When life gets in the way. How can we find hope again?
My name is Catharina Karlsson. It started with a broken heart when my mother died and I was helped by grief recovery. I then decided that I wanted to give back and became a grief coach myself. I want to be a voice for the change of life that happens when life gets in the way for different reasons. I want to talk about how to find courage and tools to handle loss and refind hope in life. We are all individuals and there is no right or wrong and I want to approach grief from a humble perspective although based on my own perspectives and experiences.
I am a teacher, special educator, mother and dogmom. I am also a certified grief coach. I have also done research about proactive health from a special educational perspective. I want this pod cast to be a safe place to talk about difficult things but where glimpses of light can shine in and give light and hope.
Grief and loss is not only about death. We can get reactions of grief after for example a divioce, other major separations (human or pet), injury, disease or loss of a bodily function, assault, bullying, bankruptcy, conflicts at work or privately. For a variety of reasons we can lose our safety, security, self-esteem or dreams and trust in the future.
Who was I and who did I become after my loss? With this podcast I want to spread knowledge about grief, loss and try to be a channel about ways to find some hope and light again. We are expected to move forward after our loss. How can we get there?
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- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 27
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Grief Recovery; why?
Grief Recovery, why?
Unprocessed grief is almost always due to something emotional that has not been communicated.
Therefore, communication is also key.
To heal grief after a painful loss, you therefo…
Sommer episode 6. The decline of a loved one.
The decline of a loved one.
Seeing a loved one break down and gradually decline quickly or over a longer period of time is enormously painful.
It can be felt both physically and mentally and be an alm…
Summer 5: Grief during the holiday season
Grief during the summer holiday season.
Summer series; episode 5
Today´s episode is about grief during holidays and vacation, but it can also be representative for other specific times of year when yo…
Summer series 4: Myths about grief
This is a podcast about grief and loss and how we can find hope. How are we and how can we move forward?
Even if your life's greatest losses are not caused by death, this is still for you. Today I wi…
Summer 3: Reactions to grief.
Grief can manifest itself through emotional, cognitive, physical, and behavioral reactions.
It is common that we have difficulty concentrating and remembering things. We can forget what we were suppos…
Summer series 2: Time and change.
Summer series; episode 2
Time and change.
When life gets in the way, we often need to reprioritize time and think about what needs to . Maybe time just goes by without us feeling better.
When we talk…
Summer series: 1. Back ground and cancer.
Grief recovery helped me to heal and I decided to become a certified grief coach myself,
since I also wanted to help others, which I do now; individually, in groups and proactively with seminars and …
Losing yourself
Losing yourself
I got lost between a goodbye and a why.. My colors disappeared.
I got lost and in the silence, I became someone I didn't recognize.
I didn't have the energy to look for myself right the…
The loss of right to your own experience
" In the silence, it feels like you don't care. I want to share my story, my truth, dare to be vulnerable. I dare to make my cracks, my dreams and my thoughts visible. In the silence, I feel that you…
Someone else has it worse
“There is always someone who has it worse, so what I am experiencing is probably not so bad. Maybe it would just be perceived as petty whining or grumbles if I would mention it or talk about it”. (La…
The place we didn´t chose.
At certain times I find myself thinking more intensively about how I held my mother´s hand before she passed away. Her hand was warm. The warmth affected me. The warmth was there even though she sli…
Anxiety about Holidays
I wish you welcome to this episode where I talk about feelings about the Holidays.
We might feel as if we're within a labyrinth of emotions, trying to navigate, but without a map or a compass.
It is …
To grieve one´s self esteem
Welcome to listen to this episode about loss of self esteem!
Self esteem and self confidence are basic needs in our identity and perceåtions
of ourselves. If we lose them, we can feel a deep grief, a …
Grief recovery second episode
Grief recovery
We don’t say good-bye to dear memories. We don’t say good-bye to love. We allow ourselves to be free and move on with the feeling that we have completed the grief process and the commun…
To be the one who is there
It is about love, priorities, time and care.
Hold hands, listen, ease someone’s burden.
All the difficult feelings of a person taking care of another one, during a very painful period of time don't sh…
When no one asks how you feel anymore,
When no one asks how you feel anymore but you feel like grief just hit you yesterday and your world is broken into pieces.
When we meet a grieving person, our own feelings from losses can come to the …
It's ok to be sad.
Sometimes we pretend to feel differently in order not to reveal ourselves and not appear vulnerable or weak because we do not want to be that.
Sometimes we want to protect others so they won’t have to…
Experiencing the weakening of someone you love
Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying
-I will try again tomorrow.
(M-A Radmacher)
I was thrown to the floor several times by the fact that the per…
Grief and Communication
Sometimes I hear that the worst thing is silence.
A silence that seems to signal that what has happened is not important, even though it is.
We want to support, but how can we say and how do we ask?
It…
Grief recovery
Early in life we learn that getting things creates happiness and a good life. We learn how to get and achieve things, but we don’t know what to do when we lose them.
It is important to be able to heal…