Podcasts
Terrible, Thanks For Asking
Summary: "You know how when someone asks "How are you?" you just say "Fine,” even if you’re totally dying inside, so everyone can go about their day? “Terrible, Thanks For Asking” is the opposite of that. Nora McInerny asks real people to share their complicated and honest feelings about how they really are."
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Griefcast
Summary: "Each week Cariad talks to a different guest about their experiences of grief. Together they share their views on the pain, loss and the weirdness that happens when someone dies. Past guests have included Adam Buxton, Aisling Bea, Susan Wokoma, Robert Webb and David Baddiel."
Unlocking Us
Summary: "Join researcher and #1 New York Times best-selling author Brené Brown as she unpacks and explores the ideas, stories, experiences, books, films, and music that reflect the universal experiences of being human, from the bravest moments to the most brokenhearted."
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Grief Out Loud
Summary: "Remember the last time you tried to talk about grief and suddenly everyone left the room? Grief Out Loud is opening up this often avoided conversation because grief is hard enough without having to go through it alone."
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Grief Unfiltered
Summary: "A podcast about grief and how the f**k to handle it. One thing I’ve learned about grief is no one talks about it and you’re just supposed to figure out how to deal with it but I’m ready to start the conversation. This is an interview-based podcast with real stories and how people deal with loss"
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Grief is a Sneaky Bitch
Summary: "If you need help showing up for yourself in your grief or learning how to better show up for someone you love in theirs, this show is for you. From CEO’s and social workers to authors, educators, filmmakers and stay-at-home moms, creator and host Lisa Keefauver invites guests open up about the complexity, confusion, and even confidence they have gained by navigating a grief journey of their own."
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Good Mourning
Summary: "The Good Mourning podcast shines a light on what grief is really like, sharing honest conversations with a sprinkle of humour. We cover taboo topics in a raw, real and relatable way, while also interviewing incredibly interesting guests about how loss has shaped their lives."
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Give Grief a Chance
Summary: "These podcasts are designed to bring about grief awareness into our world. It’s created to help people open up to having conversations and sharing their experiences and stories of grief and loss. It’s about understanding that there’s no right or wrong way to grieve and there’s no comparing because everyone’s loss is unique to them."
The Grief Sofa Podcast
Summary: "The Grief Sofa Podcast hosted by Alice Williams and Lucy Dennis. Join them for weekly episodes welcoming a host of guests sharing stories of those lost along the way."
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End of Life University
Summary: "End-of-Life University began in 2013 as a 5-day interview series on topics related to death and dying. It was a phenomenal event that attracted a much larger audience than expected and so EOLU became an ongoing series, which still continues with interviews posted online twice each month. With the success of the interview series and the increasing interest in topics related to death and dying, this podcast was started in 2015 in hopes of reaching a broader audience and as a platform for spreading important information about how we look at all aspects of the end of life."
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Where's the Grief?
Summary: "Death is an inevitable part of life, and yet it can be difficult and uncomfortable to talk about the process of grief amongst one's peers."
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Dealing With My Grief
Summary: "I've started the Dealing With My Grief blog/podcast to discuss how I have been coping with grief and bereavement since that time.
It is my hope that in creating this space I am able to connect with others who have lost someone close to them and in some small way help them deal with their pain."
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What's Your Grief
Summary: "In this podcast series Eleanor Haley and Litsa Williams, the two mental health professionals behind the grief website What's Your Grief, seek to leave no stone unturned in demystifying the complicated and sometimes crazy experience of living life after loss."
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Grief Refuge
Summary: "Have you lost someone special and had a difficult time accepting they are gone? Do you feel so alone because you miss them so much? The Grief Refuge podcast is a resource for you to honor and help manage your grief. Through stories and reflective conversations shared on this podcast, hopefully you feel comfort and support to find meaning, live with purpose, and heal your broken heart."
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Death is Hilarious
Summary: "The show that explores using dark humor to cope with grief, loss, and trauma.
I’m Tawny Platis, voice actor and comedy podcaster. After my husband passed away in November of 2019, I began interviewing other podcasters and creatives on how they were using dark humor to get through their grief, loss, and trauma. It’s helped me cope, learn, educate, and – most of all – connect with others."
The Grief Gang
Summary: "Welcome to The Grief Gang podcast, the show normalising the topic of conversation that is grief.
Grief is something that inevitably we will all experience in our life, so why aren't we talking about it? This show was created to break down those taboos by sharing my own experiences of loss along with phenomenal guest episodes sharing theirs too.
You will laugh, you will cry, but above all I hope that you learn from this show. I hope you learn that you are never alone in your feelings and that you can live a happy life and be grieving (The two can co-exist!)"
The Art of Dying Well
Summary: "These programmes aim to make death and dying something we can talk about openly without discomfort or fear. Each month we interview a guest on a key topic, engage in a little 'death chatter' before getting the 'View from the Chaplain's chair'."
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Help 2 Make Sense
Summary: "Our podcasts share the stories of people that have experienced a death. Whether it is a young person talking about how they came to terms with their grief or the Winston’s Wish team sharing their advice for bereaved families, we hope you find the podcasts helpful."
The Adventures of Memento Mori
Summary: "A Skeptic's Guide for Learning to Live by Remembering to Die, is a podcast exploring the science, mysticism, culture, and mystery of death. Satirical and philosophical, the show follows host, D.S. Moss, as he attempts to reconcile his own impermanence and live a more meaningful life. Problem is, life keeps getting in the way."
Sisters in Loss
Summary: "Sisters in Loss is a Maternal Child Health Education company dedicated to Replacing Silence with Storytelling around Pregnancy and Infant loss and Infertility of Black women."
Death, Sex, and Money
Summary: "Death, Sex & Money was born out a desire for open and honest conversations about the things that we 'think about a lot, and need to talk about more.'"
Good Grief
Summary: "A podcast about reconnecting with the past and our attempts to make up for lost time."