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
When Grief Comes Home
Latest Episodes
After the Goodbye: Practical Steps for Families
The hours and days after a death can feel unreal: your world is in park, but the outside world keeps moving at full speed. We offer a practical, gentle after-death checklist for parents who are grieving while still trying to steady their childr...
Secondary Losses
Grief doesn’t only take a person. It can take your future in a hundred quiet ways, then surprise you with a wave when you thought you were “doing okay.” Today we’re talking about secondary losses, the ripple effects of loss that show up months ...
How To Support Your Child Through Grief
Grief changes a family’s whole weather system, and parenting through it can feel impossible when you’re trying to protect a child while you’re hurting too. We sit down with Dr. Pamela Gabbay, author of Understanding and Supporting Bereaved Chil...
Northing Is Wasted: Part 2 - Davey Blackburn
The hardest losses do not stay neatly private, and when grief becomes public it can feel like you are bleeding in front of a crowd. We sit down again with Davey Blackburn to talk about what happens when a homicide shatters your family and the w...
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Nothing Is Wasted: Part 1 - Davey Blackburn
A random, shuffled worship song becomes a turning point in a story no family ever wants to live. We sit down with pastor and author Davey Blackburn to talk about the murder of his wife Amanda and their unborn child during a home invasion, and t...
