Carried Forward

Grief doesn't end, it transforms. The Carried Forward Podcast is a conversation-driven show about what happens after loss. Not the moment of loss itself, but the long, slow, often invisible work of rebuilding identity, meaning, and purpose on the other side of it. Host Robert DelFave is a grief coach, author, and someone who lost both parents young. He sits down with grief professionals, researchers, therapists, authors, and thought leaders to ask the questions his clients are living with every day. What does carrying grief forward actually look like? How do you rebuild who you are on the other side of this? socialdb-verify-a9617e5386

Carried Forward is a health podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 9 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #8

  We Were Made for Villages w/ Carl Nassar

  Jul 29, 20261h 13m

  "Grief alone is grief compounded." In this episode, I sit down with grief therapist and counselor Carl Nassar for a conversation about why sorrow becomes heavier when we carry it by ourselves, and what becomes possible when grief is witnessed, held, and shared instead of hidden, rushed, or handled privately. We talk about the villages humans lived in for two million years and what happened when consumer culture took their place. About the exhaustion, isolation, and endless efforting Carl saw repeat across more than 25 years of clinical work. About advertising's false promise to bring us back to our people, the treadmill of achieving and acquiring, and the loneliness sitting underneath it all. But underneath all of it, this conversation is deeply human. Carl shares his own story: crossing an ocean at three years old, learning early that achievement made his mother's shoulders relax, earning tenure as an engineering professor, and then walking away from that career to spend the next 25 years sitting with more than 10,000 individuals, couples, and families. We talk about: why grief carried alone becomes grief compounded the loss of shared life and the village we all miss how consumer culture hooks us on achieving and acquiring stillness and compassion, the two forces behind real healing grief circles and what a group makes possible that one-on-one support can't building community through proximity, lingering, and rhythm knowing who is safe to share your grief with the kintsugi bowl and becoming broken but beautiful Carl also shares practical ways to summon stillness and compassion from within, for anyone who doesn't yet have a person or a circle to help hold what they're carrying. At its core, this episode is about finding our people and letting them carry with us what we were never built to carry alone. Connect with Carl: Website: VillageSolution.com Resources: robertdelfave.com Free audio series: Not Alone — robertdelfave.com Book a free discovery call: robertdelfave.com The Carried Forward Podcast is hosted by Robert DelFave, grief coach, David Kessler Certified Grief Educator, and author of The Other Side of This. New episodes released regularly.

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  Episode #7

  The Pause of Grief w/ Stephanie Prestridge

  Jul 18, 20261h 12m

  “I know the pause of grief.” In this episode, I sit down with attorney Stephanie Prestridge for a conversation about the part of grief almost nobody talks about: the collision between emotional loss and the systems people are suddenly forced to navigate after someone dies. We talk about what grief does to people emotionally, financially, relationally, and cognitively. About the paperwork families suddenly face while trying to survive unimaginable loss. About life insurance claims, legal confusion, family conflict, delayed grief, and the invisible weight people carry while the world keeps moving around them. But underneath all of it, this conversation is deeply human. Stephanie shares the story of losing her younger sister as a child, what it looked like to put her own grief on pause while focusing on her mother, and how those experiences eventually transformed the way she practices law today. We talk about: delayed and paused grief what grief does to families after loss the overwhelming administrative side of death life insurance claims and denied benefits family conflict after someone dies grief ambushes and emotional shutdown carrying love forward instead of staying frozen the difference between surviving grief and drowning in it Stephanie also shares what she’s learned sitting with grieving families every day and why being “seen” matters just as much as legal guidance. At its core, this episode is about learning how to move forward without leaving the people we love behind. Connect with Stephanie: Website: PrestridgeLaw.com Resources: robertdelfave.com Free audio series: Not Alone — robertdelfave.com Book a free discovery call: robertdelfave.com The Carried Forward Podcast is hosted by Robert DelFave, grief coach, David Kessler Certified Grief Educator, and author of The Other Side of This. New episodes released regularly.

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  Episode #6

  Grief Is Not Just Emotional w/ Sylvia Wolfer

  Jun 29, 20261h 9m

  “Many grieving people genuinely think they are losing themselves, when in reality their brain and body are adapting to profound change.” In this episode, I sit down with Sylvia Wolfer for a conversation about what grief does beneath the surface. Sylvia is a grief coach and educator whose work lives at the intersection of grief, neuroscience, mindfulness, and movement. We talk about grief as more than an emotional experience. Grief can affect memory, attention, sleep, energy, decision-making, the nervous system, identity, relationships, and the way a person moves through daily life. But underneath all of it, this conversation is about helping people understand that they are not broken. They are responding to loss. We talk about: Why grief is not only emotional How grief affects the brain, body, and nervous system The tension between being capable and deeply impacted What reduced capacity can look like after loss How grief can reshape identity and a person’s sense of safety Why mindfulness and movement can help without bypassing grief What healing means when grief is not something we leave behind What grief can teach us about love, presence, and connection At its core, this episode is about learning to carry grief without treating it like something that has to be fixed or erased. Connect with Sylvia: Website: https://sylviawolfer.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_sylvia_wolfer_grief_support/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylviawolfer/ Free resources, discovery call, and book: robertdelfave.com/free-resources The Carried Forward Podcast is hosted by Robert DelFave, grief coach, David Kessler Certified Grief Educator, and author of The Other Side of This . Robert works with grieving teenagers and the adults who used to be them.

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  Episode #5

  The Map Underneath Every Conversation: The Carried Forward Framework Explained

  Jun 15, 202623 min

  "I'm just carrying it. I don't know where forward is anymore." That's what Katie said when I asked her what carrying grief forward meant to her. And I think it might be the most honest thing anyone has said on this show. In this solo episode, I do something I've never done on The Carried Forward Podcast before: I explain the framework that runs underneath every conversation. The Carried Forward Framework — five phases called Named, Heard, Reclaimed, Reframed, and Reconnected — is the map I use in my coaching work and the thread that runs through every episode of this show. Using real moments from conversations with guests Katie Rizzo (episode 4) and Nikki J. Borger, I walk through what each phase actually means, what it looks like in a real person's life, and why the goal was never to get over grief — but to carry it. We talk about: Why you can't carry something well if you don't know what it is What happens when grief goes underground because the world moves on before you're ready The difference between being defined by a loss and being built by it Why reframing isn't positive thinking — and what it actually is What it looks like to carry grief forward in ordinary, daily life At its core, this episode is about one thing: wherever you are in your grief is a real place on a real map. You're not behind. You're not doing it wrong. You're carrying something that matters. Resources: robertdelfave.com Free audio series: Not Alone — robertdelfave.com Book a free discovery call: robertdelfave.com The Carried Forward Podcast is hosted by Robert DelFave, grief coach, David Kessler Certified Grief Educator, and author of The Other Side of This: The Messy Truth About Grief for Teens.

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  Episode #4

  I’m Just Carrying It w/ Katie Rizzo

  May 29, 20261h 22mS0

  <p>“I’m just carrying it. I don’t know where forward is anymore.”</p><p><br>In this episode, I sit down with author, poet, and grieving mother Katie Rizzo for one of the most honest conversations I’ve had about addiction, shame, identity, and what it means to survive the loss of a child.</p><p>Katie’s son Nicholas died in September 2024 after struggling with opioid addiction. But this conversation is not just about addiction or loss. It’s about Nicholas himself. Who he was. What grief does to a body, a marriage, a family, and the impossible tas...

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