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Dr Vanessa Lacey recently finished her PhD studies on the grief experienced by older transgender women and their families. In this episode, Vanessa talks about her personal experience of loss,…

I’m so grateful to Rach Underhill for this really tender and beautiful episode. It’s coming up to two years since Rach’s beloved wife Kris died from terminal cancer. Rach takes…

The experience of grief within the LGBTQ+ community can be profoundly painful as a result of past losses connected to sexuality. This can be experienced as bereavement (the AIDS crisis),…

There’s often nothing more helpful to those who are suffering than an open and frank conversation from someone who has survived the abyss of depression, addiction or grief. I loved…

In this episode, we speak with Dr Francis McGivern about his recently published book ‘Life after a Partners Suicide Attempt’. Life After a Partner’s Suicide Attempt is the first publication…

A tender episode from D Anaya about the sudden death of her little daughter Phoebe and how difficult it was for her to find grief support as a black woman…

I often hear grieving people describe their experience of grief ‘like a tsunami’ that just washes over them. This week’s guest, Clemmie Clough, experienced the devastation first-hand of the 2004…

By the age of 15, Tahseen Rizvi had lost both her parents and was sent to live with relatives in another country, another continent, another culture. What followed was another…

Deena Goldstein talks about her father’s dying process, death and how writing about her grief helped her through. OK, Little Bird is an irreverent, funny and inspiring memoir about a…

A very insightful conversation with Linda Allen about her grief following her son’s death by suicide. We explore the physicality of grief, the importance of connection in grief, as well…

We know that grief never really goes away, we learn to live with it and accommodate it in our lives. For some people, about 5-10%, their grief can remain very…

The official launch of Shapes Of Grief was a truly powerful evening, last Thursday, March 31st 2022. Branwen Kavanagh opened and closed the event with her beautiful music. Introduction was…