When Grief Comes Home
When Grief Comes Home is a podcast that supports parents who are grieving while raising children living through the loss of a parent or sibling. From how to talk to your child about the death to healing practices for resiliency, this podcast addresses challenges parents face after a significant death and ways to process, honor, and integrate the loss over time. Listeners will feel understood and better equipped to process and express their own grief as they support their child.
The When Grief Comes Home podcast goes along with the book of the same name. The book can be ordered at https://www.amazon.com/When-Grief-Comes-Home-Supporting/dp/1540904717
Podcasting since 2024 • 35 episodes
When Grief Comes Home
Latest Episodes
God Meets Us In Our Suffering
The ground can drop out in a single phone call—or grind away over months of scans and unanswered pain. We sit down with pastors and co-authors Rolf Jacobson and Michael Pancost to talk about cancer, grief, and the fierce honesty that keeps fami...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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35:10
How Saying Goodbye Affects Grief
What if you never got to say goodbye? We dig into that question with honesty and care, unpacking how sudden loss and anticipated loss shape grief in different, but equally real, ways. From the shock that hits your nervous system to the looping ...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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31:14
Saying Goodbye - After a Long Term Illness
The diagnosis redraws the map of a family’s life, and suddenly everyone is living in two worlds: the one they knew and the one they never asked for. We dive into anticipatory grief—the real grief that begins long before a death—unpacking how it...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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44:09
Grieving Your Disenfranchised Loss
Some grief gets welcomed with casseroles and open arms. Other grief is met with silence, side‑eye, or the sense that you don’t have the right to mourn. We go straight at disenfranchised grief—losses like suicide, overdose, miscarriage, pregnanc...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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44:04
Going Back to School After Loss
When a child returns to school after a death, routine and heartbreak collide. We open this conversation with Erin’s story of walking her daughter into kindergarten weeks after losing her dad and the quiet power of structure—the same faces at th...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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31:31