Grief Out Loud

A Mother's Legacy, A Daughter's Grief - N'keya Peters-Camille

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Grief Out Loud, Jana is joined by N'keya Peters-Camille, LCSW, RYT® 200, a social worker, certified Grief Yoga teacher, facil...

Tips For Grieving Through Mother's Day

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Mother's Day is approaching - Sunday, May 10th, 2026 - and it's a "holiday" that comes with lots of mixed emotions for those who are grieving. Whether...

What If Grief Care Is Preventative Care? Dr. Kailey Bradley

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Kailey Bradley about support for grieving a death loss, but also the more overlooked non-death losses, including ch...

Throughlines: Keeping A Connection With My Mom

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy's mom was a protector, an optimist, and someone who held onto a sense of lightness - even after a cancer diagnosis that led to her death just a...

Waiting for Dawn: Marisa Renee Lee on Living with Grief, Illness, and Uncertainty

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to live with uncertainty - especially when your body, your capacity, and your sense of self are all changing at once? In this episod...

Words Matter: What To Say When Someone Is Grieving - Shelby Forsythia

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Shelby Forsythia is well acquainted with grief. After a series of losses that started in her late teens and culminated in the death of her mother fro...

The Million Stages Of Grief - Michael Reed On Finding His Way After Catastrophic Loss

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What does grief look like when you lose your wife, two daughters, your home, and nearly everything you own - all in a single night? In this episode ...

Tending To The Roots Of Ritual With Joél Simone, The Grave Woman

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Grief Out Loud, we talk with death & grief care professional, educator, and cultural advocate Joél Simone, also known as ...

Restrung: Music, Grief, And Fatherhood With Matt Fogelson

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When Matt Fogelson's father died of lung cancer during his senior year of college, he turned to music to express what words couldn't - rage, self-l...

When Grief and Trauma Collide – Christina Babich, MA

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When Christina Babich's partner, Alex, died suddenly from a brain aneurysm while they were visiting his family in Italy, her world shattered in mo...

Echoes Of Her - Adell Coleman On Grieving Her Mother & Finding Community

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Grief Out Loud, we talk with Adell Coleman about her mother who was killed when Adell was just 24 years old. Adell reflects on the...

Why Grief Isn't A Journey (And What It Is Instead) - John Onwuchekwa

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What if grief isn't a journey for us to eventually finish, but more a language we become fluent in? In this first episode of 2026, we talk with ...

Time Keeps Moving, But She Doesn't: Mackenzie Galloway-Cole On Grief And New Year's

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the fall of 2023, Mackenzie Galloway-Cole was living out her rom-com-worthy love story with her wife Megan in New York City. Then, on an ordinary n...

Brennan Wood On How Grief Is To Feel, Not Fix - Even At The Holidays

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's our annual holiday episode, this time with Dougy Center Executive Director and TEDx speaker Brennan Wood. Brennan first encountered Dougy C...

Beyond Silence: Kyndal Parks On Honoring Her Grandfather & Advocating For Better Grief Support

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Kyndal Parks' grandfather died on Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving – she lost one of her biggest supporters and confidants. Whi...

Going To College With Grief - Loss In Young Adulthood

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Hilary was 18, her oldest sister, Kelly, died from a rare cancer called DSRCT (desmoplastic small round cell tumor). In the same year, Hilary le...

The Friends We Make In Grief

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Cassie arrived at Dougy Center for her first peer grief support group for young adults after her dad died, she sat in the parking lot wondering ...

Caring For The Caregivers

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When you're grieving, "Take care of yourself," might be the last thing you want to hear. So what does self-care actually look like for a parent...

Mourning Air - Leena Magdi On Grieving Her Brother And Her Homeland

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Leena Magdi's younger brother, Hamoodi, was killed, her world shifted entirely. In her debut book Mourning Air, Leena explores how grief reshape...

Grieving A Sudden Or Unexpected Death With Dr. Jennifer Levin

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When someone you know dies suddenly, everything changes in an instant. The world you once knew can feel unfamiliar and unsafe, and finding your way b...

Grief Is Forever, But So Is Love: Tiriq Rashad On Loss & Creativity

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Tiriq Rashad, artist, poet, and performer, sits down to write, he's not just telling his own story - he's carrying his daughter, his brother, an...

Now I'm An Adult Orphan: Tyler Feder On Dancing At The Pity Party, Again

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Tyler Feder was 19, her mom died of cancer, an experience she captured years later in her bestselling graphic memoir Dancing at the Pity Party. ...

Rabbit Heart - A Mother's Murder, A Daughter's Story

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1986, when Kristine S. Ervin was eight years old, her mother was abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered in Oklahoma. Decades later, Kristine te...

Relief With Some Grief - When An Abusive Parent Dies

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When someone dies, the story is often one of sadness, longing, and loss. But what happens when the person who died was also someone who caused great ...

Befriending Grief: Why She's Your Guide, Not Your Enemy – Dr. Jamie Eaddy

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do we move from seeing grief as something to fix or overcome, to understanding it as a lifelong companion and guide? In this conversation with R...

One Last Stroller Walk - Navigating Pet Loss

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to a special "podcast takeover" episode. This week, Lindsey Whissel Fenton, creator of Speaking Grief and Learning Grief, steps in to interv...

Grieving The Death Of A Child - Susie And Nick Shaw's Story

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Susie and Nick Shaw's nine-year-old son William died in a skiing accident, their world shifted permanently. In the six years since that day, the...

"We Just Kept Going" - Two Sisters, Twenty Years After Their Mom Was Killed

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jessie was 21. Molly was 11. Two days after their joint birthdays, their mom, Jill, was murdered by Molly's father. In the hours, days, and years tha...

It Opened Me Up To Love - Danielle LaRock

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do you keep your heart open to love after it's been broken apart by grief? Danielle LaRock was just 19 when her father died of a heart attack. In...

How They Died Matters, A Daughter's Story - Kari Lyons-Price, MSW

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes we can't really begin to understand grief - ours or anyone else's - if we don't have space to talk about the death. The context surrounding ...

The Longevity Of Grief

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Camila returns to Grief Out Loud six years after her first appearance to share how grief continues to evolve. What began with the su...

When Death Is Scheduled – Mark Chesnut On Grieving His Sister

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this deeply personal episode, Mark Chesnut returns to Grief Out Loud to share his experience of losing his sister Glynn to ovarian cancer. Glynn ch...

Closer In Grief - Building A Relationship After Someone Dies

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When someone dies, our relationship with them doesn't just disappear. Sometimes the relationship changes in ways we never expected, allowing us to fee...

The Grief We Bury: Daria Burke on Childhood Loss, Collective Grief, & Estrangement

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Daria Burke is an author, executive, and healer-at-heart. She's also a grandchild grieving for her grandmother and a daughter estranged from her paren...

Going Beyond Words: Supporting Children With Autism Who Are Grieving - Jennifer Wiles, M.A., LMHC, BC-DMT, FT

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we delve into the grief experiences of children and teens with autism. Our guest, Jennifer Wiles, M.A., LMHC, BC-DMT, FT - Director ...

When Grief Comes Home - Parenting & Grief

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Grief often arrives without warning and changes everything we thought we knew about ourselves, our families, and the world around us. In this episode,...

When You Lose Your Anchor People: Renée Watson & Making Space For Grief

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to lose your anchor people? In a short period of time, Renée Watson experienced the death of her mother, her mentor Nikki Giovanni...

Fifty-Seven Fridays: Myra Sack On Love, Loss & Grieving Her Daughter

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this deeply moving episode we talked with Myra Sack about the love, loss, and legacy of her daughter, Havi. Diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease at ju...

Living With Incurable Cancer: Caroline Catlin On Time, Grief, & Mortality

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to live with an incurable illness while navigating grief, time, and the complexity of human connection? In this episode of Grief Ou...

What Now? Carla Fernandez & Renegade Grief

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Grief Out Loud, we welcome back Carla Fernandez, co-founder of The Dinner Party, to talk about her new book, Renegade Grief, in whi...

A Tribute To My Dad - Bryan Jung & This Is Why

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Bryan Jung talks about the experience of being only nine years old when his father, a prominent lawyer in the Korean community, was ...

How Many Siblings Do You Have? Navigating Sibling Loss with Judy Lipson

15 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we talk with Judy Lipson, author of A Celebration of Sisters. Judy shares her journey of sibling loss, reflecting on the deaths of he...

When Grief & Betrayal Collide: Jessica Waite's Story

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Jessica Waite's husband, Sean, died suddenly, she knew him as a dedicated father to their young son and a loving, engaged spouse. In her book, Th...

Were You Close? Always A Sibling With Annie Sklaver Orenstein

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk with Annie Sklaver Orenstein, author of Always A Sibling: The Forgotten Mourners. Annie talks about her older brother, Ben, w...

What Remains: Rupert Callender on Grief, Rituals, and Redefining Funerals

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we talk with Ru Callender, author of What Remains: Life, Death, and the Human Art of Undertaking. Ru shares his personal experience ...

Shatterproof: Telling The Truth About Grief with Lauren Sisler

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Grief can be shattering - and it can also reveal unexpected strength and resilience. In this episode, we're joined by Lauren Sisler, award-winning s...

It's Okay That It's Not The Same - Grief At The Holidays

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

[This episode originally aired December, 2023] This time of year can be grueling for anyone, but particularly for those who are grieving. So, each yea...

It Can Be So Awkward - Holidays & Grief

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's our annual holidays and grief episode! In the past we've focused on more tangible tips and suggestions for supporting kids, teens, and adults dur...

Grieving While Parenting - Reshma Kearney

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Reshma Kearney's husband Sean died of suicide, her immediate concern was their three young children. She needed to figure out how to talk to them...

They Are Part Of Our Family - Grieving A Pet

09 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In May of 2024, Christine Passo's beloved dog, Maya Ray, took her last breath in Christine's arms. This wasn't the first time Christine experienced lo...

Let's Hear It For The Kids - Grief In Their Own Words

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In honor of Children's Grief Awareness month, we asked kids and teens to talk about grief in their own words. This compilation episode includes clips ...

Losing Them More Than Once - When Your Ex Dies

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

No one is perfect and no one is just one story, but how do you grieve when the person who died was so different than the person you fell in love with?...

"We Never Talked About Her Again" - Susan Lieu & The Manicurist's Daughter

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Lieu, is a Vietnamese-American author, playwright, and performer. When Susan was 11 years old, her mother died from a routine plastic surgery....

Grieving The Relationship We Didn't Get To Have - Maegan Parker Brooks, PhD

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's our 300th episode and this conversation with Maegan Parker Brooks, PhD, is the perfect one to honor that milestone. Maegan is an Associate Profes...

Is This Normal? Getting To Know Grief With Kendra Rinaldi

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kendra Rinaldi knows a lot about grief. When she was just 21, her sister died in a car accident. Ten years later she had a miscarriage. Ten years afte...

Building A World Worth Living In - Trends In Suicide Prevention & Postvention

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It might be better to ask Canada Taylor what she doesn't do in the realm of suicide prevention, postvention, and grief support rather than what she do...

Honoring A Great Love - Canada Taylor

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Twelve years ago today - August 30th - Canada Taylor was having an amazing night. She and her husband Rick were sitting outside, talking about life an...

My Long-Term Relationship With Grief - Barri Leiner Grant & The Memory Circle

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Barri Leiner Grant was 28, her mother Ellen died suddenly. Barri was hit with intense grief, but back then the expectation was to hurry up and ...

108 Ways To Survive Grief - Sweta Vikram

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In May of 2023, Sweta Vikram was overwhelmed with grief. In the span of three days, her father died, her father-in-law died, and it was the  9-yea...

Embodied Practices For Tending Grief - Camille Sapara Barton

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Camille Sapara Barton is a social imagineer who is reimagining how we define and relate to grief. As a writer, artist, and somatic practitioner, Camil...

Is There A Cure For Grief? - Cody Delistraty

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cody Delistraty is a journalist and he's also a son whose mother died of cancer. These two identities intersect in his new book, The Grief Cure, which...

The Ripple Effect Of Loss In Portland's Black Community - Sharice Burnett, LCSW

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's impossible to speak for an entire community, especially when it comes to grief, but Sharice Burnett, LCSW, knows a lot about the ripple effect of...

How To Stop Shoulding Yourself - Lisa Keefauver & Grief Is A Sneaky Bitch

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lisa Keefauver is a lot of things - she's a writer, speaker, educator, social worker, podcast host, mother, widow, and grief activist. She came to the...

Autism & Grief

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Autism & Grief Project is a new online platform designed to help adults with autism navigate and cope with the complexities of grief arising from ...

The Intimacy Of Friendship - Lissa Soep & Other People's Words

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever heard someone's voice in your head and suddenly you're transported to a time and place when you were with them? This phenomenon is what...

Changing The Landscape Of Grief Support For Latino Families

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cristina Chipriano, LCSW, Dougy Center's Director of Equity & Community Outreach and Melinda Avila, MSW, CEO of OYEN Emotional Wellness Center, are c...

A Living Remedy - Nicole Chung

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We cannot separate grief from the context in which it occurs. This is true for Nicole Chung whose adopted parents died just two years apart in 2018 a...

Conscious Grieving - Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Maybe you're familiar with the phrase, "You can't go around grief, you have to go through it." Or, "You have to feel your feelings." If you're like a ...

Caring For Young Widows In Nigeria - Diane Kalu

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2015, Diane Kalu was living in Nigeria with her husband and their three young children. One day, about eight weeks after the birth of their third c...

It's A Loss That's Hard To Talk About - Grieving A Friend

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Read Transcript Whenever Annette & Mel connect, there's always a third person in the mix. That third person is Amy, their friend and chosen family mem...

Creating A Home For Grief - Laura Green

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if there was a place you could go in your grief and be both perfect and broken? That's the kind of place Laura Green dreamed up with her friend a...

"I Felt Like Half A Person" – On Becoming A Widow

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In an instant, Leslie went from sharing every aspect of life with her husband Ryan to feeling like half a person. Leslie, Ryan, their two young childr...

Putting Grief On Hold - Channing Frye

10 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when you put your grief on hold? In the summer of 2016, Channing Frye was riding high. After over a decade in the NBA, his team, the Cl...

The Dangers Of Pathologizing Grief - Dr. Donna Schuurman, EdD, FT

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Donna Schuurman is back - this time talking about the dangers of pathologizing grief. While the term "complicated grief" has been used in various ...

Can They Even Understand? - Preschoolers & Grief

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Sat Kaur Khalsa, MSW, was three, her older brother died in a drowning accident. After his death, he continued to disappear - his photos were take...

Becoming Grief-Informed- Dr. Donna Schuurman & Dr. Monique Mitchell

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to be grief-informed? In 2020, Dr. Donna Schuurman, EdD, FT, and Dr. Monique Mitchell, PhD, FT, authored the paper, "Becoming Grief-...

The Realities of Black Grief – Doneila McIntosh, M.Div., M.A.

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The reality for Black individuals and families living in the U.S. is that death happens more often and earlier on than for their white counterparts. I...

You Have A Life Worth Rebuilding - Melissa Pierce & The Widow Squad

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What started out as an average winter morning ended up being one that would change everything in Melissa Pierce's life. She went to wake up her husban...

"So Sorry For Your Loss" - Dina Gachman

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dina Gachman's mother died of cancer in 2018 and less than three years later her sister died of alcoholism. A career journalist, Dina turned to writin...

How To Talk About What Happened - Adam Sawyer

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In January of 2022, Adam Sawyer had everything he dreamed of and more. His partner Kara was the love of his life. Their cat Lela was his all-time favo...

It's Okay That It's Not The Same - Grief At The Holidays

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's our fifth annual holidays & grief episode! This time of year can be grueling for anyone, but particularly for those who are grieving. So, each ye...

Tending To Trauma In Grief - Meghan Riordan Jarvis

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Meghan Riordan Jarvis's mother died suddenly, just two years after her father died of cancer, she watched herself grieving from two perspectives....

I've Missed Him At Every Milestone - Bridget

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bridget was in high school when her dad died of a heart attack in 2020. Their relationship was complicated. She loved the way her more creative side...

It Was Such A Shock - John

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

  When John's father died of suicide in 2021 it came as a complete shock. John couldn't square the dad he knew as cool and levelheaded with the real...

I Think He'd Be Proud Of Me - Sonja

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sonja was 15 when we recorded in the summer of 2023, but was just 10 when her father, Matt, died in September 2018 from injuries due to a car acciden...

When Your Spouse Dies Of Suicide - Alexandra Wyman

21 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alexandra Wyman and her husband Shawn had a bit of a whirlwind life. They got married in 2018, had their son in 2019, and then in 2020 Shawn died of s...

Love Isn't Finite - Grieving A Partner

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This was supposed to be an episode about going back to work with grief, but it's not. Emily did have to navigate going back to work after her partner ...

How To Make New Memories

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Katie Cosgrove experienced the death of someone close to her every year between the ages of 15 and 21. The first was her father, who died of brain enc...

How To Show Up For Others

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"How do I help someone who is grieving?" This is the perennial question when it comes to showing up for people we care about after someone dies. Zack ...

Love Is Stronger - Interrupting Gun Violence

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Lionel Irving is the founder of Love is Stronger, an organization in Portland, OR dedicated to supporting gang-impacted families and communities in ...

Becoming A Cultural Kinkeeper

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to be a cultural kinkeeper and how does that idea relate to grief? These are two of the questions we explore with Anika Chabra, co-f...

The Grief Garden - Supporting Collective Grief

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As more opportunities for non-traditional grief support arise, it's no surprise that many of them are happening in historically marginalized communit...

When I Think Of Him, Love Is The Word That Comes Up - Pierce Freelon

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pierce Freelon is a GRAMMY® nominated musician, author, and educator. He is also a son, a father, a husband, and an astute observer of life and grie...

How Do I Keep Going Without Her? Kelly S. Thompson

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Kelly S. Thompson and her older sister Meghan were children, they were close. Meghan was Kelly's protector and constant as they moved around as...

We Need Queer Specific Grief Spaces - Queer Grief Club & Jamie Thrower

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jamie Thrower is a Queer death doula, end-of-life educator, and grief guide in Portland, OR. She is also the founder of the Queer Grief Club which pro...

It Affects All Of My Relationships

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Even though most of us know and accept that grief doesn't have an end point, it can still be surprising to witness how much it impacts almost every as...

I Took A Year Off To Grieve - Rebecca Feinglos & GrieveLeave

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when you take a year away from your income generating work to focus completely on grief? This is the question Rebecca Feinglos faced at t...

There's No End Point - Sushi Tuesdays & Charlotte Maya

16 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's generally accepted that there's no official end point to grief, but what happens when there's also no end point to the questions about someone's ...

It's Still Complicated

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"What was your dad like?" It's a simple question that's not easy to answer when you had a complicated relationship with the person who died. Claire's ...

Laurel Braitman Learns To Feel Her Feelings - What Looks Like Bravery

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When her father died of cancer, a few days before her 18th birthday, Laurel Braitman started running. Running towards the academic and profession...