Grief Dreams Podcast
A conversation about life, loss, grief, and grief dreams with one of the leading academic researchers on the topic, Dr. Joshua Black. Visit www.griefdreams.ca for more information on grief dreams.
Episodes
Dr. Enrique A. Mundaca is a Biologist graduated from the University of Concepción (Chile), holds a Master of Science in Conservation Biology, and a PhD in Ecology from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). He has a wide range of research interests including taxonomy and ecology of insects; natural history of marine organisms; sustainability in agricultural ecosystems; agro-biodiversity as cultural heritage; human-nature ...
In this episode we recap some of the dream conversations we had with guests in 2023.
You can find more about Grief Dreams here:
Our website – www.griefdreams.ca
Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams
Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group
Looking for ways to support the podcast?
You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways:
1) Become a Patreon supporter (monthly financial support)
Roberta Kuriloff is a speaker, community activist, former attorney and the author of the new book “Framing a Life: Building the Space to be Me”. With humor and poignancy, her memoir takes readers along an inspiring journey of self-discovery. She is also a founding member of two domestic violence projects, as well as an elderly services organization, and was a hospice patient-volunteer and bereavement workshop facilitator. You can f...
Nikki Wilson is a model and the owner of Mira Denim. Mira Denim is a small batch, ethically made, sustainable fashion company. You can find more about Nikki on Instagram @nikkiwilso or at https://www.miradenim.com/
In this update episode we talk about her grief journey since joining us 4 years ago on the podcast (episode 128), building confidence, learning about her emotions, ambiguous loss of her birds, and dreams relating to he...
Kathy Wagner is a writer, writing coach, and mother of three grown children including her son, Tristan, who died from fentanyl poisoning in 2017. Her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Globe & Mail, and The Sun Magazine. She is the author of Here With You: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Addiction, to be published on September 9, 2023 in Canada with a US & global release date of Spring 2024. You can find...
Colin Campbell is a writer and director for theater and film. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Seraglio, a short film he wrote and directed with wife Gail Lerner. He has taught Theater and/or Filmmaking at Chapman University, Loyola Marymount University, Cal Poly Pomona University, and to incarcerated youth through The Unusual Suspects. His one person show titled, Grief: A One Man ShitShow, premiered at the Hollywood Fring...
Emily Bevan is a writer and actor, perhaps best known for her role as spirited zombie Amy Dyer in BAFTA winning series ‘In The Flesh’. She is soon to appear on Disney plus/Hulu in the hotly anticipated tv series of the much loved film, The Full Monty. Other credits include Funny woman, Doc Martin, Temple, GRANTCHESTER, Domina and many more. In the run up to her father’s untimely death in 2014, Emily kept a diary of thoughts, feelin...
After teaching poetry as an academic for over 20 years, Cathy Sosnowsky started writing poetry herself in response to the sudden death of her teenaged son. Two lines of poetry came to her in a dream on the very night he died. She had to get out of bed and write them down. From then on, in her grief journey, writing poetry saved her. Eventually, many of these poems were published in the book, Holding On: Poems for Alex. Cathy has si...
Krishma Arora immigrated to the United States from India when she was five years old, and grew up on Long Island and then attended New York University. She is a poet, writer, and public speaker. For a few years, she was the author of “Free Spirit,” a monthly column in her hometown magazine, Brookville Living. She has an MS in Education, as well as an MS in Marketing. She has also worked as a high school social studies teacher for 1...
Dr. Donna Stoneham is the author of The Thriver’s Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love, and Lead (SWP, 2015), and a contributor to the anthology, Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis: Women Writer’s Respond to the Call (SWP, 2022), and the new book Catch Me When I Fall: Poems of Mother Loss and Healing (being released May 9, 2023). Additionally, over the span of her thirty-year career in leadership development, she ...
Fiona Tinwei Lam has authored three poetry collections and a children's book. She has produced several award-winning poetry videos that have screened at festivals all over the world. Besides editing the anthology, The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems on Facing Cancer, she has co-edited two nonfiction anthologies. She has been shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Award and thrice selected for BC’s Poetry in Transit. He...
Suzanne Falter is a writer, podcaster and essayist whose work has been featured in SELF, O, More, Tiny Buddha and The New York Times. She’s the author of multiple self-help titles including The Extremely Busy Woman’s Guide to Self-Care (Sourcebooks). She is the host of The Self-Care for Extremely Busy Women podcast, and has been heard widely on podcasts and radio. You can find more about Suzanne at www.suzannefalter.com
In this g...
Dr. Kathy Belicki is a Professor Emerita of Psychology at Brock University. She trained originally as a clinical psychologist, but soon found out that teaching and conducting research brought her the most joy. For much of her career she studied dreams looking at such questions as differences in dream recall, the causes and treatment of nightmares, the relation of personality to dreaming, and, at the end of her research career, the ...
In this episode we recap some of the dream conversations we had with guests in 2022.
You can find more about Grief Dreams here:
Our website – www.griefdreams.ca
Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams
Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group
Looking for ways to support the podcast?
You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways:
1) Become a Patreon supporter (monthly financial support)
Rebecca Soffer, co-founder of the Modern Loss Community, started becoming an expert in grief the moment she learned that her mother Shelby was killed in a car crash. Her expertise expanded when four years later, her father Ray died of a heart attack while traveling. As a single woman in her early thirties, Rebecca needed to talk about her grief, and she really needed to hear others talk about theirs. It was this longing for an ongo...
Addison Brasil is a speaker and the Author of the book First Year of Grief Club: A Gift From A Friend Who Gets It. He shows up in the world as an active and committed mental health advocate after finding himself Just to the Left of Death three times during his twenties. Losing his brother to an inoperable brain tumor, finding his father after suicide, and surviving a fatal accident that killed a dear friend and left him relearning ...
Parvati Markus is the author of Whisper in the Heart: The Ongoing Presence of Neem Karoli Baba (Mandala, released this year 2022) and Love Everyone: The Transcendent Wisdom of Neem Karoli Baba Told Through the Stories of the Westerners Whose Lives He Transformed (HarperOne, 2015). With Radha Baum, she is the co-author of a children’s book, Isabella Castaspella: The Happy Little Witch and Her Friends (SitaRam Press, 2022). Parvati h...
Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D. is a world-renowned author, lecturer, and psychiatrist whose seminal work, Life After Life, changed the way we view death and dying. He is widely acknowledged as the world’s leading expert on near-death experiences. Visit Dr. Moody online at www.lifeafterlife.com
In this episode we talk about his research on near-death experiences (NDEs), similarities of NDEs to grief dreams and end-of-life dreams and v...
In this episode we talk about our rebrand, changes to the team, Joshua moving to British Columbia, and our excitement to begin interviewing guests again.
You can find more about Grief Dreams here:
Our website – www.griefdreams.ca
Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams
Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group
Looking for ways to support the podcast?
You can help support the Grief Dreams Podcast in a few ways:
...
In this episode (Part 2), we recap some of the dream conversations we had with guests in 2021.
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You can find more about Grief Dreams here:
Our website – www.griefdreams.ca - where you can find links to the podcast.
Instagram and Twitter - @Griefdreams
Clubhouse - @Griefdreams (Note: we have 2 clubs you can join - Grief Dreams and Grief Café)
Facebook – Grief Dreams Podcast Page and Grief Dreams Group
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