Grief as a Teacher
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Today I sit down with grief coach and author Shelby Forsythia to explore how grief—far from being an enemy—becomes our most profound teacher. Shelby shares her raw journey of losing her mother at 21, the ‘four years of hell’ that reshaped her life, and how a stolen wallet unlocked her path to becoming a ‘student of grief.’ Together, we unpack the myths of ‘moving on,’ the power of tiny grief mantras, and how synchronicities (like palindromes!) connect us to loved ones beyond the veil. If you’ve ever felt ‘stuck’ in loss or wondered how joy and sorrow coexist, this conversation is your roadmap. Join us as we honor grief not as an end, but as a sacred beginning
00:00 Shelby’s Grief Journey Intro
03:30 "Four Years of Hell" Losses
06:33 Mother’s Cancer & Hospice
08:24 Facing Mortality
11:59 Ignoring Grief
14:06 Stolen Wallet Breakthrough
17:30 Debunking Grief Myths
21:48 Becoming Grief Coach
26:33 Grief Beyond Death
28:24 Joyful Events as Grief
33:17 Grief Growth Journaling
38:51 Library of Reminders
42:06 Palindromes as Signs
Shelby Forsythia
· shelbyforsythia.com (Free grief resources, podcasts, courses) 13
· Books: Your Grief, Your Way; Permission to Grieve
· Podcast: Grief Grower
· Course: Life After Loss Academy
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| 0:00.0 | Following her mother's death in 2013, Shelby began calling herself a student of grief. |
| 0:08.0 | She now devotes her days to reading, writing, and speaking about loss. |
| 0:14.8 | Shelby is a grief coach, author, and podcast host, and in 2020, she founded Life After Loss Academy, an online course and community |
| 0:23.9 | that has helped dozens of grievers grow and find their way after death, divorce, diagnosis, |
| 0:30.0 | and other major life transitions. Shelby and I had a beautiful, poetic conversation, Her ability to really kind of hone in on grief and put |
| 0:43.5 | beautiful words to the experience of what it is to lose someone you love and what it is to help |
| 0:49.2 | other people usher themselves through the grief process was really profound, and I so enjoyed this conversation. |
| 0:56.6 | We discussed how death is not just the only transition you need to be grieving about. |
| 1:01.6 | We discussed signs and synchronicities, of course, my favorite topic, and so many other things |
| 1:07.0 | that will help you if you are in the midst of your own grief. |
| 1:10.7 | And one of the things we talk |
| 1:12.1 | about is how in some ways we all are. So with that, here is my podcast with Shelby for Scythea. |
| 1:18.2 | We need at our table of awareness, the logician, but equally we need the intuitive, we need the mystic. |
| 1:24.9 | I was died. I was allowed to go to the very precipice of death, |
| 1:28.9 | of life and death, and look over the edge. And I was allowed to behold what was there and allowed |
| 1:35.0 | to come back. Most people aren't. When we talk about being aligned with our self or being |
| 1:39.4 | aligned with our soul or hearing our higher self, that's really what we're talking about is being connected to that |
| 1:45.3 | divine part of ourself, that light-filled part of us, that is connected to God energy, that is |
| 1:50.5 | connected to everybody here and every experience we've ever had. If more doctors, more |
| 1:56.1 | professionals can open up to use intuitive gifts in their work. |
| 2:01.1 | That's really important. |
| 2:03.1 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between. |
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