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The True Grief Podcast is presented by The Compassionate Friends Queensland. This is an organisation that offers peer to peer support for people who have lost children, siblings, or grandchildren. If you have sadly lost someone close to you, or you are a friend, colleague, or business, trying to support a grief-stricken person, we hope these conversations will give you an insight about how to help. These conversations will include conversations on grief, interviews with experts, and advice for helping people. In this episode Tina Good interviews Brett Jacobson. Brett has a background in Psychology and Counselling. He is completing his Masters and his research project is looking at how siblings are supported after the death of a child. Brett lays out why he is keen to explore this area and how members of the TCFQ and TCF community in Australia can help in this research. Anyone wishing to be involved with the research project or want more information can contact Tina Good by email or phone via these https://www.compassionatefriendsqld.org.au/contact/ (contact details).

The True Grief Podcast is presented by The Compassionate Friends Queensland. This is an organisation that offers peer to peer support for people who have lost children, siblings, or grandchildren. If you have sadly lost someone close to you, or you are a friend, colleague, or business, trying to support a grief-stricken person, we hope these conversations will give you an insight about how to help. These conversations will include conversations on grief, interviews with experts, and advice for helping people. In this episode we discuss how various members cope with Christmas and other special occasions. Jen Reader TCFQ Volunteer Coordinator shares her thoughts and TCFQ members correspondence on how they deal with the Christmas period when their loss can feel at its most acute. Christmas is centre around children and the family. What is the best way to navigate this? References: https://www.compassionatefriendsqld.org.au/contact/ (TCFQ Contact over Christmas) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/alpha-male-alpha-chimpanzee-primatologist-frans-de-waal-a8421291.html (Alpha Male Chimps and Empathy)

The True Grief Podcast is presented by The Compassionate Friends Queensland. This is an organisation that offers peer to peer support for people who have lost children, siblings, or grandchildren. If you have sadly lost someone close to you, or you are a friend, colleague, or business, trying to support a grief-stricken person, we hope these conversations will give you an insight about how to help. These conversations will include conversations on grief, interviews with experts, and advice for helping people. In this conversation with Adrian Holmes from Skattle there is a discussion around some of the ideas around the https://www.toolsforhardconversations.com/our-book (Tools for Hard Conversations) book just before it was completed. Every family who has lost a child will find they will still have problems associated with life. People still get ill, family members have disagreements and friendship groups are strained. In some ways it is much more important that difficult conversations are started within a bereaved family. Though this conversation is not directly related to grief we hope some of the ideas and strategies Adrian raises will be of use to the listener.

The True Grief Podcast is presented by The Compassionate Friends Queensland. This is an organisation that offers peer to peer support for people who have lost children, siblings, or grandchildren. If you have sadly lost someone close to you, or you are a friend, colleague, or business, trying to support a grief-stricken person, we hope these conversations will give you an insight about how to help. These conversations will include conversations on grief, interviews with experts, and advice for helping people. This the fourth part, a summary of the conversation between a bereaved parent(s) and sibling. Adrian Holmes joins the conversation to discuss how he helps families who have lost a child navigate their grief. As in the previous conversation , the President of TCFQ Trish Schafer, Tina Good and David Murray are involved in the conversation. References: http://skattle.org.au/ (Skattle Website) https://www.toolsforhardconversations.com/ (Tools for Hard Conversations website)

The True Grief Podcast is presented by The Compassionate Friends Queensland. This is an organisation that offers peer to peer support for people who have lost children, siblings, or grandchildren. If you have sadly lost someone close to you, or you are a friend, colleague, or business, trying to support a grief-stricken person, we hope these conversations will give you an insight about how to help. These conversations will include conversations on grief, interviews with experts, and advice for helping people. This the third part of a conversation between a bereaved parent(s) and sibling.  President of TCFQ Trish Schafer is asking bereaved sibling Tina Good questions with additional comments from David Murray. References: Books mentioned in podcast https://www.amazon.com/My-Dark-Places-James-Ellroy/dp/0679762051/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= (My Dark Places) - James Ellroy https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Moon-James-Ellroy/dp/140009528X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=RD51UD3DU15U&dchild=1&keywords=blood+on+the+moon+james+ellroy&qid=1600298151&sprefix=blood+on+the+moon+james+%2Caps%2C358&sr=8-1 (Blood on the Moon) - James Ellroy

The True Grief Podcast is presented by The Compassionate Friends Queensland. This is an organisation that offers peer to peer support for people who have lost children, siblings, or grandchildren. If you have sadly lost someone close to you, or you are a friend, colleague, or business, trying to support a grief-stricken person, we hope these conversations will give you an insight about how to help. These conversations will include conversations on grief, interviews with experts, and advice for helping people. This the second part of a conversation between a bereaved parent(s) and sibling. President of TCFQ Trish Schafer is asking bereaved sibling Tina Good questions with additional comments from David Murray.

The True Grief Podcast is presented by The Compassionate Friends Queensland. This is an organisation that offers peer to peer support for people who have lost children, siblings, or grandchildren. If you have sadly lost someone close to you, or you are a friend, colleague, or business, trying to support a grief-stricken person, we hope these conversations will give you an insight about how to help. These conversations will include conversations on grief, interviews with experts, and advice for helping people. This part 1 of a conversation between a bereaved parent(s) and sibling. President of TCFQ Trish Schafer is asking bereaved sibling Tina Good questions with additional comments from David Murray.