This is a podcast created by therapist and grief educator Laura Walton. Laura has lived through the kind of losses that blow your life apart. And when no one was saying the things she needed to hear — the raw, real, and unfiltered truth of living with grief — she started saying them herself.
This is a space for the reality we’re not usually taught how to hold: the ache of missing someone, the beauty that still insists on showing up, and the strange magic of staying alive inside a broken-open heart. These conversations don’t try to fix grief. They invite it in.
Here, we explore what it means to live with grief instead of around it. We learn how to carry grief with care, reverence, and maybe even a little curiosity.
Join us, as we do this grief thing on purpose.
Grief On Purpose - The Podcast
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Episode #009 Grief as Love with Terri Straut
In this compelling episode, Laura sits down with Terri Straut-- a mother from Littleton, Colorado, whose world was shattered in 2011 when her son, Patrick, died by suicide at just 18 years old. There are no soft landings after a loss like that. And Terri doesn’t pretend otherwise. What she brings is raw truth, hard-won wisdom, and a story soaked in love, devastation, and the brutal, everyday work of survival.
Episode #008 Living With Grief with Justine Monahan
In this soul-baring episode, Laura sits down with Justine Monahan — an Australian expat, mother, and widow — to unravel the brutal and beautiful aftermath of death. Justine’s story is shaped by love, loss, and choice. Her dad died when she was a teenager, and later her mom also died, giving Justine early experiences with grief that marked her path.
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