Grief Talk w/ Vonne Solis

Send us Fan MailWithin three months in 2021, Laura Jaye Cramer lost her father and her brother to suicide. In this episode of Grief Talk, she shares what those losses were like, and what it means to keep living with grief that has no tidy ending.We talk openly about:• Being the sibling who gets left out. When her dad died, people knew to check in. When her brother died, there were crickets, and even lifelong friends went silent. Laura explains why siblings are so often overlooked in suicide loss, and what she wishes people would say and ask.• Carrying the guilt. Laura was her dad’s closest confidant from a young age. She talks about loving him fully while also recognizing that he shared more with her than a child should have to hold, and about the guilt of feeling she should have been able to stop it.• Grieving two losses at once. Why multiple deaths can’t be grieved one at a time, and how numbness, the “airplane mode” Laura describes, can be as hard as sadness.• PTSD and trauma. How trauma distorts your sense of time and the future, and why talk therapy isn’t the right fit for everyone.• The pressure to make grief mean something. Laura pushes back on the idea that you must turn loss into a business, a book, or a cause. You can sit with it, be kind to yourself, and still have a good life. Her reframe is to replace “but” with “and”: something terrible happened to me, and I can have a great life.• What to say to someone grieving a suicide loss. And what to keep to yourself.Laura is also the founder of Waiting Room Publishing, which puts print magazines into healthcare, senior living, and end-of-life waiting rooms. Candlelight Magazine focuses on grief and loss and includes a “Dear Candlelight” advice column and a list of free support resources on the back page. Gigi, The Grand Life, and Vital Years are written for readers 65 and older, covering a range of topics, too often overlooked by media for this age group. Laura discusses how the work grew out of her own ongoing healing, and why she hopes to see more honest, human content for older adults.ℹ️ Learn more or submit your writing at waitingroompublishing.com.🖤 Content note: this episode includes frank conversation about suicide and suicide loss. If you are struggling, please reach out to a crisis line or a trusted person in your life.💛  Laura’s resources: 📱🌐 Waiting Room Publishing: https://waitingroompublishing.com📸 Instagram: @waitingroompublishing @candlelightmagazine🎵 Tik Tok: @waitingroompublishing @candlelightmagazineⓕ Facebook: @waitingroompublishingConnect with Vonne: 📱🌐 📖  Coaching and resources: https://vonnesolis.com/resources📸  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grieftalkwithvonnesolisⓕ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vonnesolisconsulting📺 YouTube: https://youtube.com/@grieftalkwithvonnesolis ✅ 🔔 If this episode spoke to you, please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who needs to hear they're not alone.#SuicideGrief #SiblingGrief #ComplicatedGrief #PTSDAwareness #GriefGuilt #GriefSupport #GriefTalk #LifeAfterLoss #988 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan MailYou can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode.Your voice helps shape the conversation.Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan MailWhen a plane crash changed everything, Jenny Brandemuehl chose to hold on to hope. In this episode, Jenny, a former technology executive and USA Today bestselling author of Forever Fly Free, talks about the months she spent at her husband Mark’s side at the Arizona Burn Center, and what hope, love and intuition taught her through that time and after his passing.In this conversation we cover topics including:Jenny’s definition of hope: not an expectation, but a belief in possibilitiesWhy she believes love is an energy, and how it rippled through a hospital and a communityHow she learned to trust her intuition and let go of controlWhat it means for her to love again without betraying the love she shared with MarkHer work with the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors to bring mental health support to burn survivors and the families who have lost someoneIf you are grieving a spouse, caring for someone who is seriously ill, or coping with a sudden loss, this episode offers honesty, comfort and hope.Jenny will join a panel at the Grieftastic Book Fair in Los Angeles on Friday, November 13. For more information visit: https://www.grieftastic.com#GriefTalkwithVonneSolis #griefpodcast #HopeAfterLoss #WidowSupport #ForeverFlyFree #HealingAfterLossMore about Jenny:Website: https://www.foreverflyfree.comSubstack: https://substack.com/@jennybrandemuehl/postsConnect with Vonne:✅ 🔔 Subscribe to the podcast to get more great episodes and notifications.🗝 📖  Coaching and books: https://vonnesolis.com/resources/📸  Follow the podcast on Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/grieftalkwithvonnesolis/▶️  Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/M81vudRvU3w 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan MailYou can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode.Your voice helps shape the conversation.Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan MailIf you've lost a child to suicide, you may know the silence that follows, when the people around you don't know what to say or do. In this conversation, Jackie Baker and I talk about the loss of her son Sebastian, and about what it means to grieve honestly and messily while holding on to faith.Jackie is a nurse practitioner, a bereaved mom, and the author of Messy Mourning, a faith-forward companion for mothers grieving the loss of a child to suicide. She shares Sebastian's story: a brilliant, competitive, well-read young man who, like every child lost to suicide, is so much more than a statistic. Together we talk about the guilt and the "what ifs," the stigma that still follows suicide loss, and how faith can hold you when everything feels dark. I'm honoured that Jackie trusted me with her story. Her hope and honesty may help anyone who has lost a child to suicide feel a little less alone.Key points we discuss:•💛 Why suicide loss can feel so isolating. Jackie and I talk about the silence that often follows, when the people around you don't know what to say, and how "acceptable" explanations for a death can make honest grief harder.•💛 Loving an adult child through their struggles. Jackie shares how she supported Sebastian while holding healthy boundaries, and how hard it is to do both at once.•💛 Guilt, anger, and the "what ifs." We both share the last conversations we had with our children, and how we've come to accept that we cannot control another person's choices.•💛 More than a statistic. Sebastian was brilliant, curious, competitive, and deeply loved. Jackie reminds us that every child lost to suicide is far more than the way they died.•💛 Where the stigma comes from. Drawing on her Master's in Biblical Studies, Jackie explains how suicide has been viewed in the church over the centuries and why that thinking is slowly changing.•💛 How faith and community carried her. Jackie describes how scripture, prayer, and a church family held her up, and how her belief that Sebastian is healed and whole gives her comfort.•💛 Why healing is not betrayal. You never forget your child, and you can live and laugh again without guilt.•💛 Patience with the process. Complicated grief after suicide is often not linear and can take five to seven years or more. Please don't stop showing up for someone after the first year.•💛 Where to find support. Jackie points to grief groups like GriefShare and to the resources on her website and encourages us to build a village rather than grieve alone.About Jackie: Jackie M. Baker holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Washington and a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies. She is the author of Messy Mourning and co-founded a free healthcare clinic for the underserved. She leads a grief group and offers suicide grief resources on her website.Links and resources:🌐 Jackie's website and suicide grief resource list: jackiembaker.com 🤝 GriefShare, 13-week grief support groups: griefshare.orgThe Grief Talk Podcast links: ▶️ Watch the episode on YouTube 📸  Follow the podcast on Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/grieftalkwithvonnesolis/ 🌐 For books and resources on grief, identity, and finding your way back to yourself by Vonne: vonnesolis.comIf you're in crisis: In the U.S. or Canada, call or text 988. Elsewhere, please contact your local crisis line or emergency services. 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan MailYou can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode.Your voice helps shape the conversation.Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, I sit down with clinical psychologist and EMDR pioneer Dr. Laurel Parnell for a conversation that moves between the personal and the professional. Laurel shares her own experience of child loss after the murder of her son, and how it reshaped her understanding of grief, while drawing on decades of clinical expertise to talk about trauma, spiritual connection after death, and the healing approaches she has developed and taught to clinicians worldwide. This EMDR, Resource Tapping, Attachment-Focused EMDR, and her signature Multidimensional Integrative Healing.🔑 In This Episode•Multidimensional healing and the spiritual experience of child loss •Soul parts, soul contracts and after-death communication •When grief, diagnosis and deeper spiritual experiences intersect •The overlooked grief of stepparents and changing identity after loss •What truly helps someone who is grieving •EMDR, resource tapping and rethinking what healing means — “broken is not wrong”🎧 Listen to the full episode of The Grief Talk Podcast w/  Vonne Solis and discover a deeper conversation about grief, healing, trauma, spiritual connection, and finding your way forward after loss.👉 Watch, listen, and subscribe to The Grief Talk Podcast for more honest conversations and practical insights for navigating life’s hardest hits.#GriefTalk #EMDR #ChildLoss #TraumaHealing #GriefSupport #SpiritualConnection #AfterDeathCommunication #DrLaurelParnell #GriefJourney #HealingFromLossResources & LinksDr. Parnell's website: drlaurelparnell.comConnect with The Grief Talk Podcast: 📸 Instagram: @grief_talk 🌐 Website: vonnesolis.com — books and resources on grief, identity, and finding your way back to yourself. 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan MailYou can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode.Your voice helps shape the conversation.Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail"I am not Mormon." That's what Audra Phelps told herself in the mirror the night she left the LDS Church — after 10 years of quiet doubt and one policy she couldn't "unhear.Audra Phelps, founder of Mama Audra and creator of the Reclaimed Program, joins me to share her journey out of a high-control religion: the rigid roles assigned to women, the purity culture and shame around her body, and the pressure to be "an example" from childhood. She opens up about the anxiety and depression that came from living a life that wasn't her own, the grief of losing family and community after leaving, and how she now helps other ex-Mormon moms rebuild their identity using NLP, hypnotherapy, and neuroscience-based coaching.Topics covered:Growing up inside a high-control religionHow the LDS Church structures women's roles around marriage and motherhoodPurity culture and body shame from childhoodThe breaking point that led Audra to leave at age 35Grieving family, community, and her former selfUsing NLP and subconscious belief work to rebuild identityThis episode was shaped for more than one audience. If you've left the LDS Church, or if you've ever handed your power over to a belief system, a relationship, or an expectation that was never really yours — this episode is for you.Connect with Audra: mamaaudra.com✨ BONUS OFFER Book a free consult with Audra and get 50% off your first individual coaching session — open to any woman navigating a faith transition or leaving a high-control organization. Just mention PODCAST when you book to claim the discount.👉 mamaaudra.com/oneononeConnect with The Grief Talk Podcast:📸 Instagram: @grief_talk🌐 Website: vonnesolis.com — books and resources on grief, identity, and finding your way back to yourself.  🆕 📣 Text Me Fan MailYou can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode.Your voice helps shape the conversation.Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan MailWhat if the patterns you keep repeating in relationships, career, and self-talk were already mapped out before you took your first breath? 🌬️ In this episode of Grief Talk, I sit down with Marvin Wilkerson, spiritual coach, hypnotherapist, and author of Soul Fusion Healing: Integrating Mind, Body, and Soul, for a conversation on what it really means to heal from the inside out. With 50 years of experience blending humanistic astrology, hypnotherapy, and NLP, Marvin offers a grounded take on spirituality, focussed less on predicting your next big break and more on understanding why you experience life the way you do.The conversation moves through some of the biggest questions people ask: Do we actually have free will? Why do we keep repeating painful patterns even when we know better? What is "soul fragmentation," 🌀 and how does it show up as anxiety, self-sabotage, or chronic fatigue? Marvin doesn't offer easy answers. He offers a framework for taking responsibility, adjusting how we relate to our own energy, and learning to live event to event, moment to moment. We also touch on how this kind of soul-level work can support those navigating grief and loss.If you're curious about astrology, drawn to the subconscious mind, or simply looking for a new lens on why you are the way you are, this episode is an invitation to get curious about your own path, and offers the tools to help you start making the changes you've been wanting to make in your life. 🔎In this episode learn:🔮 Why Marvin sees astrology as therapeutic, not predictive.🧠 How hypnosis and NLP access the subconscious mind and is where the real healing happens.🌀 What soul fragmentation is and how it quietly shapes your daily life.🕊️ The truth about "free will" and what's actually within your control.💬 Why self-talk is one of the most powerful (and damaging) tools we have.🌱 How to start living in alignment with your soul's purpose, one event at a time.If this episode resonates with you and you are navigating grief or loss, or want to expand your thinking, know that support is available. I host the Grief Talk podcast to help you feel less alone on the path toward healing and personal growth. 💛About Marvin Wilkerson:Marvin Wilkerson is a hypnotherapist, humanistic astrologer, and spiritual coach with five decades of experience helping clients heal through the integration of mind, body, and soul. He is the author of Soul Fusion Healing: Integrating Mind, Body, and Soul.#GriefTalk #Astrology #Hypnotherapy #SoulFusionHealing #GriefSupport #MindBodySoul #SelfDiscovery🔗 Connect with Marvin: soulfusionhealing.com | astromarv.com | blhypnosis.comIf you are navigating grief or loss or simply feel lost, know that support is available. I host the Grief Talk Podcast w/ Vonne Solis to help you feel less alone on the path toward healing and personal growth. 💛For support books on grief, suicide and child loss and to learn about my signature coaching services for personal growth:🔗 Connect with me at: vonnesolis.com 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan MailYou can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode.Your voice helps shape the conversation.Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan MailWhat if your brain already holds everything you need to heal? In this eye-opening and powerful conversation, I sit down with the remarkable Dr. Yvonne Oswald, international keynote speaker, Master Trainer of NLP and Hypnosis, and the author of Every Word Has Power - translated into 11 languages - to learn how NLP and hypnosis can help us clear negative emotions at their root and clear them in minutes, not years.⏱️The secret to her global impact? Dr. Yvonne’s approach to healing has been called revolutionary, refreshingly practical, and astonishingly fast. She doesn’t teach people how to cope with emotions. She teaches them how to clear emotions permanently.Drawing from her latest book No More Therapists: Your Brain Has the Answer - Clear Negative Emotions in Minutes Not Years, Dr. Yvonne walks us through her 9 Rapid Release Codes™ - precise neurological techniques designed to return you to calm, clear thinking fast. I actually tried one live during this episode, and it genuinely works! We also unravel the power of Mind Magic – her award-winning technique for clearing negative emotions and the limiting beliefs we all have that shape our daily lives and quietly form before we’re 7 years old.👶As a bereaved mom since 2005, this conversation touched me in ways I didn't expect. And as a bereaved mom herself – having lost her only child and daughter needlessly at just 22-years old, Dr. Yvonne speaks from a place of profound personal understanding. In fact, it was that catastrophic loss that compelled her to write this book and bring her revolutionary work to as many people as possible.Together in this episode we explore - and demonstrate - how these techniques work in real time. And while Dr. Yvonne is clear that negative emotions will always show up (they make up 80% of our thoughts, 90% of our day), we absolutely can reduce how frequently they appear, how hard they hit, and how long they linger.🗝️ Key points discussed:• What the 9 Rapid Release Codes™ are and how they work neurologically• How Mind Magic™ clears limiting beliefs formed before age 7• Why 80% of our thoughts are negative — and what to do about it• Live demo: trying a Rapid Release Code in real time• Dr. Yvonne's personal grief journey and how it shaped her work• The difference between coping with emotions vs. clearing them permanently🎧 If you're on a healing journey — whether through grief, trauma, or simply wanting more peace and joy in your life — this episode is for you. Watch or listen now for personal growth insights, grief support, and practical healing tools unlike anything I've shared before on this podcast. This is one conversation that could genuinely change how you see yourself and your capacity to heal.💛✨ Don't miss the resources Dr. Yvonne shares throughout our conversation from her 9 Rapid Release Codes™ to upcoming classes and private sessions. ▶️ Press play now and clear what's been holding you back — in minutes, not years. #GriefHealing #NLP #Hypnosis #EmotionalHealing #TraumaRecovery RESOURCES:🌐 Dr. Yvonne's Website: https://www.globalwelcome.com ▶️ Dr. Yvonne's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/YvonneOswaldPhD🎓 Offers and Class June 20th https://globalwelcome.com/safety-boxConnect with Vonne:https://vonnesolis.com 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan MailYou can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode.Your voice helps shape the conversation.Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan Mail💔 In the United States alone, nearly 62,000 children and adolescents lose a sibling every year. Yet sibling grief remains one of the most overlooked and unacknowledged forms of loss, despite being one of our most significant and enduring relationships. Too often, the grief of a bereaved sibling is overshadowed by the attention given to parents and spouses, leaving siblings feeling invisible in their pain. In this episode, my guest Maribeth Swan and I open up a conversation that is real, raw, and long overdue.Maribeth knows grief from the inside out. In 2000, she lost her younger brother to suicide at the age of 25 — a fraternal twin to her surviving brother, and a loss that cracked her world open and led her toward a deeper connection with death and loved ones beyond the veil.🕊️ A debilitating accident in 2018 further changed her path and drew her into the healing world of flower essences.🌸 Today, as a Flower Essence Practitioner and Intuitive Counselor, Maribeth is dedicated to helping others navigate loss and develop a more reverent relationship with Nature, bringing them closer to their own true Essence and healing.In this episode, we get real about sibling grief and the silence that can be just as painful as the loss itself. Topics include:•Why sibling grief is one of the most overlooked and unacknowledged forms of loss•The unique and lifelong bond between siblings and why its loss hits differently•How loss reshapes family dynamics and the challenges that follow•Afterlife communication, signs from loved ones, and the comfort of mediumship•The role of spiritual practices and nature in finding peace and healing•Why talking openly about death and grief matters more than most of us realize•How Flower Essences can support emotional healing during grief•The importance of community and support in navigating the long road through lossBased in Massachusetts, Maribeth alchemizes her own essences, writes a monthly New Moon newsletter 🌙, composes music on her dulcimer, and is endlessly passionate about the wisdom of plants.Whether you are a bereaved sibling yourself or someone who loves one, this conversation is for you. Sibling grief deserves to be seen, heard, and honoured and that starts with breaking the silence together. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 🎧 Listen or watch now and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it.💛 If this episode touched your heart, please leave a review and help us reach others who are walking this path alone.American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Website:https://afsp.org/📚 Study References:Hulsey et al., 2018: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30513272/Science Direct, 2022: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S088259632200118X🌿 Connect with Maribeth and explore her work at:.https://swanessence.comMore resources from Vonne are available at:https://vonnesolis.com 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan MailYou can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode.Your voice helps shape the conversation.Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan MailWhat does grief look like when it doesn't fit the mold? When the casseroles stop arriving? When the world expects you to move on and you’re not ready?In this heartfelt episode, author and poet Jackie L. Disch shares the story behind her memoir Losing Katy, guiding us through the deeply personal and non-linear journey of losing her wife Katy, to sudden strokes during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jackie's story also offers a perspective into is something so many of us carry quietly: when we don't see ourselves reflected in the mainstream conversation around loss.From honouring Katy’s end-of-life wishes to finding unexpected comfort in life's smallest moments, Jackie's experience invites us to rethink the way we understand and support everyone in their grief. In our conversation, we explore the healing power of writing, the signs of connection that transcend loss, and why open conversations about death may be one of the greatest gifts we can give to the people we love.Whether you've lost a same-sex partner, a non-traditional relationship, or simply feel like your grief has been minimized or misunderstood this conversation is for you.#GriefJourney #GriefSupport #SpousalLoss #EndOfLifePlanningFor more grief resources and books:Jackie’s website:https://www.jackieldisch.comVonne’s website:https://vonnesolis.com/resources 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan MailYou can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode.Your voice helps shape the conversation.Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk

Send us Fan MailWhat happens when your consciousness leaves your body and everything you thought you were dissolves?In this profound episode, Allura Halliwell, creator of The Consciousness Method™ transformational guide and author, shares her life-altering awakening experience that began during a meditation in 2018 - felt like a quantum leap in consciousness that led to a complete unravelling of her identity. What followed was a three-year integration process that challenged everything she knew about reality, Self, and transformed her into a voice of consciousness. Today, Allura helps countless others tap into the portal of awakeningthrough The Consciousness Method™ and chart their own journey from wounded to wholeness on the path home to Source.In this episode, we explore the deeper meaning of awakening and how pain is not something to escape, but a portal to Source. Through her work, The Consciousness Method™, Allura teaches that healing isn’t about fixing behavior, but about embodying your pain to liberate trapped consciousness that keeps us stuck and unhealed. We dive into self-responsibility, rewiring relationships, and the radical transformation that occurs when you stop resisting your pain and embrace it as your pathway home.If you’re ready to stop searching and start remembering who you are, join us. Let this be a start to your return to Source.🤍🌿✨#SpiritualAwakening #Consciousness #PersonalTransformationConnect with Allura:https://allurahalliwell.comConnect with Vonne:https://vonnesolis.com 🆕 📣 Text Me Fan MailYou can now text me directly about any episode. I personally read your messages and respond with practical, grounded insight. While I can’t offer long back-and-forth exchanges, I may respond directly or address your question in a future episode.Your voice helps shape the conversation.Subscribe to the podcast! Share your favourite episodes! Connect with me on LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram @grief_talk