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In this mini-series episode, I revisit number three in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my conversation with Deb Dana, clinician, consultant, author, and the world’s leading translator of Polyvagal Theory — on loss, the nervous system, and what it means to trust your body through grief.

Deb brings both her professional expertise and something deeply personal to this conversation: the recent death of her husband Bob, and her own experience of navigating grief through the Polyvagal lens she has spent years teaching. We explore what the autonomic nervous system actually does in grief, why grief is a physiological experience and not only a psychological one, and how glimmers — micro-moments of safety and connection — can serve as anchors even in the heaviest loss.

This is one of the most honest and grounded conversations in the podcast’s history.

Listen to the original episode: Episode 85 — Deb Dana | Loss Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory

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00:00 Welcome
00:49 Today's episode
01:27 Welcome to the Mini Series
02:50 Top 10 - Number 3
03:24 About Deb Dana
04:58 Polyvagal Theory and grief
06:16 Glimmers and grief
06:57 What resonated with me
07:55 Why it resonated with listeners

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In this mini series episode, I revisit number four in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my third conversation with Meghan Riordan Jarvis — psychotherapist, podcast host, TEDx speaker, and author — on the essential questions about grief, loss and trauma.

Meghan joins me for the third time, and this conversation goes deepest. We explore the intersection of grief and trauma, what neuroscience and bioscience tell us about what grief actually does to the body and brain, and the questions that every griever asks but rarely finds answered clearly. Meghan’s book Can Anyone Tell Me? Essential Questions About Grief and Loss is the springboard — and it is the resource I wish every griever had access to.

Two professionals, one conversation, and the questions that matter most.

Listen to the original episode: Episode 95 — Meghan Riordan Jarvis | The Essential Questions About Grief, Loss and Trauma

Also listen to: E41 — How a Therapist Deals With Grief and Trauma | E49 — Review of Trauma and Grief Modalities

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00:00 Welcome
00:49 Today's episode
01:27 Welcome to the Mini Series
02:50 Top 10 - Number 4
03:45 About Meghan Riordan Jarvis
04:27 Can anyone tell me?
06:06 Essential questions about grief
06:47 What resonated with me
07:35 Why it resonated with listeners

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In this mini-series episode, I revisit number five in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my double-episode conversation with James Fish Gill — heart coach, yoga teacher, and transformational facilitator from Australia — on bringing loving awareness to pain, grief, and longing.

Fish introduces the concept of conscious communication and applies it to grief: rather than dismissing, fixing, or minimising pain, what if we simply witnessed it — with honesty, with love, and without the need for it to be different? In Episodes 51 and 52, he walks through his own grief journey using this approach, moving through acknowledgement, emotional experience, and the field of yearning at the heart of loss.

This is one of the most tender and practically transformative conversations in the podcast’s history. Listen to both parts together.

Part 1: Episode 51 — James Fish Gill | Bringing Loving Awareness to Your Pain (Part 1)

Part 2: Episode 52 — James Fish Gill | Bringing Loving Awareness to Your Pain (Part 2)

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00:00 Welcome
00:49 Today's episode
01:27 Welcome to the Mini Series
02:50 Top 10 - Number 5
03:16 About James Fish Gill
04:07 How to fall in Love with Humanity
04:38 Bringing loving awareness to our pain
05:56 Permission to feel anything
06:16 What resonated with me
06:52 Why it resonated with listeners

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In this mini-series episode, I revisit number six in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my conversation with Laney Rosenzweig, the developer of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) — an evidence-based, eye movement therapy that can resolve the symptoms of PTSD, grief, depression, anxiety, and more, often in just one to three sessions.

Laney is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over three decades of experience and the founder of the Rosenzweig Center for Rapid Recovery, which has trained over 8,000 clinicians worldwide. In this conversation, we explore how ART works, why it is different from EMDR, and why the results can sound too good to be true — until you understand the science behind them.

If you have been carrying grief or trauma and feel stuck, this episode offers a genuinely different perspective on what healing can look like.

Listen to the original episode: Episode 45 — Laney Rosenzweig | How Trauma Can Be Resolved in Just One Session With ART, and you can find all of Laney's information, including the links to her website, on the same link.

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Chapters:

00:00 Welcome
00:49 Today's episode
01:27 Welcome to the Mini Series
02:50 Top 10 - Number 6
03:10 About Laney Rosenzweig
03:22 ART - Accelerated Resolution Therapy
04:47 Trauma resolved in just one session?!
05:15 What is ART?
06:18 What resonated with me
07:18 Why it resonated with listeners

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In this mini-series episode, I revisit number seven in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my third conversation with Turiya Hanover — co-founder of Path Retreats and the Path of Love process, therapist, and grief survivor — on the deep connection between grief, trauma, essence, connection, and safety.

Turiya first appeared on this podcast in Episode 4, which became one of the most downloaded episodes in the show’s history. In Episode 64, we go furthest: into what grief does to the self at the level of essence, what trauma does to our capacity for safety, and what becomes possible when we are held well enough to grieve fully.

If you are drawn to a deeper, somatic and spiritual exploration of grief and trauma, this conversation is for you.

Listen to the original episode: Episode 64 — Turiya Hanover | Grief, Trauma, Essence, Connection and Safety, and you can find all of Turiya's information, including the links to her website, on the same link.

Also listen to: Episode 4 — The Loss of Significant Partners in Life | Episode 26 — Grief in the First Year and Coming Out of Trauma

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00:00 Welcome
00:49 Today's episode
01:27 Welcome to the Mini Series
02:50 Top 10 - Number 7
03:14 About Turiya Hanover
06:20 What resonated with me
07:36 Why it resonated with listeners

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Content note: This episode discusses suicide, intimate partner abuse, and traumatic loss.

In this mini-series episode, I revisit number eight in the top ten most listened-to episodes: my conversation with Shavaun Scott, a psychotherapist and author who shares the story of her husband’s revenge suicide — an act carried out on the very day she asked for a divorce, after 17 years in an abusive relationship.

Shavaun brings nearly 35 years of clinical experience and 20 years of personal reflection to a conversation about complicated grief, the moral injuries of suicide, the psychological toll of intimate partner abuse, and what healing actually looks like over time. Her memoir, Nightbird, explores this journey in full.

This is one of the most powerful and honest conversations in the podcast’s history.

Listen to the original episode: Episode 160 — Shavaun Scott | Revisiting Loss and Trauma 20 Years After a Revenge Suicide, and you can find all of Shavaun's information, including the links to her book and her website, on the same link.

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00:00 Welcome
00:49 Today's episode
01:27 Welcome to the Mini Series
02:50 Top 10 - Number 8
03:29 About Shavaun Scott
04:25 Husband's revenge suicide
06:43 What resonated with me
07:27 Why it resonated with listeners

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In this mini-series episode, I revisit number nine in the top ten most listened-to episodes of this podcast: my conversation with David Kessler on the question that almost every grieving person asks — how long does grief last?

David Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on grief and loss, the author of six books, including Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, and the founder of grief.com. He co-authored two books with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and his work has reached millions of people across the globe. In this conversation, we explore the five stages of grief, the sixth stage of meaning, and what healing from grief actually looks like — and does not look like.

If grief has made you wonder whether you will always feel this way, this episode is for you.

Listen to the original episode: Episode 75 — David Kessler | How Long Does Grief Last? and you can find all of David's information, including the links to his website and book, on the same link.

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Chapters:

00:00:00 - Welcome
00:00:49 - Today's episode
00:01:27 - Welcome to the Mini Series
00:02:50 - Top 10 - Number 9
00:02:58 - About David Kessler
00:03:27 - David's publications
00:06:43 - What resonated with me
00:07:23 - Why it resonated with listeners

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In this mini-series episode, I revisit one of the top ten most listened-to episodes of the podcast: my conversation with Stephanie Sarazin on Ambiguous Grief — the grief that arises from losing someone who is still alive.

Stephanie is a writer, researcher, and ambiguous grief guide, and the author of Soulbroken: A Guidebook For Your Journey Through Ambiguous Grief, winner of the 2023 Nautilus Books Gold Award. She shares how her own mid-life trauma led her to define ambiguous grief for the first time: grief triggered by the loss of a loved one who is still living, where hope remains part of the grieving process.

We explore why this form of grief is so rarely named, why so many people feel they don’t have the right to grieve, and what it means to mourn someone who hasn’t died.

Listen to the original episode: Episode 83 — Stephanie Sarazin | Understanding Ambiguous Grief, and you can find all of Stephanie's information, including the links to her website and book, on the same link.

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Welcome
00:00:49 - Today's episode
00:01:27 - Welcome to the Mini Series
00:02:50 - Top 10 - Number 10
00:03:08 - About Stephanie Sarazin
00:03:29 - Ambiguous Grief
00:04:51 - Stephanie's book Soulbroken
00:06:26 - What resonated with me
00:07:01 - Why it resonated with listeners

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