My top 5 Podcasts on Grief
Like most of us, time has a habit of running away with us and all our best laid plans and intentions don’t always happen.
Early last year before we had even heard of Covid-19, I started recording my own podcasts about my experience of grief and how it had shaped my present thoughts and feelings. I was also lucky enough to have also had a willing friend to record an interview sharing her grief following the death of her mum. You can hear her story here: https://talkinglifeanddeath.com/podcasts
But with Covid, lockdown, home schooling and work, I haven’t had the chance to record anymore of my own podcasts on grief as I had planned – but I do hope to have the chance to pick this up again soon.
In the meantime, I have discovered some really inspiring podcasts on grief that I thought I would share – each offering a slightly different approach to talking about death, dying and grief:
- Grief Cast – hosted by Cariad Lloyd this is a sad, funny and inspiring podcast where comedians share their experience of grief and loss. https://cariadlloyd.com/griefcast
- Marie Curie on the couch – against the backdrop of this amazing charity that support patients and families at end of life, the podcast features well-known guests who open up and share their experiences of grief and death in a therapeutic conversation with Marie Curie’s bereavement expert. https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/talkabout/podcast
- Grief Works – having read Julia Samuel’s amazing book of the same name, I was pleased to discover she has created a podcast sharing her experience of working with the bereaved over a career spanning 25 years. Julia Samuel is a grief psychotherapist. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/grief-works/
- The Art of Dying Well – this is a podcast that aims to make the topic of talking about death and dying less uncomfortable. http://www.artofdyingwell.org/podcasts/
- The Grief Gang – hosted by Amber, a 22 year old who having lost her mum in 2016, created a podcast to normalise the conversation of grief amongst a younger generation. https://open.spotify.com/show/6RfXRi5ZaYtFcMBTPju8tL