Grief Work, Real Talk

About this episode

Terri discusses the importance of lived experience in grief care and the process of building trust in a mission-driven practice.

What if the most powerful credential in grief care isn’t a license, but a life? We sit down with Terri, a grief companion and community builder, to unpack how showing up—consistently, vulnerably, and without polish—became the engine of a mission-driven practice. From the early days of obscurity to becoming “that grief lady” people recognize in restaurants, Terri shares the slow, human work of building trust online, the courage to speak about failure in death care, and the reason lived experie...

People in this episode

Host: Shireen Botha

Guest: Terri

Topics covered

• grief care
• community building
• trust
• failure in death care
• vulnerability

Keywords

• grief
• care
• community
• trust
• failure
• vulnerability
• death care

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