bereaved parents' club

Podcast Highlight:

Episode 25: Love untethered, navigating devastating loss and continuing bonds
In this podcast we chat with Vanessa May, a bereaved parent, author, grief and spiritualist life coach about supporting bereaved parents and her books *Love Untethered: How to Live When Your Child Dies* and *When Grief Takes Everything: A Survival Guide to Devastating Loss’.>>

Our Podcast Episodes

We are honoured to bring you new episodes regularly so please follow us on socials and your podcast platform for new episode alerts.

We released first series of the podcast episodes on the  27th May 2024 to coincide with the 6th anniversary of Debbie losing her son, Dan Robinson, after he was killed by a speeding driver in Sheffield in 2018.

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Here are our episodes released so far:

1. Trailer
2. The Newly Bereaved (featuring Michelle Meredith from the Child Death Helpline)
3. A New Purpose: Reuben’s Retreat
4. Dave’s Story: Losing George, Finding Support (featuring Mentell and Stockport County!)
5. Stories and Support: The Compassionate Friends Library
6. Giving Back: Batten’s Disease and Befriending (featuring the Batten’s Disease Family Association)
7. Research and Resources: Grief Etiquette and Continuing Bonds (featuring Dr Jennie Dayes from Manchester Metropolitan University and Legacy and Love)
8. Finding Hope: Sudden Death, Organ Donation and Fi’s legacy (featuring Vicki Caldwell and FEES Fund) 
9. Bereaved Parents’ Day Special – Aisha Peters and Damali Beautiful Vision CIC
10. Year Two with Clare Louise author of and always Annaliese
11. Black Baby Loss – Pete’s story
12. Back to Work: Jillian Bain talking through the complexities of grief and returning to work
13. The Exclusive Club That Dads Don’t Wanna Belong To: Trevor Dwyer-Lynch talks about the death of his son Jordan, the Dads podcast and writing grief poetry
14. Legacy of Leo: Jess talks about losing their baby Leo and how she has advocated for greater awareness of LGBT+ baby loss experiences
    
15. Caitlin’s Campaign: Sharron talks about her lovely daughter, her grief, and her determination to make our roads safer
16. My Brother: Shushma Jain shares her story of losing her brother Arvind and why siblings are ‘forgotten mourners
17. No-Ho-Ho: Surviving Festivities – Listen to Abi May and Debbie discuss the difficulties of seasonal festivities and suggest a few things that just might help
18. Red Balloons – A Father, A Son, A Memoir.
    Liam Walsh discusses writing, running, and family life after the loss of his son Patrick
19. The Good Grief Project: When Words Are Not Enough. Jane Harris joins us on this episode to talk about her son Josh, the wonderful film A Love That Never Dies, the book When Words are not Enough, and their hugely popular active grief retreats
20. Episode 20: Bereaved Parents’ Day 2025 – the Bereaved Parents’ Club. Meet Debbie and Tracy, the two mums behind the Bereaved Parents’ Club. And meet Dan and George, their brilliant sons whose deaths led to the mums joining the club that nobody wants to be a member of
21. Episode 21: Jak’s World – Kasia shares her story of her son Jakub including his musical talent and his final day. We hear about Jaks World, a suicide prevention charity, and how this has helped Kasia in her grief
22. Episode 22: Be More Laura – Nicola shares her heartbreaking story of her daughter Laura’s bravery and determination after being diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer Glioblastoma. How Laura defied the initial terminal prognosis timeline, the families fight for treatment to keep Laura alive. Nichola shares stories of Laura’s bucket list which went viral. How Laura became a young ambassador for the Brain Tumour Charity and re-enrolled at university whilst having Chemo and completed her degree course and graduated with a 2:1.
23. Episode 23: For Dads by Dads – Seven bereaved dads share their connection to their baby, child and adult child and what has helped them in their grief and devestation. We will hear from Dads that have lost a baby and adult children to suicide. We will hear from a step-dad and how this devestating loss has affected him.
24. Episode 24: National Bereaved Parents Day 2026 – A Child Of Mine: Gayle founder of A Child of Mine, discusses creating National Bereaved Parents Day and this year’s theme – This Is My Place. Gayle talks about sharing parents stories, candle lighting, butterfly installation and her son Lewis. A Child Of Mine supports bereaved families through peer to peer support..
25. Episode 25: Love untethered, navigating devastating loss and continuing bonds: In this podcast we chat with Vanessa May, a bereaved parent, author, grief and spiritualist life coach about supporting bereaved parents and her books *Love Untethered: How to Live When Your Child Dies* and *When Grief Takes Everything: A Survival Guide to Devastating Loss’.