What happens when a grief therapist loses those closest to her?
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this raw and deeply personal episode, I sit down with Meghan Riordan Jarvis—a seasoned grief therapist who faced her greatest challenge when grief shattered her own life. After losing both parents, Meghan’s journey through PTSD, spiritual disconnection, and eventual healing reveals profound truths about trauma, intuition, and the unseen threads that bind us to those we’ve lost. Together, we explore how grief rewires the brain, why childhood wounds resurface in loss, and the mysterious signs that whisper, “You’re not alone.” If you’ve ever felt crushed by loss or questioned how to find light in the darkness, this conversation is a lifeline.
00:00 Intro
01:09 Meet Meghan Riordan Jarvis: A Journey Through Grief
03:24 The Role of Trauma in Grief Therapy
06:57 Personal Stories of Loss and Healing
09:24 Understanding Grief and Energy
17:27 The Impact of Childhood and Social Connections on Grief
24:57 Spirituality and Religion in the Healing Process
29:43 Recognizing Spiritual Connections
30:21 A Mother's Influence and Spirituality
31:15 Exploring Spiritual Beliefs
32:27 Signs and Symbols from Beyond
40:00 The Grief Mentor Method
49:36 Personalized Grief Practices
51:24 Conclusion and Resources
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| 0:00.0 | We need at our table of awareness, the logician, but equally we need the intuitive, we need the mystic. |
| 0:06.0 | I almost died. |
| 0:07.0 | I was allowed to go to the very precipice of death, of life and death, and look over the edge. |
| 0:13.0 | And I was allowed to behold what was there and allowed to come back. Most people aren't. |
| 0:18.0 | When we talk about being aligned with our self or being aligned with our soul or hearing our |
| 0:23.0 | higher self, that's really what we're talking about is being connected to that divine part of |
| 0:28.2 | ourself, that light-filled part of us, that is connected to God energy, that is connected |
| 0:32.5 | to everybody here and every experience we've ever had. |
| 0:36.4 | If more doctors, more professionals can open up to use intuitive gifts in their work, |
| 0:42.3 | that's really important. |
| 0:44.3 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and medium. |
| 0:53.3 | And here we explore life, death, mediumship, |
| 0:58.2 | near-death experiences, consciousness, and what it all means. |
| 1:09.0 | Megan Reardon Jarvis is a guest that I've been wanting to have on the show for quite some time. |
| 1:14.3 | I've been following her in the grief space and am completely moved by her story. |
| 1:20.1 | So Megan is a therapist. |
| 1:22.1 | She has, she's also an author, a podcast host, a two-time TEDx speaker, and a consultant. |
| 1:29.1 | But what is so incredible about her story is that after suffering through several, two significant losses for herself, |
| 1:36.0 | she ended up in an inpatient hospitalization program dealing with her grief, completely overcome by it. |
| 1:43.0 | And her story is so fascinating because she's |
| 1:45.7 | able to talk about what it's like having been a therapist for so many years, a grief therapist, |
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