True Grief

By The Compassionate Friends Qld

The True Grief Podcast is presented by The Compassionate Friends Queensland. This is an organisation that offers peer to peer support for people who have lost children, siblings, or grandchildren. If you have sadly lost someone close to you, or you are a friend, colleague, or business, trying to support a grief-stricken person, we hope these conversations will give you an insight about how to help. These conversations will include conversations on grief, interviews with experts, and advice for helping people.

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Sibling support after death of a child

True GriefMar 01, 2021

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Sibling support after death of a child

In this episode Tina Good interviews Brett Jacobson. Brett has a background in Psychology and Counselling. He is completing his Masters and his research project is looking at how siblings are supported after the death of a child. Brett lays out why he is keen to explore this area and how members of the TCFQ and TCF community in Australia can help in this research.

Anyone wishing to be involved with the research project or want more information can contact Tina Good by email or phone via these contact details.

Mar 01, 202132:59

Coping with Christmas

In this episode we discuss how various members cope with Christmas and other special occasions. Jen Reading, TCFQ Volunteer Coordinator, shares her thoughts and TCFQ members correspondence on how they deal with the Christmas period when their loss can feel at its most acute. Christmas is centre around children and the family. What is the best way to navigate this?

References:

TCFQ Contact over Christmas

Alpha Male Chimps and Empathy

Dec 06, 202001:00:19

Tools for hard conversations

In this conversation with Adrian Holmes from Skattle there is a discussion around some of the ideas around the Tools for Hard Conversations book just before it was completed. Every family who has lost a child will find they will still have problems associated with life. People still get ill, family members have disagreements and friendship groups are strained. In some ways it is much more important that difficult conversations are started within a bereaved family. Though this conversation is not directly related to grief we hope some of the ideas and strategies Adrian raises will be of use to the listener.

Nov 19, 202001:02:03

Conversation between a parent and sibling - part 4

This is the fourth part, a summary of the conversation between a bereaved parent(s) and sibling. Adrian Holmes joins the conversation to discuss how he helps families who have lost a child navigate their grief. As in the previous conversation , the President of TCFQ Trish Schafer, Tina Good and David Murray are involved in the conversation.

References:

Skattle Website

Tools for Hard Conversations website

Oct 21, 202058:20

Conversation between a parent and sibling - part 3

This is part 3 of a conversation between bereaved parent and former President of TCFQ Trish Schafer and bereaved sibling Tina Good with additional comments from David Murray.

References:

Books mentioned in podcast

My Dark Places - James Ellroy

Blood on the Moon - James Ellroy

Sep 17, 202001:15:58

Conversation between a parent and sibling - part 2

This is part 2 of a conversation between bereaved parent and former President of TCFQ Trish Schafer and bereaved sibling Tina Good with additional comments from David Murray.

Aug 20, 202001:04:51

Conversation between a parent and sibling - part 1

This is part 1 of a conversation between bereaved parent and former President of TCFQ Trish Schafer and bereaved sibling Tina Good with additional comments from David Murray.

Jun 30, 202001:21:13