This week we sit with Hayley, Mikey's mum. In this powerful episode she speaks openly about the murder of her 16 year old loving son, Mikey. In the raw aftermath of shock and trauma, Hayley shares what those first hours, days and months felt like. How grief had to be suppressed to deal with everything else around her. Mikey's loss re-shaped her life overnight. An honest exploration of how trauma and grief intertwine and how one mother survives the unimaginable, and continues to honour her son through charity work in his name, with community action and advocacy - carrying both grief and purpose side by side.

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This week we chat with Louise, a kind and gentle mum, who shares the story of her cheeky 8 year old son, Thomas, and the unimaginable pain of losing him to brain cancer. With honesty and quiet strength, Louise opens her heart about love, grief and learning to live in a world forever changed. This is a conversation about enduring love, tender memories and the courage it takes to keep going after devastating loss. We hope this mums gentle presence offers comfort to anyone walking the difficult path of loss.

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This is a deeply personal reflection on what happens when grief takes over - and how it changes everything in an instant. Hamish speaks openly and honestly about losing his beautiful young daughter Amelia, and losing the version he knew of himself, amid trauma and crushing sadness grief can strip us down, it dismantles our everyday structures of control, support and basic functioning. Even though grief dismantled his world he reflects on the slow fragile moments that helped him rediscover himself, which reminds us broken lives can continue to grow.

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Fellow Grievers "We have all made it through January", you would think January Blues would be a little bit easier for us all, having navigated Christmas and New Year ! This is a quick catch up episode with myself and Bec, as always sharing how we are coping with our own losses on our everyday grief journey, by sharing our friendship and daily struggles helps us enormously, and love the fact we have a kind and supportive Grief Community with you all. So big Girl Pants are on and we are ready for 2026.

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This Weeks guest Amy talks openly and frank to Karen and Bec about remarriage after loss, blending families with children who are also grieving, navigating guilt, fear, loyalty and hope.

Discovering that love can grow alongside grief. Amy and her Husband Rich Married on Christmas Eve and will continue to honour their past while choosing their future, creating a new family shaped by love, loss and resilience. Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/room_to_grieve/

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This Weeks guest is the lovely Dorothy, she shares her deeply personal journey of caring for her husband Melvin, through a long term illness, and the grief that has followed his death. Dorothy reflects on partnership, devotion, battles for help with his caregiving and the complexities of anticipatory grief.

Their relationship was a "True Love Story" with enduring love of 49 years, she intends to use that love to carry her forward with her mission to highlight and support the plight of unpaid carers across the country, she is the perfect advocate for Carers UK. carersuk.org

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