EP194 - Grief Doesn’t Want Closure — It Wants Companionship

One of the unexpected aches of long-term grief is realizing that the people becoming important in our lives today will never have the opportunity to know someone we loved before. Following a weekend v...

3 Nov 34min

The Life Behind the Word explores how the people we meet today may know the life we're living, but not the life we're carrying. After meeting a woman who deliberately described herself as a “remarried...

27 Okt 28min

The Rest of the Picture explores the parts of long-term grief that often exist just outside what others can see. After an unexpected moment of tears arrived alongside genuine excitement about a major ...

13 Okt 22min

Who Am I Becoming Now? explores what happens when life after loss begins raising questions that don’t have—or need—prescribed answers. As people in Tim’s life gently begin mentioning dating, he reflec...

6 Okt 21min

The Quiet Loss of Being Expected explores one of grief’s most ordinary and easily overlooked absences: losing the person who noticed whether you were home, expected your call, listened to the details ...

29 Sep 22min

When grief is no longer the biggest thing in the room, does that mean we’re leaving something—or someone—behind? In this episode of Journey to Grateful, Tim explores a subtle and sometimes complicated...

15 Sep 23min

When does surviving a life you didn't choose begin becoming a life that actually feels like yours? In this deeply personal episode, Tim explores one of the quieter transitions on the long road of grie...

8 Sep 29min

Why call a podcast about grief Journey to Grateful? In this deeply personal episode, Tim shares the story behind the name—from the bereavement groups that helped him navigate the unfamiliar road after...

1 Sep 35min