GRIEF AND LIGHT

By Nina Rodriguez

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This space was created for you by someone who gets it – your grief, your foundation-shattering reality, and the question of what the heck do we do with the shattered pieces of life and loss around us.

It’s also for the listener who wants to better understand their grieving person, and perhaps wants to learn how to help.

Now in its fourth season, the Grief and Light podcast features both solo episodes and interviews with first-hand experiencers, authors, and professionals, who shine a light on the spectrum of experiences, feelings, secondary losses, and takeaways.

As a bereaved sister, I share my personal story of the sudden loss of my younger brother, only sibling, one day after we celebrated his 32nd birthday. I also delve into how that loss, trauma, and grief catapulted me into a truth-seeking journey, which ultimately led me to answer "the calling" of creating this space I now call Grief and Light.

Since launching the first episode on March 30, 2023, the Grief and Light podcast and social platforms have evolved into a powerful resource for grief-informed support, including one-on-one grief guidance, monthly grief circles, community, and much more.

With each episode, you can expect open and authentic conversations sharing our truth, and explorations of how to transmute the grief experience into meaning, and even joy.

My hope is to make you feel less alone, and to be a beacon of light and source of information for anyone embarking on this journey.

"We're all just walking each other HOME." - Ram Dass

Thank you for being here.

We're in this together.

Nina, Yosef's Sister

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For more information, visit: griefandlight.com


Episode Date
The Family Tree That Ends With Me: Reclaiming Legacy as a Childless, Childfree Woman
Mar 20, 2026
Brotherhood Is Medicine: How Broreavement Is Changing the Way Boys and Men Grieve | Podcasthon 2026
Mar 18, 2026
Saving Lives Through Harm Reduction with Thomas Guerra | Podcasthon 2026
Mar 17, 2026
Jewelry As a Voice: Empowering Survivors and Economic Resilience with Amanda Nicol
Mar 10, 2026
Now That She's Gone: Mother Loss, Health Anxiety, and Legacy with Chelsea Ohlemiller
Mar 03, 2026
How Art Helps You Heal Grief (And Become Who You Truly Are) with Susie Stonefield
Feb 24, 2026
Year of the Fire Horse 2026: What it Means for Grievers
Feb 17, 2026
Grief, Poetry, and Resilient Leadership: Carl Manlan on Love, Loss, and Legacy
Feb 03, 2026
Hope is a Verb: Staying Human in Uncertain Times
Jan 24, 2026
Curating Grief: Charlene Lam on Choosing What to Keep vs Release After Loss
Dec 23, 2025
100 Episodes of Leaning Into Grief — Navigating Life Shifts with Matt & Nina
Dec 17, 2025
Women Who Podcast: Kathy Barron on Grief, Creativity, and Building Community
Dec 16, 2025
How solo travel helped this Latina find herself again with Bianca Alba
Dec 09, 2025
Get Griefy With Us: A Grief Week Roundtable on How Loss Shakes Up Family and Community
Dec 03, 2025
Evolving and Growing with Grief: A Grief Awareness Week Roundtable with 3 Grief-focused Podcasters
Dec 01, 2025
The Light That Shines Through Me: Tiriq Rashad on Grief, Family, and Spoken Word
Nov 26, 2025
How Digital Data Is Rewriting Suicide Prevention with Kim Burditt Barlett
Nov 25, 2025
Sibling Loss and Disenfranchised Grief with Dr. Angela Dean
Nov 12, 2025
Healing in the Himalayas: Motorcycle Therapy and Making Meaning After Sibling Loss with Ben Forman
Nov 11, 2025
No Man Walks Alone: A Journey Across America for Men’s Mental Health with Robb Pollard
Nov 04, 2025
Turning Pain Into Poetry: Sara Rian on Grieving and Healing After Loss to Suicide
Oct 24, 2025
When Love Asks You to Let Go: Parenting, Grief, and Surrender with Dr. Tasha Faruqui
Oct 14, 2025
Grieving While Parenting: Mindfulness, Mental Health, and Motherhood with Reshma Kearney
Oct 08, 2025
Honoring Your Grief: a mini meditation for grievers by Hannah Castillo
Oct 01, 2025
Permission to Pause: 7 Types of Rest for Your Own "Pause Week"
Sep 23, 2025
Grief and Light: A Podcast About Life After Loss + Living in the 'and'
Sep 20, 2025
What if Death Wasn’t the End? Healing Through Mediumship with Karen Docherty
Sep 09, 2025
Award-Winning and Grieving: A Conversation with Women Who Podcast Magazine's founder
Sep 02, 2025
Healing Through Journaling: Grief & Joy After Addiction Loss with Shawn Dinneen
Aug 27, 2025
Kids' Grief & Healing: Michelle Cove on Grief-Smart Culture, Intuition and Community
Aug 19, 2025
Filmmaker Michael Flores: Grief and Healing in 'Dogs on the Sendero'
Aug 12, 2025
Healing the Father Wound and Sacred Lessons with Mike de la Rocha
Aug 05, 2025
The Gift of Life: Organ Donation, Food Allergy Awareness, Child Loss & Legacy with Maryam De Groef
Jul 22, 2025
Why Everyone Over 18 Needs a Will: End-of-Life Planning with Death Doula Marni Blank
Jul 15, 2025
Grief at Work: From Self-Advocacy to Compassionate Leadership with Bloomwell Partners
Jul 08, 2025
The Grief of Uncertainty in Unprecedented Times
Jul 02, 2025
Jody Gelb on Navigating Life and Loss with a Medically Fragile Child
Jun 24, 2025
Grieving One Child, Racing to Save Another: The Docobo Family’s Mission of Hope
Jun 04, 2025
Soul Pets and Sacred Goodbyes: Grant Hazell on the Grief of Pet Loss
May 20, 2025
Navigating Motherhood after Loss with Liz Quinn
Apr 29, 2025
Grief vs. Grieving: Why the Difference Matters
Apr 23, 2025
Brothers, Grief, and Identity: Nico Slate on navigating sibling loss, love, and race dynamics
Apr 15, 2025
Befriending the Unknown: Paula Sager on losing her father, Authentic Movement, and writing The Watch
Mar 25, 2025
Uncensoring Grief, Centering Aliveness, and Navigating Loss with Lisa Keefauver, MSW
Mar 18, 2025
Love and Widowhood: Grief, Community, and Healing after Loss with Tina Fornwald
Mar 11, 2025
Lifebooks.io: Matt Jacobson on losing his father, and the future of preserving memories and legacies
Mar 04, 2025
The Liminality of Grief: Embracing who you are becoming
Feb 25, 2025
The Grief Girlie: Shea Wingate on Compounded Grief, Myth Busting, and Making Room for Joy
Feb 11, 2025
Showing Up Meaningfully in 2025: Evolving from "Me" to "We"
Feb 06, 2025
Embracing the "New You" After Loss: Reflections of 2024 and Hope for 2025
Dec 30, 2024
"Griefmas" & Griefy Holidays: Your Survival Guide for When Life Doesn't Feel Merry or Bright
Dec 18, 2024
'Grief 2 Growth': Brian D. Smith on Signs, Synchronicities, and Making Meaning after Child Loss
Dec 04, 2024
Finding Pockets of Sunshine: Dr. Monica Krishnan on Grief, Mental Health and Healing
Nov 25, 2024
Impacted Survivors: Navigating Grief and Stigma After Murder-Suicide Loss
Nov 18, 2024
Embracing what is with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Nov 12, 2024
Beyond Platitudes: Erin Blechman Talks Candidly About Suicide Loss and Supporting Grievers
Nov 04, 2024
LIFE SHIFT: Matt Gilhooly on grieving loved ones, pet loss, and healing through storytelling
Oct 29, 2024
Rebecca Feinglos on Loss, Grieve Leave, and Creating Grief-Informed Spaces
Oct 22, 2024
Grief Support 101: One-on-One, Peer-Led, and Specialist-Led Groups
Oct 19, 2024
Finding Light After the Sudden Loss of a Partner | Charniah Wilson
Oct 08, 2024
The Five Facets of Healing after loss with Annah Elizabeth
Oct 01, 2024
5 Years without You: The Ripple Effect
Sep 24, 2024
THE GRIEF COCOON: Transforming Grief through Creative Expression | Gaby Georges
Sep 16, 2024
Bridging the GriefSpan after Losing Her Brother & Parents in Five Years | Moira Khan
Aug 27, 2024
Always a Sibling: Navigating Sibling Loss | Annie Sklaver Orenstein
Aug 20, 2024
The Healing Power of Grief Dreams with Dr. Joshua Black
Aug 14, 2024
MENDED MAN: Oscar Guerrero on Losing his Son, Post-Traumatic Growth, and Brotherhood
Aug 07, 2024
Margo Fowkes on Losing her son, creating community, and Leading Through Loss at work
Jul 30, 2024
Is Joy Possible After Loss?
Jul 22, 2024
Start Where You Are: Megan Gluth-Bohan's transformation from struggle to success
Jul 16, 2024
TENDING GRIEF: The healing power of care in community with Camille Sapara Barton
Jul 10, 2024
Grief and Resilience: Tools for 'Bouncing Forward' after Loss with Blair Kaplan Venables
Jun 25, 2024
The First Five Years of Grief | Season 3 Premiere
Jun 20, 2024
Compassionate Leadership: On a mission to build compassionate organizations | Janet Gwilliam-Wright's Story
May 07, 2024
Soulful Sorrow: A Holistic Approach to Healing after Pregnancy Loss | Lauren "Lolo" Paz
May 01, 2024
LOVE, LOSS & LOL: Finding the gifts in the midst of life’s sh*t with Lindsey Kane Leaverton
Apr 16, 2024
LOVE AND GRIEF: How Emily P. Bingham learned to MoveTHRU grief as a young widow
Apr 09, 2024
"To Kera - Love, Mom" | Getting Griefy and Leaving No Legacy Behind with Kera Sanchez
Apr 02, 2024
The Alchemy of E-Motion: Navigating Sibling Loss and Trauma Through Movement and Intuition with Eileen Kielty
Mar 27, 2024
GRIEVING ROOM: Sibling loss, imperfect goodbyes and making space for grief with Leanne Friesen
Mar 19, 2024
"Anatomy of Grief" Series | What the heck is grief anyway?!
Mar 15, 2024
Butterflies and Halos: Angie’s Story of Love, Loss, and Legacy
Mar 06, 2024
Quantum Healing: Bridging Science and Spirituality with Casey Stevens
Feb 28, 2024
Grieving with Grace: Dr. Mekel Harris' Grief-Informed Approach to Relaxing into the Pain
Feb 21, 2024
"Anatomy of Grief" Series | Grief Time is Not Linear
Feb 13, 2024
From Heartache to Hope: Kathy Wagner's memoir HERE WITH YOU
Feb 07, 2024
Cat's Cosmic Compass: Navigating Loss, Faith, Forgiveness, and Freedom
Jan 30, 2024
Sacred Encounters: Carlos Duran's transformation "from gangster to healer"
Jan 23, 2024
"Anatomy of Grief" Series | What's your grief bias?
Jan 18, 2024
Grace on Ice: Skating through Sibling Grief 30 Years Delayed | Judy Lipson
Jan 11, 2024
Season 2 Premiere: Demystifying the "Anatomy of Grief" Series
Jan 06, 2024
I have a confession... and an invitation for the New Year
Dec 29, 2023
Between Pages and Pain: Writing the unthinkable in STILL, I CANNOT SAVE YOU
Dec 19, 2023
Modeling Courage: Recovering from Loss and Addiction | Jonathan Niziol
Dec 12, 2023
Reclaiming Grief with Danielle Catherine Baker
Dec 07, 2023
10 weeks of tears: early grief, sibling loss & holiday heartache
Nov 30, 2023
Nurtured by nature: Letting nature carry the magnitude of our grief
Nov 19, 2023
Ambiguous grief and sibling loss during the holidays with Andrianna Moustakas
Nov 17, 2023
A Husband's Perspective on Grief | How Adult Sibling Loss Impacts Marriage
Nov 01, 2023
Grief and Personal Boundaries
Sep 08, 2023
Rising through Grief with Melinda Chinen, Certified Grief & Life Coach
Aug 17, 2023
Trusting Yourself to be All In with Amanda McKoy Flanagan
Aug 03, 2023
Breaking the Silence on Preventable Stillbirth with Domenique Rice, TJ's Mom
Jul 12, 2023
Shining a Light on Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness, Community Support, Recovery and Change
Jun 29, 2023
The Pain is Real, but the Suffering is Optional
Jun 23, 2023
Father's Day Episode | A conversation with my father about befriending grief after losing a son
Jun 14, 2023
Continuing Bonds: Death ends a life, but not a relationship | The evolution of grief
May 25, 2023
"People will say the darnedest things" to the grieving | What not to say to your grieving person
May 11, 2023
What is "Felicitreza" or "happy-sadness" in grief?
Apr 12, 2023
EP.1 THE Call & The Calling | Losing your only sibling | Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, Broken-Heart Syndrome
Mar 30, 2023