GRIEF: Let's Make Sense of This Sh*t
Psychology & Relationships
About
Grief is messy , confusing, and at times, downright overwhelming. But you don’t have to navigate it alone. Grief: Let’s Make Sense of This Sht* is a podcast series designed to guide you through the complexities of loss with compassion, honesty, and a little bit of humor. Each main episode dives deep into specific aspects of grief, from navigating the emotional rollercoaster to finding healthy ways to cope. We share real-life stories, research-backed tools, and practical strategies that you can apply at your own pace. Alongside the main episodes, our “ 5 Mins Out ” bonus segments offer quick, actionable tips for when you need immediate relief . Whether you're grieving a loved one, the end of a relationship, or any significant loss, this podcast is here to remind you that it's okay to feel however you're feeling—and that healing is possible, one step at a time. 💛 Join Our Supporters Club 💛 If this podcast has helped you, consider joining our Supporters Club. Your support allows us to continue creating these important conversations around grief and mental health — conversations that are often too hard to find in today's world. Mental health services aren’t accessible for everyone, and we know how isolating that can feel. By joining, you’re helping us keep this space alive, providing comfort, tools, and real talk to those who need it most. Together, we can make sure that no one has to navigate grief alone. Click here to join our Supporters Club and help us help more people. We’re in this together. 💛
Episodes
- Evening Grief Release: Letting Go Before Bed
This episode explores why grief often feels more intense at night, discussing the physiological reasons and offering practical rituals to help process these feelings before bed. It focuses on creating intentional space to honor emotions wh…
- Routines Feel Impossible: Gentle Support for Grieving Days
This episode discusses how grief impacts daily routines and makes tasks feel impossible. It explores the brain science behind these disruptions and offers gentle approaches for coping with overwhelm and finding kindness during grieving day…
- Grief Guilt & "What Ifs": Finding Compassion for Yourself
This episode addresses guilt and "what if" thoughts common in grief, explaining them as signals of love and byproducts of counterfactual thinking. It offers strategies to relate to these thoughts with self-compassion rather than trying to…
- Daily Memory Ritual: Finding Gentle Ways to Remember Loved Ones
This episode introduces the Five-Minute Memory Box, a daily ritual to help grieving individuals maintain connections with lost loved ones through gentle remembrance. The practice emphasizes starting small, setting boundaries, and adapting…
- Unsticking Grief: Healing When the Process Gets Complicated
This episode addresses complicated grief, a state where the natural healing process becomes stuck. It helps listeners recognize signs of complicated grief, understand why healing may stall, and explore gentle methods for moving forward whi…
- Mindful Movement in Grief: Finding Your Body's Natural Wisdom & Support
This episode discusses the link between grief and physical movement, exploring how the body processes loss. It offers insights into mindful movement practices that can aid healing and provides resources for navigating grief.
- Validate Your Loss: Navigating Unrecognized Grief & Finding Healing
This episode discusses disenfranchised grief, where losses are not acknowledged by society. It explains how to validate your own experience of sorrow, cope with unacknowledged pain, and find support to honor your unique loss journey.
- Grief Journaling: Finding Peace in Five-Minute Writing Moments
This episode discusses the practice of five-minute grief journaling prompts as a tool for processing pain and finding peace. It explains how short writing sessions can offer relief and be more manageable than longer ones, providing accessi…
- Anticipatory Grief: Finding Peace While Holding Space for Loss
This episode discusses anticipatory grief, the emotional pain felt before a loss occurs. It covers how it differs from grief after a loss, strategies for managing guilt and staying present, and how to honor loved ones while preparing for t…
- Morning Grief & Empty Coffee Cups: Finding Your Dawn Ritual
This episode discusses the challenges of morning grief, offering insights into how early hours intensify loss. It provides guidance on creating meaningful morning rituals that honor loved ones and support the healing process, differentiati…
- Grief: Processing Emotions Without Drowning - Tools That Actually Work
This episode offers practical tools and insights for processing grief emotions, emphasizing that there's no single right way to grieve. It covers techniques for managing overwhelm, understanding the brain's response to loss, and honoring e…
- Grief: Building Emotional Resilience After Loss - Your Path Forward
This episode explores building emotional resilience after loss, defining it as learning to bend without breaking. It differentiates resilience from resistance and offers practical ways to hold both sorrow and joy, emphasizing growth around…
- Grief: Finding Hope After Loss - Stories of Healing Forward
This episode explores finding hope after loss, emphasizing that hope and grief can coexist. It offers research-backed insights and practical tools for nurturing hope while honoring your loved one, suggesting hope is earned by choosing ligh…
- Grief: Sleep and Rest During Loss - Your Body's Healing Guide
This episode discusses the link between grief and sleep disturbances, highlighting the body's need for rest during loss. It covers physical and emotional exhaustion, the role of grief dreams, and practical tips for resting without guilt, e…
- Grief: Finding Strength During Emotional Setbacks | Grief Podcast
This episode discusses how strength in grief is found through vulnerability and presence, not by avoiding pain. It explores how emotional setbacks are part of love, healing is non-linear, and authentic grief requires embracing softness.
- Daily Practices for Grief Recovery: Small Steps to Big Healing
This episode focuses on daily practices for grief recovery, emphasizing how small, consistent routines and rituals can foster healing, resilience, and self-kindness during loss. Host Dylan shares insights and practical tips for creating me…
- Accepting Change After Loss: Gentle Ways to Move Forward Through Grief
This episode of GRIEF: Let's Make Sense of This Sh*t discusses accepting change after loss. It covers the meaning of acceptance, how grief disrupts life, and offers strategies like mindfulness and radical acceptance, along with community s…
- Healing Affirmations for Grief: Positive Statements and Practical Comfort for Recovery
This episode of GRIEF: Let's Make Sense of This Sh*t discusses how affirmations can provide comfort and support during grief. It explains how to use positive statements for healing, even without full belief, and shares science-backed insig…
- Moving Forward After Loss: Practical Steps to Rebuild Your Life and Find Hope
This episode discusses moving forward after loss by rebuilding a life that honors grief and hope, not by forgetting. It offers practical strategies and compassionate insights for navigating the journey, dispelling myths about "getting over…
- Self-Care for Grief: Practical Tips to Support Your Healing Journey
This episode of GRIEF: Let's Make Sense of This Sh*t focuses on self-care during the grieving process. It addresses the challenges and guilt associated with prioritizing needs, offering practical tips, exercises, and reassurance that self-…
- How to Grieve a Relationship: Navigating the Loss of Loved Ones and Healing Your Heart
This episode discusses the multifaceted nature of grieving relationships, including the pain of loss, the science behind heartbreak, and practical strategies for healing and rebuilding one's life with compassion.
- Breathing Exercises for Grief: Five-Minute Calm for Mind and Body
This episode guides listeners through five-minute breathing exercises designed to offer calm amidst grief. It explains how grief affects breathing, the benefits of intentional breaths for mind and body, and provides grounding techniques fo…
- Overcoming Grief Triggers: Practical Steps to Move Forward and Find Peace
This episode discusses grief triggers, explaining what they are, why they occur, and their impact on the body and mind. It offers practical strategies for recognizing, anticipating, and responding to triggers with self-compassion, providin…
- Mindfulness for Grief: Simple Practices to Find Calm After Loss
This episode explains how mindfulness can help navigate grief, offering simple practices to ground yourself during overwhelming pain. It emphasizes that mindfulness is accessible to everyone and provides tools for managing difficult emotio…
- Healing Through Community: How Connection Supports Grief Recovery
This episode explores how imperfect connection and community support grief recovery. It covers finding support in family, friends, or strangers, and offers practical steps for rebuilding or rediscovering a support network. The episode high…
- Finding Grief Support: Building a Strong Support Network When You Need It Most
This episode discusses finding grief support and building a strong network, offering personal stories, exercises, and tips for seeking help and connection. It emphasizes that grief support is unique, small connections matter, and asking fo…
- The Five Stages of Grief: Understanding Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance
This episode discusses the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, emphasizing that grief is not a linear process. Host Dylan shares insights from listener stories and personal experience, offering guid…
- Coping Mechanisms for Grief: Techniques to Help You Heal
This episode defines coping mechanisms as lifelines for navigating grief and offers a quick, practical exercise. It emphasizes that while grief can't be fixed, it can be managed with small steps and highlights the importance of the Support…
- Understanding Loss: What You Need to Know
This episode delves into the multifaceted nature of loss, exploring its meaning, emotional and physical toll, and unpredictable manifestations. It offers research-backed tools and strategies to help listeners navigate the transformative jo…
- Quick Tips for Grief Relief: 5-Minute Stress Busters
This episode introduces "5 Mins Out," a segment offering quick, 5-minute tips for grief relief. It focuses on simple exercises and mindful strategies to manage grief-related stress, providing a brief respite for listeners navigating loss.
- How to Navigate Grief: A Guide for Healing
This episode provides a guide to navigating the non-linear process of grief, exploring emotional ups and downs and societal pressures. It includes real-life stories and research-backed coping strategies such as mindfulness, journaling, and…