Widowed Journey is a heartfelt, real-talk podcast hosted by Jamie Ikebuchi. It offers helpful tools to help you reclaim, redesign, and rebuild your life after loss while reminding you that you're not alone.
Moving Forward Without Letting Them Go: Continuing Bonds
That sudden wave of guilt after you laugh, feel peace, or actually enjoy a moment can be brutal. A lot of widows and widowers carry a private worry: If I keep living, am I leaving them behind? I’m Jamie Ikebuchi, a Master Certified grief expert and widow, and I want to offer a different answer to the old grief-culture version of “closure.” We dig into continuing bonds theory, a powerful idea in modern grief psychology that says you don’t have to detach from your spouse to heal. The rel...
17 Mar 2026
Why You Feel Fine One Moment and Devasted the Next: The Duel Process Model of Grief
We unpack why you can feel steady one moment and devastated the next, and why that swing does not mean anything has gone wrong. We use the Dual Process Model of Grief to show how moving between grief and daily life is often your nervous system healing, not you “sliding backward.” • the myth of linear grief and why widowhood feels like a pendulum • the Dual Process Model of Grief and what it explains • loss-oriented coping and what it looks like in real life • restorati...
3 Feb 2026
Glimmers: Tiny Joys, Big Impact
Grief can make the body feel like a battlefield: tight chest, shallow breath, shoulders locked and ready for the next blow. We talk about a kinder path forward—glimmers—tiny, authentic moments of safety that help a grieving nervous system remember how to settle. Instead of forcing gratitude, we focus on felt experience and the science that explains why it works, from the parasympathetic response to the reticular activating system that filters what your brain sees as important. We open with a...
20 Jun 2025
The Power Of Possibility
This episode of "Widowed Journey" explores the concept of possibility for those navigating the challenges of widowhood.
29 May 2025
The Lifequake: Why We're Here
Host Jenny Lisk explores how widowhood acts as a "lifequake," disrupting one's identity and future, necessitating intentional energy to rebuild life on new terms.
2 May 2025
You're Not Alone
Host Jamie Ikebuchi shares her transformative journey through sudden loss and solo parenting, introducing the "AND" mindset for navigating grief and establishing the podcast's foundation as an authentic space.
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