Got Grief Craig Henry & Holly Sumpton

This week we speak to Katherine who is a retired nurse. Katherine speaks on the loss of her mother when she was two years old and then talks on a childhood of abuse, foster care and separation from her siblings. Katherine has found great strength in her faith and in this episode shows that no matter how dark our lives become there is always hope if you continue to ask for help. Katherine is married with children and grandchildren and works with a grief charity in her spare time.

Trigger Warning: This episode contains references to sexual, emotional and physical abuse.

This week we speak to Ali about the loss of her brother when she was only nine years old. Ali shares how the unexpected loss of her brother impacted her life and family. Ali shares how her grief has been internalised for large periods of life and how this was transformed when she asked for help and started therapy.

This is the third episode in a mini-series on sibling loss. In these episodes we will be speaking with adults who have have lost their siblings.

This week we speak to Rebecca from Colorado, USA. Rebecca talks on the sudden loss of her sister when she was a teenager. Rebecca talks on how losing a sister so suddenly impacts your life and those around you. This episode celebrates the life of Rebecca's sister and how this has inspired positivity  despite the pain including Rebecca volunteering to help others who are grieving. 

This is the second episode in a mini-series on sibling loss. In these episodes we will be speaking with adults who have have lost their siblings.

This week we speak to Jules, a casting director from Canada. Jules talks on the loss of her brother and sister and also others in a traumatic sequence of events. Jules shares about how it feels to lose a brother and sister and how the trauma upends her life? Jules also speaks on how she coped  day to day with these deaths and supported her parents, as the only remaining living sibling.

Jules has started a Cancer charity in honour of her siblings. She has also written a book on Grief called: Finding the Words which is due for release later this year.

This is the first episode in a mini-series on sibling loss. In these episodes we will be speaking with adults who have have lost their siblings.

This week we speak to Paul who works in the charity sector. In this episode, Paul shares the loss of both in parents in a car crash in his childhood. Paul lends deep insight into the complexity of becoming a double orphan and how this impacted his development and every aspect of his life.

Paul's beautiful honesty reveals the reality of losing both parents in an instance and how this trauma shapes one's life.

This week we speak to author and psychoanalytic therapist, Nick Blackburn. In this special episode Nick shares how he his father died and how his grief and experiences brought him to write his first book, The Reactor . Nick shares insights into grief, working with those who have experienced it and how a few notes on his phone turned into a book about grief and repair.

The Reactor is a memoir about absence and creative possibilities, assembled like the pieces of a puzzle. Through philosophy, music, fashion, psychology, art and film, Blackburn travels a vast panorama of ideas and characters to offer an entirely new exploration of grief. This is a book about looking for and finding chain reactions and human connection - a work of enduring fragmentary beauty.