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Crying Out Loud with Dr. Laura Berman

Crying Out Loud with Dr. Laura Berman

By: Dr. Laura Berman
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Summary
 Crying Out Loud is a grief companion for anyone carrying loss. Hosted by Dr. Laura Berman, bestselling author, therapist, and grieving mother, the show blends clinical guidance with spiritual insight to support healing on every level. Each week features conversations with experts, healers and mediums to help regulate your nervous system, honor your grief, and explore continued connection with loved ones on the other side. You were never meant to grieve alone. Let’s cry out loud together. Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Can You Live and Grieve at the Same Time? with Dr. Lucy Hone

    Can You Live and Grieve at the Same Time? with Dr. Lucy Hone
    Nov 12 2026
    What do you do when the grief advice you've been given is actually making things worse? Dr. Lucy Hone knows that territory intimately. A leading researcher and educator on resilience, grief, and human flourishing, Lucy was finishing her PhD on psychological flourishing when her twelve-year-old daughter Abby was killed in a car accident, along with Abby's best friend Ella and Ella's mother Sally, one of Lucy's closest friends. In that single unsuspecting Saturday morning, everything Lucy had spent years studying became painfully, urgently personal. She joins me on Crying Out Loud to share what she's learned in the twelve years since, as a researcher, as a mother, and as someone who has lived every theory she teaches. In this conversation, Lucy and I talk about what happens when the predictions you've been given don't match your reality. How do you hold onto hope when everyone around you doubts it? What does healthy grieving actually look like when someone can be in enormous pain and still be psychologically healthy? And who are you when the loss doesn't shrink, but your life grows around it? And perhaps most importantly, we talk about the rituals that keep our people close. Rainbows. Tattoos. A sip of salt water for a beloved brother. The thousand small ways love continues. We explore: Why the grief advice she received after Abby died was not only unhelpful but destructive Why resilience rests on three foundations (self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-compassion), and why self-compassion matters most Living losses: what they are, why they need a name, and the top ten questions people ask during ambiguous loss What Lucy would tell her younger self, twelve years ago, about the life ahead of her Don't forget to follow Lucy and check out her books, Resilient Grieving and How Will I Ever Get Through This?. You can find her on her website and as Dr. Lucy Hone on Instagram and Facebook, where she shares daily wisdom on resilience, grief, and how to get better days ahead. And if you're looking for support, connection, or a place to feel less alone, my book, Crying Out Loud: A Path Through Grief Into a Life Reimagined, and The Grief Healing Collective are here for you. If something in this episode spoke to your heart, share your story or send your questions to cryingoutloudpod@gmail.com. None of us are meant to carry this alone. And if you want to explore more of how our brains, bodies, histories and emotional patterns shape the way we love and connect, come find me on my other podcast, The Language of Love. Every week, I talk with leading experts and share what I've learned in more than 30 years as a therapist about relationships, intimacy and healing. You can find The Language of Love wherever you're listening to Crying Out Loud.
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    45 mins
  • The Tender Art of Grieving: How to Move Grief Through Your Body with Amar Atma

    The Tender Art of Grieving: How to Move Grief Through Your Body with Amar Atma
    Nov 5 2026
    What if healing from grief isn't about thinking your way through the pain, but learning how to feel your way through it? Grief doesn't just affect our minds. It lives in our bodies, shapes our relationships, challenges our beliefs, and sometimes changes everything we thought we knew about love and life. In this episode of Crying Out Loud, I sit down with Amar Atma Singh Khalsa, grief specialist, educator, board-certified chaplain, and founder of the Institute for Compassionate Grieving. His new book, The Tender Art of Grieving: Embodied Practices for Letting Go and Finding Peace, brings together neuroscience, somatic practices, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, spirituality, and years of experience supporting people through profound loss. Amar's own relationship with grief began in childhood. Growing up in a South Asian Indian family where emotional struggles and conversations about death were often taboo, he spent years carrying unprocessed grief without having the language to understand it. The death of his grandfather, who had been his greatest source of safety and connection, brought those feelings to the surface. It would take him nearly 20 years to fully recognize what he had been carrying. His journey eventually led him through traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, spiritual studies, and nearly a decade of hospital chaplaincy, where he worked alongside families navigating trauma, critical illness, palliative care, and the end of life. In our conversation, we explore why grief is something we experience throughout the body, not simply an emotion we process in our minds. Amar explains how our physical sensations often recognize grief before we consciously understand what's happening, and why trying to suppress those feelings can make the experience even harder. We also get into the energetics of grief through traditional Chinese medicine, including how grief can affect the lungs, our breathing, and our sense of inspiration. Amar even guides us through a simple breathing and chest-massage exercise that can help create more space when grief feels overwhelming. One of the things I found especially fascinating was his distinction between different emotional experiences within grief. Anger, fear, anxiety, shame, and sadness aren't interchangeable. Each carries something different, and understanding those differences can help us respond to ourselves with greater compassion. We also explore the complicated relationship between grief and spirituality. How does profound loss challenge our faith? Can grief become a catalyst for spiritual awakening? And what happens when we begin to understand that our relationship with someone we love doesn't necessarily end when their physical life does? I share some of my own experiences after losing my son, Sammy, including the continuing bond I feel with him and the ways I've learned to remain connected. We talk about the mystery of consciousness, the possibility of an afterlife, and how grief can sometimes open doors to experiences and understandings we never expected. Another powerful part of our conversation is Amar's perspective on crying. He explains why tears can be a form of physiological release, what happens when we continually suppress them, and how breathing through an intense emotional experience can help us feel without becoming overwhelmed. And finally, we explore what Amar calls a personal apocalypse. Drawing from the original Greek meaning of the word, revelation, he shares what sitting beside people at the end of their lives has taught him about regret, love, and the things that truly matter. His biggest lesson? We spend so much time focusing on purpose that we sometimes forget the importance of presence. In this episode, we explore: Why grief can remain unrecognized for years, especially when our families or cultures don't give us permission to talk about loss How childhood experiences, cultural expectations, and intergenerational grief can shape the way we experience loss as adults Why we can't simply think our way through grief and why the body plays such an important role in emotional healing The connection between traditional Chinese medicine, the flow of qi, and the energetics of grief How grief can affect the lungs, breathing, and our ability to feel inspired and connected to life A simple breathing and chest-massage practice to help release tension and create space for difficult emotions Why anger, fear, anxiety, and sadness each have different expressions and deserve different kinds of attention How profound loss can challenge our relationship with faith, spirituality, and a higher power Why grief can become a catalyst for spiritual awakening and a deeper understanding of continuing bonds with loved ones The physiology of crying, why suppressing tears can affect our nervous system, and how to move through an overwhelming emotional experience What Amar means by a personal apocalypse and how facing death can reveal what truly matters ...
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    55 mins
  • Crying Out Loud: What Losing My Son Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and Choosing Life

    Crying Out Loud: What Losing My Son Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and Choosing Life
    Oct 29 2026
    I've spent more than 30 years as a therapist helping people navigate grief, trauma, and some of the hardest experiences of their lives. But when my 16-year-old son Sammy died, I found myself in a place that all my professional training could never have prepared me for. Almost six years later, I've written the book I desperately needed back then, Crying Out Loud: A Path Through Grief Into a Life Reimagined. And in this special episode, I want to share some of what I've learned, both from my own grief and from the thousands of people I've had the privilege of working with. What does it actually mean to cry out loud? It means allowing ourselves to experience grief in all its messy, complicated, sometimes frightening forms. The anger, guilt, jealousy, despair, and even the moments of joy that can make us feel like we're betraying the person we've lost. I talk about why we can't simply think our way through grief, how our bodies hold what our minds can't process, and why learning to care for our nervous systems is so important. I share the practices that helped me when I could barely function, how my relationships changed, and how I've learned to keep my connection with Sammy alive in ways I never could have imagined. And I talk about something I believe deeply: grief changes us. I've said before that I didn't survive Sammy's death. The woman I was before he died is gone. I've had to discover who I am now, how to live with this enormous loss, and how to let joy back in without feeling guilty about it. I believe healing is possible, even when the loss itself can never be undone. And I believe we can build meaningful, even beautiful lives while still wishing with every fiber of our being that none of this had happened. In this episode, I explore: What it really means to cry out loud and why we need to stop apologizing for our grief How to work with anger, guilt, and the emotions we're often afraid to express Why grief lives in the body and the somatic practices that can help us move through it How grief changes friendships, relationships, and our sense of who we are Choosing life again, even when that choice starts with simply getting out of bed Letting joy return without feeling like we're leaving our loved ones behind Continuing bonds and the ways our relationships with those we've lost can evolve How grief can transform us and what it means to create a life reimagined My new book, Crying Out Loud, brings together what I've learned as a therapist, a grieving daughter, and a grieving mother, along with research, spiritual wisdom, and nearly 100 practical tools to help you find your own way through grief. I wrote it because I know how desperately we need something to reach for when our world falls apart. And because I want you to know that whatever you're feeling, wherever you are in your grief, there are ways to begin finding your footing again. Crying Out Loud: A Path Through Grief Into a Life Reimagined, is available now, wherever books are sold and The Grief Healing Collective is here for more live support. If something in this episode spoke to your heart, share your story or send your questions to ⁠cryingoutloudpod@gmail.com⁠. None of us are meant to carry this alone. And if you want to explore more of how our brains, bodies, histories and emotional patterns shape the way we love and connect, come find me on my other podcast, The Language of Love. Every week, I talk with leading experts and share what I've learned in more than 30 years as a therapist about relationships, intimacy and healing. You can find The Language of Love wherever you're listening to Crying Out Loud.
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    34 mins
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