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Send us Fan Mail When a plane crash changed everything, Jenny Brandemuehl chose to hold on to hope. In this episode, Jenny, a former technology executive and USA Today bestselling author of Forever Fly Free, talks about the months she spent at her husband Mark’s side at the Arizona Burn Center, and what hope, love and intuition taught her through that time and after his passing. In this conversation we cover topics including: Jenny’s definition of hope: not an expectation, but a belief in possibilitiesWhy she believes love is an energy, and how it rippled through a hospital and a communityHow she learned to trust her intuition and let go of controlWhat it means for her to love again without betraying the love she shared with MarkHer work with the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors to bring mental health support to burn survivors and the families who have lost someoneIf you are grieving a spouse, caring for someone who is seriously ill, or coping with a sudden loss, this episode offers honesty, comfort and hope. Jenny will join a panel at the Grieftastic Book Fair in Los Angeles on Friday, November 13. For more information visit: https://www.grieftastic.com #GriefTalkwithVonneSolis #griefpodcast #HopeAfterLoss #WidowSupport #ForeverFlyFree #HealingAfterLoss More about Jenny: Website: https://www.foreverflyfree.com Substack: https://substack.com/@jennybrandemuehl/posts Connect with Vonne: ✅ 🔔 Subscribe to the podcast to get more great episodes and notifications. 🗝 📖  Coaching and books: https://vonnesolis.com/resources/ 📸  Follow the podcast on Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/grieftalkwithvonnesolis/ ▶️  Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/M81vudRvU3w 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail If you've lost a child to suicide, you may know the silence that follows, when the people around you don't know what to say or do. In this conversation, Jackie Baker and I talk about the loss of her son Sebastian, and about what it means to grieve honestly and messily while holding on to faith. Jackie is a nurse practitioner, a bereaved mom, and the author of Messy Mourning, a faith-forward companion for mothers grieving the loss of a child to suicide. She shares Sebastian's story: a brilliant, competitive, well-read young man who, like every child lost to suicide, is so much more than a statistic. Together we talk about the guilt and the "what ifs," the stigma that still follows suicide loss, and how faith can hold you when everything feels dark. I'm honoured that Jackie trusted me with her story. Her hope and honesty may help anyone who has lost a child to suicide feel a little less alone. Key points we discuss: •💛 Why suicide loss can feel so isolating. Jackie and I talk about the silence that often follows, when the people around you don't know what to say, and how "acceptable" explanations for a death can make honest grief harder. •💛 Loving an adult child through their struggles. Jackie shares how she supported Sebastian while holding healthy boundaries, and how hard it is to do both at once. •💛 Guilt, anger, and the "what ifs." We both share the last conversations we had with our children, and how we've come to accept that we cannot control another person's choices. •💛 More than a statistic. Sebastian was brilliant, curious, competitive, and deeply loved. Jackie reminds us that every child lost to suicide is far more than the way they died. •💛 Where the stigma comes from. Drawing on her Master's in Biblical Studies, Jackie explains how suicide has been viewed in the church over the centuries and why that thinking is slowly changing. •💛 How faith and community carried her. Jackie describes how scripture, prayer, and a church family held her up, and how her belief that Sebastian is healed and whole gives her comfort. •💛 Why healing is not betrayal. You never forget your child, and you can live and laugh again without guilt. •💛 Patience with the process. Complicated grief after suicide is often not linear and can take five to seven years or more. Please don't stop showing up for someone after the first year. •💛 Where to find support. Jackie points to grief groups like GriefShare and to the resources on her website and encourages us to build a village rather than grieve alone. About Jackie: Jackie M. Baker holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Washington and a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies. She is the author of Messy Mourning and co-founded a free healthcare clinic for the underserved. She leads a grief group and offers suicide grief resources on her website. Links and resources: 🌐 Jackie's website and suicide grief resource list: jackiembaker.com 🤝 GriefShare, 13-week grief support groups: griefshare.org The Grief Talk Podcast links:   ▶️ Watch the episode on YouTube 📸  Follow the podcast on Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/grieftalkwithvonnesolis/ 🌐 For books and resources on grief, identity, and finding your way back to yourself by Vonne: vonnesolis.com If you're in crisis: In the U.S. or Canada, call or text 988. Elsewhere, please contact your local crisis line or emergency services. 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with clinical psychologist and EMDR pioneer Dr. Laurel Parnell for a conversation that moves between the personal and the professional. Laurel shares her own experience of child loss after the murder of her son, and how it reshaped her understanding of grief, while drawing on decades of clinical expertise to talk about trauma, spiritual connection after death, and the healing approaches she has developed and taught to clinicians worldwide. This EMDR, Resource Tapping, Attachment-Focused EMDR, and her signature Multidimensional Integrative Healing. 🔑 In This Episode •Multidimensional healing and the spiritual experience of child loss  •Soul parts, soul contracts and after-death communication  •When grief, diagnosis and deeper spiritual experiences intersect  •The overlooked grief of stepparents and changing identity after loss  •What truly helps someone who is grieving  •EMDR, resource tapping and rethinking what healing means — “broken is not wrong” 🎧 Listen to the full episode of The Grief Talk Podcast w/  Vonne Solis and discover a deeper conversation about grief, healing, trauma, spiritual connection, and finding your way forward after loss. 👉 Watch, listen, and subscribe to The Grief Talk Podcast for more honest conversations and practical insights for navigating life’s hardest hits. #GriefTalk #EMDR #ChildLoss #TraumaHealing #GriefSupport #SpiritualConnection #AfterDeathCommunication #DrLaurelParnell #GriefJourney #HealingFromLoss Resources & Links Dr. Parnell's website: drlaurelparnell.com Connect with The Grief Talk Podcast: 📸 Instagram: @grief_talk 🌐 Website: vonnesolis.com — books and resources on grief, identity, and finding your way back to yourself. 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail "I am not Mormon." That's what Audra Phelps told herself in the mirror the night she left the LDS Church — after 10 years of quiet doubt and one policy she couldn't "unhear. Audra Phelps, founder of Mama Audra and creator of the Reclaimed Program, joins me to share her journey out of a high-control religion: the rigid roles assigned to women, the purity culture and shame around her body, and the pressure to be "an example" from childhood. She opens up about the anxiety and depression that came from living a life that wasn't her own, the grief of losing family and community after leaving, and how she now helps other ex-Mormon moms rebuild their identity using NLP, hypnotherapy, and neuroscience-based coaching. Topics covered: Growing up inside a high-control religionHow the LDS Church structures women's roles around marriage and motherhoodPurity culture and body shame from childhoodThe breaking point that led Audra to leave at age 35Grieving family, community, and her former selfUsing NLP and subconscious belief work to rebuild identityThis episode was shaped for more than one audience. If you've left the LDS Church, or if you've ever handed your power over to a belief system, a relationship, or an expectation that was never really yours — this episode is for you. Connect with Audra: mamaaudra.com ✨ BONUS OFFER Book a free consult with Audra and get 50% off your first individual coaching session — open to any woman navigating a faith transition or leaving a high-control organization. Just mention PODCAST when you book to claim the discount. 👉 mamaaudra.com/oneonone Connect with The Grief Talk Podcast: 📸 Instagram: @grief_talk 🌐 Website: vonnesolis.com — books and resources on grief, identity, and finding your way back to yourself.   🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail What if the patterns you keep repeating in relationships, career, and self-talk were already mapped out before you took your first breath? 🌬️  In this episode of Grief Talk, I sit down with Marvin Wilkerson, spiritual coach, hypnotherapist, and author of Soul Fusion Healing: Integrating Mind, Body, and Soul, for a conversation on what it really means to heal from the inside out. With 50 years of experience blending humanistic astrology, hypnotherapy, and NLP, Marvin offers a grounded take on spirituality, focussed less on predicting your next big break and more on understanding why you experience life the way you do. The conversation moves through some of the biggest questions people ask: Do we actually have free will? Why do we keep repeating painful patterns even when we know better? What is "soul fragmentation," 🌀 and how does it show up as anxiety, self-sabotage, or chronic fatigue? Marvin doesn't offer easy answers. He offers a framework for taking responsibility, adjusting how we relate to our own energy, and learning to live event to event, moment to moment. We also touch on how this kind of soul-level work can support those navigating grief and loss. If you're curious about astrology, drawn to the subconscious mind, or simply looking for a new lens on why you are the way you are, this episode is an invitation to get curious about your own path, and offers the tools to help you start making the changes you've been wanting to make in your life. 🔎 In this episode learn: 🔮 Why Marvin sees astrology as therapeutic, not predictive. 🧠 How hypnosis and NLP access the subconscious mind and is where the real healing happens. 🌀 What soul fragmentation is and how it quietly shapes your daily life. 🕊️ The truth about "free will" and what's actually within your control. 💬 Why self-talk is one of the most powerful (and damaging) tools we have. 🌱 How to start living in alignment with your soul's purpose, one event at a time. If this episode resonates with you and you are navigating grief or loss, or want to expand your thinking, know that support is available. I host the Grief Talk podcast to help you feel less alone on the path toward healing and personal growth. 💛 About Marvin Wilkerson: Marvin Wilkerson is a hypnotherapist, humanistic astrologer, and spiritual coach with five decades of experience helping clients heal through the integration of mind, body, and soul. He is the author of Soul Fusion Healing: Integrating Mind, Body, and Soul. #GriefTalk #Astrology #Hypnotherapy #SoulFusionHealing #GriefSupport #MindBodySoul #SelfDiscovery 🔗 Connect with Marvin: soulfusionhealing.com | astromarv.com | blhypnosis.com If you are navigating grief or loss or simply feel lost, know that support is available. I host the Grief Talk Podcast w/ Vonne Solis to help you feel less alone on the path toward healing and personal growth. 💛 For support books on grief, suicide and child loss and to learn about my signature coaching services for personal growth: 🔗 Connect with me at: vonnesolis.com 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail What if your brain already holds everything you need to heal? In this eye-opening and powerful conversation, I sit down with the remarkable Dr. Yvonne Oswald, international keynote speaker, Master Trainer of NLP and Hypnosis, and the author of Every Word Has Power - translated into 11 languages - to learn how NLP and hypnosis can help us clear negative emotions at their root and clear them in minutes, not years.⏱️ The secret to her global impact? Dr. Yvonne’s approach to healing has been called revolutionary, refreshingly practical, and astonishingly fast. She doesn’t teach people how to cope with emotions. She teaches them how to clear emotions permanently. Drawing from her latest book No More Therapists: Your Brain Has the Answer - Clear Negative Emotions in Minutes Not Years, Dr. Yvonne walks us through her 9 Rapid Release Codes™ - precise neurological techniques designed to return you to calm, clear thinking fast. I actually tried one live during this episode, and it genuinely works! We also unravel the power of Mind Magic – her award-winning technique for clearing negative emotions and the limiting beliefs we all have that shape our daily lives and quietly form before we’re 7 years old.👶 As a bereaved mom since 2005, this conversation touched me in ways I didn't expect. And as a bereaved mom herself – having lost her only child and daughter needlessly at just 22-years old, Dr. Yvonne speaks from a place of profound personal understanding. In fact, it was that catastrophic loss that compelled her to write this book and bring her revolutionary work to as many people as possible. Together in this episode we explore - and demonstrate - how these techniques work in real time. And while Dr. Yvonne is clear that negative emotions will always show up (they make up 80% of our thoughts, 90% of our day), we absolutely can reduce how frequently they appear, how hard they hit, and how long they linger. 🗝️ Key points discussed: • What the 9 Rapid Release Codes™ are and how they work neurologically • How Mind Magic™ clears limiting beliefs formed before age 7 • Why 80% of our thoughts are negative — and what to do about it • Live demo: trying a Rapid Release Code in real time • Dr. Yvonne's personal grief journey and how it shaped her work • The difference between coping with emotions vs. clearing them permanently 🎧 If you're on a healing journey — whether through grief, trauma, or simply wanting more peace and joy in your life — this episode is for you. Watch or listen now for personal growth insights, grief support, and practical healing tools unlike anything I've shared before on this podcast. This is one conversation that could genuinely change how you see yourself and your capacity to heal.💛 ✨ Don't miss the resources Dr. Yvonne shares throughout our conversation from her 9 Rapid Release Codes™ to upcoming classes and private sessions.  ▶️ Press play now and clear what's been holding you back — in minutes, not years.  #GriefHealing #NLP #Hypnosis #EmotionalHealing #TraumaRecovery  RESOURCES: 🌐 Dr. Yvonne's Website: https://www.globalwelcome.com  ▶️ Dr. Yvonne's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/YvonneOswaldPhD 🎓 Offers and Class June 20th https://globalwelcome.com/safety-box Connect with Vonne: https://vonnesolis.com 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail 💔 In the United States alone, nearly 62,000 children and adolescents lose a sibling every year. Yet sibling grief remains one of the most overlooked and unacknowledged forms of loss, despite being one of our most significant and enduring relationships. Too often, the grief of a bereaved sibling is overshadowed by the attention given to parents and spouses, leaving siblings feeling invisible in their pain. In this episode, my guest Maribeth Swan and I open up a conversation that is real, raw, and long overdue. Maribeth knows grief from the inside out. In 2000, she lost her younger brother to suicide at the age of 25 — a fraternal twin to her surviving brother, and a loss that cracked her world open and led her toward a deeper connection with death and loved ones beyond the veil.🕊️ A debilitating accident in 2018 further changed her path and drew her into the healing world of flower essences.🌸 Today, as a Flower Essence Practitioner and Intuitive Counselor, Maribeth is dedicated to helping others navigate loss and develop a more reverent relationship with Nature, bringing them closer to their own true Essence and healing. In this episode, we get real about sibling grief and the silence that can be just as painful as the loss itself. Topics include: •Why sibling grief is one of the most overlooked and unacknowledged forms of loss •The unique and lifelong bond between siblings and why its loss hits differently •How loss reshapes family dynamics and the challenges that follow •Afterlife communication, signs from loved ones, and the comfort of mediumship •The role of spiritual practices and nature in finding peace and healing •Why talking openly about death and grief matters more than most of us realize •How Flower Essences can support emotional healing during grief •The importance of community and support in navigating the long road through loss Based in Massachusetts, Maribeth alchemizes her own essences, writes a monthly New Moon newsletter 🌙, composes music on her dulcimer, and is endlessly passionate about the wisdom of plants. Whether you are a bereaved sibling yourself or someone who loves one, this conversation is for you. Sibling grief deserves to be seen, heard, and honoured and that starts with breaking the silence together. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦  🎧 Listen or watch now and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. 💛 If this episode touched your heart, please leave a review and help us reach others who are walking this path alone. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Website: https://afsp.org/ 📚 Study References: Hulsey et al., 2018: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30513272/ Science Direct, 2022: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S088259632200118X 🌿 Connect with Maribeth and explore her work at:. https://swanessence.com More resources from Vonne are available at: https://vonnesolis.com 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail What does grief look like when it doesn't fit the mold? When the casseroles stop arriving? When the world expects you to move on and you’re not ready? In this heartfelt episode, author and poet Jackie L. Disch shares the story behind her memoir Losing Katy, guiding us through the deeply personal and non-linear journey of losing her wife Katy, to sudden strokes during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jackie's story also offers a perspective into is something so many of us carry quietly: when we don't see ourselves reflected in the mainstream conversation around loss. From honouring Katy’s end-of-life wishes to finding unexpected comfort in life's smallest moments, Jackie's experience invites us to rethink the way we understand and support everyone in their grief. In our conversation, we explore the healing power of writing, the signs of connection that transcend loss, and why open conversations about death may be one of the greatest gifts we can give to the people we love. Whether you've lost a same-sex partner, a non-traditional relationship, or simply feel like your grief has been minimized or misunderstood this conversation is for you. #GriefJourney #GriefSupport #SpousalLoss #EndOfLifePlanning For more grief resources and books: Jackie’s website: https://www.jackieldisch.com Vonne’s website: https://vonnesolis.com/resources 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your consciousness leaves your body and everything you thought you were dissolves? In this profound episode, Allura Halliwell, creator of The Consciousness Method™ transformational guide and author, shares her life-altering awakening experience that began during a meditation in 2018 - felt like a quantum leap in consciousness that led to a complete unravelling of her identity. What followed was a three-year integration process that challenged everything she knew about reality, Self, and transformed her into a voice of consciousness. Today, Allura helps countless others tap into the portal of awakeningthrough The Consciousness Method™ and chart their own journey from wounded to wholeness on the path home to Source. In this episode, we explore the deeper meaning of awakening and how pain is not something to escape, but a portal to Source. Through her work, The Consciousness Method™, Allura teaches that healing isn’t about fixing behavior, but about embodying your pain to liberate trapped consciousness that keeps us stuck and unhealed. We dive into self-responsibility, rewiring relationships, and the radical transformation that occurs when you stop resisting your pain and embrace it as your pathway home. If you’re ready to stop searching and start remembering who you are, join us. Let this be a start to your return to Source.🤍🌿✨ #SpiritualAwakening #Consciousness #PersonalTransformation Connect with Allura: https://allurahalliwell.com Connect with Vonne: https://vonnesolis.com 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail What if success isn’t the problem but the way you’ve been taught to chase it is?  In this episode, I sit down with Randy Lyman, physicist, entrepreneur, emotional intelligence expert and author, who shares how he reached high levels of success but still wasn't happy. This conversation flips the script on what abundance really means and why external wins don’t always translate into internal peace and contentment. Here’s the shift: if you want a life that actually feels good, it has to start from within. In our discussion, Randy invites you to suspend your doubt by looking at the Law of Attraction differently. It’s not just about positive thinking. It actually responds to how you feel. When your emotions are unhealed, you will keep attracting the same patterns. But when you start doing the inner work, things will begin to change in a real, grounded way. Put simply: Randy says your thoughts and actions won’t create lasting change. But feeling differently will! Your emotions are the driving force behind what you attract. So, if life isn’t shifting for you, it’s not about trying harder, but about healing deeper. Drawing from his book The Third Element, Randy explains how the inner child holds onto unresolved pain that shapes your emotional patterns, reactions, and results. When you start healing that, everything changes. And this is where the the Law of Attraction stops feeling like a concept and starts responding to your positive energy in a magical way, helping you create the abundance and happiness you want that actually will last! Stop chasing success that looks good and start creating a life that actually feels good. This episode will challenge everything you’ve been taught about achievement, happiness, and the Law of Attraction. If you’re ready to break the cycle and experience real, lasting change from within. 🚀✨ Start the shift ... tune in now! Connect with Randy: randylyman.com Connect with Vonne: vonnesolis.com Living Meditations on YouTube 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail What happens when timeline healing opens the door to consciousness beyond time — and the afterlife responds? In this powerful and thought-provoking episode, Barbara With, author, international speaker, and longtime psychic channel of Einstein and the Party of Twelve, returns to join me in a powerful conversation exploring timeline healing, Einstein-inspired Conflict Revolution, past-life connections, and emerging scientific inquiry into consciousness and afterlife communication. From personal healing journeys to real-world signs received through modern technology, this episode bridges science, spirituality, grief and transformation that invites listeners to rethink reality, identity, and the nature of connection beyond physical life. Tune in now and discover what becomes possible when healing transcends time, consciousness expands beyond the physical, and connection proves it never truly ends. #TimelineHealing #AfterlifeCommunication #Consciousness #SoulEvolution  #SpiritualAwakening Barbara’s websites: barbarawith.com synergyalliance.llc Vonne’s website vonnesolis.com  Link to Barbara With Part 1 Ep. 95 “Compassion as the New Force: Einstein’s Afterlife Insights on Consciousness and Conflict Podcast streaming: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2021182/episodes/16005348 YouTube: https://youtu.be/HLrHpgt1afs Want a reading with Barbara? Use the code Einstein40 for discount (no kickbacks to Vonne). 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail In this deeply authentic and informative conversation, Dr. Nicki J. Monti, psychotherapist, TV & Radio personality, therapist to the stars, world-renowned teacher, author and speaker shares the transformational lessons she learned during the 18-month goodbye as she cared for her husband, Konrad, through his battle with cancer. Drawing from her latest book and personal memoir, The Divine Traumedy of Nicki Joy, A True Grime Tale, she shares her greatest lessons that transformed her speaking directly to palliative caregivers navigating anticipatory grief, emotional exhaustion, and the quiet courage required to love someone to the end. Dr. Nicki explores her belief that we die the way we live and how caregiving becomes a mirror, revealing our patterns, childhood wounds, and our capacity for presence. She reflects on the humbling necessity of asking for and receiving help, the sacred responsibility of providing closure with our loved ones, living and dying, and the profound love that can emerge in suffering.💛 Most powerfully, Dr. Nicki shares how walking beside death did not diminish her but instead, transformed her in her grief, as she reclaimed her organic voice, rediscovered joy, and allowed herself to love again. This episode serves as a guide and companion for caregivers learning how to survive the long goodbye, while still choosing life for themselves. #CaregiverSupport #AnticipatoryGrief #CaregiverBurnout #GriefHealing  #EndOfLifeCare 📣✨ ASK DR. NICKI — Follow-Up Episode We’re recording a follow-up episode with Nicki J. Monti and this time we’re diving deeper into trauma patterns, imposter syndrome, generational conditioning and reclaiming your organic voice. Dr. Nicki’s ready to answer your questions! 📢 🆕 Send a text on my new Fan Mail feature at the beginning of this episode’s show notes. Your question may be answered when Dr. Nicki and I record our next episode! • Where do you feel stuck in a repeating trauma pattern? • What feels hardest to say out loud? • What part of your story are you ready to release? Check out: Dr. Nicki’s resources: https://stucknomore.com Vonne’s resources: https://vonnesolis.com 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail In this powerful kickoff to Season 7, returning guest Mitch Weisburgh reveals what’s really happening in your limbic or survivor brain and how to shift to the sage brain in seconds to reclaim clarity, control, and intentional living in every decision and moment of your life! ⚡  ⏱️ Did you know that the limbic brain can generate 30–40 reactions in less than a second? That it's constantly scanning for threats that prime us to react to danger? To respond to situations and be resilient and joyful in all areas of our lives requires access to our Sage brain. In this episode offered as a masterclass, you’ll learn practical skills and techniques of MindShifting to interrupt your survivor brain reactions and engage the prefrontal cortex to enjoy more clarity, creativity, and connection in your relationships and life. 🎯  The foundation of all great relationships, whether personal or professional is positive connection. Understanding how the brain works - especially in trauma and utilizing the techniques of MindShifting will help you sharpen your conflict resolution skills and elevate your skills related to decision-making, partnerships, leadership, parenting, personal growth and self-confidence. In this masterclass Mitch unpacks: 🧠 💪🧘‍♀️  • understanding the Limbic brain’s role in our survival, cultural conflict and group mentality • recognizing and managing limbic reactions in conflict • the five styles of conflict (compete, accommodate, avoid, compromise, collaborate) • the neurological and biological drivers of the limbic brain • the Sage system and practical techniques working with the OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) • why stress hormones (cortisol and adrenaline) must settle before rational thinking can occur and the 5 powers of the Sage brain • what happens in the Sage brain when happy hormones (DOSE) kick in to support higher-order thinking and emotional resilience • How Vonne applies MindShifting tools in trauma when defaulting to survivor brain patterns • the 5 types of situations that lead to conflict • practical techniques to shift from Limbic to Sage in just seconds to be more resilient and joyful ⚖️ Join us in this jam-packed masterclass and learn how to shift from survival to intention, reactivity to wisdom, and conflict to collaboration using MindShifting tools starting today!  Your sage brain is available – starting now! 🌱 Link to Part 1 Ep. 108: "MindShifting for Success: How to Escape Survival Mode and Unlock Your True Potential" https://www.buzzsprout.com/2021182/episodes/17939753 Connect with Mitch: https://www.mindshiftingwithmitch.com Connect with Vonne: https://vonnesolis.com 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, enjoy this deeply moving (and sometimes humorous) conversation with my guest, Dr. Greg Linkowski, diagnostic radiologist (retired), spiritual mentor, author and bereaved dad since 2002. From a childhood fuelled by chaos, his dad's addiction, emotional upheaval and witnessing his father’s darkest struggles, to the devastating loss of his young son years later, Greg shares his story of resilience and courage with unabashed honesty and vulnerability to offer hope and guidance to anyone walking a similar path. In his new book, “Dare to Thrive”, Greg states that while pain is inevitable, it does not have to define who we are. Through faith, courage and hope, we can heal our deepest wounds and transform our lives. Key Insights From Our Conversation: • A Life Shaped by Early Trauma • The Generational Impact of Trauma  • Faith as a Foundation for Healing • Parenting a Seriously Ill Child • The Power of Community and Support • Finding Meaning After Loss  This is a heartfelt conversation to help anyone navigating trauma, loss and other struggles.  #DareToThrive #GregLinkowski #ChildLossSupport #BereavedParents #GriefJourney #HealingAfterLoss #TraumaHealing #GenerationalTrauma  Connect with Greg: Instagram: @thegreglinkowski_m.d Facebook: Greg Linkowski M.D. Email: [email protected] Book: Dare to Thrive Joni and Friends Christian Ministry: https://joniandfriends.org/ Vonne’s Website (books/resources): www.vonnesolis.com 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of this two-part series, I sit down with Vickie Menendez, transformational guide and author of Crystal’s Butterfly Effect. As a bereaved mom of four children, Vickie shares her extraordinary journey of finding meaning and purpose after unimaginable loss. An inspiring story to uplift everyone's soul! 🕊️ In this episode, we discuss drug addiction, suicide loss, self-care, self-love in healing, Afterlife and signs from our loved ones, the art of Kintsugi as a powerful metaphor for loving our broken heart, regulation of the nervous system, spiritual awareness, soul contracts and grief support. 💖 ✨ Conversation Highlights: Wesley’s Contract, Drug Addiction and Losing Jesse in 2023: An open discussion on the cultural and emotional stigma surrounding suicide and addiction. Suicide Loss, Stigma and Signs from Afterlife: Vonne speaks of losing her daughter to suicide in 2005 and how profound grief deepened her experiences of Afterlife communication with her daughter. Multiple Timelines and Soul Contracts: Together, Vonne and Vickie explore how our souls may live out multiple timelines and lessons simultaneously, expanding how we understand healing and connection across lifetimes. The Power of Self-Care & Self-Love: They discuss how reconnecting with love and joy strengthens the bond with loved ones in spirit and transforms pain into peace. Kintsugi & Healing: Vickie explains the Japanese art of Kintsugi as a powerful metaphor for honouring one’s life history and loving our broken pieces. Regulating the Nervous System: Vickie demonstrates how breath work can help calm the nervous system. Vickie’s Contract With Her Children: Vickie reflects on her spiritual insights and how each of her children’s transitions revealed her larger soul contract. Resources & Support: Vickie shares information about her healing retreats, The Chrysalis Journey, and her coaching services to help others. Healing is a lifelong journey anchored to love, acceptance, and self-respect. By embracing our vulnerability, and through courage, awareness and acceptance for all we have experienced, we can trust that even in heartbreak, there is sacred beauty to be found and a meaningful life, waiting for us to embrace. #GriefHealing #BreathworkForHealing #AfterlifeConnection #ConsciousLiving #GriefTalkPodcast #KintsugiHealing #DrugAddictionLoss #BereavedParents Vickie's book and resources: https://vickiemenendez.com/ Vonne's books and resources: https://vonnesolis.com/ 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan Mail You can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode. Your voice helps shape the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk