Bereaved Families of Ontario
South Central Region
“Grief Out Loud”
Hosted by Jana DeCristofaro and produced by Dougy Center, Grief Out Loud is opening up this often avoided conversation because grief is hard enough without having to go through it alone. We bring you a mix of personal stories, tips for supporting children, teens, and yourself, and interviews with professionals. Platitude and cliché-free, we promise!
Available at: Dougy Center, Apple Podcasts, Spotify
“Where’s The Grief?”
After the death of his 21-year-old brother, emerging comedian Jordan Ferber found himself in a surreal situation. By night he would be on stage performing but during the day managing the grief from a tragic loss. According to Jordan, “It was very hard to be in a profession that allowed me to go onstage and talk about myself and my life, despite the fact that I felt as though there was a huge part of my life that I DIDN’T talk about at all onstage”. Where’s The Grief is a podcast focused on grief and loss. The goal of which is to acknowledge the reality of grief. Losing someone and grieving can be a very isolating experience, to say the least. Jordan’s podcast aims to help normalize the conversation and get people more comfortable talking about their feelings with friends and loved ones.
Available at: Where's The Grief Website
“Spoken Grief”
Why don’t we openly discuss grief if ultimately everyone will experience it? Spoken Grief is here to unapologetically talk about grief. Your host, Shuma Rouf lost her mum in 2015. She is here to share her experience and stories from people of all walks of life. This is a safe space for everyone to feel a little less alone in their grieving journey, but it’s here to raise awareness too. So whether you’re grieving or not, join in on the conversation.
Available at: Listen Notes
"True Grief”
The True Grief Podcast is presented by The Compassionate Friends Queensland. This is an organisation that offers peer to peer support for people who have lost children, siblings, or grandchildren. If you have sadly lost someone close to you, or you are a friend, colleague, or business, trying to support a grief-stricken person, we hope these conversations will give you an insight about how to help. These conversations will include conversations on grief, interviews with experts, and advice for helping people.
Available at: True Grief Podcast
“The Grief Coach”
Most people don't learn about death until they have to. Brooke's father was diagnosed with cancer and was in hospice six months later. Through this podcast Brooke is building the resource she couldn't find when she was looking for comfort. The goal of this podcast is to better equip us to talk about grief, death, and loss by exposing people to different stories about loss and providing practical advice that relates to end-of-life.
Available at: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify
“Grief Unplugged”
Grief Unplugged is a podcast that empowers professional women to unmask their pain, leverage their emotions and transform their trauma into triumph.
Available at: Apple Podcasts, Archive,Org
“How I Grieve”
A Weekly podcast about grief. Stories will be shared, they will inspire and they will teach.
Available at: Tune In, Listen Notes
“Grief without a physical death: Honoring a spectrum of losses”
Amy Wright Glenn talks about what it means to live in a grief-denying, grief-phobic culture, and steps we can take to work toward shifting this culture. We also talk about grieving losses that don't involve a physical death (e.g., estrangements, challenging relationships with caregivers, loved ones with mental health challenges, visions for who we think we might have been had it not been for trauma and other adverse life experiences) and how these losses can get encoded in our memories and stored in our bodies even if they occurred at an early age. We also discuss how our early models for relating to emotions affect our own processing of grief and relationship to grieving. We also talk about the intersection of grief and gratitude, and how the two can co-exist without gratitude bypassing or minimizing the genuine pain of grief and loss.
Available at: Apple Podcasts
“The Mother of All Losses (Loss of a Mother)”
Emily Benita and Anna Burtt introduce The Mother Of All Losses, a podcast exploring the often unfathomable death of a mother.
Available at: Mother of All Losses Podcast
“Healing Pet Loss Podcast”
In the Healing Pet Loss Podcast, Marianne Soucy shares practical steps for coping with the loss of a beloved pet and comforting messages of peace from animals and spirit guides.
Available at: Apple Podcasts, Stitcher
“Dead Parent Club”
Feelings of guilt come hand in hand with grief all too often, and it can be hard to understand why. The Dead Parent Club is a community of like-minded young adults all grieving a similar loss. Each week, Kat and Emma speak candidly about their own grief journeys and are joined by guests and experts with the aim to help you as you navigate this new normal.
Available at: Youtube
“Widow Cast: Widows Empowering Widows”
After becoming widowed, are you wondering why you are feeling the way you do (or not feeling!)? As a widow and as a widow coach, I want to share my story and insights for other widows to feel that connection and know they are not alone.
Available at: Apple Podcasts, Stitcher
Podcasts for Teens
“Help 2 Make Sense”
Our podcasts share the stories of people that have experienced a death. Whether it is a young person talking about how they came to terms with their grief or the Winston’s Wish team sharing their advice for bereaved families, we hope you find the podcasts helpful.
Available at: Help2MakeSense.Org
“The Grief Gang”
Welcome to The Grief Gang podcast, the show normalising the topic of conversation that is grief. Grief is something that inevitably we will all experience in our life, so why aren't we talking about it? This show was created to break down those taboos by sharing my own experiences of loss along with phenomenal guest episodes sharing theirs too.
You will laugh, you will cry, but above all I hope that you learn from this show. I hope you learn that you are never alone in your feelings and that you can live a happy life and be grieving (The two can co-exist!)
Available at: Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts
“Teenage Kicks: Living With Grief After the Death of a Parent in Your Teens”
If your child has experienced the loss of a parent, or someone very close to them, I hope this episode will help. My guest in this episode is Mark Lemon, an award-winning children’s author who talks openly about his own grief after the murder of his Dad.
Available at: Teenage Kicks
“Terrible, Thanks for Asking”
You know how when someone asks "How are you?" you just say "Fine,” even if you’re totally dying inside, so everyone can go about their day? “Terrible, Thanks For Asking” is the opposite of that. Nora McInerny asks real people to share their complicated and honest feelings about how they really are. It’s sometimes sad, sometimes funny, and often both. From American Public Media.
Available at: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts
Podcasts for Pregnancy & Infant Loss
“Held In Our Hearts: Baby Loss Counselling”
This is the podcast for Held In Our Hearts. We are a local charity providing baby loss counselling and support to families, with over 40 years’ experience of offering compassionate bereavement care in the community.
Available at: Spotify, Listen Notes
Grieving with Humour Podcasts
“Death is Hilarious”
The show that explores using dark humor to cope with grief, loss, and trauma. After my husband passed away in November of 2019, I began interviewing other podcasters and creatives on how they were using dark humor to get through their grief, loss, and trauma. It’s helped me cope, learn, educate, and – most of all – connect with others. I’m Tawny Platis, voice actor and comedy podcaster. Join my co-host, Sam, our special guests, and me as we find healing and relief with stories, friendship, and lots of jokes on our podcast, Death Is Hilarious.
Available at: Death is Hilarious Website
“Grief Cast”
Griefcast is a podcast that examines the human experience of grief and death - but with comedians, so it’s cheerier than it sounds. Griefcast won three Gold prizes at the British Podcast Awards 2018 (Best Entertainment Podcast, Best Interview Podcast, and Podcast of the Year 2018). It also won Podcast of the Year 2018 at the UK ARIA’s. Each week Cariad talks to a different guest about their experiences of grief. Together they share their views on the pain, loss and the weirdness that happens when someone dies. Past guests have included Adam Buxton, Aisling Bea, Susan Wokoma, Robert Webb and David Baddiel. It is hosted by Cariad Lloyd, edited by Kate Holland, recorded at Whistledown Studios and the music is provided by The Glue Ensemble.
Available at: GriefCast
Religion & Grief Podcasts
“Soul Search”
Soul Search explores contemporary religion and spirituality from the inside out — what we believe, how we express it, and the difference it makes in our lives
Available at: Apple Podcasts, Tune In
“A Christian Perspective on Grief”
On this podcast, David Powlison discusses a Christian perspective on Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief. While Kubler-Ross provides a helpful starting point for the discussion of dealing with death and the hard things of life, the Christian perspective is always paired with 1 Thessalonians 4:13: “But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope” (ESV).
Available at: CCEF.org
Grieving Without a Religion Podcasts
“The Adventures of Memento Mori (Science and Death Podcast)”
The Adventures of Memento Mori: A Cynic's Guide for Learning to Live by Remembering to Die is podcast exploring the science, mysticism, culture and mystery of death. Satirical and philosophical, the show follows host, D.S. Moss, as he attempts to reconcile his own impermanence and live a more meaningful life. Problem is, life keeps getting in the way.