Each of our experiences of saying goodbye to our parent/s for the last time are different. Whether you were with them when they passed, travelled to the hospital afterwards, or had to find your own individual way of saying goodbye - it's never what we quite expect. In this episode, we chat with Chloe Kent who shared a sketch based on her own experience of her final goodbyes to her mum, which you can watch here. Fact is - the reality of this moment is usually so far from what we think it would look like. Have films and TV shows given us a warped reality? And why is it so AWKWARD? Would you go b ..read more

WE'RE BACK! In this week's episode, Emma asks me ALL the questions about my pregnancy, and how I'm navigating it without my mum - including all the emotions I expect to feel once the baby is here. We also shared your comments on how you feel about becoming parents without yours around. This is definitely a situation we've talked about a lot on the DPC so it's been surreal to experience it myself first-hand. You can listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the other streaming platforms. To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social m ..read more

Are more grievers heading to TikTok? Welcome to our FINAL episode of Season 3! We can not believe we're here already... In this week's episode we interview TikTok'er and future sitcom writer (you heard it here first) Chloe Kent! Chloe headed to TikTok to create videos relating to the death of her mum back at the start of Covid. In this episode she shares her own grief story and how the pandemic forced her to slow down and start to process her grief, which led to her now 300k+ followers on the video platform. Does she get backlash for using humour? What do her family think about it? And wha ..read more

Someone once said that you 'won't start to feel more like your normal self until 5 years after the death'. Is this true? Is it partially true? Does it really ever happen? In this episode we discuss how our emotions and sense of self changed between before-Mum-dying (BMD) and after-Mum-dying (AMD) - and how those parts of us changed or returned after 5 years. Are there any parts of the before-parent-dying (BPD) self that you miss? Let us know! To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below: Instagram Facebook Twitter ..read more

This week Emily Cummin - Founder of Grief Community and Companion App Untangle - joins us on the podcast to share her own experiences of grief. And how these experiences, and the difficulties that came with navigating all of those practical and emotional elements of the death of someone you love led to the creation of Untangle. To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below: Instagram Facebook Twitter Special thanks to This Is Distorted for their time and effort in producing this podcast Support this show http://suppo ..read more

This week we're joined by Co-Founder of Modern Loss and Author Rebecca Soffer. Rebecca found herself without her mum or her dad by her early thirties. In this episode we share how the death of her mum then her dad affected her differently, navigating life as a young person who still wanted to have fun but also craved an environment where she could talk about these huge things that happened to her, building the Modern Loss community and how this has shaped her grieving journey over time, building a life for herself while honouring her parents and the launch of her book The Modern Loss Handbook ..read more

What's life like as a surviving parent? How do you navigate your children's emotions AND your own? In this week's episode we're taking a new perspective on life as a member of the DPC and we got down and griefy with the PHENOMENAL Stacey Heale. If you don't follow her on Instagram yet (what are you doing?) find her at stacey_heale. Stacey's husband Greg Gilbert died a year ago, leaving behind two children aged 5 and 7. Their children were just 1 and 3 when he was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in 2016, leaving them both reeling and suddenly having to navigate marriage, parenthood, work ..read more

We feel a LOT after our parent/s have died. And it can be pretty overwhelming knowing what to do with the different types of emotions you experience.  In this episode, we share our own experiences of the emotions we felt both before and straight after our mum’s died, as well as all the emotions we experienced in the months and years afterwards.  Hopefully this episode helps you feel less alone in your own grief.  Expect to hear more about: The emotions we both felt straight after our parents died  How we felt angry at the people around us  Feeling like a fraud and ..read more

This week's episode is dedicated to the most awkward moments as a member of the DPC that can’t help but make you laugh, with a number of stories that were submitted by you - our listeners. From a DJ dedicating a song to your mum at your wedding to your children making 'your dad' jokes and fist bumping members of the DPC - it's all here. We hope this week's more light hearted ep makes you laugh and offers a bit of joy and comfort in the awkward stories we all share. To find out more, visit our website at www.deadparentclub.co.uk or follow us on social media by clicking the links below: Inst ..read more

This week we're joined by presenter and podcaster Amy Voce, who now has a beautiful 3 month old daughter that she was pregnant with when we first recorded this episode earlier this year. Amy's dad was a pilot and was a much-loved father of her and her three siblings. In this episode, Amy shares her dad's story, including how the day he was given 2 years to live turned her and her family's world upside down. She shares: How her father and the rest of her family dealt with her dad's prognosis What those days are really like before somebody passes and the laughs, tears and emotions you share H ..read more