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Grief: A Love Story - the podcastA Return to Podcasting...It's Just MeI have a love/hate relationship with this podcast when it comes to pulling together the executive functioning to Make It Happen. I just can't get interested. But here I am. I can't stay away. The book on which this was originally based has changed. I have changed. I am more, now. Here I am, riffing about--you guessed it--grief. Because I can't help myself. Listening to and reading the work of another writer brought me here, and I am not making promises, but I liked it. Enjoy. Or don'2023-07-2724 min
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 19 Alison Tedford: A Right Thing To Do It was my honour to interview Alison Tedford and to be sharing that episode with you. Alison is an Indigenous business consultant and author from Abbotsford, BC. She is an expert in diversity and inclusion communications, a single mom and a woman living with a disability. She regularly writes for large publications and has worked on Indigenous issues for the majority of her career as a former public servant. I enjoyed our conversation, both for the stories and insight Alison shared, but also the lightness that showed up, too. I...2021-06-211h 00
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 18 Every Child MattersIn this solo episode, Tara Caffelle shares grief that has engulfed the city she lives in after the bodies of 215 children were confirmed to be buried on the grounds of Kamloops' former Indian Residential School. In future episodes, we will seek to amplify marginalized voices, so that we may hear the stories and take action to support all that needs to be done. Here are some resources to support action, shared with gratitude from Pamela Roach (@pamroach on twitter) who is an Assistant Professor and Director of Indigenous Health Education at the University of Calgary:...2021-06-0911 min
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 17 Tina Overbury: O My (Grief)Welcome to Part II of my conversation with Tina Overbury to talk about her one-woman show debuting later this month. The show is O My God and it will be available for all to screen on May 28th. We talk about so many things in this episode: the grief entwined in the show, the journey of living in this time and this space, and of soul-deep reconciliation. Not something to miss, I tell ya. Links to things mentioned: The release of O My God The counselling firm of which I am now...2021-05-2546 min
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastO My (Grief)It was a JOY (it often is) to sit with Tina Overbury to talk about her one-women show debuting later this month. The show is O My God and it will be available for all to screen on May 28th. This is the first episode after a substantial break, and I start with a brief explanation of that, before leading us into this brilliant conversation. We talk about so many things in this episode: the grief entwined in the show, the journey of living in this time and this space, and of soul-deep reconciliation. ...2021-05-1155 min
The Death Dialogues Project Podcast87. Grief: A Love Story with Tara CaffelleTara Caffelle is a certified life and relationship coach, management consultant, writer, and fluent speaker of the language of grief. Significant and successive losses led Tara to see that, now more than ever, we must get better at supporting our fellow humans at living who is actually a grief-filled life. She works closely with small businesses and non-profit organizations to create a culture that supports grief in our collective spaces of work and service, so that we may take that culture home with us to our dinner tables.
Tara is navigating her first year as an adoptive parent with her...2021-02-1848 min
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 15 Shelby Forsythia: Both Hands OpenThis show is a lovely meander through grief with Shelby Forsythia, founder of The Grief Grower's Garden and the author of Permission to Grieve. After losing her Mom at the age of 21, Shelby sought to heal and make sense of her loss, and along the way, she found the aching beauty of grief in all the corners of our lives. She supports those lost in the everyday moments of grief in their lives. Our conversation, more than a year ago (due to an unplanned hiatus for Grief: A Love Story!) was a joy, and it is an...2020-01-031h 04
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 14 Dr. Martha Jo Atkins: Moving in and out of the spacesIt was such a pleasure to connect with Dr. Martha Jo Atkins, who has build an entire career from "moving and out of the spaces" of grief. Our conversation meanders to some beautiful places, and there is no shortage of great resources, insights and information. By way of Official Biography, Martha Jo helps individuals and families create space for meaningful experiences at end of life. Dr. Atkins is the executive director at Abode Contemplative Care for the Dying, an interfaith non-profit whose mission is to care for people at end of life who have no place to go or no...2018-06-1443 min
Coming Back: Conversations on life after lossE47: A Life on the Edge of Loss with Tara CaffelleTara Caffelle lost her ex-husband to suicide in 2015. His death was just one of four others she experienced that year. This week, we're talking about navigating a year of losses, crafting a disclaimer for your grief, and where our loved ones live in our bodies. We're also discussing Tara's brand new book, Grief: A Love Story. Also on the show, I was marinating in suicide this week after the public coverage of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain's suicides and came face-to-face with an uncomfortable truth of mine: I don't understand suicide. I'm talking about why I don't understand suicide...2018-06-131h 04
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 13 DeAnne Joy: No Deathbed Regrets"Planning for death is a life-affirming act." My guest for this episode is DeAnne Joy, a fellow soldier in grief and death, and like so many of these conversations, I felt we could have gone on for days together. We covered all manner of topics, from advance directives, to mortality, to self-care, to women in crisis to the straight-up vulnerability of releasing a Book Baby to the world. This interview is exactly what I love; layers of topics covered as we meander about, with death and grief as the gateway in. DeAnne is a a master transformation coach, speaker, and a...2018-05-231h 08
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 12 Gillian Rowinski: The Grief of Parenthood"There's a constant stream of grief in parenting." Some conversations are just always delicious and I have never not enjoyed speaking with Gillian Rowinski in the years that I have known her and we have stolen some time to connect. In this conversation, we take a quick-but-deep dive into some of the grief that comes with parenthood (spoiler alert: it's a lot) and, I know I say this a lot, but it's one of my favourite episodes thus far. A little more on Gillian: Gillian is a writer and the creator of Unlearning SuperMom. She is also a certified coach, sp...2018-05-0248 min
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 11 Erin Zimmerman: The Legacy in Grief"We are here to fill the shoes of the dead." Erin Zimmerman is one of those humans who just creates...space. She bounds with joy, she laughs easily, and she seems to make setbacks into stepping stones as she evolves. We crossed paths a little more than a year ago, at a kick-in-the-butt, meet-lots-of-people event in Texas. It was at that event that this podcast was born, actually. I love that she is doing work in the world that matters. Her energy and light caught me immediately. I loved the story of her business and her family, and how she...2018-04-0454 min
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 10 Jana Buhlmann: A New Definition of Grief"Grief is what we are left with." I consider it one of the greatest blessings of my work and my life to have conversations like this one. To have in front of me inspiration, and strength and a poetic, magical way of communicating, is an endless gift. In this conversation with Jana Buhlmann, we explore her sweet grief, Medically Assistance in Dying (MAID), and the gifts that lie in the question of what is left after people we love die. It is one of my Top 5 Conversations of all time, and I hope you'll enjoy it, too. A bit about...2018-03-0155 min
BITEradio.meGrief: A Love Story with Tara CaffelleGrief: A Love Story with Tara Caffelle Tara Caffelle is a writer, coach, and heart-centred advocate for couples and individuals. She tends to giggle at the word “duty” and is also a shaman of grief and transition. Tara creates spaces for real conversations that make us grow into big lives. Tara coaches people who are in all manner of relationships. People who have babies and squabbles and dreams. People who struggle with their own peace as a relationship ends. People who are simply not okay with things being “fine” and want more, more, more, whatever that looks like. For more information...2017-10-2054 min
Grief: A Love Story with Tara CaffelleGrief: A Love Story with Tara Caffelle
Tara Caffelle is a writer, coach, and heart-centred advocate for couples and individuals. She tends to giggle at the word “duty” and is also a shaman of grief and transition. Tara creates spaces for real conversations that make us grow into big lives.
Tara coaches people who are in all manner of relationships. People who have babies and squabbles and dreams. People who struggle with their own peace as a relationship ends. People who are simply not okay with things being “fine” and want more, more, more, whatever that looks like.
For more information...2017-10-2055 min
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 9 Excerpt from Grief: A Love Story (the book)It feels weird to let this baby out into the world. You can download a hold-in-your-hot-little-hands copy here, but I wanted to give it a voice, too. And as I mention at the end of the episode, this chapter and the book are a team effort, and I wish to thank my writing coach, Nicole Baute for her gentle and effective championing of my words, Karla Johnson for her brilliant sound engineering, particularly in the intro and extro of the podcast, and of course Bensound for the music that we use. Download Episode 2017-09-1622 min
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 8 Andria Racich: Telling the Story of Grief with Interviews"We're all each other's teachers." Sometimes (well, a lot of times) I get connected with people who are My People. You know what I mean? People who get me, people who I get. Soul-like connections. Andria Racich (pronounced "rasich") is one of those people and I am so grateful for this conversation with Andria from The Innerview. Andria has been interested in hearing people’s stories all her life. The Innerview was born from the idea that everyone is important and has story to share. It is through taking the time to listen to others, and ourselves, that we can lea...2017-09-1153 min
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 7: Death is for a thousand lessonsEp 7 One Death, Many Experiences, Many Lessons It's a chapter in the book, and it's just true: a thousand people (and more) will have an experience of each death, and we are all capable (and have permission) to learn and take from each loss whatever is meaningful for us. In this solo episode, Tara talks about the moment this realization came, and what she knows because of it. Download Episode 2017-09-0218 min
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 6 Cassie Barrett: Green Burials and Reverence for Death"Get comfortable with being uncomfortable." Cassie Barrett has been a death worker since 2010 and is the Director of Operations at Carolina Memorial Sanctuary, a conservation and green cemetery located in Western North Carolina. Since she was a kid, Cassie has felt a natural connection to death and a deep desire to serve others. Cassie considers her work a form of death activism, working to help society heal its relationship to death, using education, conversation, and art as a way to engage people. Her biggest mission is to encourage and empower people to prepare for their own death...2017-08-2500 min
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEllen Ercolini: The un-logic of grief"We were a mighty tribe, but we were rudderless. It forced me to grow up very quickly." Ellen Ercolini is a business strategist and gifted coach, and while that may be what you learn about her first, there is so much more to her: she is a veteran of loss and the fortune finder of the gifts her grief has brought her. In this episode, we talk about the waves of impact in a family, growing up too soon, and the priceless wisdom we can all take when supporting grief in the community around us. Ellen Ercolini is a money-making...2017-08-221h 10
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 5 Chris Dierkes: Landing at Sweet Sorrow"The reason we meditate is to learn how to die." In this conversation with Soul Interpreter, Chris Dierkes, we explore learning to live by being with the dead, the place of "sweet sorrow" in grief, and death as our last great teacher. Chris Dierkes is a Soul Interpreter. A former monk and priest, Chris works to assist individuals in connecting to their soul, aka their deepest unique personal essence. His work advocates for the enduring value and beauty of the soul, a wisdom long-held and in our day forgotten. He writes regularly on topics of contemporary spirituality and...2017-08-2258 min
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastKeri-Anne Livingstone: Daring to Grieve"It was honouring. Like going to war. I had to send it up to be healed." Today, we dive deep into the relationship "half-pipe" between Joy and Grief with Coach, Mother, Speaker, and Empathic Leader, Keri-Anne Livingstone. When Keri-Anne suddenly lost her father in March of 2016, the resulting journey proved invaluable. She credits being "willing to ride the waves" of grief, and "revealing it to heal it" to where she has emerged today. Keri-Anne's irreverent, bold, and unashamed style brings humility and wisdom to the experience of grief. Keri-Anne Livingstone is a comedic speaker, emotional empowerment coach and...2017-08-221h 08
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastEp 4 Lisa Hartley: Celebrating the Call to GriefGrief is a call to consciousness Lisa Hartley is a Celebrant based in Vancouver, BC. In this conversation, we talk about the call to grief as a gift, Lisa’s own journey of loss, and (of course) her work as she assists families to craft and design meaningful ceremony for all stages of life. She approaches her work with a simple question: “How do we do this beautifully?" Download Episode 2017-08-121h 16
Grief: A Love Story - the podcastWelcome to Grief: A Love StoryThe true thing is: we will all experience loss. And the choice we have is whether or not we truly feel our grief and ask what it has for us. In 2015, I lost four men in my life and the waves of grief that followed have taught me more than I could have ever imagined. Download Episode 2017-08-1009 min
Synchronicity: Mind Body SoulVancouver's Relationship Fairy Godmother - Tara CaffelleVancouver's Relationship Fairy Godmother, Tara Caffelle2017-05-221h 00