ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Grief coach Tanya Wilkinson has navigated some of the most profound losses a person can face, from the identity death of leaving a career in Formula One, to losing her daughter halfway through pregnancy. In this conversation, Tanya shares how each grief deepened her capacity for presence, and how she learned to hold it all rather than fix or rush through it. We explore how Western culture has severed our connection to the honouring of death, what different cultural traditions can teach us about grieving with our whole bodies, and why the simplest act of reparenting might just be sitting with someone in their pain and listening.
(00:00) A promise of presence (01:58) Meet Tanya Wilkinson (03:33) Leaving F1, and a miscarriage (05:28) The needle that named it (08:01) How to hold someone through change (10:08) Collective grief (14:42) A family that didn't speak of death (16:35) Losing their daughter (18:24) Grief as love (21:24) A birth and a death plan (27:17) The haka, and the woodland burial (36:30) The hedgehog in the garden (42:33) If we all honoured grief (46:38) Going deeper, and what stayed with me
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