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Walking Through Grief: Coping, Comforting Kids, and Embodied Emotions :: Erin Nelson and Colleen Montague [Ep 517]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Education

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Grief is a journey that no one wants to walk, yet so many of us will experience deep loss in our lifetime. In this episode, Colleen and Erin have an open and honest conversation about Erin’s journey through unimaginable loss—losing her husband in a plane crash, navigating her children’s grief, the heartbreak of her mother’s suicide, and later, the devastating loss of her son in a car accident.

Through her story, Erin shares what it looks like to carry grief in our bodies, the crisis of faith that can come with loss, and how she found her way through the darkness. From those tragedies was born Jessica’s house, a place for families to walk through grief and be supported. And now a book When Grief Comes Home that shares the tools she has learned through so many trials. 

Here are some topics we cover:

  • The impact of trauma and grief on the body and nervous system
  • The importance of modeling healthy grief and emotional expression for children
  • How to come alongside grieving families in tangible, practical ways
  • The unique challenges couples face when grieving a child and how to let someone grieve in their own way
  • Brightsiding- what it is and how to speak to someone in a dark season 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:10.3

I'm your host, Heather McFaddean, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

0:14.3

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

0:19.4

And in this episode number 517, I'm welcoming Aaron Nelson

0:23.5

and Colleen Montague. Really allowing that to be a natural process of grief because

0:30.3

you'll never experience that forever. We talk a lot in the book about storms and how you will

0:36.8

feel like the storms coming in and it's like

0:39.3

there's a storm in your body, you'll feel that pressure and you'll just feel like it's in there

0:44.9

and it needs to come out somehow and whether that's through tears or talking or moving or

0:51.7

screaming, whatever it is, but storms never last forever.

0:56.4

So knowing that as you express it and you find your resources of how to feel better,

1:03.1

that's how you begin to heal.

1:05.1

And so it's just a natural process that happens over and over.

1:08.6

Erin and Colleen are the co-authors of a book called When Grief Comes Home,

1:15.6

a gentle guide for living through loss while supporting your child.

1:21.2

I get several parents who reach out to me asking about that,

1:24.9

whoever they've lost and then trying to guide their kids through it.

1:29.6

And these gals are qualified guides.

1:33.7

Erin and Colleen are both part of a place called Jessica's House, a grief support center for children and families.

1:41.8

Aaron is the founder and executive director.

1:43.8

And Colleen is a licensed

1:44.9

marriage and family therapist and the director of community outreach there. Erin has personally

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