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The Silent Why: finding hope in grief and loss — 240 episodes

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Loss 66/101: Loss of eyesight: Yahya Pandor

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The Grief Toolshed: Telescopic Tree Pruner - find your sharp people

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The Grief Toolshed: Swiss Army Knife - using the tools of self-awareness

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Graveyard Musings: Wolvercote, Oxford (grave of JRR Tolkien - author of The Lord of the Rings)

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The Grief Toolshed: Compost - it's all about balance (& worms)

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The Grief Toolshed: The Spade - let's dig deep into grief

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Introducing... The Grief Toolshed

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New Year, New Loss, New Schedule

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Chris & Claire's Chatty Christmas Catch-Up 2025

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Australia Update 2: Time flies. And more flies.

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Australia Update 1: Distracted by kookaburras

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Chris & Claire chat Oz, mini mics, Bin Chickens and a special form

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Loss 65/101: Loss of a friend: Hannah Rumsey

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Behind the Scenes: How I make a podcast

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BLOG REWIND: My Why: Accepting a life I don't want

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Let's Chat... Finding hope as a widow (Rachel Powell)

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Loss 64/101: Loss of a wife: Richard Smith

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The (even more) Silent Why (& the Mediterranean Sea)

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Let's Chat... Where does the love go when someone dies (with David Kelly)

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Loss 63/101: Loss through chronic illness and lupus: Olivia Abousaid

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Chris & Claire's top takeaways from 20 years of marriage

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BLOG: My Why: How to build mental muscles when you’re feeling weak

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Loss 62/101: Loss through menopause: Diane Danzebrink

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Let's Chat... The Adventure of Grief (with Bianca Neumann)

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Loss 61/101: Loss of possessions: Naomi Westerman

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Let's Chat... Writing and running through grief (with Justin Creps)

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101 LOSS COUNTDOWN: 60 down, 41 to go

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Let's Chat... How Covid-19 changed death rituals (with Natasha Mikles)

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Loss 60/101: Loss in happy life transitions: Bex Eyles

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Chris & Claire's Reflections on Christmas & New Year

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The (even more) Silent Why (& a storm)

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Chris & Claire's Chatty Christmas Catch-Up 2024

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Loss 59/101: Loss of a police career and self-worth: Ken Anderson

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Let's Chat... Grieving out loud on social media (with Rebecca Feinglos)

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Loss 58/101: Loss through precocious (early) puberty: Dannie-Lu Carr

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BONUS EPISODE: My talk on grief and hope for All Souls' Day

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Loss 57/101: Loss of a husband to suicide while pregnant: Rachel Hart

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The (even more) Silent Why (& a forest walk)

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Loss 56/101: Loss in the role of a Police Chaplain: Jared Altic

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BLOG: My Why: Is grief selfish?

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Turning August from bitter, to sweet

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Loss 55/101: Loss through a bad/complex death: Kay Backhouse

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Graveyard Musings: Moorslede, Belgium

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Let's Chat... Life in a hospice (with Maddy Bass & Kay Backhouse)

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Loss 54/101: Loss through addiction: Lisa Newman

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BONUS EPISODE: Loss 53/101 Part 2: Jonathon & Laura Burns on alopecia, dating and hope through ill health

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Loss 53/101: Loss of hair through alopecia: Laura Burns

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Loss 52/101: Loss of life for a cardiac surgeon: Mark Field

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Loss 51/101: Loss of a dad ('that I don't know if I loved'): Thea Rickard

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Graveyard Musings: Llanfair Talhaiarn, Wales

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101 LOSS COUNTDOWN: 50 down, 51 to go

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Loss 50/101: Loss of a left arm and shoulder: Stephen Downes

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Navigating Mother's Day when you're childless... again.

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BLOG: My Why: You're not the only one

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Let's Chat... Adding colour to funerals (with Jen Watson)

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Loss 49/101: Loss of life in an Emergency Department: John Cronin & Catherine Fowler

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BLOG: My Why: The story of Herman

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New Year, New... Herman!

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BLOG: My Why: Know hope

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Hopelet 5: Cherish your hope

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Hopelet 4: Letting hope be your guide

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Hopelet 3: When your hopes are high

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Hopelet 2: When your hope is weak

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Hopelet 1: When your hope is small

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Comfort on Christmas Day

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The (even more) Silent Why (& a bleak midwinter piano)

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Chris & Claire chat Christmas and Childlessness

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BLOG: My Why: Christmas, friend or foe foe foe?

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What's on the podcast this Christmas and New Year?

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Loss 48/101: Loss through anorexia & orthorexia: Julia Trehane

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Let's Chat... Funeral Directing (with Adrianne Hickey)

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BLOG: The One Where we say goodbye to Matthew Perry (aka Parasocial Grief)

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Loss 47/101: Loss through cumulative grief: Jeanette Koncikowski

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BLOG: My Why: Meet my frenemies, the clouds

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PODCAST UPDATE: Going fortnightly

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Let's Chat... Grief and belief (with Matt McChlery)

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Detecting Loss in Detectorists: A British comedy observed

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Loss 46/101: Loss through disenfranchised grief and childlessness: Jody Day

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Let's Chat... Parenting as a widowed parent (with Jeanette Koncikowski)

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The (even more) Silent Why (& Welsh waters)

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August can be tricky, so I'm doing it differently this year

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BLOG: My Why: Seeing my first dead body

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Let's Chat... How to handle grief in the workplace (with Samantha Langford)

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Come for a walk around a natural woodland burial site: The Eternal Forest in North Wales

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BLOG: My Why: Big wave grieving - how to survive

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Wales, work experience, bitey flies, chips and Dave

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Let's Chat... Funeral Celebrants II (with Sarah Boalch)

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Graveyard Musings: Tyne Cot & Ypres, Belgium

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The (even more) Silent Why (& birds)

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Loss 45/101: Loss through a late diagnosis of ADHD: Margaret Reed Roberts

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Let's Chat... ADHD (with Ned Hallowell)

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BLOG: My Why: We’ve all got triggers, but did you know you have glimmers too?

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Loss 44/101: Loss through autoerotic asphyxiation: Samantha Langford

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Let's Chat... National Child Abuse Prevention Month and Shaken Baby Syndrome (with Michelle Fishpaw)

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BLOG: My Why: Accepting a life I don't want

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Thank you for not being silent

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BLOG: My Why: What happens if I let go?

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Loss 43/101: Loss of life for a Funeral Director: Jonathen Harty and Chris Lord-Brown

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Navigating Mother's Day when you're childless

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Loss 42/101: Loss of possessions in a house fire: Harry Kind

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BLOG: My Why: Is there hope in every season?

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Let's Chat... Living with loss (with Peter Ellis & Katrina McNamara)

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Loss 41/101: Loss without a body: Lisa Kolb Ruland

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BLOG: My Why: Let's be love

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BLOG: My Why: The season of February

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101 LOSS COUNTDOWN: 40 down, 61 to go

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Let's Chat... Grieving brains (with Mary-Frances O'Connor)

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Loss in Ted Lasso: A sports comedy observed

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PODCAST UPDATE: The Silent Fri-days

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Loss 40/101: Loss of dreams: Sheridan Voysey

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BLOG: My Why: The season of January

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Another new year? Why?!!

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'Help me find what I need!'

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Finding comfort at Christmas

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Let's Chat... Food and grief (with Lisa Kolb Ruland)

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BLOG: My Why: The art of making everyone welcome

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Loss 39/101: Loss of riding a motorbike: Mark Riddles

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BLOG: My Why: The season of December

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Loss 38/101: Loss of a reality: Mary Turner Thomson

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PODCAST UPDATE: The Why Silent?

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BLOG: My Why: The season of November

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Loss 37/101: Loss through sexual grief: Edy Nathan

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Grief in Ghosts: The BBC sitcom observed

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Let's Chat... Understanding ourselves better through the Enneagram (with Lori Alcorn)

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BLOG: My Why: Hermontage II

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Loss 36/101: Loss of a young granddaughter: Greg Williams

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BLOG: My Why: Are you lonely?

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Loss 35/101: Loss of photos: Chris & Claire Sandys

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BLOG: My Why: The season of October

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Loss 34/101: Loss of health and life in paediatric patients: Hui-wen Sato

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BLOG: My Why: 1 year in: how I created a podcast

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Let's Chat... Returning to work after pregnancy loss & infertility (with Jackie Mancinelli)

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BLOG: My Why: Feeling the funeral feelings

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A funeral observed: Chris & Claire Sandys

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BLOG: My Why: Grief is on the heir

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Loss 33/101: Loss of a Queen: Chris & Claire Sandys (and friends)

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BLOG: My Why: Thank you, Your Majesty

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Let's Chat... Back to School Pain (with Elizabeth Leon)

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BLOG: My Why: The season of September

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Loss 32/101: Loss of physical ability after a stroke: Peter Ellis

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BLOG: My Why: A Sky Full of Scars by Coldplay (& Claire)

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Let's Chat... Funeral Celebrants (with Evelyn Calaunan)

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BLOG: My Why: Why is asking for money so hard?

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Loss 31/101: Loss through parenting a child with Angelman Syndrome: Vlad Korotkov & Irina Karaseva

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BLOG: My Why: Is your grief soft or spiky?

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101 LOSS COUNTDOWN: 30 down, 71 to go

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BLOG: My Why: The season of August

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Loss 30/101: Loss through Young-Onset Dementia: Jennifer Bute

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BLOG: My Why: It's not Me vs You

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Let's Chat... Environmental and Ecological Grief (with Dr Kriss Kevorkian)

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BLOG: My Why: My biggest fan

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Loss 29/101: Loss of a sister to brain cancer: David Richman

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BLOG: My Why: Griefstroke - symptoms and remedies

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Loss 28/101: Loss through art and the death of a cartoonist: Carol Tyler

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My Why: Catch-up, cancer, chemo and eyebrows with Katie Joy Duke

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Let's Chat... End of Life and Grief Coaching (with Lis Whybrow)

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BLOG: My Why: The season of July

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Loss 27/101: Loss of a young father and husband: Clarissa Moll

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BLOG: My Why: Sunshine doesn't fix everything

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Loss 26/101: Loss of a daughter in a school shooting: Mick North

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BLOG: My Why: Living in the good ol' days

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Loss 25/101: Loss of a professional accreditation: Lis Whybrow

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BLOG: My Why: Garden ramblings

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The Podcast Show 2022: London, baby!

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BLOG: My Why: The season of June

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Let's Chat... Police Chaplains (with Jared Altic)

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BLOG: My Why: Hermontage

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Loss 24/101: Loss of life for a murder detective: Steve Keogh

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BLOG: My Why: Disappointed with life

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Loss 23/101: Loss of a husband and best friend: Sasha Bates

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My Why: Overview of The Silent Why podcast

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Loss 22/101: Loss of a 22-year-old son: Grant Morgan

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BLOG: My Why: The season of May

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Loss 21/101: Loss of childhood: Alicia Williams

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My Why: National Infertility Awareness Week

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101 LOSS COUNTDOWN: 20 down, 81 to go

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BLOG: My Why: Think or swim

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Let's Chat... Self Awareness (with Katie Elliott)

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BLOG: My Why: God: heartless or heartbroken?

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Loss 20/101: Loss of veterans to suicide: Shaun Johnson

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PODCAST UPDATE: The Silent Wife

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BLOG: My Why: The season of April

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Loss 19/101: Loss of a newborn baby: Elizabeth Leon

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Graveyard Musings: Gloucestershire, England [Part 3]

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Loss 18/101: Loss of a full term baby: Katie Joy Duke

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Graveyard Musings: Gloucestershire, England [Part 2]

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Loss 17/101: Loss of multiple pregnancies: Lori Alcorn

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Graveyard Musings: Gloucestershire, England [Part 1]

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Loss of a baby: Series Intro

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BLOG: My Why: The season of March

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Let's Chat... PTSD (with Dr Colleen Crary)

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BLOG: My Why: To every thing there is a season

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Loss 16/101: Loss of self through parenting a young child with cancer: Diana Tohar

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BLOG: My Why: Warning: No trigger warnings

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Loss 15/101: Loss of a dream career: Maurillia Simpson

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BLOG: My Why: Without a Claire in the world

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Loss 14/101: Loss of a pet: Chris & Claire Sandys

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BLOG: My Why: How to talk to the grieving

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Loss 13/101: Loss of a family: Alina Mavis

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BLOG: My Why: If hearts were on sleeves

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Let's Chat... Mortality (with Sue Brayne)

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BLOG: My Why: Permission to grieve

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Loss 12/101: Loss of a species: John Platt

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BLOG: My Why: Living in the bittersweet

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Loss 11/101: Loss of worldly beauty: Virginia Solomons

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BLOG: My Why: When did we all get so fearful?

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PODCAST UPDATE: The Silent Why in 2022

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BLOG: My Why: Know hope

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Hopelet 5: Cherish your hope

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Hopelet 4: Letting hope be your guide

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That weird time between Christmas and New Year

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Hopelet 3: When your hopes are high

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Hopelet 2: When your hope is weak

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Hopelet 1: When your hope is small

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BLOG: My Why: A weary world rejoices

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Chris' loss of Christmas Spirit

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BLOG: My Why: Christmas: friend or foe foe foe?

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101 LOSS COUNTDOWN: 10 down, 91 to go

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BLOG: My Why: What's the worst thing about grief?

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Loss 10/101: Loss of a young son: Anna Whiston-Donaldson

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BLOG: My Why: Where's the rest?

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Loss 9/101: Loss of skin: Assya Shabir

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BLOG: My Why: Flipping the script on comparison

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Loss 8/101: Loss of being a daughter: Melissa Bright

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BLOG: My Why: Meet my friend, the Moon

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Loss 7/101: Loss of a dad: Hannah Moger

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BLOG: My Why: Lost inside: Where am I? (my experience with PMDD)

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Loss 6/101: Loss of a brother to mental illness: Trevor Griffiths

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BLOG: My Why: Hello Darkness, my new friend

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Loss 5/101: Loss of a front tooth: Emily Rodger

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BLOG: My Why: The Autumn Fall

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Loss 4/101: Loss of a right arm and shoulder: Dan Richards

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BLOG: My Why: Guard your heart, not just your hair

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Loss 3/101: Loss of fertility: Chris & Claire Sandys (Part 2)

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BLOG: My Why: What is loss?

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Loss 3/101: Loss of fertility: Chris & Claire Sandys (Part 1)

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Loss 2/101: Loss of both parents to dementia: Katie Elliott

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Loss 1/101: Loss of a marriage: Sue Brayne

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What's your Herman?

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Introducing The Silent Why...