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Suzanne Falter is a writer, podcaster and essayist whose work has been featured in SELF, O, More, Tiny Buddha and The New York Times. She’s the author of multiple self-help titles including The Extremely Busy Woman’s Guide to Self-Care (Sourcebooks). She is the host of The Self-Care for Extremely Busy Women podcast, and has been heard widely on podcasts and radio. You can find more about Suzanne at www.suzannefalter.com   In this guest update episode, we talk with Suzanne about the death of her daughter, learning about self-care, her new book ‘Free Spirited’, the unified field of love, and new dreams of her deceased daughter.   You can listen to Suzanne’s first episode (episode 141) on our podcast here - https://www.griefdreams.ca/podcast/141 and her friend’s (Debi) podcast episode here - https://www.griefdreams.ca/podcast/142   You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   Looking for ways to support the podcast?   You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways: 1) Become a Patreon supporter (monthly financial support) https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast 2) Buy us a Coffee (one-time financial support)  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/griefdreams 3) Subscribe to the podcast (on the platform you listen) and give a review. This improves our online visibility. 4) Support the topic by sharing the podcast or website. We appreciate any support that contributes to raising awareness on the topic.  

Dr. Kathy Belicki is a Professor Emerita of Psychology at Brock University. She trained originally as a clinical psychologist, but soon found out that teaching and conducting research brought her the most joy. For much of her career she studied dreams looking at such questions as differences in dream recall, the causes and treatment of nightmares, the relation of personality to dreaming, and, at the end of her research career, the nature of dreams of the deceased. At various times she also studied forgiveness, and the impact of childhood trauma and abuse on one’s emotional well-being and physical health as an adult. At present she has just completed writing a memoir about her experiences in the Memory Wars of the 1990s—a period of intense conflict over what to make of recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse.   You can find more about Kathy at https://brocku.ca/social-sciences/psychology/people/kathryn-belicki/   In this episode we talk about her early research on nightmares, how dreams lack volume control, researching dreams of the deceased, bereavement experiences while awake, and dreams of her deceased cats and grandmother.   You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   Looking for ways to support the podcast? You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways: 1) Become a Patreon supporter (monthly financial support) https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast 2) Buy us a Coffee (one-time financial support)  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/griefdreams 3) Subscribe to the podcast (on the platform you listen) and give a review. This improves our online visibility. 4) Support the topic by sharing the podcast or website. We appreciate any support that contributes to raising awareness on the topic.  

In this episode we recap some of the dream conversations we had with guests in 2022.   You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   Looking for ways to support the podcast? You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways: 1) Become a Patreon supporter (monthly financial support) https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast 2) Buy us a Coffee (one-time financial support)  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/griefdreams 3) Subscribe to the podcast (on the platform you listen) and give a review. This improves our online visibility. 4) Support the topic by sharing the podcast or website. We appreciate any support that contributes to raising awareness on the topic.  

Rebecca Soffer, co-founder of the Modern Loss Community, started becoming an expert in grief the moment she learned that her mother Shelby was killed in a car crash. Her expertise expanded when four years later, her father Ray died of a heart attack while traveling. As a single woman in her early thirties, Rebecca needed to talk about her grief, and she really needed to hear others talk about theirs. It was this longing for an ongoing conversation that led her, along with co-founder Gabi Birkner, to start the Modern Loss Community. Nine years later, Rebecca just published her second book - The Modern Loss Handbook: An Interactive Guide to Moving Through Grief and Building Your Resilience. It's the kind of book that many people are looking for in their grief - filled with prompts for writing, drawing, and movement practices to help people stay connected to themselves, their people who died, and the world around them.   You can find more about Rebecca and Modern Loss at modernloss.com   In this episode we talk about her new book, grief dreams after her mother, father, and grandmother died, and tips for grievers and those supporting a person who is grieving over the holidays.   You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   Looking for ways to support the podcast? You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways: 1) Become a Patreon supporter (monthly financial support) https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast 2) Buy us a Coffee (one-time financial support)  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/griefdreams 3) Subscribe to the podcast (on the platform you listen) and give a review. This improves our online visibility. 4) Support the topic by sharing the podcast or website. We appreciate any support that contributes to raising awareness on the topic.

Addison Brasil is a speaker and the Author of the book First Year of Grief Club: A Gift From A Friend Who Gets It. He shows up in the world as an active and committed mental health advocate after finding himself Just to the Left of Death three times during his twenties. Losing his brother to an inoperable brain tumor, finding his father after suicide, and surviving a fatal accident that killed a dear friend and left him relearning to walk. Attributing his ability to not only survive but thrive with PTSD and compounded grief to the value of community and connection. You can find more about Addison at mygriefclub.com In this episode we talk about his three major losses when he was in his 20’s, the importance of honesty in grief, living in the grey space, bringing humor back into his life, his new podcast, and grief dreams of his brother, father, and friend.   You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   Looking for ways to support the podcast?   You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways: 1) Become a Patreon supporter (monthly financial support) https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast 2) Buy us a Coffee (one-time financial support)  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/griefdreams 3) Subscribe to the podcast (on the platform you listen) and give a review. This improves our online visibility. 4) Support the topic by sharing the podcast or website. We appreciate any support that contributes to raising awareness on the topic.

Parvati Markus is the author of Whisper in the Heart: The Ongoing Presence of Neem Karoli Baba (Mandala, released this year 2022) and Love Everyone: The Transcendent Wisdom of Neem Karoli Baba Told Through the Stories of the Westerners Whose Lives He Transformed (HarperOne, 2015). With Radha Baum, she is the co-author of a children’s book, Isabella Castaspella: The Happy Little Witch and Her Friends (SitaRam Press, 2022). Parvati has been “midwifing” spiritually-oriented nonfiction books and memoirs as a developmental editor/writer since her first efforts with Ram Dass’s classic Be Here Now. She has also helped with spiritual organizations (as past president of the board of the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram and Hanuman Temple in Taos, NM), and events (as a development consultant for the Global Peace Initiative of Women.) She is on the Advisory Board of the Love Serve Remember Foundation. You can find more about her at parvatimarkus.com   In this episode we talk about how she first met Neem Karoli Baba, her grief when he died, the power of stories (sharing and hearing) in processing grief, her new book Whisper in the Heart that shares stories on the ongoing presence of Neem Karoli Baba through grief dreams and other experiences, and the hosts grief dreams of him.    You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   Looking for ways to support the podcast? You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways: 1) Become a Patreon supporter (monthly financial support) https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast 2) Buy us a Coffee (one-time financial support)  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/griefdreams 3) Subscribe to the podcast (on the platform you listen) and give a review. This improves our online visibility. 4) Support the topic by sharing the podcast or website. We appreciate any support that contributes to raising awareness on the topic.

Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D. is a world-renowned author, lecturer, and psychiatrist whose seminal work, Life After Life, changed the way we view death and dying. He is widely acknowledged as the world’s leading expert on near-death experiences. Visit Dr. Moody online at www.lifeafterlife.com   In this episode we talk about his research on near-death experiences (NDEs), similarities of NDEs to grief dreams and end-of-life dreams and visions, his grief after the death of his mom and friends, taking on the characteristics of his deceased friend, and his grief dreams of his grandmother and friend.    You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   Looking for ways to support the podcast? You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways: 1) Become a Patreon supporter (monthly financial support) https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast 2) Buy us a Coffee (one-time financial support)  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/griefdreams 3) Subscribe to the podcast (on the platform you listen) and give a review. This improves our online visibility. 4) Support the topic by sharing the podcast or website. We appreciate any support that contributes to raising awareness on the topic.

In this episode we talk about our rebrand, changes to the team, Joshua moving to British Columbia, and our excitement to begin interviewing guests again.    You can find more about Grief Dreams here: Our website – www.griefdreams.ca  Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   Looking for ways to support the podcast? You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways: 1) Become a Patreon supporter (monthly financial support) https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast   2) Buy us a Coffee (one-time financial support)  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/griefdreams   3) Subscribe to the podcast (on the platform you listen) and give a review. This improves our online visibility.   4) Support the topic by sharing the podcast or website. We appreciate any support that contributes to raising awareness on the topic.  

In this episode (Part 2), we recap some of the dream conversations we had with guests in 2021. *************** You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast.    Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)   Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   To support the podcast on Pateron visit https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast

In this episode (Part 1), we recap some of the dream conversations we had with guests in 2021. *************** You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast.    Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)   Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   To support the podcast on Pateron visit https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast    

Jenn K. Lee is a writer and mixed media artist who lives in Hawaii with her husband and two children. Her book, Grieving in Dreams: Finding Peace After Losing My Sister, explores how her first year of dreaming about her late sister, who passed away in 2019, helped her process her grief and guided her toward a path that ultimately led to peace.   In this episode we talk about her relationship with her sister, her sister’s journey with cancer, the many grief dreams of her sister, and writing her new book.   You can find more about Jenn on Instagram @grievingindreams ***************   You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast.    Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)   Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   To support the podcast on Pateron visit https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast    

Dr. Karen Wyatt is the bestselling author of the book 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying, which contains stories of patients she cared for as a hospice doctor and the spiritual lessons she learned from them at the end of their lives. Dr. Wyatt also hosts End-of-Life University Podcast, which features conversations with experts who work in all aspects of end-of-life care. She is widely regarded as a thought-leader in the effort to transform the way we care for our dying in the U.S. In addition, she is valued for her application of spiritual principles to illness and healthcare.   In this episode we talk about her podcast, working as a hospice doctor, the death of her father by suicide, difficulties processing the death, and grief dreams of her father.   You can find more about Karen at www.eoluniversity.com and on Instagram @kwyattmd   ***************   You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast.    Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)   Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   To support the podcast on Pateron visit https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast

Zachary Steele is the Broadleaf Writers Association Founder & Executive Director, and has been featured by NPR, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Publishers Weekly, Baby Got Books, Shelf Awareness, Writer Magazine and was nominated for the Sidewise Award for Alternate Fiction. His recent novel, The Weight of Ashes is his third novel.    In this episode we talk about getting started being a writer, grief in fictional stories, his new novel “The Weight of Ashes”, how writing facilitated processing his own grief, the death of his best friend as a child, working through the anger over his friend's suicide, and the death and grief dreams of his cat.   You can find more about Zachary at http://zacharysteele.com/   *************** You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast.    Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)   Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   To support the podcast on Pateron visit https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast  

Autumn Toelle-Jackson is a wife, widow, mother, and survivor. The loss of a husband, a beloved cousin and mentor, her daughter, and miscarriages have left scars on her soul and memorial tattoos on her body, but Autumn learned to grow through it all. She wrote Boldly into the Darkness: Living with Loss, Growing with Grief & Holding onto Happiness to share her story and let others who are grieving know they aren't alone, and even with loss there is hope. Autumn and her family created Growing with Grief to provide those who are grieving with a place to find community, resources, and help.   In this episode we talk about her miscarriages, the death of her daughter and husband, memorial tattoos, learning to feel her grief, her book, and grief dreams of her husband.   You can find more about Autumn at www.growingwithgrief.com and on Instagram @growingwithgrief   *************** You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast.    Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)   Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   To support the podcast on Pateron visit https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast

Heike Mertins is an author, blogger and speaker. She is the author of “Grief is...Thoughts on loss, struggle and new beginnings” (2017), which chronicles her journey through the bizarre, frustrating and at times humorous world of incomprehensible loss. Following the death of her brother and husband, Heike began to document the process of loss, emotion and healing that accompanies a momentous life change.   In this episode we talk about the death of her brother, husband, and mother, the little things in grief that are not talked about, her book about grief, sleep changes and triggers after loss, humorous aspects in grief, and grief dreams of her husband.   You can find more about Heike at https://heikemertins.com/   *************** You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast.    Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)   Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   To support the podcast on Pateron visit https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast  

Callsuma Ali is a British Bangladeshi podcaster. She is the host of Bereavement Room, a British born podcast about life, death, grief and Identity from the perspective of black and brown voices across the diaspora. The podcast was launched in November 2019 following poor experiences Callsuma went through when accessing bereavement support and therapy.   In this episode we talk about her relationship with her mother and brother, being a caregiver for her brother who had autism, the death of her mother and then brother, having difficulties finding suitable grief support, starting her own podcast ‘Bereavement Room’, and grief dreams of her mother.   You can find more about Callsuma on Instagram and Twitter @bereavementroom   ***************   You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast.    Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)   Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   To support the podcast on Pateron visit https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast  

In this guest update episode, we talk with Heather Stang from Episode 119. Heather is the author of Mindfulness & Grief and the now released guided journal, From Grief To Peace. She is the founder of the Mindfulness & Grief Institute, where she facilitates Awaken, a mindfulness-based online group, offers individual sessions, and hosts the Mindfulness & Grief Podcast. Heather holds a master’s degree in Thanatology from Hood College and is a Certified Yoga Therapist.   In this episode we talk about the death of her dog (Monster) and estranged grandmother, the power of animals in our lives, continuing bonds and finding new meaning after pet loss, adopting her new dog, her grief dream of Monster, and her new guided journal.   You can find more about Heather at mindfulnessandgrief.com   ***************   You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast.    Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)   Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   To support the podcast on Pateron visit https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast

We rereleased this episode (E119) as our next episode features an update on the guest.   Heather Stang, MA, C-IAYT is the author of Mindfulness & Grief, now in its second edition, and the host of the Mindfulness & Grief Podcast. She has a Master’s Degree in Thanatology and is a certified yoga therapist and meditation instructor. Heather is on the Advisory Board for the highly regarded military family survivor organization Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), and is the founder of the Mindfulness & Grief Training Institute.   In this episode we talk about how she got into yoga and meditation, benefits of it during grief, grief related insomnia, loss of her uncle as a child and other losses, and her grief dream of her grandmother.   You can find more about Heather here https://mindfulnessandgrief.com/

Dr. Roger Ivar Lohmann is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Trent University. He has published extensively about the relationship between dreaming and culture, including Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific. An ethnographer of the Asabano people of Papua New Guinea, he has served as editor-in-chief of the journal Reviews in Anthropology, chair of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, and president of the Green Party of Ontario.   In this episode we talk about Anthropology, his interest in dreams, the importance of dreams in culture, different cultural dream theories, dreams during the grief process, studying the Asabano people, the death of his sister, and grief dreams of his sister.     *************** You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast.    Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)   Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   To support the podcast on Pateron visit https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast

Caitlin Garvey is a writer and English professor in Chicago. She has an MFA in creative writing from Northwestern University and an MA in English Literature from DePaul University. Her work has been published in Post Road Magazine, Little Fiction: Big Truths, The Baltimore Review, The Tishman Review, and others. Her debut memoir, The Mourning Report, is about losing her mother to cancer and collecting the stories of the people who played a role in her mother's care.   In this episode we talk about her relationship with her mother, navigating through university while grieving, attempting suicide, finding purpose and direction, her new book ‘The Mourning Report’, interviewing others about her mother, and grief dreams of her mother.   You can find more about Caitlin at https://www.caitlinhogangarvey.com/     *************** You can find more about Grief Dreams here:   Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast.    Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams   Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)   Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group   To support the podcast on Pateron visit https://www.patreon.com/griefdreamspodcast