Life and Loss, Teresa sits down with Financial advisor and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst , Terri Schneider , to unpack the often-overlooked realities of grief—especially during life-altering transitions like divorce and losing loved ones. From losing both p...

What if your grief isn’t just something you feel… but something your body is carrying? In this deeply moving and eye-opening episode, Teresa is joined by integrative holistic nurse and neuro -transformational leader, Dena Woulfe, to explore the powerful connection between grief, trauma, and the body. From childhood wounds to miscarriage, loss of loved ones, and identity struggles, Dena shares her...

What if the hardest grief you carry… is the one no one else can see? In this deeply honest and emotional episode, Teresa Reiniger and Wayna Berry close out their series “The Hidden Layers of Grief No One Talks About” by exploring a powerful and often overlooked truth—grieving the life you thought you’d have. From infertility and divorce to career disappointments, identity loss, and unmet dreams, t...

What if the hardest part of grief isn’t sadness… but fear? In this deeply honest conversation, Wayna Berry and Teresa Reiniger unpack a side of grief that often goes unspoken—anxiety after loss. From panic attacks and hypervigilance to the fear of feeling happy again, they explore why the nervous system shifts into survival mode after losing someone you love. Wayna shares her personal journey afte...

Can you love someone deeply… and still feel relief when they die? It’s one of the most misunderstood emotions in grief — and almost no one talks about it out loud. In this episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, hosts Teresa Reiniger, grief specialist, and Wayna Berry explore the complicated emotional landscape of anticipatory grief — the grief that begins long before a loved one actually dies....

Why do we miss someone who hurt us? In this deeply honest episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, hosts LaWayna Berry and Teresa Reiniger explore one of the most confusing layers of grief: grieving someone who caused you pain. Leaving a relationship that isn’t healthy should feel like freedom — but often it doesn’t. It can feel like loss, heartbreak, and the death of the future you thought you...

If you’ve tried staying busy, staying strong, staying positive — and you’re still hurting — this episode is for you. In Episode 61, Teresa and Wayna begin a powerful new series called “The Hidden Layers of Grief No One Talks About.” Today’s focus is one of the most searched grief questions online: “How do I deal with grief when nothing seems to help?” Together, they unpack why grief isn’t somethin...

What happens when the life you built… disappears overnight? In this deeply honest and moving conversation, host Teresa Reiniger sits down with author Patti Sauer to talk about the kind of grief we don’t often name—the loss of identity that comes with chronic illness. After nearly two decades as a middle school teacher, Patti was forced to step away from the career she loved due to Chronic Regional...

Four months before her wedding, Carol became a widow. In November 2019, Carol’s fiancé died suddenly of a massive heart attack — just as they were preparing to begin their married life together. What followed was shock, brain fog, financial fear, physical grief symptoms, and the painful unraveling of identity. In this deeply honest conversation, Carol shares what it means to lose not just a partne...

There is no pain more disorienting than losing a child—and no single “right” way to grieve. In Episode 58 of Female Voices: Life & Loss, hosts Teresa Reiniger and Wayna Berry come together for a deeply compassionate, honest conversation about grieving parents, whether the loss is through pregnancy, childhood, or adulthood. Drawing from personal experience and professional practice as grief coa...

Parenting doesn’t end when your child turns 18—it simply changes. In this deeply honest and heartfelt episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, hosts Wayna Berry and Teresa Reiniger unpack the emotional, often unspoken realities of parenting adult children—from college drop-offs and strained communication to breaking generational patterns, letting go, and learning how to stay connected without co...

What happens when grief arrives all at once—and refuses to follow the rules? In this deeply moving episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, host Teresa Reiniger sits down with Mon Trice Williams (aka Poet Emma Dree)—a widow, mother, poet, author, and curator of healing spaces—who shares how losing her mother, husband, and five other family members within single year reshaped everything she thoug...

What happens when two grief coaches pause to reflect on a full year of powerful stories, laughter, and healing conversations? In this special Episode 55 of Female Voices: Life & Loss, co-hosts Teresa Reiniger and Wayna Berry reflect on their first full year podcasting together. From meaningful guest stories and unexpected lessons to humor-filled moments and honest reflections on grief, growth,...