Ep 169: Grief Is Not Just Death with Jillian Oetting

Ep 169: Grief Is Not Just Death with Jillian Oetting

May 22, 2026 · 46 min

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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

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