About Grieving Greatly: Life After Sudden and Traumatic Loss
Grieving Greatly is a podcast for anyone navigating life after sudden and traumatic loss.
Hosted by grief counsellor Jen Connors, this podcast offers compassionate conversations about grief, trauma, healing, and the long road of learning to live after someone you love dies unexpectedly.
After losing her son Harry suddenly, Jen understands firsthand how disorienting and overwhelming traumatic grief can be. Through personal reflections, professional insights, and honest conversations, she explores the realities of grief that many people feel but rarely talk about.
Each episode offers gentle support, practical tools, and reassurance for those navigating suicide loss, overdose loss, sudden death, or any loss that has changed life forever.
If grief has reshaped your world, you are not alone. This is a space where grief can be spoken about honestly — and where healing can begin.
Grief doesn't just change our lives, it changes us. In this deeply personal episode, I share something I wish someone had told me after losing my son, Harry: that one day I would look in the mirror and realise I wasn't the same person anymore. For years, I thought healing meant finding my way back to the person I used to be. Instead, I discovered that grief wasn't asking me to go backwards, it was gently inviting me forwards. Together, we'll explore: Why grief changes who we areThe hidden gri...
24 Jul 2026
Grieving Greatly – Episode 15 | When Everyone Thinks You Should Be Over It
At some point, many grieving people hear the words—spoken or unspoken—"It's time to move on." In this heartfelt episode of Grieving Greatly, Jen shares why grief doesn't have an expiry date and why healing isn't about forgetting the person you love. Through her own experience of losing her son Harry, Jen explores the pressure many people feel to "be over it," the hidden losses that come with grief, and how love can continue to exist long after someone has died. If you've ever felt judged for ...
18 Jul 2026
Episode 14 | The Fear of Forgetting Them
One of the greatest fears many grieving people carry isn't forgetting that someone existed—it's the fear of forgetting the little things. The sound of their laugh. The way they hugged you. Their voice. Their smile. The little phrases only they used to say. In this deeply personal episode, I explore why this fear is so common, why grief can make memories feel blurry, and why forgetting small details never means you've loved someone less. I also share my own reflections ...
3 Jul 2026
EPISODE 13 GRIEVING GREATLY What I've Learned About Love and Loss
Episode 13 | What I've Learned About Love and Loss After eighteen years of living with the loss of my son Harry, I wanted to pause and reflect on what grief has taught me. Not because I've "moved on." Not because the pain has disappeared. But because grief has changed the way I understand love, life, healing, and what it truly means to keep going after the unthinkable. In this deeply personal episode of Grieving Greatly, I share the lessons I never wanted to learn—but the ones tha...
25 Jun 2026
Episode 12: Coping With the Pain – When Grief Leads to Escaping
Grief doesn't always look like tears. Sometimes it looks like staying busy so you don't have to think. Sometimes it looks like drinking a little more than usual, scrolling for hours, overworking, withdrawing from the people you love, or trying to numb the pain in whatever way you can. In this episode of Grieving Greatly, we explore one of the most misunderstood parts of grief: how coping can slowly become escaping. Avoidance isn't a sign that you don't care. More often, it's a sign that the p...
19 Jun 2026
Episode 11 — Anniversaries, Birthdays, and the Dates That Hurt Most
Some of the hardest days in grief… are the ones you see coming. Birthdays. Anniversaries. Holidays. The funeral date. The last conversation. The dates that once meant celebration—and now carry something completely different. In this episode of Grieving Greatly, we talk about anticipatory grief, how grief keeps time, how your body may react before your mind is ready, and why the “build-up” weeks can be as painful (or more) than the day itself. We also explore how different people grieve the sa...
12 Jun 2026
Episode 10 - Learning to Live Again (Without Leaving Them Behind)
One of the hardest parts of grief is learning how to keep living when someone you love is no longer physically here. For many grieving people, moving forward can feel like a betrayal. We worry that healing means forgetting. We fear that laughter, joy, new experiences, or future plans somehow mean we are leaving our loved one behind. But what if moving forward isn't about letting go at all? In this episode, I share my own journey of learning to live after the loss of my son Harry and the power...
5 Jun 2026
Episode 9 - Keeping Their Memory Alive Without Falling Apart
In this deeply personal episode of Grieving Greatly Podcast, Jen talks about one of the most painful and confusing parts of grief — how to keep the memory of someone you love alive without becoming completely consumed by the pain of missing them. Through her own experience after losing Harry, Jen explores the fear of forgetting, the heartbreak of remembering, and the complicated push and pull many grieving people experience between wanting to hold on tightly to memories while also desperately...
29 May 2026
Episode 8 - Who Am I Now? Identity After Loss
When you lose someone you love… you don’t just lose them. You can lose parts of yourself too. In this deeply personal episode of Grieving Greatly, I share the reality of identity after loss — the quiet, often unspoken grief of losing the version of yourself that existed alongside the person you loved. From the loss of everyday roles… to the painful reminders in ordinary moments… to the question so many carry— “Who am I now?” This episode gently explores: The loss of id...
22 May 2026
Episode 7 - The Silent Grief of Survival - with Nathan Darvill
In this deeply personal episode of Grieving Greatly, Jenelle sits down with Nathan Darvill — Director of Expressive Mind Therapy, friend, colleague, and someone who has quietly carried many layers of grief throughout his life. Together, they explore a kind of grief that often goes unseen: The grief of surviving. Not just grief through death, but grief through trauma, identity loss, mental health struggles, relationship breakdowns, chronic stress, physical health challenges, and the parts of o...
14 May 2026
“Grief Comes in Waves… and the Guilt That Comes With Them”
Grieving Greatly – Episode 6 “The Guilt No One Talks About in Grief” There are parts of grief people expect… the sadness, the tears, the longing. But guilt often arrives quietly. The guilt of surviving. The guilt of laughing again. The guilt of not doing enough. The guilt of moments you wish you could change. And sometimes… the guilt of simply continuing to live when someone you love no longer can. In this deeply personal episode of Grieving Greatly, grief couns...
8 May 2026
Holding Us While We Fell Apart
Episode 5 — The Grief No One Sees: A Grandmother’s Perspective In this deeply personal episode of Grieving Greatly, I sit down with my mum to talk about a side of grief that is rarely spoken about the grief carried by the people trying to hold everyone else together. After losing my son Harry, I was consumed by my own pain. What I didn’t fully understand at the time was the heartbreak my mum was carrying while watching her daughter and family fall apart around her. Together, we speak openly a...
30 Apr 2026
When the World Moves On… But You Don’t
In the beginning, everyone is there. The messages. The flowers. The check-ins. But slowly… the world starts to move on. And you don’t. This episode explores the quiet, deeply painful part of grief that often comes after the initial support fades — when life returns to normal for everyone else… but you’re still living with loss. We talk about: The loneliness that follows grief Feeling forgotten or left behind The pressure to “be okay” Why grief has no tim...
24 Apr 2026
When Grief Changes Everything Between You
Grief doesn’t just change how you feel it changes your relationships sometimes in ways you never expected. In this episode of Grieving Greatly, I talk about the quiet, often unspoken shifts that happen after loss, between partners, family members, friends… and even within yourself. Why does it feel like people grieve so differently? Why do some relationships grow stronger, while others feel like they’re falling apart? And why can you feel so alone, even when you're not? This...
17 Apr 2026
The Days After: Planning a Funeral for Your Child
What happens after the shock… when reality starts to set in? In this episode of Grieving Greatly, I share what it was like in the days after losing my son, Harry—when the world expected us to start making decisions, planning a funeral, and somehow keep going while completely falling apart. This is the part of grief no one prepares you for. The practical reality. The conversations. The unbearable weight of making choices for someone you love who should still be here. I talk about w...
10 Apr 2026
The Day the World Kept Going Without Harry
What does grief feel like in the very beginning… when everything still feels unreal? In this deeply personal first episode of Grieving Greatly, I share the story of losing my son, Harry, suddenly—just before Christmas—and the shock that followed. The world kept moving. People kept talking. Life continued as if nothing had changed. But mine had completely stopped. Harry was the most beautiful little boy—he loved animals, especially ladybugs and turtles, and he brought so much light into our li...
19 Mar 2026
Coming Soon: Grieving Greatly with Jen Connors
Grieving Greatly is a podcast for anyone navigating life after sudden and traumatic loss. Hosted by grief counsellor Jen Connors, this podcast offers compassionate conversations about grief, trauma, healing, and the long road of learning to live after someone you love dies unexpectedly. After losing her son Harry suddenly, Jen understands firsthand how disorienting and overwhelming traumatic grief can be. Through personal reflections, professional insights, and honest conversations, she explo...
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