Let's Chat... Episodes
Conversations around loss and grief
These episodes pop-up every few weeks instead of one of our 101 different losses, as Claire chats to a guest who has experience or expertise in a particular area that can help us deal with, or prepare for, loss.
And she's building a toolkit, well, a whole tool shed, of equipment to help us face loss. Tune in to see what each guest adds to the shed...
1. Let's Chat... Mortality with Sue Brayne (Episode #017)
2. Let's Chat... PTSD with Dr Colleen Crary (Episode #022)
3. Let's Chat... Self Awareness with Katie Elliott (Episode #028)
4. Let's Chat... Police Chaplains with Jared Altic (Episode #034)
5. Let's Chat... End of Life & Grief Coaching with Lis Whybrow (Episode #039)
6. Let's Chat... Environmental & Ecological Grief with Dr Kriss Kevorkian (Episode #042)
7. Let's Chat... Funeral Celebrants with Evelyn Calaunan (Episode #046).
8. Let's Chat... Back to School Pain with Elizabeth Leon (Episode #048)
9. Let's Chat... Back to work after pregnancy loss & infertility with Jackie Mancinelli (Episode #051)
10. Let's Chat... Understanding ourselves through the Enneagram with Lori Alcorn (Episode #055)
11. Let's Chat... Food and grief with Lisa Kolb Ruland (Episode #059)
12. Let's Chat... Grieving brains with Mary-Frances O'Connor (Episode #063)
13. Let's Chat... Living with loss with Peter Ellis and Katrina McNamara (Episode #066)
14. Let's Chat... National Child Abuse Prevention Month with Michelle Fishpaw (Episode #071)
15. Let's Chat... ADHD with Edward (Ned) Hallowell (Episode #073)
16. Let's Chat... Funeral Celebrants II with Sarah Boalch (Episode #076)
17. Let's Chat... How to handle grief in the workplace with Samantha Langford (Episode #079)
18. Let's Chat... Parenting as a widowed parent with Jeanette Koncikowski (Episode #081)
19. Let's Chat... Grief and belief with Matt McChlery (Episode #084)
20. Let's Chat... Funeral Directing with Adrianne Hickey (Episode #087)
21. Let's Chat... Adding colour to funerals with Jen Watson (Episode #098)
22. Coming soon...
Other episodes by topic
Most of our 101 loss episodes cover topics that you might be interested in hearing more about, and you can search our podcast page for specifics, but here are a few examples categorised according to subjects:
INFERTILITY & CHILDLESSNESS
Episode #003 - Our story with infertility and then childlessness - Chris & Claire Sandys
Episode #024 - Loss of multiple pregnancies and then childlessness - Lori Alcorn
Episode #032 - Loss of a husband and best friend - Sasha Bates
BABY LOSS
Episode #018 - Loss through Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) - Alina Mavis
Episode #025 - Loss of a full term baby - Katie Joy Duke
Episode #026 - Loss of a new born baby - Elizabeth Leon
Episode #054 - Loss of a 2-year-old granddaughter - Greg Williams
Episode #071 - Loss of a 12-month-old daughter - Michelle Fishpaw
Episode #051 - Back to work after pregnancy loss & infertility - Jackie Mancinelli
CHILD LOSS
Episode #037 - Loss of a 5-year-old daughter in a school shooting - Mick North
Episode #010 - Loss of a 12-year-old son - Anna Whiston-Donaldson
Episode #031 - Loss of a 22-year-old son - Grant Morgan
PARENTING & GRANDPARENTING
Episode #021 - Parenting a young child with cancer - Diana Tohar
Episode #045 - Parenting a child with Angelman Syndrome - Vlad Korotkov & Irina Karaseva
Episode #054 - Loss of a 2-year-old granddaughter - Greg Williams
Episode #081 - Parenting as a widowed parent - Jeanette Koncikowski
Episode #048 - Back to School Pain - Elizabeth Leon
RELATIONSHIPS
Episode #001 - Loss of a marriage and going through divorce - Sue Brayne
Episode #057 - Loss of a reality and loss of a husband through betrayal - Mary Turner Thomson
Episode #008 - Loss of being a daughter after parents die young - Melissa Bright
WIDOWED
Episode #032 - Loss of a husband and best friend - Sasha Bates
Episode #038 - Loss of a young father and husband - Clarissa Moll
Episode #065 - Loss without a body - Lisa Kolb Ruland
DEMENTIA
Episode #002 - Looking after parents going through dementia - Katie Elliott
Episode #043 - Young-Onset Dementia (a perspective from the inside) - Dr Jennifer Bute
MURDER
Episode #033 - Dealing with loss of life as a Scotland Yard Murder Detective - Steve Keogh
CANCER
Episode MyWhy - Catch-up, cancer, chemo and eyebrows - Katie Joy Duke
Episode #037 - Loss of a wife to cancer, and a daughter in a school shooting - Mick North
Episode #041 - Loss of a sister to brain cancer & collecting cancer stories - David Richman
TRANSGENDER
Episode #018 - Loss of a family - Alina Mavis
SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
Episode #037 - Loss of a daughter at Dunblane Primary School - Mick North
SUICIDE
Episode #027 - Tackling the suicide crisis with veterans - Shaun Johnson
Episode #004 - Considering suicide after medical discharge from military - Dan Richards
Episode #020 - Considering suicide after medical discharge from military - Maurillia Simpson
FAITH
Episode #024 - Loss of multiple pregnancies - Lori Alcorn
Episode #026 - Loss of a new born baby - Elizabeth Leon
Episode #084 - Grief and belief - Matt McChlery
ART
Episode #040 - Depicting grief through comic book art - Carol Tyler
Episode #021 - The value of art when parenting a young child with cancer - Diana Tohar
SPECIAL OCCASIONS
Episode #012 - Chris' loss of Christmas spirit - Chris & Claire Sandys
Episode #013 - That weird time between Christmas and New Year - Chris & Claire Sandys
Episode #060 - Finding comfort at Christmas - Chris & Claire Sandys
Episode #061 - Another new year? Why?!! - Chris & Claire Sandys
Episode #068 - Navigating Mother's Day - Claire Sandys (me!)
And of course we love to hear from you, so if you have any topic you'd like us to chat to someone about, or you just want to get in touch,
Let's Chat...