The Grief Collection
with Bianca Welsh
Grief is the one guarantee in life, we will all experience a great loss at some point in our lives, yet we’re so unprepared for it, we rarely talk about it and often shy away from these uncomfortable conversations. After experiencing her own grief and loss when Bianca and her husband James lost their baby boy, Herbert, at full term in January 2022, the subsequent journey felt overwhelming, lonely and fraught with societal expectations. In Bianca’s podcast she hopes to bring stories of hope and experience from everyday people, but honing in on the things that did or didn’t work during an individual’s experience of the worst time of their lives. Healing from grief, loss and trauma can be a very individual journey, with no linear trajectory and no guide book. Bianca hopes people might be inspired or motivated by ideas or different ways to navigate life after loss.
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Episodes
Bianca sits down with Diana Butler OAM — Tasmanian humanitarian, nurse, and founder of Care for Africa — to talk about losing her first son, Tom, as a newborn 40 years ago, and grieving in an era with no language or support for baby loss. Diana traces the line from that loss to founding Care for Africa, and to the moment she found her purpose standing before a Tanzanian community she describes as the reason she was put on this earth.
The conversation closes with Caroline Thain, occupational therapist and trauma-informed clinical leader, joining Bianca to unpack how grief resurfaces across a lifetime, why "toxic positivity" can do more harm than good, and how to support someone who isn't ready to talk.