Ep 169: Grief Is Not Just Death with Jillian Oetting

About this episode

The episode discusses various types of grief beyond death, featuring insights from grief counseling specialist Jillian Oetting.

Send us Fan Mail Grief can feel like a private storm, but it’s also one of the most universal experiences we share and it doesn’t only arrive after a death. I sit down with licensed professional counselor and advanced grief counseling specialist Jillian Oetting to name the kinds of loss that often get ignored: anticipatory grief with dementia or terminal illness, disenfranchised grief after pregnancy loss or infertility, ambiguous loss in estrangement or addiction, and the identity grief that...

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Host: Beth Trammell

Guest: Jillian Oetting

Topics covered

• grief
• loss
• mental health
• counseling
• identity grief

Keywords

• grief
• loss
• mental health
• counseling
• anticipatory grief
• disenfranchised grief
• identity grief

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