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The Silent Why: finding hope in grief and loss — 247 episodes · page 1 of 3
A loss, a quick update, and a thankyou!
A podcast milestone, a chatty catch-up, and a summer pause
Let's Chat... Where to place our focus in grief (Karen Sutton)
The Grief Toolshed: Chair & blanket - it's all about the self care
Graveyard Musings: Glasgow Necropolis, Scotland
The Grief Toolshed: Baby Bio & a hand fork - a dual-pronged attack
The (even more) Silent Why (& the Singapore Strait)
Loss 66/101: Loss of eyesight: Yahya Pandor
The Grief Toolshed: Telescopic Tree Pruner - find your sharp people
The Grief Toolshed: Swiss Army Knife - using the tools of self-awareness
Graveyard Musings: Wolvercote, Oxford (grave of JRR Tolkien - author of The Lord of the Rings)
The Grief Toolshed: Compost - it's all about balance (& worms)
The Grief Toolshed: The Spade - let's dig deep into grief
Introducing... The Grief Toolshed
New Year, New Loss, New Schedule
Chris & Claire's Chatty Christmas Catch-Up 2025
Australia Update 2: Time flies. And more flies.
Australia Update 1: Distracted by kookaburras
Chris & Claire chat Oz, mini mics, Bin Chickens and a special form
Loss 65/101: Loss of a friend: Hannah Rumsey
Behind the Scenes: How I make a podcast
BLOG REWIND: My Why: Accepting a life I don't want
Let's Chat... Finding hope as a widow (Rachel Powell)
Loss 64/101: Loss of a wife: Richard Smith
The (even more) Silent Why (& the Mediterranean Sea)
Let's Chat... Where does the love go when someone dies (with David Kelly)
Loss 63/101: Loss through chronic illness and lupus: Olivia Abousaid
Chris & Claire's top takeaways from 20 years of marriage
BLOG: My Why: How to build mental muscles when you’re feeling weak
Loss 62/101: Loss through menopause: Diane Danzebrink
Let's Chat... The Adventure of Grief (with Bianca Neumann)
Loss 61/101: Loss of possessions: Naomi Westerman
Let's Chat... Writing and running through grief (with Justin Creps)
101 LOSS COUNTDOWN: 60 down, 41 to go
Let's Chat... How Covid-19 changed death rituals (with Natasha Mikles)
Loss 60/101: Loss in happy life transitions: Bex Eyles
Chris & Claire's Reflections on Christmas & New Year
The (even more) Silent Why (& a storm)
Chris & Claire's Chatty Christmas Catch-Up 2024
Loss 59/101: Loss of a police career and self-worth: Ken Anderson
Let's Chat... Grieving out loud on social media (with Rebecca Feinglos)
Loss 58/101: Loss through precocious (early) puberty: Dannie-Lu Carr
BONUS EPISODE: My talk on grief and hope for All Souls' Day
Loss 57/101: Loss of a husband to suicide while pregnant: Rachel Hart
The (even more) Silent Why (& a forest walk)
Loss 56/101: Loss in the role of a Police Chaplain: Jared Altic
BLOG: My Why: Is grief selfish?
Turning August from bitter, to sweet
Loss 55/101: Loss through a bad/complex death: Kay Backhouse
Graveyard Musings: Moorslede, Belgium
Let's Chat... Life in a hospice (with Maddy Bass & Kay Backhouse)
Loss 54/101: Loss through addiction: Lisa Newman
BONUS EPISODE: Loss 53/101 Part 2: Jonathon & Laura Burns on alopecia, dating and hope through ill health
Loss 53/101: Loss of hair through alopecia: Laura Burns
Loss 52/101: Loss of life for a cardiac surgeon: Mark Field
Loss 51/101: Loss of a dad ('that I don't know if I loved'): Thea Rickard
Graveyard Musings: Llanfair Talhaiarn, Wales
101 LOSS COUNTDOWN: 50 down, 51 to go
Loss 50/101: Loss of a left arm and shoulder: Stephen Downes
Navigating Mother's Day when you're childless... again.
BLOG: My Why: You're not the only one
Let's Chat... Adding colour to funerals (with Jen Watson)
Loss 49/101: Loss of life in an Emergency Department: John Cronin & Catherine Fowler
BLOG: My Why: The story of Herman
New Year, New... Herman!
BLOG: My Why: Know hope
Hopelet 5: Cherish your hope
Hopelet 4: Letting hope be your guide
Hopelet 3: When your hopes are high
Hopelet 2: When your hope is weak
Hopelet 1: When your hope is small
Comfort on Christmas Day
The (even more) Silent Why (& a bleak midwinter piano)
Chris & Claire chat Christmas and Childlessness
BLOG: My Why: Christmas, friend or foe foe foe?
What's on the podcast this Christmas and New Year?
Loss 48/101: Loss through anorexia & orthorexia: Julia Trehane
Let's Chat... Funeral Directing (with Adrianne Hickey)
BLOG: The One Where we say goodbye to Matthew Perry (aka Parasocial Grief)
Loss 47/101: Loss through cumulative grief: Jeanette Koncikowski
BLOG: My Why: Meet my frenemies, the clouds
PODCAST UPDATE: Going fortnightly
Let's Chat... Grief and belief (with Matt McChlery)
Detecting Loss in Detectorists: A British comedy observed
Loss 46/101: Loss through disenfranchised grief and childlessness: Jody Day
Let's Chat... Parenting as a widowed parent (with Jeanette Koncikowski)
The (even more) Silent Why (& Welsh waters)
August can be tricky, so I'm doing it differently this year
BLOG: My Why: Seeing my first dead body
Let's Chat... How to handle grief in the workplace (with Samantha Langford)
Come for a walk around a natural woodland burial site: The Eternal Forest in North Wales
BLOG: My Why: Big wave grieving - how to survive
Wales, work experience, bitey flies, chips and Dave
Let's Chat... Funeral Celebrants II (with Sarah Boalch)
Graveyard Musings: Tyne Cot & Ypres, Belgium
The (even more) Silent Why (& birds)
Loss 45/101: Loss through a late diagnosis of ADHD: Margaret Reed Roberts
Let's Chat... ADHD (with Ned Hallowell)
BLOG: My Why: We’ve all got triggers, but did you know you have glimmers too?
Loss 44/101: Loss through autoerotic asphyxiation: Samantha Langford