#086. We'll all face grief and loss, but what happens when big losses come one after another in quick succession? How do we grieve them when we're barely through one loss before another one hits us?

This is The Silent Why, a podcast on a mission to open up conversations around grief, to see if hope can be found in 101 different types of loss.

Loss #47 of 101: Loss through cumulative grief

In this episode we're welcoming back Jeanette Koncikowski from Buffalo New York, who experienced five big losses in just over four years.

In 2010 Jeanette lost a pregnancy in her second term, then in 2012 her mother was diagnosed with cancer and died later that year, in 2013 her best friend died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 37, and in 2014 she lost her grandma and then her husband of 21 years through epilepsy (leaving her widowed at just 36).

For most of us, we will go through the big griefs one at a time, with the space to think, process and grieve what we lost (if we choose to). But sometimes they come close together, barely giving us time to process what's gone, before something else is taken, so how do we deal with that?

In this conversation Jeanette shares her wisdom on getting through the trauma of not only losing close family, but also losing the people that would have supported her through the other losses. This chat is full of useful advice and hope for how to deal with multiple losses and the support you might want to seek out if you're going through it yourself.

For more about Jeanette you can visit her website: https://www.thrivecommunityconsulting.com/

Or her Widowed Parent Project Facebook group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/580595715466580

Or find her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/widowedPP

You can also hear Jeanette's Let's Chat episode on how to parent as a widowed parent here: https://www.thesilentwhy.com/podcast/episode/77dffebe/lets-chat-parenting-as-a-widowed-parent

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