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Female Voice: Life & Loss. Our podcast is dedicated to women from all walks of life, providing a supportive and encouraging platform that addresses the various challenges they face.
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What Happens After: Grief, Memory, and Empathy with Diane Namm (opens the original)
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Episode 14 ~ What Happens After: Grief, Memory, and Empathy Grief does not need to be ranked, rushed, or explained away. Sometimes what a grieving person needs most is permission to feel what they feel, and someone willing to stay and listen. In this episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, Teresa Reiniger speaks with author and storyteller Diane Namm about grief, empathy, children, memory, and the story behind Diane’sillustrated book, What Happens After? After her family experienced several signi
Lauren Johnston | Childhood Grief, Relationship Loss & Starting Over After 60 (opens the original)
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What happens when you’ve carried loss for so long that you stop realizing just how much you’ve survived? Lauren Johnston experienced the death of her mother at 10, lost her father in her 20s, and lived through the deaths of several friends and loved ones across the years. For a long time, she simply thought of all that loss as normal life. In this conversation, Lauren joins Teresa Reiniger to explore how early grief followed her into adulthood, especially through fears of abandonment, relationsh
What to Say to Someone Who Is Grieving | Important Announcement (opens the original)
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Episode 12 ~ What to Say to Someone Who Is Grieving | Important Announcement What if one of the most natural questions we ask after a death is also one we don’t always need answered? When someone tells us a loved one has died, our instinct is often to ask, What happened? But for the grieving person, answering that question may mean returning to a hospital room, accident, diagnosis, phone call, or moment that changed everything.In this solo episode, Teresa Reiniger explores the difference between
Suzy McNamara | When Grief Begins Before Goodbye, Caring for a Spouse With Early-Onset Alzheimer’s (opens the original)
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Sometimes grief begins long before someone dies. It begins when the person you love is still beside you, but the life you knew together is already changing. In this episode, Teresa Reiniger sits down with Suzy McNamara for an honest conversation about caregiving, anticipatory grief, identity, faith, and carrying more than one devastating loss at once. Suzy spent five years as the primary in-home caregiver for her husband, Bob, after he was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form o
Teresa Reiniger | National Grief Awareness Day: What Grieving People Wish You Knew (opens the original)
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What happens when grief doesn’t just change your life—but changes the way you see yourself? After a significant loss, the question may eventually shift from “How do I get through this?” to something much deeper: “Who am I now?” In this solo episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, Teresa Reiniger explores the often-overlooked connection between grief and identity. She talks about the widow who is no longer a wife or caregiver, the person grieving a pet, relationship, health, dream, career, or futu
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