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Suffocated Grief & Supporting Black Youth - Dr. Tashel Bordere

Dr. Tashel Bordere has spent years researching the grief experience of black youth affected by homicide and gun violence. While many grievin...

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Mini-Episode - Ruby & Jana

In 2018, The Dougy Center was selected as one of a handful of children’s bereavement programs to partner with StoryCorps and the New York Li...

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What Does Forgiveness Feel Like?

Judith Finneren's husband Ralph, or Ralphie as she liked to call him, was hit and killed while riding his bike in the summer of 2011. Even w...

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Grief & Anxiety - Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC

When someone dies, many of us expect to cry and feel frustrated, but we aren’t as prepared for intense fear and worry. Anxiety can catch us ...

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Conflicted Grief - Jan Canty, PhD

When someone dies, we often discover things about them we didn’t know before. Those discoveries can range from mundane preferences like real...

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A Mother's Story - Sue Klebold

Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters at Columbine High School who, in 1999, killed twelve students and a teac...

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Looking Back At Grief - Darwyn Dave

Darwyn Dave is creator and host of the Dealing With My Grief podcast. In 1978, when Darwyn was ten years old, his father was killed. 38 year...

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Death

A lot goes into talking about the people in our lives who have died. Who do we tell? What do we share, not only about the person and what th...

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Supporting Grieving Children With Mindfulness - Tips For Teachers & Parents

How do grief, stress, and trauma affect our bodies, brains, and emotions? Jill shares some easy to implement mindfulness suggestions for bot...

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What Helps When You're Grieving - Ideas For Body, Mind, And Spirit

Jana is joined by Dougy Center staff member, Heather Dorfman, to talk about what helps (or might help) in grief, outside the realm of more f...

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How To Help Children And Teens Grieving A Violent Death

Whether it is a murder, murder-suicide, or a being killed by a driver under the influence, violent death adds multiple layers of complexity ...

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The Youngest Grievers

How do we talk with the youngest children about death? What words should we use? Can they even understand?

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The Private Grief Of A Public Death

The public and often sensationalized nature of a murder-suicide can overshadow the heartbreak and grief of those left behind. In this episod...

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Grief & Developmental Disabilities

When someone dies, it creates upheaval in the support system, leading to unfamiliar territory in terms of how to help those with different p...

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Helping Children And Teens Cope With Fear After A Death

After a death, it’s not unusual for children to have an increased sense of fear and anxiety. (It’s not unusual in adults, either.) When bad ...

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