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A Guide to After Life

A Guide to After Life

Hosted by: Dr Monika Wieliczko

A Guide to After Life is your go-to podcast for the young and widowed. This is your weekly space to help you live through grief.

Episodes

Ep. 21. How to Heal Your Nervous System After Loss? The Roadmap to Grief Recovery with Dr. Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell

Season #2

What happens when grief is more than just sadness—when it floods your entire system, leaving you feeling unsafe in your own body and mind? This week on A Guide to After Life, Dr. Monika Wieliczko sits down with Dr....
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S2, Ep 20. What Is Left of Me After Losing you? Identity Transformation in Grief with Dr. Nikki Paul.

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 Grief obliterates the scaffolding of who we once were and we all ask this basic question in the aftermath of a profound loss: what is left of me after you are gone? This is the topic of this week's conversation with...
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Episode 19. How to Move Forward When You’re Stuck in Grief: The Transformative Power of Community with Karen Sutton.

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If you’ve ever found yourself wondering “Why do I still feel so stuck?” or “Will I ever feel like myself again?”—this conversation is for you. In this episode, I speak with Karen Sutton, grief coach and widow, about...
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Season 2, Ep. 18: How to build your grief tribe? The Grief Collective with Dr Marianne Trent, Clinical Psychologist

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What happens when a psychologist becomes the patient of grief herself? How do you go from burning candles through tears to writing a bestselling book on loss in just one month? In this deeply moving episode of A Guide...
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Ep 17. Just sit with my pain. How to survive unbearable pain of loss with Rosalind Coon, Clinical Psychologist.

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What do you do when the pain is too much to bear? In this moving and unfiltered conversation, clinical psychologist Rosalind Coon joins host Dr. Monika Wieliczko to explore the devastating emotional terrain of loss...
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Season 2, Ep 16. Why Talking About Death Might Just Change Your Life? Death Matters Awareness Week with Dr. Ali Ross.

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Death Matters Awareness Week Special  Most of us avoid conversations about death—until we’re forced to have them. But what if talking about death could actually help us live more fully? In this special episode for...
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Season 2, Ep 15. Shattered Dreams of Parenthood After Losing a Life Partner with Dr Kara Davey, Clinical Psychologist

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Life can sometimes throw us the most heart-wrenching curveballs. Losing a life partner is devastating enough, but when it's coupled with the challenges of infertility or the loss of shared dreams to build a family,...
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Season 2, Ep 14. Assisted Dying in the UK: Ethics, Grief, and the Right to Choose with Susan Cadell, PhD.

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In this thought-provoking episode, Dr. Monika Wieliczko explores the complex topic of assisted dying with Professor Susan Cadell, a leading researcher in grief and grief literacy. As the UK Parliament considers the...
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Season 2, Ep 13. Getting Support for the Physical Symptoms of Grief from Your GP: A conversation with Dr Lynsey Bennett.

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Have you ever wondered why grief feels so physical? Why your heart races, your stomach churns, or your body aches after losing someone you love? And have you struggled to make sense of your physical health issued and...
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Season 2, Ep.12: Emotional Co-Regulation: Strategies for Parents to Foster Resilience in Grieving Children with Dr Jade Redfern, Clinical Psychologist

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Grieving parents often grapple with profound fear that they are failing their children amidst overwhelming loss and forgetting to prioritise their own emotional needs. In this powerful episode of A Guide to After...
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Season 2, Ep. 11. The Sprinkles of Resilience: Transforming Grief into Growth with Debbie Weiss

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Join Dr. Monika Wieliczko in this heartfelt episode of "A Guide to After Life", where she interviews Debbie Weiss, a bestselling author, coach, and fellow widow. Debbie shares her transformative journey of caregiving,...
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Season 2, Episode 10: The Healing Power of WAY Community: How to Develop Resilience in Grief with Karen James

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In this episode of A Guide to After Life, I am talking with Karen James, a young widow whose own experiences of loss turned her career around to focus on researching resilient grieving. The conversation delves into...
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