Life With Grief Podcast | Grief Support Podcast
Welcome to the Life With Grief Podcast!
I'm your host and Grief & Soul Purpose Coach, Tara Accardo. I created Life With Grief and this community to normalize the complexities of grief, navigate life after loss, feel inspired along the way, and so much more.
Consider this your safe space where you feel seen, validated, and supported. I'm in this with you as a fellow griever who lost both parents to cancer before I turned 30 (six months apart, no less), lost my fur baby less than a year later, and experienced a traumatic birth. I'm here to walk this path with you as we we work together and dig into how to live a fulfilling, vibrant life with grief in tow.
I warmly invite you to tap into the world of healing with me and some truly incredible guests as you take in guidance, support, tangible coping tools, and uplifting conversations to help you cultivate a more meaningful, intentional existence.
Be sure you're subscribed for laughs, life lessons, and everything in between... even beyond the grief, life is so much more than what we've lost, too.
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Episodes
222 episodes
219. Suicide Grief, Self-Blame, and the Mindset Shift That Changes Everything with Toni Filipone
What happens when the grief you're carrying is the kind most people don't know how to talk about? Toni Filipone knows, and she's here to walk you through it.I'm sitting down with Toni Filipone, an international, multi-certified grief ex...
218. What Kind of Griever Are You? Understanding Your Grief Style and Why It Matters
In this episode, I'm diving into one of my favorite topics—grieving styles—and why understanding yours can be such a powerful part of your healing journey. Because here's what I want you to know before we even get started: there is no right way...
217. Navigating Suicide Loss: How One Mom Turned Losing Her Son into Purpose with Erin Blechman
When grief becomes the very thing that leads you to help others heal, that's when loss truly starts to become a gain.In this episode, I'm sitting down with Erin Blechman—mom, certified grief educator, and suicide loss survivor—for a con...
216. Mother's Day Without Your Mom: An Conversation About Grief, Healing & Moving Through It
Mother's Day can be one of the most painful days of the year when you're missing your mom. And if you're dreading it, this episode is for you.In this special panel episode of the Life With Grief Podcast, I'm joined by three incredible w...
215. Podcast Update! + The Sacred Pause: Giving Yourself Permission to Pivot After Loss
Have you ever found yourself doing all the things, showing up, checking the boxes, keeping the pace, but quietly wondering if something needs to give? If you've been feeling that pull to pause, pivot, or finally make room for the thing that's b...
214. Is Your Grief a Spiritual Awakening? Signs, Spirit Guides & Trusting Your Intuition with Jessica Rachel
Have you ever felt like loss cracked something open in you, like it changed not just your heart, but the way you see the world? You're not imagining it. I'm sitting down with Jessica Rachel, spiritual medium and intuitive coach, to talk...
213. Grief Brain: Why You're So Forgetful and Foggy After Loss
Have you been forgetting things more than usual since your loss? Walking into rooms and blanking. Missing appointments. Re-reading the same sentence five times. Feeling like your brain just isn't working the way it used to?You're not ir...
212. Navigating Infertility, Disenfranchised Grief, and Relationship Survival with Dr. Clay Brigance
Grief doesn't always look like loss of a person. Sometimes, it looks like losing a dream. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Clay Brigance, an Infertility Counseling Expert, professional counselor, researcher, and host of the Love and Inferti...
211. Ask Tara: Supporting a Sick Parent and What to Know Before They Die
Have you ever wished someone would just tell you the truth about what it's like to lose a parent, and what to actually do while they're still here?That's exactly what this Ask Tara episode is. I'm answering two questions from a listener...
210. Losing Her Dad at 24: Anticipatory Grief, Anger, and Learning to Choose Joy with Nicole Scimone
If you've ever watched someone you love slowly slip away—or wondered if your grief response was "normal"—this one's for you.I'm sitting down with Grief Coach Nicole Scimone, who lost her father Donny at just 24 years old after a nearly ...
209. When Hobbies and Interests Don't Feel the Same After Loss
Have you tried returning to something you used to love after loss, and felt absolutely nothing? Maybe it's the hobby you looked forward to every week. The music that used to move you. The routine that once made you feel like yourself. And now i...
208. Collin Farias: Losing His Wife to Cancer and His Newborn Son Days Later
Some losses are so profound they don't fit inside any framework we have for grief. Collin Farias's story is one of those, and his willingness to share it with the world is an act of extraordinary love.In May 2024, Collin's wife Camry wa...
207. Why You're Still Grieving When Everyone Else Has Moved On
If you've ever watched a family member or close friend seem to "bounce back" from a loss while you're still deep in the thick of grief—and also wondered, "what is wrong with me?"—this episode is for you.Spoiler: nothing is wrong with yo...
206. Losing a Child and Both Parents: Liz Quinn on Continuing Bonds, Parenting Through Grief, and Finding Strength
Grief doesn't always come just once, and for some of us, it comes in waves that feel impossible to survive. In this episode, I sit down with grief advocate and host of The Healing Hearts Podcast Liz Quinn, who has walked through some of the mos...
205. The First Step to Rediscovering Yourself Again After Loss
If you’ve been craving a shift in your grief but don’t know where to start, this episode is for you.In today’s Mourning Sips & Soul Shifts minisode, I’m giving you a free, behind-the-scenes look at Day 1 of my Micro Moments for Tran...
204. Sibling Grief, Identity Loss, and Life After a Sudden Death with Ben Forman
In today’s episode, I’m sitting down with Ben Forman to talk about a kind of grief that often goes unseen—losing a sibling, and what it means to navigate life as the “forgotten griever.”Ben shares the story of losing his younger brother...
203. Feeling Overwhelmed by Grief? Try This Simple Practice & Unlock Healing
If your grief has been feeling especially heavy lately, I wanted to give you something real to hold onto this week.In today’s episode of Mourning Sips & Soul Shifts on Life With Grief, I’m sharing Day 1 of my 14-Day Relief in Your G...
202. Navigating Grief, Loneliness, and Losing the People We Love with Dr. Jody Carrington
In this episode of Life With Grief, I’m joined by Psychologist, bestselling author, and globally recognized speaker Dr. Jody Carrington for an honest, raw (and funny!) conversation about grief, loneliness, and the healing power of community.&nb...
201. When Someone You Love Has Cancer: Coping With the Helplessness
Watching someone you love go through cancer is one of the most painful and powerless experiences a person can face. You want to take their pain away, you want to fix it, but cancer is one of those moments in life where love doesn’t give you con...
200. 200 Episodes!! What 200 Conversations About Grief & Loss Have Taught Me
In this milestone episode of Life With Grief, I’m reflecting on what 200 conversations about grief and loss have truly taught me about healing, identity, resilience, purpose, and what it really means to live a full life after loss.When ...
199. Self-Care vs. Soul Care: What Grief ACTUALLY Needs
Grief is often met with the same advice: practice self-care. Take a bath. Go for a walk. Journal. Rest. And while those things can support your nervous system, they don’t always touch the deeper layers of loss.In this episode of Life Wi...
198. The Fog of Grief: Why You Can’t Concentrate After Loss
Have you been struggling to focus since your loss? Perhaps you find yourself reading the same paragraph over and over, forgetting simple words, or feeling mentally slower than you used to. Maybe you're wondering, “What is wrong with me?”
197. Grieving Two Parents: From a Sudden Death to Dementia Caregiving with Barri Leiner Grant
In this episode of Life With Grief, Barri Leiner Grant shares her experience of losing her mother suddenly to a brain aneurysm at age 27, and what it meant to grieve at a time when grief was rarely spoken about. She opens up about ...
196: Reinventing Yourself After Loss: Is It Wrong to Want a New Life?
In this episode of Life With Grief, let's dig into the quiet desire many grievers feel after loss: the pull to completely reinvent themselves.When someone we love dies, it doesn’t just change our circumstances... it changes our identity...
195. Grieving the Death of a Brother: Addiction, Stigma & Finding Identity with Nina Rodriguez
In this episode of Life With Grief, I sit down with Nina Rodriguez to talk about sibling grief after the sudden death of her only brother, Yosef, who died from fentanyl poisoning on September 11, 2019—just one day after his 32nd birthday.