Tendrils of Grief

Susan welcomes Nicola Mercer to today's episode. Nicola is a transformational health coach, supporting women in business to transform their health into wealth by building confidence and self-worth using her successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep, and stress. Her vision is to help normalize a healthy lifestyle for families, so kids grow up having healthy habits modeled to them,...

Susan, your host, welcomes Gwenda Lambert to today's episode. Long before becoming an Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist, Gwenda was drawn to helping people navigate loss. She had experienced 17 deaths by the time she was 21 as well as being the daughter of a Gerontology nurse.   Her greatest loss came in 2012, a loss of health. She experienced a Post Traumatic Stress diagnosis that complet...

Today, Susan, your host, welcomes you to another episode of Tendrils of Grief Podcast . In this episode, she shares her thoughts about going through the upcoming holidays while grieving. You would say that holidays are tough enough when someone is grieving but unfortunately, there are a lot of pressures that add to the pain of grieving during this particular time of the year (parties, gifts, celeb...

Susan welcomes Marie Scott to today's episode. Marie is the Creator and Founder of Happy and Healthy After Widowhood. After losing her beloved Dave of almost 30 years, and her mom the same year, she went back to school to learn more about the link between food and cancer. After becoming a certified health coach, Marie now coaches widows and widowers using her 7 Steps to Healing After Loss, a uniqu...

Susan, your host, welcomes Page Park to today's episode. Page has her own grief story; she helps people navigate grief through yoga, meditation, breath, and connection within themselves. At Tulsi Rose Yoga, she creates a space where clients can get in touch with their inner voice and listen to their bodies to tune in to personal needs, and desires. Teaching for 24 years as a classroom teacher, Pag...

Susan, your host, welcomes Geralyn Ritter to today's episode. Geralyn is a recognized expert in healthcare policy and an executive vice president at Organon & Co., a new Fortune 500 healthcare company dedicated to the health of women. She was formerly senior vice president at Merck & Co., Inc., one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. She has spearheaded global government affairs...

Susan, your host, welcomes Coleen Ellis to today's episode. Coleen faced the death of her pet in 1998 and that moment changed her forever. It was the beginning of her vision of how to best meet the needs of pet parents in their desire to mourn, memorialize, and pay tribute to their beloved pets when they die. In 2003, the experience of the death of her dog, Mico, guided her in starting the nation'...

Susan, your host, welcomes Maria Verdeschi to today's episode. She is an acclaimed Psychic Medium, Speaker, Best-Selling Author, Teacher, and Coach with clients all over the world. Her extraordinary ability to communicate with spirit began at the age of four while living on Long Island. Now with over a decade of experience, Maria is well known for her accuracy and delivery of evidential messages f...

Susan, your host, welcomes a lifelong friend to today's episode, Geri King. They met in high school and married men who were really good friends.   In this show, Geri shares her son's struggles with depression and alcoholism, the hardships he needed to face, and how these all lead to his death. Geri openly talks about her grief, her pain, and her current work on her mental health.   Key Takeaways:...

Susan, your host, welcomes Dean Lambert to today's episode. Dean has worked with funeral professionals for nearly 30 years to help them connect and serve the families facing one of the most challenging moments of their lives: the loss of a loved one. As a father who has experienced the loss of a child, he knows firsthand the grief that clouds the vision needed to honor a well-lived life. Dean is l...

Susan, your host, welcomes Reid Peterson to today's episode.   Reid, the founder of Grief Refuge, provides its community of users with a source of solace when they're in pain and discomfort from grief. The app is a hub that fulfills grievers' emotional needs. Support for people going through the grief journey is imperative for both the griever and their loved ones. When people are facing grief and...

Susan welcomes Rev. Amirah Hall to today's episode. Rev. Amirah M.Msc. blends "sacred with spirituality" and has been on a four-decade journey of exploring secrets to manifesting and healing. She is a gifted clairvoyant, spirit medium, channel, and quantum healing pioneer. Amirah's spiritual awakening was triggered after her father's divorce, life-threatening autoimmune disease, and death, all wit...

Susan, your host, is joined by her daughter, Madison, in today's episode. It has almost been five years since they lost Paul, her dad and Susan's husband. In the past years, Madison has gone through a lot of changes and she is sharing what it felt like going through this life-altering experience while finishing high school.   She will be attending The New School in New York City to study political...

Susan welcomes Sara Ottoboni to today's episode. She is a psychic consultant and spiritual teacher.   As a medium, she helps alleviate your grief. During the intuitive consultation, she has an important goal: communicate with your loved one who passed away in order to resolve your grief and confusion, and instill in you a sense of the meaning behind death. Speaking to your loved one will help you...

Susan welcomes Francine Russo to today's episode. She is the author of Love after 50 and They're Your Parents, Too! Armed with a Ph. D. in English literature, she became a journalist focusing on psychology, relationships, and social trends. And she's made her mark. Having cut her teeth at the late, lamented Village Voice , she's gone on to write for virtually every publication from The Atlantic to...

Susan, your host, welcomes Aleema Noormohamed to today's episode. Aleema strongly believes in the healing power of the outdoors. She is a Neuro Linguistics Programming Master Practitioner, Trainer, Mindfulness Teacher, Edupreneur, and a Nemophile, dedicated to reactivating the human spirit's connection to nature. She pushes us to go deep within ourselves and awaken our consciousness, making us rea...

 Susan, your host, welcomes Radiance Mack to today's episode. Radiance Mack, 26, is the daughter of Sandi and Sherman Mack. She has four siblings: Steven, De'Angela, Danieka, Sherman Jr., De'Angela, and Steven. A current third-year law student and is pursuing her MBA degree. Since her mother's passing, she assists her father in the daily operations of her mother's foundation, SmacKares . The focus...

Susan, your host, welcomes G. Scott Graham to today's episode. He is an author, a career coach, and a business coach in Boston, Massachusetts.   Scott is driven to help clients follow their "true azimuth," which is different from "true north." It means coaching clients to identify the true focus of their life — something that speaks individually to them. It means recognizing the forces that push o...

Susan, your host, welcomes Jenny Lisk to today's episode. Jenny is a widowed parent of two grieving kids. After interviewing over 100 experts on the topic of widowed parenting for the Widowed Parent Podcast , she learned that there are some key principles and tips about parenting grieving kids that newly widowed parents probably don't know about.   Jenny is the author of an award-winning book name...

Susan, your host, welcomes Sherrie Barch to today's episode. Sherry is the CEO of two Forbes -ranked top executive search firms and a leadership consulting company.   Sherrie is married with three sons. As a mom, she describes herself as a part-time pancreas for her two youngest sons who were both diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes within the same year. Playing this role for the last 12 years, she is...

Susan welcomes Carol Fitzgerald to today's episode. Carol is a vibrant, passionate, fun-loving, young-spirited woman. Through coaching, searching, group settings, and the death of her husband, she learned three very important life lessons late in the game. She has longevity in her family background and since learning these lessons, she wants to live life to its absolute fullest with no regrets and...

 Susan, your host, welcomes a recurring guest to today's episode, Allison Perkins. Allison lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and two sons. She is a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP), currently working with children with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders), and has also worked with adults in Skilled Nursing Facilities. Though professionally she is an SLP, she has always been passionate about w...

Susan, your host, welcomes Shirley Thiessen to today's episode. Shirley states that grief is our common human experience, and yet, we live in a death-denying, grief-avoidant society. Most people don't know what is helpful to say or do in support of someone who is grieving, often, it feels awkward.   Shirley was one of those people who felt uncertain about how to express empathy to people suffering...

Susan, your host, decided to receive a special guest for today's episode, Avery Thatcher, who is the CEO and founder of the Inner Stillness Outer Chaos Podcast and the Flow State Membership. When she started her career as a Registered Nurse working in the ICU, she noticed that the majority of the reasons people found themselves in the ICU were because of illnesses and diseases that could be linked...

Susan, your host, welcomes Veronica Bratcher to today's episode. Veronica is a licensed mental health therapist and transformation coach, specializing in grief and trauma. She helps parents and professionals facing anxiety and mending broken hearts understand their own experience of loss so that they can find healing and deeper, fulfilling relationships with themselves and others in their life. Sh...