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Grief 2 Growth

Grief 2 Growth

著者： Brian D. Smith
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"Transform your grief into growth with Brian Smith, an empathetic life coach, certified grief educator, public speaker, and author who has walked the treacherous path of profound loss. Grief 2 Growth unravels the intricacies of life, death, and the spaces in between, offering listeners a new perspective on what it means to be 'Planted. Not Buried.'

Join Brian and his compelling guests—bereaved parents, life coaches, mediums, healers, near death experiencers, and experts in various fields—as they discuss topics like survival guilt, synchronicities, and the scientific evidence supporting the existence of the afterlife. You'll come away with actionable advice, renewed hope, and the comforting knowledge that love and life are eternal.

One of the most powerful ways we know what awaits us and where we came from is Near Death Experiences. Much of Brian's knowledge is derived from extensive study of this phenomenon, along with interviewing dozens of near death experience experiencers.

Brian knows the soul-crushing weight of loss; his journey began with the sudden passing of his fifteen-year-old daughter, Shayna. It's not an odyssey he would have chosen, but it has been an odyssey that has chosen him to guide others.

Grief 2 Growth is a sanctuary for those grieving, those curious about the beyond, and anyone eager to explore the fuller dimensions of life and death. Each episode delves into topics that matter most—how to cope, grow, and connect with loved ones in the afterlife. If you ask: “Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going?” this podcast is for you.

This isn't about forgetting your loss or simply 'moving on'; it's about growing in a new direction that honors your loved ones and your spirit. It’s about finding joy and purpose again.

Grief 2 Growth is more than a podcast; it's a community of souls committed to supporting one another through the darkest valleys and highest peaks of human existence. Listen today and start planting seeds for a brighter, more spiritually connected tomorrow."


© 2026 Grief 2 Growth スピリチュアリティ 個人的成功 哲学 社会科学 自己啓発
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  • What My Mother's Deathbed Visions Taught Me About What Comes Next | Alexandra Grabbe | EP 503

    What My Mother's Deathbed Visions Taught Me About What Comes Next | Alexandra Grabbe | EP 503
    2026/09/01

    What if the strangest moments at the end of life are actually the most meaningful?

    In this episode, Alexandra Grabbe joins Brian to talk about the seven months she spent caring for her 96-year-old mother, Bea, at home — and the deathbed visions that changed how she understands what happens when we die. Alexandra shares the exhaustion, the tenderness, and the moments of unexpected grace that shaped her new memoir, Seeing Joy. If you've ever cared for a dying parent, sat with someone in their final days, or wondered what those "hallucinations" near the end of life really mean, this conversation will stay with you.

    About Alexandra Grabbe

    Alexandra Grabbe has lived many lives — talk show host in Paris, eco-friendly innkeeper on Cape Cod, and lifelong writer. After graduating from Vassar College, she raised three children in France, worked in journalism and broadcasting, and assisted literary figures Barbara Chase-Riboud and Marge Piercy. For two decades she ran a green bed-and-breakfast in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. When her mother's health declined, Alexandra became her full-time caregiver — an experience that became the caregiving blog "By B's Bedside" and, nearly two decades later, her home care memoir Seeing Joy: A Story of Life, Death, and What Comes Next (Koehler Books, March 2026).

    🔗 Alexandra's website: https://alexandragrabbe.com
    🔗 Seeing Joy at Koehler Books: https://www.koehlerbooks.com/book/seeing-joy/
    📷 Instagram: @AlexandraGrabbeBooks

    In This Episode:

    • What it really means when a doctor calls something a "hallucination" and a hospice worker calls it a "visitation"
    • The physical and emotional toll of caregiving — and the sleep deprivation Alexandra says was the hardest part
    • Deathbed Visioning: the pattern hospice workers see again and again near the end of life
    • Why Alexandra's mother's fear of dying gave way to tea parties with deceased visitors
    • How the role reversal between parent and child reshaped their relationship
    • The 19-year journey to publish a book publishers once said was "too afraid" to touch
    • What her mother's final moments — and the arrival of Alexandra's father and grandmother — taught her about how we're not meant to be alone at the end

    What resonated with you in this episode? Have you witnessed a loved one's deathbed visions, or cared for an aging parent at home? Share your story in the comments — Alexandra's experience may be more common than you think.

    You've been listening. You're doing the work. But there's still this feeling that you're circling the same place.

    Maybe you've thought about working with me one-on-one. Maybe something's held you back.

    I get that. And I want you to know there's still a place for you.

    All of it, pay what you want. You decide what it's worth. Nobody gets turned away because of money.

    https://grief2g

    Want to go deeper? My Substack is where I share solo essays on grief, consciousness, and continuing bonds — thoughts that don't always make it into the podcast. It's also home to a community of listeners who get it, because they're living it too. Free to subscribe. Find it at substack.com/grief2growth.

    I've been studying Near Death Experiences for many years now. I am 100% convinced they are real. In this short, free ebook, I not only explain why I believe NDEs are real, I share some of the universal secrets brought back by people who have had them.

    https://www.grief2growth.com/ndelessons

    Support the show

    🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Join me on Substack- connect with others and me
    👛 Subscribe to Grief 2 Growth Premium (bonus episodes)
    📰 Get A Free Gift
    📅 Book A Complimentary Discovery Call
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    Thanks so much for your support
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  • Why This ICU Doctor No Longer Fears Death- with Dr. Adam Rizvi | EP 502

    Why This ICU Doctor No Longer Fears Death- with Dr. Adam Rizvi | EP 502
    2026/08/18

    What does an ICU doctor see when he's present at the exact moment someone dies?

    Dr. Adam Rizvi has spent his career in critical care medicine, standing at hundreds of bedsides during life's most sacred transitions. Trained as a physician but grounded early in comparative religion, Adam has watched patients return from clinical death with vivid experiences medicine can't explain, felt rooms fill with light, and even witnessed a whirlpool of light appear at the exact moment a patient passed away — something his nurse saw too.

    In this conversation, we talk about what happens when a man of science makes peace with the sacred: the medical case for consciousness surviving the body, what dying patients have taught him about forgiveness, and a simple nightly practice that can change how you live starting tonight.

    About Dr. Adam Rizvi

    Dr. Adam Rizvi is a critical care physician and author of Love Does Not Know Death: Stories of Death, Dying, and the Miracles of True Forgiveness. He writes about the lessons he's learned at the bedside on his Substack, Adventures in Kindness.

    • 📖 Book: Love Does Not Know Death
    • ✍️ Substack: AdamRizvi.substack.com — Adventures in Kindness

    In This Episode, We Cover:

    • How a comparative religion major ended up in ICU medicine
    • The cardiac arrest patient who returned with a story that shouldn't have been possible
    • Why "brain as receiver" of consciousness makes more sense than "brain as generator"
    • The moment two people in the same room witnessed the same unexplainable light
    • Ancient wisdom on death — from the Tibetan Book of the Dead to the story of Nachiketas
    • Why forgiveness is something you do for yourself, not the person who hurt you
    • A nightly deathbed meditation practice you can start using tonight

    What Resonated With You?

    Did Adam's story about the whirlpool of light stay with you? Have you had an experience with a loved one that science couldn't explain? Share your thoughts in the comments — I read every one.

    If this episode moved you, head over to grief2growth.substack.com for more reflection and to connect with other listeners walking this same path.

    You've been listening. You're doing the work. But there's still this feeling that you're circling the same place.

    Maybe you've thought about working with me one-on-one. Maybe something's held you back.

    I get that. And I want you to know there's still a place for you.

    All of it, pay what you want. You decide what it's worth. Nobody gets turned away because of money.

    https://grief2g

    Want to go deeper? My Substack is where I share solo essays on grief, consciousness, and continuing bonds — thoughts that don't always make it into the podcast. It's also home to a community of listeners who get it, because they're living it too. Free to subscribe. Find it at substack.com/grief2growth.

    I've been studying Near Death Experiences for many years now. I am 100% convinced they are real. In this short, free ebook, I not only explain why I believe NDEs are real, I share some of the universal secrets brought back by people who have had them.

    https://www.grief2growth.com/ndelessons

    Support the show

    🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Join me on Substack- connect with others and me
    👛 Subscribe to Grief 2 Growth Premium (bonus episodes)
    📰 Get A Free Gift
    📅 Book A Complimentary Discovery Call
    📈 Leave A Review

    Thanks so much for your support
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  • Loneliness After Loss: Miist on Finding Your Voice and the 15 Seconds That Can Save a Life | EP 501

    Loneliness After Loss: Miist on Finding Your Voice and the 15 Seconds That Can Save a Life | EP 501
    2026/08/11
    Miist was five years old when her parents removed themselves from her life. Not through death — through choice. As she tells me in this episode, that distinction made the wound deeper, not shallower. She knew they could come back. They simply didn't.By 28, she had a terminal cancer diagnosis and doctors telling her she had a month, maybe three. And here's the part that stopped me: she still doesn't hold any bad feeling toward that diagnosis. It's the thing that finally brought her family back into the room with her.She picked up a ukulele during treatment. She didn't write her first song until she was 34. Today her music has charted on Billboard, she's the first native Chinese artist to reach the Pop AC chart, and she hosts a top-ranked mental health podcast.This conversation goes somewhere I didn't expect. We talk about loneliness after loss — the grief that arrives with no funeral, no casserole, no one checking in — and what it actually takes to come back from it.Miist wrote a song for a young man who passed alone in his apartment in Japan. He had food. He had shelter. He had nobody. She kept thinking about all the strangers he must have walked past on any given day, and how one moment of real eye contact might have been enough to hold him a little longer. That song, "Could You Lend Me a Smile," now exists in 16 languages.Out of it came the idea we spend much of this episode on: the 15-second action. Small enough that nobody can claim they don't have time. Smile at someone. Be silly. Be grateful. Say a kind word. Remind someone that you love them.We recorded this on my 65th birthday, which made one part land hard for me. Miist asked when the last time was that someone called you for no reason at all, just to say they love you. I told her about the most viral Substack post I've ever written — it was about calling my father on an ordinary day, for no occasion. It went everywhere because almost nobody does it.WHAT WE COVERWhy abandonment can cut deeper than death, and how the earliest wound becomes the root of everything built on top of itHow Miist pushed away her closest childhood friends, and the apology she eventually wrote as a songChoosing, in advance, to sit inside the grief of losing her dog rather than reaching for anything that would make it stopThe three days she asked her vet for, and what her whole family learned from themReconnecting with and forgiving the father she hadn't seen in over 20 yearsBeing discovered by producer Narada Michael Walden — and being asked to sing at the piano where Aretha Franklin recorded "Respect"The Kindness Kube and the five actions on itUsing music intentionally to move through anger, sadness, and back toward joyWhy losing an old habit that no longer serves you can feel like its own kind of lossWhy both of us say plainly: we are still healingABOUT MIISTMiist is a multilingual recording artist, songwriter, and podcast host who began her professional music career at 34 after being discovered by acclaimed producer Narada Michael Walden. She's a Teen Cancer America Ambassador and the founder of the World Smile Initiative, a nonprofit built around bringing moments of relief and light to people who are struggling. Her podcast, Make Me Smile with Miist, blends original music, personal storytelling, and research, and each episode closes with a 15-second action listeners can take that day. The book of the same name is now available.🎵 Website: https://www.miistthesinger.com🎙️ Podcast: Make Me Smile with Miist — available wherever you listen📖 Book: Make Me Smile with Miist🧊 The Kindness Kube: available on her websiteA FEW THINGS TO SIT WITHWhich of the five actions would be hardest for you right now — and what does that tell you?Is there someone you've been meaning to call for no reason at all?Is there a loss in your life you've been outrunning rather than sitting with?JOIN THE CONVERSATIONI'd love to hear what landed for you in this one. Head to https://grief2growth.substack.com to read the companion article, leave a comment, and connect with me and with other listeners walking a similar road.If this episode helped, share it with someone who's feeling disconnected right now. That's a 15-second action of your own. 💜CONNECT WITH BRIAN🔗 All my links: https://pages.grief2growth.com/profile🔗 Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/grief2growth📰 Email list: https://pages.grief2growth.com/join-the-club⏰ Free consult: https://grief2growth.as.me/30-minute-consult👛 Tip jar: https://www.grief2growth.com/tipjarApprove and I'll move to Step 5: the blog article outline.You've been listening. You're doing the work. But there's still this feeling that you're circling the same place.Maybe you've thought about working with me one-on-one. Maybe something's held you back. I get that. And I want you to know there's still a place for you.All of it, pay what you want. You decide what it's worth. Nobody gets turned away because of money.https...
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