What About Grief?

We’re kicking off a third season of What About Grief? podcast with Larry’s guest, NBC Sports and Golf Channel host, Cara Banks. She shares how she and her parents coped with the chaos and grief following the tragic death of her brother, Myles, on a family ski trip in 2009. Cara talks openly about the chaos in the early days of his disappearance, her emotions once his body had been found and her own grief journey following the loss ...

Why has mourning a loss motivated so many of our guests into some kind of action?  Larry started this podcast as a way to honor his late wife, Sarah, and help others try to understand and cope with grief.  Today he speaks with Kate Seamons about her grief journey following the death of her husband, Ben, and how it propelled her to create Rainy Day Boxes - a way to help others suffering from a loss or other difficult life experience...

The loss of a child at any age is devastating and the emotional pain that goes along with it stays with you forever.  But how do you move forward with that pain and grief?  
How do you try and comprehend that the thoughts and feelings you are experiencing are not original to you only...but rather shared by others.
Larry's guest this month, Jenna Rogers, introduces us to Faith's Lodge in Wisconsin which is the firs...

Regret and guilt are inevitably a part of life, but if you're grieving there are important differences to understand in order to better be able to cope.   Larry's guest, Litsa Williams, has explored this very subject as Program Director at WhatsYourGrief.com
and co-author of a new book called What's Your Grief?  Lists To Help You Through Any Loss .  She's here to help us understand how best to navigate this ...

Mourning a loss is one thing for an adult and something uniquely challenging for a child.  What's the best way you can help a small child or teenager process  their grief?  The answer can be very different in each case and today Larry focuses on understanding how grief affects kids with help from guests Tamara Ellis Smith, author of the beautiful children's book Grief Is An Elephant, and Dr. Julie Kaplow, a childhood trau...

What's the difference between being alone and experiencing loneliness?  How do you cope with loneliness or with those around you?  How prevalent is loneliness in our society?  Today, Larry has a heartfelt conversation about this most challenging part of his own grief journey with two experts who have both studied loneliness extensively.  Dr. Louise Hawkley & Dr. Wendy Lichtenthal will share their wisdom, insight and practi...

How do your memories, both good and bad, impact your grief?  Larry's guest today has devoted her career to studying how memories affect our experience of loss.  Dr. Mary Lamia, is a clinical psychologist, professor and author, most recently of the book, Grief Isn't Something To Get Over and she  will share her understanding of how our emotions and the persistence of memory are keys to understanding and adapting to death, ...

Here come The Holidays.  Parties, feasts, get-togethers, celebrations and more...the coming weeks are typically crammed with activities that can exhaust any person, but for someone who is grieving the approaching tidal wave of festivities presents a particular set of challenges.
Today, Larry opens up and shares his own holiday ups and downs as a recent widower and he'll also get some helpful advice on navigating  the holid...

Zach Hoffpauir was an exuberant, gifted athlete, playing football and baseball with passion and intensity...described by those around him as always working to make everyone around him better.
He loved life, and lived it in a big way, until darkness fell when he died at age 26.
Today Larry connects with Doug Hoffpauir, Zach's father, in a conversation threaded with honesty, hope and even some humor, as he shines some li...

How does a 15-year old golf prodigy get through the heart-breaking loss of her mother to breast cancer? Today, Larry’s guest is former LPGA star player and now Golf Channel analyst, Morgan Pressel, who shares some of the lessons learned since her mother passed away twenty years ago, at the very start of her golfing career. 
In this episode, she takes a look back at one of the most challenging periods in her life, her grief over...

Is there a way to deal with the dreaded “grief ambush”? What is a good response to the well-meaning but awkward question, “how are you doing?” Have you ever wondered if there is a timeline to grief?

Today Larry’s guests are Mary Spooner and Erin Mayes — the thoughtful mother/daughter duo who lead a Grief Share support group that helps move people through the process of grief.

They’ll share actual, helpful ways of coping with grief as...

Host Larry Holm entered the grief world when his wife passed away from cancer in 2021.  
As he continues to navigate the landscape of his own grief, he wants to discuss this topic with others who are traveling the unmapped highway that can be so lonely, confusing and very frustrating.  
Through conversations with fellow grievers and experts in the field, Larry explores how to try and work through and move forward while deal...