Best The Dougy Center Podcasts (2024)

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Is This Normal? Getting To Know Grief With Kendra Rinaldi 55:27

12d ago55:27

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Kendra Rinaldi knows a lot about grief. When she was just 21, her sister died in a car accident. Ten years later she had a miscarriage. Ten years after that, her mother died of cancer. Professionally, she is a grief guide and host of the Grief, Gratitude, and the Gray In Between podcast. But she didn't always get grief. When she was 21, she didn't …

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Building A World Worth Living In - Trends In Suicide Prevention & Postvention 1:01:01

25d ago1:01:01

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It might be better to ask Canada Taylor what she doesn't do in the realm of suicide prevention, postvention, and grief support rather than what she does because she seems to do just about everything and anything. This is part two of our conversation with her, so if you missed the first, Ep. 297: Honoring A Great Love, be sure to listen. In this epi…

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Honoring A Great Love - Canada Taylor 55:12

1M ago55:12

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Twelve years ago today - August 30th - Canada Taylor was having an amazing night. She and her husband Rick were sitting outside, talking about life and work and dreams for the future - their future. Then everything changed. Rick had a medical event, and Canada became his first responder. Hours later, she became his widow. In the twelve years since,…

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My Long-Term Relationship With Grief - Barri Leiner Grant & The Memory Circle 50:03

2M ago50:03

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When Barri Leiner Grant was 28, her mother Ellen died suddenly. Barri was hit with intense grief, but back then the expectation was to hurry up and get back to work and life. She didn't have the time, space, or tools to acknowledge and attend to grief. Over the past 31 years, Barri and her grief have gotten to know each other on a deep level. In th…

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How They Died Matters, A Daughter's Story - Kari Lyons-Price, MSW 50:40

2M ago50:40

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Sometimes we can't really begin to understand grief - ours or anyone else's - if we don't have space to talk about the death. The context surrounding how someone died matters and can shape our grief in meaningful ways. This was true for Kari Lyons-Price, MSW, who was a caregiver for her parents, Hal and Sylvia, for many years. They died three years…

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108 Ways To Survive Grief - Sweta Vikram 40:20

3M ago40:20

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In May of 2023, Sweta Vikram was overwhelmed with grief. In the span of three days, her father died, her father-in-law died, and it was the 9-year anniversary of her mother’s death. When she looked for information on how to survive the maelstrom of emotions, she found reassurances that she would eventually get to the other side, but nothing that sh…

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Embodied Practices For Tending Grief - Camille Sapara Barton 37:56

3M ago37:56

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Camille Sapara Barton is a social imagineer who is reimagining how we define and relate to grief. As a writer, artist, and somatic practitioner, Camille is looking to create a new grief narrative expansive enough to include multiple forms of individual and collective grief, especially for queer, trans, and BIPOC communities. In Camille's book, Tend…

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Is There A Cure For Grief? - Cody Delistraty 42:36

3M ago42:36

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Cody Delistraty is a journalist and he's also a son whose mother died of cancer. These two identities intersect in his new book, The Grief Cure, which chronicles his quest to find a way to eliminate the pain of grief. After exploring Laughter Therapy, silent meditation, Breakup Bootcamp, and other avenues for grief expression, Cody landed where so …

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The Ripple Effect Of Loss In Portland's Black Community - Sharice Burnett, LCSW 47:17

4M ago47:17

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It's impossible to speak for an entire community, especially when it comes to grief, but Sharice Burnett, LCSW, knows a lot about the ripple effect of loss in the Black and African American community in Portland, OR. Born and raised in the community, Sharice is a clinical mental health therapist and consultant dedicated to naming and dismantling th…

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How To Stop Shoulding Yourself - Lisa Keefauver & Grief Is A Sneaky Bitch 47:23

4M ago47:23

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Lisa Keefauver is a lot of things - she's a writer, speaker, educator, social worker, podcast host, mother, widow, and grief activist. She came to the last two titles when her personal experience of grieving for her husband Eric, who died of a brain tumor in 2011, intersected with her professional life as a clinician. At this intersection, Lisa rea…

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Autism & Grief 34:47

4M ago34:47

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The Autism & Grief Project is a new online platform designed to help adults with autism navigate and cope with the complexities of grief arising from both death and non-death losses. Alex LaMorie, A.A.S is a member of the project's Advisory Board and brings his lived experience with both autism and grief to this work. Dr. Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv…

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The Intimacy Of Friendship - Lissa Soep & Other People's Words 37:51

4M ago37:51

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Have you ever heard someone’s voice in your head and suddenly you're transported to a time and place when you were with them? This phenomenon is what Lissa Soep explores in Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End, her book about the intimacy of friendship and how words and language keep people with us, even afte…

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Changing The Landscape Of Grief Support For Latino Families 1:00:23

5M ago1:00:23

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Cristina Chipriano, LCSW, Dougy Center's Director of Equity & Community Outreach and Melinda Avila, MSW, CEO of OYEN Emotional Wellness Center, are committed to changing the landscape of grief support for Latino families. They bring personal and professional grief experiences to the work of ensuring that every Latino family has access to dual langu…

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A Living Remedy - Nicole Chung 48:46

5M ago48:46

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We cannot separate grief from the context in which it occurs. This is true for Nicole Chung whose adopted parents died just two years apart in 2018 and 2020. The world of 2018 was very different than that of 2020. In 2018, Nicole and her mother could grieve for her father, together and in person. In 2020, Nicole was on the other side of the country…

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Conscious Grieving - Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC 33:33

6M ago33:33

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Maybe you're familiar with the phrase, "You can't go around grief, you have to go through it." Or, "You have to feel your feelings." If you're like a lot of people, you might cringe and also wonder, "What does that actually mean?" Grief isn't linear, and it's not something to get through - and yet, a lot of people appreciate having some sense of wh…

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Caring For Young Widows In Nigeria - Diane Kalu 39:24

6M ago39:24

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In 2015, Diane Kalu was living in Nigeria with her husband and their three young children. One day, about eight weeks after the birth of their third child, Diane’s husband went to work and never returned. A few days later she got the news that he dad died. She was suddenly a widow, responsible for raising three children under the age of five, in a …

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It's A Loss That's Hard To Talk About - Grieving A Friend 55:50

7M ago55:50

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Read Transcript Whenever Annette & Mel connect, there's always a third person in the mix. That third person is Amy, their friend and chosen family member who died in 2012 of pulmonary fibrosis. While they each had a unique friendship with her, both connections were formative and deep. When Amy died, Annette and Mel's friendship grew stronger, becau…

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Creating A Home For Grief - Laura Green 34:49

7M ago34:49

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What if there was a place you could go in your grief and be both perfect and broken? That's the kind of place Laura Green dreamed up with her friend and co-founder, Sascha Demerjian. Together they created The Grief House, a community space for people to explore grief through movement, conversation, creativity, and care. Since she was very young, La…

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“I Felt Like Half A Person” – On Becoming A Widow 52:38

7M ago52:38

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In an instant, Leslie went from sharing every aspect of life with her husband Ryan to feeling like half a person. Leslie, Ryan, their two young children, and their extended family were on vacation in California when Ryan told Leslie that something didn't feel right. He was rushed to the hospital where he died of a stroke and an aneurysym, leaving L…

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Putting Grief On Hold - Channing Frye 43:31

8M ago43:31

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What happens when you put your grief on hold? In the summer of 2016, Channing Frye was riding high. After over a decade in the NBA, his team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, had won the Championship. Then, in the fall, he hit one of the lowest lows. His mother Karen died of cancer. Just a month later his father, Thomas, also died. Channing put his grief o…

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The Dangers Of Pathologizing Grief - Dr. Donna Schuurman, EdD, FT 46:26

8M ago46:26

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Dr. Donna Schuurman is back - this time talking about the dangers of pathologizing grief. While the term "complicated grief" has been used in various grief settings for years, it wasn't until March of 2022 that Prolonged Grief Disorder made it into the DSM-5-TR - the Diagnostical & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - as an official diagnosis. …

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Can They Even Understand? - Preschoolers & Grief 50:21

9M ago50:21

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When Sat Kaur Khalsa, MSW, was three, her older brother died in a drowning accident. After his death, he continued to disappear - his photos were taken down and no one talked about him. As she grew up, she learned the implicit lesson to be a good kid because her parents were already dealing with enough. She also learned that grief wasn't something …

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Becoming Grief-Informed- Dr. Donna Schuurman & Dr. Monique Mitchell 48:01

9M ago48:01

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What does it mean to be grief-informed? In 2020, Dr. Donna Schuurman, EdD, FT, and Dr. Monique Mitchell, PhD, FT, authored the paper, "Becoming Grief-Informed: A Call to Action," which outlines: what it means to be grief-informed, why it's so important, and Dougy Center's 10 Core Principles and Tenets of Grief-Informed Practice. This paper is based…

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The Realities of Black Grief – Doneila McIntosh, M.Div., M.A. 40:07

9M ago40:07

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The reality for Black individuals and families living in the U.S. is that death happens more often and earlier on than for their white counterparts. In the last two decades, these higher rates of mortality resulted in 1.63 million excess deaths for Black Americans compared to white Americans. Doneila McIntosh brings her personal and professional ex…

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You Have A Life Worth Rebuilding - Melissa Pierce & The Widow Squad 44:14

10M ago44:14

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What started out as an average winter morning ended up being one that would change everything in Melissa Pierce's life. She went to wake up her husband Dave for their son's basketball game and found him unresponsive. Dave had died during the night and the cause of death was never determined. Melissa jumped into figuring out logistics - planning a m…

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Is This Normal? Getting To Know Grief With Kendra Rinaldi 55:27

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Building A World Worth Living In - Trends In Suicide Prevention & Postvention 1:01:01

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Honoring A Great Love - Canada Taylor 55:12

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My Long-Term Relationship With Grief - Barri Leiner Grant & The Memory Circle 50:03

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How They Died Matters, A Daughter's Story - Kari Lyons-Price, MSW 50:40

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108 Ways To Survive Grief - Sweta Vikram 40:20

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Embodied Practices For Tending Grief - Camille Sapara Barton 37:56

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Is There A Cure For Grief? - Cody Delistraty 42:36

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The Ripple Effect Of Loss In Portland's Black Community - Sharice Burnett, LCSW 47:17

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How To Stop Shoulding Yourself - Lisa Keefauver & Grief Is A Sneaky Bitch 47:23

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Autism & Grief 34:47

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The Intimacy Of Friendship - Lissa Soep & Other People's Words 37:51

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Changing The Landscape Of Grief Support For Latino Families 1:00:23

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A Living Remedy - Nicole Chung 48:46

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Conscious Grieving - Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC 33:33

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Caring For Young Widows In Nigeria - Diane Kalu 39:24

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It's A Loss That's Hard To Talk About - Grieving A Friend 55:50

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Creating A Home For Grief - Laura Green 34:49

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“I Felt Like Half A Person” – On Becoming A Widow 52:38

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Putting Grief On Hold - Channing Frye 43:31

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The Dangers Of Pathologizing Grief - Dr. Donna Schuurman, EdD, FT 46:26

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Can They Even Understand? - Preschoolers & Grief 50:21

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Becoming Grief-Informed- Dr. Donna Schuurman & Dr. Monique Mitchell 48:01

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The Realities of Black Grief – Doneila McIntosh, M.Div., M.A. 40:07

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You Have A Life Worth Rebuilding - Melissa Pierce & The Widow Squad 44:14

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