Somehow, we've already reached episode 18. And with that comes the end of Season 2 of the Dead Parent Club Podcast.In this episode, we look back at some of our favourite bits from this week's season, sharing some unbeatable snippets of advice from some of our many guests.It's been a whirlwind season and we've loved connecting with so many of you. If there's ANYTHING you'd like us to look at covering for Season 3 (which WILL be happening!) please contact us and let us know.This podcast is for YOU and we want it to be as useful as possible.If you'd consider donating towards the running costs of the podcast we'd be so grateful for a one-time donation - whatever you're able to give however small will be greatly appreciated.You can make a donation by clicking here - https://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclubAs always - we hope you enjoy this week’s episode! But if you do have any further questions on the topic just drop us an email or message us using the details below. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below:InstagramFacebookTwitterSpecial thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing the podcast! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclub.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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A lot of things change after our parent/s die, including your friendships and how you maintain and approach those relationships going forward. In this week’s episode, we share our own experience of changing friendships after grief and navigating these relationships during the most turbulent times of our lives. We also discuss how we approach friendships now compared to before our parent/s died, how comfortable we are in social situations now, how we feel about making new friends and ways our friends have shown us how wonderful they are since our parent/s died.As always - we hope you enjoy this week’s episode! But if you do have any further questions on the topic just drop us an email or message us using the details below. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below:InstagramFacebookTwitterSpecial thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing the podcast! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclub.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How grief changes friendships

From grief stories and mental health to fatherhood, we’ve released a number of exciting episodes this month with some fantastic advocates for men’s grief as part of our Get Men Talking mini series. For the final episode, we’re joined by the brilliant and charismatic Jake Quickenden. Jake is a singer and presenter, and his dad and his brother both died within just four years of each other from two different forms of bone cancer. Since his dad died in 2008, Jake has undergone periods of time when he’s struggled with his mental health and figuring out his direction in life. In this episode, he takes us on a journey through his own grieving process and how his funny, kind and outgoing nature is a result of what he’s experienced. He also recently became a dad himself for the first time and shared how this has brought on a whole new wave of thoughts and feelings. Most importantly - we talked about how some of the best people we know are the ones that are part of the Club.As always - we hope you enjoy this week’s episode! But if you do have any further questions on the topic just drop us an email or message us using the details below. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below:InstagramFacebookTwitterSpecial thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing the podcast! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclub.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Get Men Talking: Grief makes the best people; with Jake Quickenden

To mark the upcoming Father’s Day in the UK, we’ll be focusing each and every episode in June on men’s grief. From grief stories and mental health to fatherhood, we have a number of exciting episodes lined up with some fantastic advocates for men’s grief.This week we’re joined by former footballer, pundit and presenter Robbie Savage, who’s dad Colin died from Pick’s disease - a form of dementia - in 2012. In this episode, Robbie shared an insight into life growing up in his family and his dad’s personal journey after being diagnosed with Pick’s disease at such an early age. We talked about how Robbie coped with the diagnosis and watching his dad deteriorate over time and his own experience with grief guilt.He talks about his work with Sport United Against Dementia, his favourite memory he has of his dad and gives advice for anyone else in a similar situation. As always - we hope you enjoy this week’s episode! But if you do have any further questions on the topic just drop us an email or message us using the details below. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below:InstagramFacebookTwitterSpecial thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing the podcast! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclub.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Get Men Talking: with Robbie Savage

To mark the upcoming Father’s Day in the UK, we’ll be focusing each and every episode in June on men’s grief. From grief stories and mental health to fatherhood, we have a number of exciting episodes lined up with some fantastic advocates for men’s grief.This week, we're sharing our conversation with rapper, author and broadcaster Guvna B who's Dad died unexpectedly in 2017.In this episode, Isaac shared his own grief story and spoke about his Ghanaian roots and the expectations on how he should be grieving, specifically around toxic masculinity.He spoke about how he turned to alcohol in the early stages of grief and kept himself very isolated, before realising the detrimental effect it was having on his mental health and how he turned to his faith and counselling to start healing. As always - we hope you enjoy this week’s episode! But if you do have any further questions on the topic just drop us an email or message us using the details below. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below:InstagramFacebookTwitterSpecial thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing the podcast! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclub.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Get Men Talking: Grief Toxic Masculinity; with Guvna B

To mark the upcoming Father’s Day in the UK, we’ll be focusing each and every episode in June on men’s grief. From grief stories and mental health to fatherhood, we have a number of exciting episodes lined up with some fantastic advocates for men’s grief.This week, we’re kicking off our campaign with producer and podcast presenter Steve Bland. Steve’s wife Rachael died in 2018 after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016. At just 40 years old, Rachael’s husband Steve and their (almost) 3 year old son were suddenly left to navigate life without her. In this episode, Steve shares their story with us and Rachael’s journey with breast cancer, including the creation of her legacy podcast You Me and The Big C. Despite speaking so publicly about the trials and tribulations of cancer, Rachael and Steve also had to have their own difficult conversations at home about their son, her funeral, and how life would look without her - all of which Steve shares in the episode. We also talk about how their son Freddie is approaching the death of his mum and how they commemorate birthdays, anniversaries and other difficult dates. This is a fantastic, hard-hitting episode, sharing some of the most monumental moments in their journey of diagnosis, death and grief. But there are some beautiful comments to take away from this episode to carry with us as we navigate everyday life in grief. As always - we hope you enjoy this week’s episode! But if you do have any further questions on the topic just drop us an email or message us using the details below. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below:InstagramFacebookTwitterSpecial thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing the podcast! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclub.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Get Men Talking: Grief and Fatherhood with Steve Bland

Getting back to everyday activities can seem like an impossible task when you're in the depths of grief.In this week's episode, we share our own experiences of getting back to socialising and catching up with friends, family and strangers at events or one-on-one after our parents died. We talk about identifying as the boy/girl who's parent/s has died, leaning on alcohol to get through social situations, using humour to talk about our loss and how grief and death has changed the way we socialise forever. We also shared the advice from our wonderful DPC community on the best ways to get back out there and start doing the things you enjoy again. As always - we hope you enjoy this week’s episode! But if you do have any further questions on the topic just drop us an email or message us using the details below. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below:InstagramFacebookTwitterSpecial thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing the podcast! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclub.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Getting back to socialising

They’re with us during some of the most testing times in our lives, but how much do we really know about life as a Funeral Director? In this week’s episode, we find out just that - and more - with the help of Lee Solomon from Lilies Funerals. We had a barrage of questions to ask Lee and he was a brilliant guest! We discussed Lee’s individual life story and how he came to own a Funeral Home, how he copes with being around death and grief every day, how Funeral Directors care for our loved ones after they've died and the impact Covid has had on him, his business and his customers. As always - we hope you enjoy this week’s episode! But if you do have any further questions on the topic just drop us an email or message us using the details below. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below:InstagramFacebookTwitterSpecial thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing the podcast! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclub.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The life of a Funeral Director

When your parent/s dies, you lose a piece of your identity, and with that can be your confidence to put yourself out there and date again. In this week’s episode, we share our own experiences in dating after grief, including the end of our then-relationships and how we navigated meeting new people and sharing our grief. We discuss confidence, letting people in, whether our parents would approve and how our grief has impacted who we are in relationships. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below:InstagramFacebookTwitterSpecial thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing the podcast! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclub.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Grief and dating

Everyone grieves the same loss differently, even twins. This week we’re joined by Emma’s twin Sam Jones for an open and real conversation about grieving as siblings. We discuss their own individual experiences with grief - where they differ, and where they’re similar - as well as their different coping mechanisms and how they manage grief as they’ve gotten older. This is one of the first times Emma and Sam had sat and had a long and honest discussion about the loss of their mum and the way it affected them differently.We hope that by having this conversation, we can offer support to other young adults who may be feeling distant to their siblings or are wondering why they aren’t reacting to the same loss similarly. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below:InstagramFacebookTwitterSpecial thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing the podcast! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclub.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sam Jones

Navigating parenthood is one thing, but when you add grief on top of it the pressure can feel overwhelming. In this week’s episode, we’re joined by author Katy Colins who’s Dad died suddenly while out on a walk with his five month old grandaughter, Katy’s daughter Everleigh. In this episode, Katy talks about balancing motherhood and grief, and how her experiences with grief changed her approach to writing and led to her writing the book ‘How To Say Goodbye’, as well as her most recent novel The Best Is Yet To Come. Katy also speaks about her experience with Bereavement Counselling and tells us more about her dad and the brilliant man he was, and the impact his death has had on her approach to life since. You can find Katy on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/notwedordead/And purchase her most recent book, The Best Is Yet To come here: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Katy-Colins/The-Best-is-Yet-to-Come/24958600You can also watch this episode on YouTube.To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below:InstagramFacebookTwitterSpecial thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing the podcast!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Grief and motherhood; with Katy Colins

Navigating parenthood is one thing, but when you add grief on top of it the pressure can feel overwhelming. In this week’s episode, we’re joined by author Katy Colins who’s Dad died suddenly while out on a walk with his five month old grandaughter, Katy’s daughter Everleigh. In this episode, Katy talks about balancing motherhood and grief, and how her experiences with grief changed her approach to writing and led to her writing the book ‘How To Say Goodbye’, as well as her most recent novel The Best Is Yet To Come. Katy also speaks about her experience with Bereavement Counselling and tells us more about her dad and the brilliant man he was, and the impact his death has had on her approach to life since. You can find Katy on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/notwedordead/And purchase her most recent book, The Best Is Yet To come here: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Katy-Colins/The-Best-is-Yet-to-Come/24958600You can also watch this episode on YouTube.To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below:InstagramFacebookTwitterSpecial thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing the podcast! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclub.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How siblings grieve differently; with Sam Jones

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Knowing how to support someone who’s lost a parent can be difficult and people often find it easier to say nothing at all than to confront the emotions and feelings face on. In this week’s episode, Kat and Emma discuss how to support someone that’s lost a parent both emotionally and physically, from mowing their lawn to ordering takeaways for delivery at their homes. They share their own experiences about what’s useful both straight away after the loss and now, years later. But as well as sharing tips and advice on how to support them, they also highlight the importance of looking after yourself too. You can’t pour from an empty cup. At the end, Emma and Kat share their top five tips for anyone looking to offer support to a grieving friend or loved one.You can also watch this episode on YouTube.To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk, drop us an email at hello@deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below:InstagramFacebookTwitterSpecial thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing the podcast!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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