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)
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2. Let's Chat... PTSD with Dr Colleen Crary (Episode #022)
3. Let's Chat... Self Awareness with Katie Elliott (Episode #028)
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4. Let's Chat... Police Chaplains with Jared Altic (Episode #034)
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5. Let's Chat... End of Life & Grief Coaching with Lis Whybrow (Episode #039)
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6. Let's Chat... Environmental & Ecological Grief with Dr Kriss Kevorkian (Episode #042)
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7. Let's Chat... Funeral Celebrants with Evelyn Calaunan (Episode #046).
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8. Let's Chat... Back to School Pain with Elizabeth Leon (Episode #048)
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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)
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12. Let's Chat... Grieving brains with Mary-Frances O'Connor (Episode #063)
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13. Let's Chat... Living with loss with Peter Ellis and Katrina McNamara (Episode #066)
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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)
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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)
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19. Let's Chat... Grief and belief with Matt McChlery (Episode #084)
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20. Let's Chat... Funeral Directing with Adrianne Hickey (Episode #087)
21. Let's Chat... Adding colour to funerals with Jen Watson (Episode #098)
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22. Let's Chat... Life in a hospice (Episode #107)
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23. Coming soon...
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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:
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JOBS WORKING WITH LOSS, GRIEF & DEATH
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Episode #033 - Scotland Yard Murder Detective - Steve Keogh​
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Episode #034 - Police Chaplain - Jared Altic
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Episode #039 - End of Life & Grief Coach - Lis Whybrow
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Episode #052 - Paediatric Intensive Care Nurse - Hui-wen Sato
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Episode #046 - Funeral Celebrant - Evelyn Calaunan (Australia)
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Episode #069 - Funeral directors - Chris Lord-Brown & Jonathen Harty
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Episode #076 - Funeral Celebrant - Sarah Boalch (Wales)
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Episode #087 - Funeral Director - Adrianne Hickey (Wales)
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Episode #097 - Emergency Room Consultant - John Cronin
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Episode #098 - Funeral Celebrant - Jen Watson (Kent)
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Episode #104 - Cardiac Surgeon - Mark Field
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INFERTILITY & CHILDLESSNESS
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Episode #003 - Our story with infertility and then childlessness - Chris & Claire Sandys​
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Episode #024 - Loss of multiple pregnancies and then childlessness - Lori Alcorn
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Episode #032 - Loss of a husband and best friend - Sasha Bates
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BABY LOSS
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Episode #018 - Loss through Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) - Alina Mavis
Episode #025 - Loss of a full term baby - Katie Joy Duke
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Episode #026 - Loss of a new born baby - Elizabeth Leon
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Episode #054 - Loss of a 2-year-old granddaughter - Greg Williams
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Episode #071 - Loss of a 12-month-old daughter - Michelle Fishpaw
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Episode #051 - Back to work after pregnancy loss & infertility - Jackie Mancinelli
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CHILD LOSS
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Episode #037 - Loss of a 5-year-old daughter in a school shooting - Mick North
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Episode #010 - Loss of a 12-year-old son - Anna Whiston-Donaldson
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Episode #031 - Loss of a 22-year-old son - Grant Morgan
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PARENTING & GRANDPARENTING
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Episode #021 - Parenting a young child with cancer - Diana Tohar
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Episode #045 - Parenting a child with Angelman Syndrome - Vlad Korotkov & Irina Karaseva
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Episode #054 - Loss of a 2-year-old granddaughter - Greg Williams
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Episode #081 - Parenting as a widowed parent - Jeanette Koncikowski
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Episode #048 - Back to School Pain - Elizabeth Leon
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RELATIONSHIPS
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Episode #001 - Loss of a marriage and going through divorce - Sue Brayne
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Episode #057 - Loss of a reality and loss of a husband through betrayal - Mary Turner Thomson
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Episode #008 - Loss of being a daughter after parents die young - Melissa Bright
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WIDOWED
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Episode #032 - Loss of a husband and best friend - Sasha Bates
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Episode #038 - Loss of a young father and husband - Clarissa Moll
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Episode #065 - Loss without a body - Lisa Kolb Ruland
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DEMENTIA
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Episode #002 - Looking after parents going through dementia - Katie Elliott
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Episode #043 - Young-Onset Dementia (a perspective from the inside) - Dr Jennifer Bute
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MURDER
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Episode #033 - Dealing with loss of life as a Scotland Yard Murder Detective - Steve Keogh
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CANCER
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Episode MyWhy - Catch-up, cancer, chemo and eyebrows - Katie Joy Duke
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Episode #037 - Loss of a wife to cancer, and a daughter in a school shooting - Mick North
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Episode #041 - Loss of a sister to brain cancer & collecting cancer stories - David Richman
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TRANSGENDER
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Episode #018 - Loss of a family - Alina Mavis
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SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
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Episode #037 - Loss of a daughter at Dunblane Primary School - Mick North
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SUICIDE
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Episode #027 - Tackling the suicide crisis with veterans - Shaun Johnson
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Episode #004 - Considering suicide after medical discharge from military - Dan Richards
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Episode #020 - Considering suicide after medical discharge from military - Maurillia Simpson
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FAITH
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Episode #024 - Loss of multiple pregnancies - Lori Alcorn
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Episode #026 - Loss of a new born baby - Elizabeth Leon
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Episode #084 - Grief and belief - Matt McChlery
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ART
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Episode #040 - Depicting grief through comic book art - Carol Tyler
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Episode #021 - The value of art when parenting a young child with cancer - Diana Tohar
SPECIAL OCCASIONS
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Episode #012 - Chris' loss of Christmas spirit - Chris & Claire Sandys
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Episode #013 - That weird time between Christmas and New Year - Chris & Claire Sandys
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Episode #060 - Finding comfort at Christmas - Chris & Claire Sandys
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Episode #061 - Another new year? Why?!! - Chris & Claire Sandys
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Episode #068 - Navigating Mother's Day - Claire Sandys (me!)
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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...