Join Karen and Bec's weekly therapy session with each other as they discuss their grief, how it makes them fell day to day and how they cope with it. This weeks focus is on anger, whether its because the Christmas holidays are approaching and emotions are frayed but anger is this weeks unwanted guest. Its another light hearted episode that should bring you a smile and make you chuckle but hopefully you will also feel seen and understood in your grief and all its sadness and pain too. So, grab...

Karen and Bec were joined back in September this year with fellow loss mum Angela Moseley who son William was diagnosed with a brain tumour 10 years before he died 2 years ago aged 18.

Join Karen and Bec as they discuss life, a little bit of grief and food! A lighter conversation this week with a more focus into our day to day life's. Grief feels repetitive at times and the episodes sometimes feel like that is how they come across, so let us know what you want to hear from us and what questions or thoughts you may have, including what grief food is your go too! So, grab yourself a cuppa, find a comfortable spot and we can journey through grief together. Follow us on...

Di Goddard joins Bec and Karen to bravely share her story and resilience in grief after her husband died this year, 9 years after her daughter died aged 22 from multiple organ failure. Di is raw an honest in sharing her account of loss and grief. Its a long episode but worth a listen, expect tears and laughter! Di is an author, hypnotist and self proclaimed grief expert but not through choice, life gave her no other option. Find Di's books here; Liana: Her Story, My Words - An inspiring true...

A bit of a different one this week. Karen and Bec chat to Jessica Patay, founder of We Are Brave Together is a non-profit organization, rooted in Southern California, that provides an international community of support for “Caregiving Moms”—moms caring for children or adult children with any diagnosis, disability or challenge: physical, medical, mental, emotional, behavioral. Our current membership of over 3,000 moms represents all 50 states and 27 countries. Not all losses are a loss in the...

This week is just Karen on her own talking with Becs husband, Brads dad, Simon. Its an honest account of how one dad grieves following the death of his 18 year old son to brain cancer 16 months ago.

Karen and Bec discuss Karen EMDR therapy, the trauma Karen struggles to recall and how the EMDR therapy has helped her.

Karen and Bec are joined by Psychotherapist John Pilling. With over 18 years experience of working with patients who have experienced loss and trauma, John shares insightful tips, tools and coping strategies as well as some really useful explanations as to why we experience the things we do. This is a brilliant and informative episode - we learned loads ourselves during this..... Watch to see if it changed Bec's mind on therapy as we all know she isn't a fan!  So, grab yourself a cuppa, find...

Bec & Karen always promised to be raw, open, honest and real with their grief and this week, they are exactly that. It's a hard hitting episode that talks about the dark realities of grief and how it impacts every part of your life. So, grab yourself a cuppa, find a comfortable spot and we can journey through grief together. Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/room_to_grieve/ Join our Facebook group here https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550631693157 RSS Hosted on...

Bec talks with Karen's brother Ant, to get more of an understanding on what grief feels like for men and how he has learnt to deal with grief over the years since the loss of his dad and now his niece Emily. Ant also shares some brilliant stories of Karen and Emily! What he felt his role was when Emily was diagnosed and how Emily dying has effected and impacted his life going forward. So, grab yourself a cuppa, find a comfortable spot and we can journey through grief together. Follow us on...

Not sure what a Children's Hospice is or what they do? Want to learn more about what it is like to work in one and what happens when children die in the hospice then this is the episode for you! In todays episode Karen and Bec are joined by Lucy from Derian House Children's Hospice in Chorley UK, Lucy and team looked after Emily in her last few months. When the kids were dying we were surprised to learn there is so much more to a Hospice then somewhere to die. Have a listen!  Let us know what...

A little catch up with just us! We aimed to talk about the back to school triggers as we are finding this hard but ended up covering anything and everything - like we do! Most importantly this episode is to thank you all for allowing us to carrying on doing this, for listening and for supporting us and for you to keep sending us the messages and getting in touch because we LOVE receiving them! Let us know what topics you would like us to cover, any guests you would like to have on and what...

In this episode we continue our chat with Natalie Ridler whose little boy Morgan died a few days before his 4th birthday. We talk about choosing hospice care, grief support, Morgan's last moments and how life looks now after every parents worst nightmare is now our reality. We also discuss finding purpose after loss - what is Morgan's Army and the amazing work it does to help other. So, grab yourself a cuppa, find a comfortable spot and we can journey through grief together. Follow Natalie...

Morgan was diagnosed in 2021 after his mum was dismissed by doctors multiple times when raising her concerns, eventually she was listened and their world changed forever. Listen to her share their fight to be heard and how they have chosen to live life in memory of their little boy.

This week Karen and Bec are joined by Soul Midwife, Funeral Celebrant and Death Educator Katie Costello. One of only 1000 soul midwifes in the world, Katie joins us to talk about what a role of a Soul Midwife is, what she has learned from working with the dying and people at end of life. We talk about resilience and why we need it as well as how societies view on grief and death has changed over the years and what Katie has learned about death - what is it we all need to know before we...

This week Karen & Bec talk with Louise Fox who also lost her 13 Year old son Gorgeous George in 2022 to glioblastoma, a Grade 4 terminal, aggressive brain cancer. Louise shares George’s story and how life has changed after loss and how she manages her grief.

Karen and Bec catch up this week to discuss the raw elements of grief and how we naturally compare ourselves to others, worry about the choices we made on this journey and constantly think about how others around us are feeling.

Karen and Bec chat with Teenage Cancer Trust Youth Support Worker Angie Burns to find out what it is like to work everyday with teenagers who have cancer.

Karen and Bec are joined by Brads sister Sydney (25) and Morgan (23) who share their experience how hearing Brads diagnosis felt for them and how grief how been so far. Morgan doesn't mind us sharing that she also has learning difficulties and disabilities, making the who experience for her that little bit tricker (as if it wasn't hard enough anyway).    So grab yourself a cuppa, find a comfortable spot and lets journey through grief together. We hope you enjoy! Follow us on Instagram...

Karen and Bec catch up as we head into 'a new year' without the kids. July marks the start of another 12 months without them. We've kept ourselves busy, made ourselves ill and even make space for a few laughs and giggles over cheetahs, safaris and elephants! We do whatever we can just to get through! So grab yourself a cuppa, find a comfortable spot and lets journey through grief together. We hope you enjoy! Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/room_to_grieve/ RSS Hosted on...

Karen and Bec are joined by Jude Hill whose 4 year old son Adam sadly died from cancer 32 years old. Jude now a Life after Loss Mentor helping others through a similar journey, has built her own online community called Sadness to Sunshine and is an author to a book of the same name.

Another weekly catch up with Karen & Bec as we approach Em’s 1 year anniversary. Talking about the pressures we feel and create for ourselves in grief and the weird, hard to describe complexities of it all.

Grab yourself a cuppa, find a comfortable spot and lets journey through grief together.

The heart wrenching story of one 18 year old lads fight to get help in his dying weeks. How professionals told him he had a zero percent chance of survival, yet they were discharging home without support.  Brads Mum tells his story of courage and fight as they fought as a family in the hope Brad could overcome the dismal brain cancer diagnosis he had been given.  You've heard Emily's story and why Karen finds herself here, now its time to hear about Bec's son Brad.