In this episode of the Can You Just Sit With Me? podcast, I sit with author and speaker Aubrey Sampson to discuss grief, lament, and finding hope. Aubrey shares her personal stories of loss, including the death of her best friend, as a backdrop to her work on addressing griefRead More →
The journey through grief is a deeply personal and challenging one, marked by feelings of isolation, pain, and hopelessness. In times of grief and loss, it can often feel like the walls are closing in, and the darkness is overwhelming. However, amidst the despair, there is always a glimmer ofRead More →
In this episode of the Can You Just Sit With Me? pocast, I sit with my guest Claire Bidwell Smith, a renowned grief therapist, who shares insights into her personal and professional journey with grief. Claire discusses her early experiences of loss, having lost both parents to cancer by theRead More →
In this episode of Can You Just Sit With Me, I engage in conversation with Whitney K. Pipkin, a journalist and author of We Shall All Be Changed: How Facing Death with Loved Ones Transforms Us. Whitney shares her personal journey through grief following her mother’s death from cancer, exploringRead More →
Grief is always the uninvited guest. So how do we navigate this thing called grief in our life? How do we navigate the loss and void it has caused in our life? And how do we navigate it all with hope? In this episode of the Can You Just SitRead More →
In this episode of ‘Can You Just Sit With Me?’, host Natasha Smith engages in discussion with Chuck and Ashley Elliott, a dynamic duo of a pastor and a licensed counselor who specialize in grief counseling and coaching. They share their personal experiences with grief and the journey that ledRead More →
In this podcast episode, Natasha sits down with author Rachel Marie Kang to delve into the depths of grief, storytelling, and the significance of sitting with our emotions. Rachel shares personal experiences and insights that have shaped her perspective on loss, healing, and the power of art and literature inRead More →
Grief is a deeply personal experience, a journey that we are most often thrown into in the wake of loss. Each individual’s path through grief is as unique as the person themselves, shaped by their experiences, relationships, cultural influence, family background and emotions. In this episode of the Can YouRead More →
My sister Angie died when I was a sophomore in college. She was only 32 years old. I was still a teenager at the time and didn’t understand how someone so young could die. Of a dreaded disease like cancer of all things. I’d come to find that death, dying,Read More →
I wanted closure. Even before my dad died, I wanted this feeling that things were as they must be. I remember asking him during the last weeks of his life, “Are you ready to go”? I wanted him to say yes, thinking it would help me somewhat. To say yesRead More →