Grief Dreams Podcast

Emily Bevan is a writer and actor, perhaps best known for her role as spirited zombie Amy Dyer in BAFTA winning series ‘In The Flesh’. She is soon to appear on Disney plus/Hulu in the hotly anticipated tv series of the much loved film, The Full Monty. Other credits include Funny woman, Doc Martin, Temple, GRANTCHESTER, Domina and many more. In the run up to her father’s untimely death in 2014, Emily kept a diary of thoughts, feelings, anecdotes and poems as a way of keeping sane. These diaries were published by Unbound in 2022 in the form of ‘The Diary of Losing Dad’ and releasing them to the world has been a hugely cathartic exercise. You can find more about Emily on Instagram and Twitter @EmilyGraceBevan.   In this episode we talk about her experiences of keeping a diary when her father was dying and some moments that occurred, writing her book ‘The Diary of Losing Dad’, her grief journey following his death, connecting with her father through the senses and activities, and grief dreams of her deceased fath

After teaching poetry as an academic for over 20 years, Cathy Sosnowsky started writing poetry herself in response to the sudden death of her teenaged son. Two lines of poetry came to her in a dream on the very night he died. She had to get out of bed and write them down. From then on, in her grief journey, writing poetry saved her. Eventually, many of these poems were published in the book, Holding On: Poems for Alex. Cathy has since published two more books: Snapshots: A Story of Love, Loss, and Life, and, more recently, Finding Heartstone: A Taste of Wilderness. As a chapter leader of The Compassionate Friends, a support group for bereaved parents, Cathy often gives “Writing as Healing Workshops.” You can find more about Cathy at www.cathysosnowsky.com    In this episode we talk about the death of her 17-year-old son, how she used poetry to process her grief, poems she wrote, and a grief dream of her deceased son.   You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and

Krishma Arora immigrated to the United States from India when she was five years old, and grew up on Long Island and then attended New York University. She is a poet, writer, and public speaker. For a few years, she was the author of “Free Spirit,” a monthly column in her hometown magazine, Brookville Living. She has an MS in Education, as well as an MS in Marketing. She has also worked as a high school social studies teacher for 11 years. She lives in New York with her husband and four children. Krishma’s newest book is called “From Ash to Ashes”. She began writing From Ash to Ashes seventeen years ago, after the death of her first child. His loss was the inspiration for her book, and she has dedicated it to his memory. In addition to From Ash to Ashes, she is also writing a nonfiction book, titled Brown Girl’s Guide, a collection of essays on womanhood and motherhood as seen through the eyes of a woman of color. You can find more about Krishma at www.krishmatuliarora.com, Instagram and Twitter: @krishmawrit

Dr. Donna Stoneham is the author of The Thriver’s Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love, and Lead (SWP, 2015), and a contributor to the anthology, Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis: Women Writer’s Respond to the Call (SWP, 2022), and the new book Catch Me When I Fall: Poems of Mother Loss and Healing (being released May 9, 2023). Additionally, over the span of her thirty-year career in leadership development, she has coached hundreds of leaders, teams, and executives, guiding them to live more fulfilling, authentic lives while expressing their gifts in the world. She has also worked for twelve years part-time as a chaplain and a hospice chaplain, providing spiritual and end-of-life care in nursing homes, and assisted living facilities. You can find more about Donna at https://donnastoneham.com/   In this episode we talk about her near-death experience after a suicide attempt at age 15, her relationship with her mother before and after her death, her new book, coping with her grief, honouring

Fiona Tinwei Lam has authored three poetry collections and a children's book. She has produced several award-winning poetry videos that have screened at festivals all over the world. Besides editing the anthology, The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems on Facing Cancer, she has co-edited two nonfiction anthologies. She has been shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Award and thrice selected for BC’s Poetry in Transit. Her work appears in over 40 anthologies, including the Best Canadian Poetry series. A former lawyer, she has an MFA in creative writing from UBC.  She currently teaches at SFU's Continuing Studies and has been appointed Vancouver’s Poet Laureate for 2022-2024, which serves as a champion for poetry, language, and the arts. You can find more about her at www.fionalam.net   In the episode we talk with Fiona about the death of her father as a child, her mother having dementia, coping with the death of her mother and father, her child’s grief after her mother died, her children's book “The

Suzanne Falter is a writer, podcaster and essayist whose work has been featured in SELF, O, More, Tiny Buddha and The New York Times. She’s the author of multiple self-help titles including The Extremely Busy Woman’s Guide to Self-Care (Sourcebooks). She is the host of The Self-Care for Extremely Busy Women podcast, and has been heard widely on podcasts and radio. You can find more about Suzanne at www.suzannefalter.com   In this guest update episode, we talk with Suzanne about the death of her daughter, learning about self-care, her new book ‘Free Spirited’, the unified field of love, and new dreams of her deceased daughter.   You can listen to Suzanne’s first episode (episode 141) on our podcast here - https://www.griefdreams.ca/podcast/141 and her friend’s (Debi) podcast episode here - https://www.griefdreams.ca/podcast/142   You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   Looking

Dr. Kathy Belicki is a Professor Emerita of Psychology at Brock University. She trained originally as a clinical psychologist, but soon found out that teaching and conducting research brought her the most joy. For much of her career she studied dreams looking at such questions as differences in dream recall, the causes and treatment of nightmares, the relation of personality to dreaming, and, at the end of her research career, the nature of dreams of the deceased. At various times she also studied forgiveness, and the impact of childhood trauma and abuse on one’s emotional well-being and physical health as an adult. At present she has just completed writing a memoir about her experiences in the Memory Wars of the 1990s—a period of intense conflict over what to make of recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse.   You can find more about Kathy at https://brocku.ca/social-sciences/psychology/people/kathryn-belicki/   In this episode we talk about her early research on nightmares, how dreams lack volume contro

In this episode we recap some of the dream conversations we had with guests in 2022.   You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   Looking for ways to support the podcast? You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways: 1) Become a Patreon supporter (monthly financial support) https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast 2) Buy us a Coffee (one-time financial support)  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/griefdreams 3) Subscribe to the podcast (on the platform you listen) and give a review. This improves our online visibility. 4) Support the topic by sharing the podcast or website. We appreciate any support that contributes to raising awareness on the topic.  

Rebecca Soffer, co-founder of the Modern Loss Community, started becoming an expert in grief the moment she learned that her mother Shelby was killed in a car crash. Her expertise expanded when four years later, her father Ray died of a heart attack while traveling. As a single woman in her early thirties, Rebecca needed to talk about her grief, and she really needed to hear others talk about theirs. It was this longing for an ongoing conversation that led her, along with co-founder Gabi Birkner, to start the Modern Loss Community. Nine years later, Rebecca just published her second book - The Modern Loss Handbook: An Interactive Guide to Moving Through Grief and Building Your Resilience. It's the kind of book that many people are looking for in their grief - filled with prompts for writing, drawing, and movement practices to help people stay connected to themselves, their people who died, and the world around them.   You can find more about Rebecca and Modern Loss at modernloss.com   In this episode we talk

Addison Brasil is a speaker and the Author of the book First Year of Grief Club: A Gift From A Friend Who Gets It. He shows up in the world as an active and committed mental health advocate after finding himself Just to the Left of Death three times during his twenties. Losing his brother to an inoperable brain tumor, finding his father after suicide, and surviving a fatal accident that killed a dear friend and left him relearning to walk. Attributing his ability to not only survive but thrive with PTSD and compounded grief to the value of community and connection. You can find more about Addison at mygriefclub.com In this episode we talk about his three major losses when he was in his 20’s, the importance of honesty in grief, living in the grey space, bringing humor back into his life, his new podcast, and grief dreams of his brother, father, and friend.   You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and

Parvati Markus is the author of Whisper in the Heart: The Ongoing Presence of Neem Karoli Baba (Mandala, released this year 2022) and Love Everyone: The Transcendent Wisdom of Neem Karoli Baba Told Through the Stories of the Westerners Whose Lives He Transformed (HarperOne, 2015). With Radha Baum, she is the co-author of a children’s book, Isabella Castaspella: The Happy Little Witch and Her Friends (SitaRam Press, 2022). Parvati has been “midwifing” spiritually-oriented nonfiction books and memoirs as a developmental editor/writer since her first efforts with Ram Dass’s classic Be Here Now. She has also helped with spiritual organizations (as past president of the board of the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram and Hanuman Temple in Taos, NM), and events (as a development consultant for the Global Peace Initiative of Women.) She is on the Advisory Board of the Love Serve Remember Foundation. You can find more about her at parvatimarkus.com   In this episode we talk about how she first met Neem Karoli Baba, her grief wh

Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D. is a world-renowned author, lecturer, and psychiatrist whose seminal work, Life After Life, changed the way we view death and dying. He is widely acknowledged as the world’s leading expert on near-death experiences. Visit Dr. Moody online at www.lifeafterlife.com   In this episode we talk about his research on near-death experiences (NDEs), similarities of NDEs to grief dreams and end-of-life dreams and visions, his grief after the death of his mom and friends, taking on the characteristics of his deceased friend, and his grief dreams of his grandmother and friend.    You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   Looking for ways to support the podcast? You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways: 1) Become a Patreon supporter (monthly financial support) https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast 2) Buy us a Coffee (one-time financial supp

In this episode we talk about our rebrand, changes to the team, Joshua moving to British Columbia, and our excitement to begin interviewing guests again.    You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   Looking for ways to support the podcast? You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways: 1) Become a Patreon supporter (monthly financial support) https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast   2) Buy us a Coffee (one-time financial support)  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/griefdreams   3) Subscribe to the podcast (on the platform you listen) and give a review. This improves our online visibility.   4) Support the topic by sharing the podcast or website. We appreciate any support that contributes to raising awareness on the topic.  

In this episode (Part 2), we recap some of the dream conversations we had with guests in 2021. *************** You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast. Also, you can find the links to our online courses (A Grief Dreams Workshop and Crazy in Love: Using Romantic Relationships as a Vehicle for Growth) and One-on-One Grief Dreams Consulting with Dr. Joshua Black.   Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)   Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   To support the podcast on Pateron visit https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast

In this episode (Part 1), we recap some of the dream conversations we had with guests in 2021. *************** You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast. Also, you can find the links to our online courses (A Grief Dreams Workshop and Crazy in Love: Using Romantic Relationships as a Vehicle for Growth) and One-on-One Grief Dreams Consulting with Dr. Joshua Black.   Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)   Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   To support the podcast on Pateron visit https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast    

Jenn K. Lee is a writer and mixed media artist who lives in Hawaii with her husband and two children. Her book, Grieving in Dreams: Finding Peace After Losing My Sister, explores how her first year of dreaming about her late sister, who passed away in 2019, helped her process her grief and guided her toward a path that ultimately led to peace.   In this episode we talk about her relationship with her sister, her sister’s journey with cancer, the many grief dreams of her sister, and writing her new book.   You can find more about Jenn on Instagram @grievingindreams ***************   You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast. Also, you can find the links to our online courses (A Grief Dreams Workshop and Crazy in Love: Using Romantic Relationships as a Vehicle for Growth) and One-on-One Grief Dreams Consulting with Dr. Joshua Black.   Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs y

Dr. Karen Wyatt is the bestselling author of the book 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying, which contains stories of patients she cared for as a hospice doctor and the spiritual lessons she learned from them at the end of their lives. Dr. Wyatt also hosts End-of-Life University Podcast, which features conversations with experts who work in all aspects of end-of-life care. She is widely regarded as a thought-leader in the effort to transform the way we care for our dying in the U.S. In addition, she is valued for her application of spiritual principles to illness and healthcare.   In this episode we talk about her podcast, working as a hospice doctor, the death of her father by suicide, difficulties processing the death, and grief dreams of her father.   You can find more about Karen at www.eoluniversity.com and on Instagram @kwyattmd   ***************   You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast. Also, you can find the link

Zachary Steele is the Broadleaf Writers Association Founder & Executive Director, and has been featured by NPR, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Publishers Weekly, Baby Got Books, Shelf Awareness, Writer Magazine and was nominated for the Sidewise Award for Alternate Fiction. His recent novel, The Weight of Ashes is his third novel.    In this episode we talk about getting started being a writer, grief in fictional stories, his new novel “The Weight of Ashes”, how writing facilitated processing his own grief, the death of his best friend as a child, working through the anger over his friend's suicide, and the death and grief dreams of his cat.   You can find more about Zachary at http://zacharysteele.com/   *************** You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast. Also, you can find the links to our online courses (A Grief Dreams Workshop and Crazy in Love: Using Romantic Relationships as a Vehicle for Growth) and One

Autumn Toelle-Jackson is a wife, widow, mother, and survivor. The loss of a husband, a beloved cousin and mentor, her daughter, and miscarriages have left scars on her soul and memorial tattoos on her body, but Autumn learned to grow through it all. She wrote Boldly into the Darkness: Living with Loss, Growing with Grief & Holding onto Happiness to share her story and let others who are grieving know they aren't alone, and even with loss there is hope. Autumn and her family created Growing with Grief to provide those who are grieving with a place to find community, resources, and help.   In this episode we talk about her miscarriages, the death of her daughter and husband, memorial tattoos, learning to feel her grief, her book, and grief dreams of her husband.   You can find more about Autumn at www.growingwithgrief.com and on Instagram @growingwithgrief   *************** You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast. Also,

Heike Mertins is an author, blogger and speaker. She is the author of “Grief is...Thoughts on loss, struggle and new beginnings” (2017), which chronicles her journey through the bizarre, frustrating and at times humorous world of incomprehensible loss. Following the death of her brother and husband, Heike began to document the process of loss, emotion and healing that accompanies a momentous life change.   In this episode we talk about the death of her brother, husband, and mother, the little things in grief that are not talked about, her book about grief, sleep changes and triggers after loss, humorous aspects in grief, and grief dreams of her husband.   You can find more about Heike at https://heikemertins.com/   *************** You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast. Also, you can find the links to our online courses (A Grief Dreams Workshop and Crazy in Love: Using Romantic Relationships as a Vehicle for Growth) and