When Grief Comes Home
by Erin Leigh Nelson, Colleen Montague LMFT, and Brad Quillen
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About this podcast
When Grief Comes Home is a podcast that supports parents who are grieving while raising children living through the loss of a parent or sibling. From how to talk to your child about the death to healing practices for resiliency, this podcast addresses challenges parents face after a significant death and ways to process, honor, and integrate the loss over time. Listeners will feel understood and better equipped to process and express their own grief as they support their child.
The When Grief Comes Home podcast goes along with the book of the same name. The book can be ordered at https://www.amazon.com/When-Grief-Comes-Home-Supporting/dp/1540904717
Episodes
The newest 20 of 43 episodes
- Supporting Parents Who Have Lost a Child with Compassionate Friend's CEO Andy McNiel · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 3Grief can make you feel like your inner world no longer matches the life happening around you, and that gap can be lonely in a way that’s hard to explain. We talk with Andy…
- After the Goodbye: Practical Steps for Families · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 2The hours and days after a death can feel unreal: your world is in park, but the outside world keeps moving at full speed. We offer a practical, gentle after-death checklist for…
- Secondary Losses · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 1Grief doesn’t only take a person. It can take your future in a hundred quiet ways, then surprise you with a wave when you thought you were “doing okay.” Today we’re talking about…
- How To Support Your Child Through Grief · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 19Grief changes a family’s whole weather system, and parenting through it can feel impossible when you’re trying to protect a child while you’re hurting too. We sit down with Dr…
- Northing Is Wasted: Part 2 - Davey Blackburn · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 18The hardest losses do not stay neatly private, and when grief becomes public it can feel like you are bleeding in front of a crowd. We sit down again with Davey Blackburn to talk…
- Nothing Is Wasted: Part 1 - Davey Blackburn · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 17A random, shuffled worship song becomes a turning point in a story no family ever wants to live. We sit down with pastor and author Davey Blackburn to talk about the murder of…
- The Griever's Calendar · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 16Some of the hardest grief days aren’t circled on anyone’s holiday planner. We’ve learned from parents that the calendar can ambush you with emotion on days you never expected…
- Expressing Your Grief Through the Arts · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 15Grief often steals our words, but the body keeps speaking. We open up about how loss rewires the nervous system, why kids struggle to “talk it out,” and what actually helps…
- God Meets Us In Our Suffering · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 14The ground can drop out in a single phone call—or grind away over months of scans and unanswered pain. We sit down with pastors and co-authors Rolf Jacobson and Michael Pancost…
- How Saying Goodbye Affects Grief · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 13What if you never got to say goodbye? We dig into that question with honesty and care, unpacking how sudden loss and anticipated loss shape grief in different, but equally real…
- Saying Goodbye - After a Long Term Illness · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 12The diagnosis redraws the map of a family’s life, and suddenly everyone is living in two worlds: the one they knew and the one they never asked for. We dive into anticipatory…
- Grieving Your Disenfranchised Loss · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 11Some grief gets welcomed with casseroles and open arms. Other grief is met with silence, side‑eye, or the sense that you don’t have the right to mourn. We go straight at…
- Going Back to School After Loss · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 10When a child returns to school after a death, routine and heartbreak collide. We open this conversation with Erin’s story of walking her daughter into kindergarten weeks after…
- Going Back to Work After Loss · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 9The hardest calendar invite is the one that pulls you back to work after a death. Your world has changed, yet the inbox still fills, the meetings still stack, and people don’t…
- How to Support a Griever During the Holidays · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 8Joyful traditions can feel unbearably loud when grief settles in a home. We sat down to map out a kinder way to show up for grieving parents during the holidays—one rooted in…
- Grieving Through the Holiday Season · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 7The lights are bright, the music is loud, and everywhere you look someone is telling you to be merry—while your home carries an empty seat. We open the door to a different way of…
- Growing Through Loss · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 6Welcome to the When Grief Comes Home podcast. We're glad you're here. This podcast supports parents who are grieving a spouse, partner, or child while helping their children who…
- Growth After Loss · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 5Welcome to the When Grief Comes Home podcast. We're glad you're here. This podcast supports parents who are grieving a spouse, partner, or child while helping their children who…
- Cradled in Hope · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 4Welcome to the When Grief Comes Home podcast. We're glad you're here. This podcast supports parents who are grieving a spouse, partner, or child while helping their children who…
- Pregnancy Loss and Stillbirth · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 3Welcome to the When Grief Comes Home podcast. We're glad you're here. This podcast supports parents who are grieving a spouse, partner, or child while helping their children who…
