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Sorting through a loved one’s belongings after loss is one of the hardest, most emotional parts of grief. In this episode of Mourning Sips & Soul Shifts, I’m sharing gentle guidance and practical steps for navigating this tender process with more ease and compassion.

You’ll learn how to:

✨ Decide what to keep, donate, or let go of when you’re grieving

✨ Honor the emotional attachments you have to items without feeling overwhelmed

✨ Break the process into manageable steps so it feels less heavy

✨ Practice self-compassion and patience as you move through this stage of grief

This episode is a reminder that while objects may carry meaning, the love and memories you hold can never be lost. This episode is for anyone facing the difficult but necessary task of clearing a loved one’s belongings while honoring their memory and your own healing journey.

If you’re struggling with this part of grief, this episode offers both practical tools and heartfelt encouragement to help you take it one step at a time.

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In this episode of the Life With Grief podcast we welcome Blair Kaplan Venables, a grief and resilience expert, to share her powerful story of overcoming profound loss and adversity.

Blair opens up about navigating her father’s addiction, multiple family deaths, miscarriage, and her husband’s health crisis—and how she transformed these experiences into a mission of healing and empowerment.

Together, we explore:

✨ The role of forgiveness in grief and resilience

✨ Practical tools for coping with grief and trauma

✨ The neuroscience of resilience and emotional healing

✨ What being “resilient A.F.” really means

✨ How the Global Resilience Project was born to support others in their darkest times

✨ Why community is essential when rebuilding life after loss

This conversation is a moving reminder that while grief reshapes us, it can also awaken resilience, purpose, and strength we didn’t know we had.

Whether you’re looking for hope, healing, or real-life strategies for navigating grief, this episode will leave you feeling seen, supported, and Resilient AF.

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We’re shaking it up for today’s episode of Mourning Sips & Soul Shifts today, y’all! 

What happens when five grief-focused podcast hosts come together to speak grief out loud? You’ll see in this episode!

This is a special recording of Giving Grief a Voice, a live panel hosted by Reimagine. In this heartfelt and honest conversation, five fellow hosts and myself share how telling and hearing stories of loss can bring comfort, connection, and hope. 

Together, we explore the cultural power of naming grief out loud and the practical ways podcasts can hold space for those navigating life after loss.

You’ll hear about:

✨How grief storytelling creates community and helps us feel less alone

✨The ways podcasts can challenge cultural silence and expand grief literacy

✨ What it takes to share your own grief story with care, integrity, and purpose

Whether you’re a griever, a listener, or someone curious about starting your own grief-focused show, this episode offers compassion, practical insight, and the reminder that you are not alone.

If you’ve ever tuned into a podcast and thought, “Finally, someone gets it,” this event is for you.

Link to the full event: https://letsreimagine.org/76768/giving-grief-a-voice

Guest Bios:

• Tara Accardo – Grief and Soul Purpose Coach, host of Life With Grief Podcast, and creator of Losses Become Gains. She guides others through loss with compassion and practical tools.
• Grant Garry – Award-winning filmmaker, actor, singer, and Certified Grief Educator. Director of the documentary Meet Me Where I Am and host of the Where I Am podcast, Grant blends storytelling and performance to honor the realities of loss.
• Lisa Keefauver, MSW – Social worker, widow, cancer survivor, and author of Grief is a Sneaky Bitch. She hosts a top-rated podcast of the same name, reimagining how we approach loss through curiosity and storytelling.
• Nina Rodriguez – Grief guide, podcast host, and founder of Grief and Light, born from the sudden loss of her only sibling. She offers circles, coaching, and resources for a grief-informed, hopeful world.
• Matt Gilhooly – Host of The Life Shift Podcast, Matt explores the pivotal moments that shape us, often rooted in personal experiences with grief, resilience, and transformation.

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In this episode of the Life with Grief podcast, I’m welcoming Sundari Malcolm—grief expert, birth, grief, and death doula, author, and founder of the Healing Doula Academy.

Sundari opens up about her deeply personal grief journey after losing both parents to cancer in her twenties and early thirties. 

Raised between New York City and a yoga ashram in Virginia, she shares how spiritual practices like yoga, breathwork, rituals, and more have shaped her healing path.

Together, we explore:

✨ The importance of fully embracing grief rather than avoiding it.

✨ How indigenous and ancient healing practices can support the grieving process.

✨ Grounding techniques for grievers using yoga, breathwork, and ceremony.

✨Practical ways to weave holistic grief tools into your daily life.

If you’re seeking holistic grief support or want to learn how spiritual and ancestral practices can transform your healing, this episode offers both inspiration and actionable guidance you won’t want to miss.

Listen now to discover how you can honor your grief, reconnect with your body, and find peace through sacred, grounding rituals.

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In this episode of Mourning Sips and Soul Shifts on the Life With Grief podcast, I’m exploring the emotional paradox many grievers face—deep heartache over losing a loved one, yet relief that they are no longer in pain.

I’m unpacking this tender balance of love, loss, and peace, offering a safe space to acknowledge conflicting emotions like guilt, sadness, and comfort. I’m breaking down compassionate insights and practical strategies to help you:

✨ Understand the coexistence of grief and relief

✨ Release guilt around feeling peace after a loved one’s passing

✨ Honor your loss while embracing moments of healing

If you’ve ever struggled with the bittersweet reality of wanting your loved one here yet knowing it was their time, this episode will help you navigate that emotional terrain with compassion and clarity.

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Today I’m sitting down with Rachel Hart-Phillips, a deeply courageous griever and founder of Love, Loss, and Disco Balls, which offers heartfelt sympathy cards for those grieving and supporting others through grief.

In this episode, Rachel shares her powerful story of surviving multiple devastating losses, and how she has found healing, hope, and love again.

She opens up about losing both her parents to cancer in her early adulthood, and the life-altering experience of losing her husband to suicide while she was pregnant with their son. With raw honesty, she reflects on navigating anger, shock, and loneliness in the aftermath of traumatic grief, all while preparing to become a mother.

Now remarried and raising her five-year-old son with her partner, Warren, Rachel shares how she’s created a new life rooted in resilience, joy, and community. She also talks about building her grief-inspired business, Love, Loss, and Disco Balls.

This episode is a moving conversation about grief after suicide, parental loss, motherhood through grief, and what it really looks like to heal and rebuild. Whether you’re grieving a loved one, supporting someone who is, or simply looking for inspiration through the darkness, this conversation will leave you feeling seen, supported, and not so alone.

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In this heartfelt minisode of Mourning Sips & Soul Shifts, Tara explores how to gently open the heart chakra—our emotional center of love, compassion, and grief—while navigating the pain of loss.

When we grieve, the heart chakra can feel blocked or shut down, leaving us disconnected, heavy, and guarded. But healing doesn’t mean bypassing the pain—it means making space for both love and loss to coexist.

Tara shares soul-nourishing ways to begin opening this sacred energy center, including breathwork, mindful movement, journaling prompts, affirmations, and heart-healing rituals to reconnect with your emotional self.

Whether your grief is fresh or decades old, this episode offers a safe, loving space to soften, release, and feel your way back to yourself.

You’ll learn:

✨ What the heart chakra is and how it relates to grief

✨ Signs your heart chakra might be closed or blocked

✨ Simple, somatic practices to gently reopen this energy center

✨ Affirmations and journaling prompts to support heart healing

This is your invitation to breathe, feel, and open—one tiny moment at a time. You are worthy of love, even in your deepest grief.

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In this powerful episode of the Life With Grief podcast, I’m sitting down with Emmy-nominated children’s television writer and death doula, Darnell Lamont Walker, for a deeply moving conversation about death, grief, and what it means to truly live.

Darnell shares how his grandmother’s gentle, intuitive caregiving led him to his purpose as a death doula, guiding others through the end-of-life process with dignity and compassion. 

Together, we explore how we can process grief through storytelling, embrace legacy, and create more meaningful lives—even in the face of loss.

This episode is a heartfelt exploration of:

• What it means to live fully while grieving
• How community and connection support healing
• The importance of empathy, deep listening, and holding space for others
• Grief rituals and reflections from the death doula perspective

Whether you're grieving a loved one or supporting someone who is, this conversation offers profound wisdom, emotional validation, and hope.

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Parenting is hard enough on its own, but parenting while grieving? That’s an entirely different level of emotional weight that no one really prepares you for.

In this heartfelt minisode of Mourning Sips and Soul Shifts, I share simple but powerful daily practices and rituals that have helped me—and grievers I coach—navigate the unpredictable waves of grief while still showing up as a present and compassionate parent.

Whether you’re in the early days of loss or years down the line, this episode offers grounding tools, emotional support, and soulful structure to help you find moments of healing, presence, and even peace—without pretending everything’s okay.

You’ll hear:

✨ The power of morning rituals to anchor your day

✨ How transitional moments can become emotional lifelines

✨ The beauty of grief altars and touchstones in your home

✨ Evening practices that soothe your nervous system before bed

✨ How to gently let your child witness your grief, and why it matters

This episode is for the grieving parent who is doing their best to hold it all, and needs to know that they deserve to be held, too.

Be sure to share this episode with a fellow parent who might be struggling, too!

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In this powerful episode of Life with Grief, grief coach, author, and speaker Clare Clark shares her deeply personal story of navigating infant loss and multiple profound grief experiences—including the deaths of her infant son, brother, and grandfather.

Clare opens up about the raw and early days of grief, how each loss uniquely impacted her, and the transformational journey that ultimately led her to her purpose as a grief coach.

We explore:

• How early encounters with grief shaped Clare’s worldview
• The emotional toll of infant loss and sibling loss
• How she moved through pain with intentional healing practices
• The power of mindset, resilience, and honoring your grief
• What it means to live joyfully with grief, not after it

If you're navigating grief and looking for hope, healing, or a sense of purpose again, this episode is a gentle but powerful invitation to see what's possible. Tune in for a conversation filled with honesty, heart, and healing.

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