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Grief and Light™

This space was created for you by someone who gets it – your grief, your foundation-shattering reality, and the question of what the heck do we do with the shattered pieces of life and loss around us.It’s also for the listener who wants to better understand their grieving person, and perhaps wants to learn how to help.Now in its fourth season, the Grief and Light™ podcast features both solo episodes and interviews with first-hand experiencers, authors, and professionals, who shine a light on the

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51:58

When a Bedside Song Became a Movement | Brad Wolfe on...

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2026/09/29

What happens when grief meets music, community, and the question of what we might do with the pain we carry? Nina sits down with singer-songwriter, community activist, and Reimagine co-founder Brad Wolfe for a conversation about loss, meaning-making, mortality, and what can become possible when we stop trying to turn away from what hurts. Twenty years ago, Brad was playing music at the bedside of his friend Sarah, who was dying from a rare pediatric bone cancer. What began as an intimate act ...

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Season 5: Meeting Life in Times of Uncertainty

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2026/09/27

Life as you know it can change in an instant, leaving us with more questions than answers. Welcome to Season 5 of Grief and Light™, a two-time award-winning podcast where grief is met with curiosity instead of clichés, and hope is offered without bypassing pain. We’re continuing to make room for honest, grief-informed conversations and to challenge the cultural narratives that tell us how grief is supposed to look, feel, or unfold. We’ll explore grief, loss, resilience, post-traumatic growth,...

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56:44

Let Life Surprise You: What Becomes Possible After...

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2026/09/22

What happens when life has already surprised you in the worst possible way? After loss, staying open to possibility can feel complicated. When you’ve experienced something you never imagined could happen, the instinct to control what comes next can become a form of protection. But what if possibility doesn’t require optimism, certainty, or believing that everything will work out? In the final conversation of our three-part Summer Shifts Series, Lisa Keefauver and Nina Rodriguez explore what i...

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Grief Is Not Karma: Letting Go of Guilt After Loss

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2026/09/01

Grief has a way of convincing us that loss must mean we did something wrong. That if we had prayed harder, loved better, been more vigilant, or been more faithful, our person would still be here. One of the most common questions I hear from grieving people is some version of: “We didn’t do anything to deserve this. Why did this happen to us?” Behind that question is often something heavier than grief: guilt, self-blame, and the belief that we should have been able to prevent the loss. But gri...

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59:40

Shifting Our Stories: What Stories Are Keeping You...

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2026/08/25

What stories are you still carrying, and what might you write instead? In Part 2 of the Summer Shifts Series, grief educator and Grief and Light™ founder and host Nina Rodriguez joins author, grief educator, and Grief Is a Sneaky Bitch host Lisa Keefauver, MSW to explore how creativity can help us notice and shift the stories that keep us stuck after loss, grief, and major life change. Building on Part 1's invitation to live into the questions, Nina and Lisa turn toward creativity. Not creati...

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58:48

Living Into the Questions: What If You Didn’t Need...

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2026/08/18

What if you didn't need answers to move forward? What if the questions themselves are where life begins to open again? In the first conversation of the Summer Shifts Series, grief educator and Grief and Light™ founder and host Nina Rodriguez joins author, grief educator, author, and Grief Is a Sneaky Bitch host Lisa Keefauver to explore what it means to live with the questions grief leaves behind rather than rushing toward resolution. After loss, we’re often told to find closure, make meaning...

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Summertime Grief and Shifts

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2026/07/29

Why can grief feel unexpectedly heavy during the summer? While the holidays are often recognized as difficult for grieving people, the quieter shifts of summer can bring their own wave of longing, nostalgia, and remembrance. Longer days, changing routines, family traditions, vacations, and returning to familiar places can amplify the absence of someone we love or remind us of the life we once had. In this solo episode of Grief and Light™, host Nina Rodriguez reflects on returning to her child...

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Life Beyond Deep Grief: A roundtable on living fully...

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2026/06/26

What happens when grief isn’t as heavy as it once was? This candid, multi-voice conversation explores what it means to live fully after loss. While much of the grief space centers on surviving, this roundtable makes space for what comes after the initial sorrow that follows loss and life-altering change, when life begins to expand again, often in unexpected ways. Together, grief and resilience leaders, podcasters, and grief-informed creators explore meaning-making, post-traumat...

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51:51

Friend-Loss Grief Is Real — Let's Talk About It |...

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2026/06/17

In a world where grief is often tied to family ties and romantic relationships, the loss of a friend can feel isolating and unrecognized. Hannah Rumsey is a writer, certified Grief Educator, and the founder of Friends Missing Friends. After losing her best friend Lauren in 2015, Hannah went searching for support and found almost nothing. No grief groups. Not even a Google search result that addressed her experience directly. What she found instead was disenfranchised grief, a term that change...

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51:02

Staying Human in the Era of AI: Storytelling, Grief &...

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2026/06/02

What does it mean to stay human in a world increasingly run by AI? In this episode, Nina sits down with Patrice Poltzer — Gracie Award–winning former TODAY Show producer and co-founder of My Story Pro — about the everyday griefs and shifts of our era: the loss of certainty, the erosion of critical thinking, and the disappearing line between who we are and the tools we rely on. Patrice shares how a cross-continental move from New York to Lisbon, a vanished family income, and a launch tha...

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56:19

Women’s Health & Self-Advocacy: How to Be Heard in...

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2026/05/19

What does it mean to advocate for yourself as a female patient, especially in healthcare systems that often overlook women’s pain, symptoms, and lived experiences? In this episode we welcome Spencer Moore, founder and host of The Hairy Chin, certified women’s health coach, certified breast health educator, and certified breathwork specialist, for a powerful conversation about women’s health advocacy, chronic illness, breast cancer, medical dismissal, and learning how to navigate healthcare sy...

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81:45

Losing Both Parents Changed Everything | Tara Accardo...

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2026/05/13

How do you navigate life after multiple losses and still make space for joy, purpose, love, and hope? In this deeply honest conversation, grief and soul purpose coach Tara Accardo joins Nina Rodriguez to explore what it means to live through layered grief, traumatic loss, and major life transitions while rebuilding your sense of self. After losing both of her parents to cancer within six months, navigating the isolation of the 2020 pandemic, experiencing heartbreak, grieving the loss of her b...

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57:02

Food Allergy Anxiety & Chronic Illness | Dr. Amanda...

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2026/05/07

What does grief look like when it lives inside a body that can't always feel safe? Dr. Amanda Whitehouse joins Nina to explore food allergy anxiety, trauma, and the layered losses that chronic illness brings. Summary: Grief doesn't only come from death. Sometimes it comes from a diagnosis. From the life you imagined slipping away, from food becoming a source of fear, from watching your child struggle to breathe and feeling helpless. That is grief, too. In this episode, Nina Rodriguez welcomes...

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Life After Sibling Loss: Identity, Faith & Following...

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2026/04/28

What happens when grief doesn’t just take your person, but reshapes your identity, your faith, your career, and your sense of what’s possible? In this episode of Grief and Light, Nina Rodriguez sits down with Destiny Rael, a trauma-informed life and grief coach, group facilitator, and sibling loss survivor, for a deeply personal and expansive conversation about what it means to live with grief and still create a meaningful life. Destiny lost her brother Joseph who she describes as her best fr...

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55:16

Grief Doesn’t Have to Rule the Show: Living Alongside...

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2026/04/21

Sylvia Wolfer has lived through a lifetime of loss. Her father died suddenly when she was seven. Her younger brother, Johan, at sixteen. Her older brother, Stefan, in 2019. Her mother in 2023. She has navigated decades of layered grief. Through neuroscience, mindfulness, and work in the body, she has come to understand that grief can be in your life without running your life. In fact, you get to be "the boss." In this conversation, we explore what it means to live alongside loss without...

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53:29

Grief as the Highest Form of Intelligence: Paula...

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2026/04/14

Paula went into "the void," and returned with a question that changed her life: What if grief is actually the highest form of intelligence? In this episode of Grief and Light, I sit down with trauma and grief therapist and artist, Paula Gasparini-Santos, to explore a different way of understanding grief, one where loss becomes a portal, and "the void" transforms us. Paula's work sits at the intersection of trauma therapy and grief, and she brings a framework that honors how intelligent grief ...

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When Loss Becomes Initiation: Somatic Grief,...

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2026/04/07

What if grief wasn't something to survive, but something to move through with presence, ritual, and the full weight of your body? In this episode, Nina Rodriguez sits down with Sundari Malcolm, a birth, grief, and death doula, yoga and breathwork teacher, author of Grief Gems, and founder of A Healing Doula Academy. Raised by Yogi parents, Sundari brings a deeply embodied and ancestrally grounded lens to loss. After seven years caregiving for her mother before losing her to breast cancer at 2...

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59:28

The final "goodbye": Estrella Quiroz on losing her...

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2026/03/31

Before he passed, Estrella's father left her a message worth more than billions: ✨ "I hope a million angels look after you." ✨ Those seven words changed everything. They carried her through grief. They inspired her to travel to over 50 countries. And they ultimately led her to co-found Last Farewells — a platform helping people leave their own meaningful messages for the ones they love, even after they're gone. In this inspiring episode, Estrella Quiroz, self-proclaimed "life enthusiast" ...

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The Family Tree That Ends With Me: Reclaiming Legacy...

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2026/03/20

In this deeply personal reflection, Nina Rodriguez shares her experience with the profound grief and loss of her only sibling, and the realization that the family tree may end with her. This emotional healing journey is further explored through her contributions to Get Griefy Magazine, offering a space for shared understanding. Nina Rodriguez shares a powerful reflection on redefining legacy beyond lineage, revealing how our influence, choices, and relationships create a ripple effect tha...

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Brotherhood Is Medicine: How Broreavement Is Changing...

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2026/03/18

Grief and Light is proud to participate in Podcasthon 2026, the world's largest podcast charity initiative, joining podcasters across the globe to amplify the organizations doing work that the world needs to hear about. Learn more: podcasthon.org *** What happens when men are never given permission to grieve? In this episode, we hear from Daniel Ratchford, founder and president of Broreavement, and Quaheem Brooks, two men who are building something life-affirming: a brotherhood for men a...

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