Grief Observed is a podcast where real people share their personal journeys through loss. Host Brad Morrell, a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in grief, guides heartfelt conversations that reveal the many ways we process and live with grief. Each episode offers comfort, insight, and connection—whether through the stories of everyday people or the wisdom of mental health professionals, funeral directors, authors, and grief experts. If you’re navigating loss, or supporting someone who is, this podcast is a companion on the road toward healing and understanding.
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Grief Observed is a podcast where real people share their personal journeys through loss. Host Brad Morrell, a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in grief, guides heartfelt conversations that reveal the many ways we process and live with grief. Each episode offers comfort, insight, and connection—whether through the stories of everyday people or the wisdom of mental health professionals, funeral directors, authors, and grief experts. If you’re navigating loss, or supporting someone who is, this podcast is a companion on the road toward healing and understanding.
My guest today is Louna Kadoch. She is a clinical social worker who specializes in grief, perinatal loss.
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My guest today is Brandi Stoldt. She speaks about the loss of her husband, Kevin.
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Today’s guest is Dr. Willough Jenkins who is a child psychiatrist in San Diego. If you missed Episode 61, I encourage you to go back and listen. On that episode, you will hear her talk about children and grief, TikTok, and mental health myths. Today, though, we meet on more personal ground and speak about the loss of her mother as well as one of her best friends.
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drwilloughjenkins
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My guest today is Sam Jensen. She speaks about her daughter’s tragic death from a hit and run incident.
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@samjensen44
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My guest today is Dolly. She is an autopsy tech and can be found on TikTok.
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@yurlocalgothgurl
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My guest today is Megan Croizer. She speaks about the loss of her boyfriend.
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@megxcro
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If you would like to join me on an episode, find me at:
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My guest today is Lara Krawchuk. Lara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is the owner and Clinical Director of Healing Concepts. She is also faculty for the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition. She also leads grief retreats. On this episode, she speaks about Internal Family Systems and Grief.
email: lara.healingpersepectives@gmail.com
Website: www.yourhealingperspectives.com
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If you would like to join me on an episode, find me at:
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My guest today is Holly Kane. Go back and check out Episode 12/9/23 to hear her Holly’s first episode with me discussing the loss of her father. She has always been one of my favorite episodes and heart-touching stories. I wanted her to come back and help me celebrate EPISODE 100 with some life updates. If her story touches you as much as it does me, send her an email of encouragement or connection!
Website: hollykane10@gmail.com
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My guest today Dr. Jerry Woodbridge is a Christian author, grief advocate, and lifelong educator with a heart for those navigating loss. She is the author of Joy Overcame Sorrow, a faith-based children’s book told from a 10-year-old’s point of view, Joy’s Journal, a companion guided journal for kids aged 9–12 and Trading My Sorrows for the Joy of the Lord, a heartfelt exploration of widowhood through a spiritual lens. She is also an assistant professor at Liberty University!
Website: www.drjerrylwoodbridge.com
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My guest today is Elise, the Makeup Mortician. She speaks about the funeral industry as well as how grief became personal.
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@themakeupmortician
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elisekimberly1/
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My guest today is Emily Tanner. She is certified as a life coach from the accredited Faith-Based Coaching Academy and as a grief recovery specialist from the Grief Recovery Method Institute. Emily is also the founder of Brave Widow.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bravewidow/featured
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brave_widow/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bravewidow?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
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My guest today is Amanda Miller, a grief and bereavement specialist and end of life doula.
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@guidinghanddoula
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558409677493
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My guest today is Siobhan, otherwise known as Celtic Rose Doula. She is a death doula for hospice care and has some personal stories to tell today.
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@celtic.rose.doula
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569938912001
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/celticrosecompassionatecare/
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My guest today is Dr. Rachel Piltch-Loeb PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERT, PROFESSOR, & CONSULTANT. She is here to discuss her new book The Millennial Caregiver.
Website: https://www.rpiltchloeb.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachael-piltch-loeb-050a8213/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachaelpl/
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My guest today is Elissa Laing. She is a widow, but happily remarried, and is passionate about sharing her journey of growth.
Blog: https://medium.com/@ElissaLaingTikTok: www.tiktok.com/@unscriptedgraceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/unscriptedgrace
Website: www.unscriptedgrace.com
Email: elissa@unscriptedgrace.com
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My guest today is Anna Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries.
Website: https://www.annalembke.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Dopamine-Nation-Finding-Balance-Indulgence/dp/1524746746
Workbook: https://www.amazon.com/Official-Dopamine-Nation-Workbook-Indulgence/dp/0593476212
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My guest today is author Jonathan Foster who is here today to speak about the loss of his daughter.
Website: https://www.jonathanfosteronline.com/
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My guest today is Dianne Namm. She is a playwright, screenwriter, director, producer, and author. She is here today to speak about her new book “What Happens After”.
Website: https://www.dianenamm.com/
Book Website: https://whathappensafter.store/
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My guest today is Kendelle Phillips. She speaks about the traumatic loss of her son Zeppelin.
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@grieving.zeppelin
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My guest today is General Manager Shelby Davis from Eternal Reefs. Eternal Reefs is part of the most experienced and professional reef building team in the world. An Eternal Reef is created when a person’s cremated remains are incorporated into a gigantic “reef ball”.
Website: https://www.eternalreefs.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eternalreefs
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eternal-reefs-inc./
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-LMhHkWhmEQwp0oVWKWXfQ
Email: info@eternalreefs.com
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Grief Observed is a podcast where real people share their personal journeys through loss. Host Brad Morrell, a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in grief, guides heartfelt conversations that reveal the many ways we process and live with grief. Each episode offers comfort, insight, and connection—whether through the stories of everyday people or the wisdom of mental health professionals, funeral directors, authors, and grief experts. If you’re navigating loss, or supporting someone who is, this podcast is a companion on the road toward healing and understanding.