HealingTogether444

Grief is so unique, regardless of aspects we might have in common. This week's episode welcomes a guest, whose mother died, who shared his love for his mother and his experience with grief in the first four years after her death. Despite the host's mother having died, as today's guest, every life, death and grief is totally individual. Sharing our stories, and hearing other peoples&#39...

In this episode, Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, Certified Grief Support Specialist, shares her recent three-year healing journey after 9 fractures and other injuries after being hit by a car while cycling. She also encourages us all to reflect on the ratio between grief and joy in our lives, without judgement, just with curiosity. Grief is totally unique, and not-linear. There are 2 online Grief Healing Cir...

Guest Megan Eberhardt, a cultural activist and community songleader, shares her experience first not thinking she had any grief and attending, and now facilitating Grief Rituals, inspired by the work of Malidome Patrice Somé & Sobonfu Somé of the Dagara tribe of Burkina Faso, and Francis Weller. These resources, and the grief ritual Megan facilitated, helped Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, Certified Grie...

In this episode, at the conclusion of National Suicide Prevention Month, Kerri Soukup, following her own lived experience with suicide loss, creator of sentiment project , a space built around the belief that meaning can emerge from even our most difficult experiences through creativity, connection, and sharing our stories joins Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, Certified Grief Support Specialist. Kerri is als...

In this episode, Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, Certified Grief Support Specialist, shares a recent experience of her own extreme disappointment, or grief-with-a-lowercase-g, and invites listeners to reflect on their own practices with self-compassion when experiencing grief of any kind. Link to online and in person Grief Healing Circles. Link to Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor's books (including translat...

In this episode, Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, Grief Support Specialist, invites a friend, Kristina, to share about her experience with grief after two different beloved dogs died. She offers specific insights and tips for people going through it. Dr. Sarah makes connections to the lessons shared in the first episode about grief that often apply regardless of the type of grief/cause of grief. This TedTalk...

Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, Certified Grief Support Specialist, was walking distance from the World Trade Center in NYC on 9/11/01, at 22 years old, under 8 months after her mother died (on 1/20/01). In this episode, Dr. Sarah discusses anniversaries of deaths/losses, and also shares her story of what transpired on that day. Connections are made between the healing journey after grief, and also with trau...

In this episode, Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, Certified Grief Support Specialist, invites Jessica Sullivan-Wilson to share her experiences with grief-with-a-lowercase-g after job loss, and to also compare and contrast this type of grief with capital-G-grief after death of a person and pet. Jessica also gives a beautiful shout-out to her fabulous therapist, Gracie Bates-Davis at Envision Counseling . In th...

This episode is another example of a very common experience of grief, that people don't always think of as grief, grief-with-a-lowercase-g after divorce. Even though no one necessarily died, the relationship had such a significant change (ending of the way it had been or the way it was hoped to be), that grief is very common. In this episode, divorce coach Melissa Kahil shares her expertise ab...

Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, Certified Grief Support Specialist, hosts Grief Healing Circles online and in person in Chicago, and realized many people have never attended one, and may wonder what they entail. Grief Healing Circles were inspired by a different type of Healing Circle created by Dr. Gail Christopher . They are NOT whole group the whole time, and they are not only sad. Please listen for more...

In this episode, guest Syda Segovia Taylor, founder and Executive Director of Organic Oneness , shares three examples of grief-with-a-lowercase-g, after the ending of each year of high school when Seniors graduated from their dance troupe, after vacations including one with Dr. Joy DeGruy, and after her young adult daughter moved to another state. Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, Certified Grief Support Speci...

Grief is most commonly associated with death, and the term grief may be less commonly associated with the messy, unique, combination of non-linear emotions after a huge variety of experiences such as divorce/change in relationships, changes of employment, changes with residences, changes with aging, changes with growing of children/teens, even births, graduations and weddings. As clinicians have d...

In this episode, Dr. Sarah Elizabeth , Grief Support Specialist, invites co-founders of Widowhood Recovery, Judy Jury and Bob Tarragano, to share parts of their own experiences after each of their spouses died 12.5 and 5 years ago respectively, and their experience creating and leading their Widowhood Recovery program. Their Roadmap to Widowhood Recovery is linked here . Dr. Sarah Elizabeth is fac...

Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, of HealingTogether444, has been releasing episodes alternating weeks since Jan 20th, the 25th anniversary of when her mother's body stopped working. This mini-episode of Sarah alone marks the 6 months of the podcast, and the 25 & 1/2 year without her mother in body on Earth. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, Grief Support Specialist, shares a bit more about her persona...

In this episode, a young woman, Kat, age 25 when her Lola passed, (Lola is grandmother in Tagalog), shares about her Lola, her relationship with her Lola, and her grief, including lack of support from peers. Grief is part of life, and most people benefit from support while grieving. When people experience grief at young ages, including childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, grief is commonly...

When a death occurs unexpectedly, there are many decisions that need to be made, while grieving. Funeral Director, Brooke Benjamin, of Inclusive Funeral Care , provides specific information that can be helpful to have before a death. Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, certified grief support specialist, highly recommends this episode, and sharing it with friends. Talking about death and grief is part of the jou...

Holiday's of any kind, including birthdays, and cultural celebrations and even significant life events like graduations and weddings, aren't always happy for people grieving. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, certified grief coach, encourages friends and family of people grieving to be more sensitive to their loved ones, including "grief with a lower-case g" including less ob...

In this episode, artist, educator and advocate, Nicklin Heap, shares the often overlooked aspects of grief that are part of the joyful transformation of gender transition. If you would like to support the Transgender community, you can do so through these organizations: TransEquality and/or Trans Life Line . For more info about Nicklin's art and work, feel free to learn more here .

In this episode, Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, Grief Support Specialist, talks with a mother of a young adult with complex medical needs and autism, who is also a social worker & therapist, and founder of No Apology Events . If you feel moved to make a small financial contribution towards spaces that are more inclusive for families and children/tweens/teens/young adults with unique abilities and specia...

Men often grieve differently than women. This episode focuses on men's grief, citing Men & Grief , by the late Carol Staudacher, who was also the author of Beyond Grief , and welcomes a guest, Phillip, to share about his anticipatory grief about his father's impending death. Here's the link for FIVE online Grief Healing Circles scheduled for May 2026. Here's the link for the ev...

Children, tweens, teens grieve, too. Death of a loved one, human or animal, grief after divorce, or other causes of grief are common. Many adults have little training about child development and strategies about talking with children about grief, and death. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, certified grief coach, shares some recommendations from: Motherless Mothers: How Losing a Mother Shapes...

This BONUS Episode is written FOR children/young people (8-12ish year olds). It's VERY similar to the 1st Episode, about the 6 learnings about grief, but less wordy and more interactive...inviting the listener to repeat after Dr. Sarah with some of the learnings (Grief is Normal, Grief is Unique, Grief isn't Linear, Grief is Love, etc). An 8 year old who heard it wrote to me, "Thank y...

On this episode, Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, certified grief coach, welcomes her first guest, Debra (Gauthier) Valentino, enrolled member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, Bear Clan, and a descendant of the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin to share her experiences still feeling connected to her husband whose body stopped working some years ago. Sarah shares some more of her late mother's words from befo...

Western culture hasn't supported grief over the long haul over the past decades. Because grief isn't linear or short, and there aren't enough supports for people grieving, in this episode Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, certified grief coach, shares excerpts from Hope Edelman's book, The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Grief , and author and teacher from Burkina Faso, Sobon...

Regret over wishing something had gone differently or something could have been said, or not said, can be difficult to release. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, certified grief coach, shares from her personal experience, very helpful advice from a therapist of hers, as well as practical tips for anyone trying to process their grief, and any regret they may have. A short excerpt from Zen Short...