Grief Works Julia Samuel

Thank you, Jill, for presenting just the right approach. Your empathy transmits to your interview subject — and the listener, as well. Your voice is a spot-on match, too, to what my still-wounded inner child needs to hear. I’m in my early fifties and my last remaining parent (my mother) died in 2020.

I have been struck by my *lack* of grief over their absence. Or rather, at how my emotional state did not change, because I grieved them while they lived. My relationship with them was fraught with the conflicts caused by a mom and dad with narcissistic and quite probably borderline personalities. I’ve learned now (through your and Cyriad’s casts) that I have grieved for 25 years the death of an entire adult life as I had hoped it would be — with hard work rewarded in just the right way, with people living up to expectations, with God coming through in the nick of time. Is my grief (and the anger that accompanied it) over the death of God, or at least, my flawed concept of the Divine? I am working through that, and actually feeling more peace, as a result.

I recommend this podcast if you are newly bereaved or, like me, you’ve carried a generalized grief for a very long time. It’s a good beginning on your journey through it.

This podcast is powerful, touching, and healing. I’ve learned so much about my own grief over the loss of my beloved parents (they’ve been gone 15 years and 12 years ago, and I just can’t let go of them), along as helping me to understand how to approach and help others who are grieving. Thank you so much for helping us to get through the hardest and the worst days of our lives.

I lost my 20 year old nephew a month ago. My first experience with loss .. thank you so much for this podcast ❤️