Karen Geier
Host of On Grief: A Podcast about Death
Karen Geier is a writer and podcast producer from Toronto, Canada with bylines in The Guardian, Vice, The Cut, and many more. She previously produced the podcast [On Belief: A Podcast about Cults](onbelief.fireside.fm)
Karen Geier has hosted 17 Episodes.
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Episode 117: Widows
March 19th, 2020 | Season 1 | 17 mins 47 secs
Thank you to everyone who was patient during the hiatus.
In this episode, Shannon Culver, Alexie Landry, Janice Tsao, and Sarah Keast join me to discuss what life is like for widows, specifically young widows.
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Episode 116: Complex Grief with Lindsay Joy Taylor
January 30th, 2020 | Season 1 | 16 mins 52 secs
Lindsay Joy Taylor of the Joyful Jewelry Box (https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheJoyfulJewelryBox) joins me to discuss her incredible story of managing grief.
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Episode 115: Equine Learning
January 23rd, 2020 | Season 1 | 18 mins 40 secs
Gail Carruthers from Skye Blue Acres (http://www.skyeblueacres.com) joins me to discuss how horses can help people through their grief.
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Episode 114: Laurie Kilmartin
January 9th, 2020 | Season 1 | 16 mins 34 secs
Comedian Laurie Kilmartin lost her dad to cancer and rather than grieve privately, she mounted a comedy show and later a book about her experiences.
Dead People Suck ISBN: 9781635650006
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Episode 113: Suicide
December 19th, 2019 | Season 1 | 18 mins 37 secs
Content Warning: This entire episode is a frank discussion of suicide.
Seth Amitin, LCSW joins me to discuss what we know about suicide, what the myths are surrounding suicide, and how grieving people who die by suicide is different.
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Episode 112: Death Doula
December 12th, 2019 | Season 1 | 17 mins
Madeleine Domingue joins me to discuss what a Death Doula does, why you need one, and what myths still exist about the practice
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Episode 111: Funerary Traditions
December 5th, 2019 | Season 1 | 17 mins 18 secs
Three guests join me to discuss Funerary Traditions: Rabbi Andy Kahn, a Rabbi from New York, Khadijah, a woman who volunteers to prepare Muslim women's bodies in the Greater Toronto Area, and David Kunian, Music Curator at the New Orleans Jazz Museum to discuss Funerary Traditions you might not be familiar with.
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Episode 110: EMDR with Dr. Roger Solomon
November 21st, 2019 | Season 1 | 17 mins 5 secs
EMDR is touted as a cutting edge, highly effective treatment for many conditions, including PTSD and Grief. Dr Roger Solomon joins me to discuss what EMDR is.
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Episode 109: Pet Grief Part Two
November 14th, 2019 | 15 mins 27 secs
Adam Clark, LCSW, AASW and founder of Head, Heart & Hooves Counseling (https://www.headhearthoovescounseling.com) joins me to delve deeper into Pet Grief from a clinical perspective.
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Episode 108: Pet Grief Part One
November 7th, 2019 | Season 1 | 17 mins 33 secs
Wendy Van De Poll, from the Center for Pet Loss Grief https://centerforpetlossgrief.com/ joins me to discuss how we have overlooked the impact of Pet Loss Grief far too long.
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Episode 107: The Right to Die With Exit International's Philip Nitschke
October 31st, 2019 | Season 1 | 16 mins 32 secs
While most of us respect that the terminally ill or very old might want to exercise their right to die, not many have come around on the idea that any adult with mental capacity should have the right to end their life on their own terms.
Philip Nitschke joins me to explain why Exit International provides information and works to move legislation past a medicalized model to bring this crucial right to more people. -
Episode 106: Child Grief
October 24th, 2019 | Season 1 | 17 mins 58 secs
What should we know about the way children grieve to make us better at helping them cope? Andrea Warnick, licensed psychotherapist with a specialty in Child Grief, joins me to discuss.
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Episode 105: Caitlin Doughty
October 17th, 2019 | Season 1 | 17 mins 14 secs
Author and Funeral Director and host of Ask A Mortician Caitlin Doughty joins me to talk about her book Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? (ISBN 039365270X) and other things she has learned about death and dying in her career.
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Episode 104: Adam Cayton-Holland
October 10th, 2019 | Season 1 | 47 mins 23 secs
Comedian Adam Cayton-Holland joins me to discuss his book and one man show Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-Comic Memoir (ISBN 1501170163) and how the sudden death of his sister changed his life
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Episode 103: History of Grief
October 3rd, 2019 | Season 1 | 16 mins 41 secs
Author Brandy Schillace (Death's Summer Coat - ISBN 1681773244 ) joins me to discuss the history of the Western way of grieving.
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Episode 102: Mortician
September 26th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 5 mins
UNLOCKED FULL EPISODE. Visit patreon.com/ongriefpod to support the podcast and unlock full episodes in the future.
In this episode, I ask Mortician and Funeral Director Erin Bodishbaugh all the questions about their job everyone's afraid to ask