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I'm Nichole Haugen, and I'm here to support families facing anticipatory grief and loss.
Join me as we share real stories and practical advice to help you navigate this challenging journey. You are not crazy. Grief triggers are real. You're not alone—let's walk through this together."
Join me as we share real stories and practical advice to help you navigate this challenging journey. You are not crazy. Grief triggers are real. You're not alone—let's walk through this together."
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This episode addresses one of the most painful beliefs grieving Catholics carry: that suffering means weak faith. We gently dismantle this lie and explore what trust actually looks like when everything hurts. www.catholicgriefcoach.com
Many grieving people say mornings are the hardest part of the day. We explore why grief hits so intensely upon waking and offer gentle ways to be in reality without forcing positivity or prayer you don't have energy for yet. Get hope again, book a free 30 minute consult call- https://www.catholicgriefcoach.com
Sudden and unexpected loss brings shock, trauma, and deep disorientation. This episode explains why your body stays on high alert after loss, why disbelief lingers, and how faith can feel shaken - not because it's gone, but because everything familiar has changed. Get help at www.catholicgriefcoach.com
Grief doesn't just affect your heart—it changes how your brain and body function. In this episode, we talk about why grief causes brain fog, overwhelm, emotional swings, and exhaustion, and why none of this means you're weak or failing God. You'll learn what's happening in your nervous system and how to meet yourself with compassion in the earliest days of loss. Need someone to talk to? www.catholicgriefcoach.com
In moments of overwhelm, anxiety, despair, and disorientation, grief can make the world feel completely upside down. This can lead us to assume: If I trusted God more, I wouldn't feel this way. This episode I explain the science behind what is happening in your body during grief. I also give an example of how we can know that grieving is not distrust in God. Grab my grief guide at www.catholicgriefcoach.com
After an event we just start planning the next thing. We start looking ahead to the next day or weeks and depending on how this event went, we feel excitement or dread. This episode I talk about what to do after an event. We rarely take time to pause and reflect on why it went well or ended poorly. I guide you through some easy questions to help yourself know what to do for next time. Feel stuck in your grief? Get help at www.catholicgriefcoach.com
The holidays are just around the corner. There is pressure to make them special. What if you are not feeling it. How do you put on a happy face when you just want to crawl in bed and cry? This episode I help you with those awful feelings. Get 20 tips on ways to make the holidays special and also honor your deceased loved one without having to fake it. Peace in the Storm: Grace for the Grieving Heart- go to www.catholicgriefcoach.com
Self care is a good thing. We hear all the time how we need to have self care, but too much of a good thing can turn into a bad thing. This episode I explain the difference between having self care and just trying to numb out so you don't have to feel anything. Go to www.catholicgriefcoach to sign up for a free grief consult.
Everywhere you look is Christmas stuff. This started before Halloween. This can subconsciously trigger your grief during the holidays to happen earlier and earlier. You can start to feel more dread and sadness this time of year. This episode I help you process through the grief and see it for what it is. You will learn three steps to help allow the grief instead of always trying to push it away. Grab your free consult call at www.catholicgriefcoach.com
This time of year there are a lot of celebrations or gatherings. The thought of this makes your stomach drop. You might feel pressured to show up, smile, and pretend you are okay. Or you want to avoid it completely and stay home. You don't know what you want to do so you just spin in anxiety, stress, overwhelm, and grief. This episode I lead you through how to discern if you want to attend celebrations or gatherings. You will know how to care for yourself and how to feel at peace with the decisions you have made. Join my next Catholic group cohort, we start November 7th, 2025
You keep reliving those final moments or days of your loved one. It makes you feel awful, so why do you keep doing this.There is a driving feeling behind everything we do. You may not be aware of it, but it is there. This episode I give you four steps to help find the feeling and to help you stop torturing yourself. Nothing has gone wrong, this is a natural thing to do, you just need to slow down to know what is happening. Want to find hope and healing? www.catholicgriefcoach.com
You feel like you have a strong faith, but you feel like it's not working. That maybe you aren't as faithful as you thought. That you should be doing something different. This episode, I talk about the ways that these lies sneak in. That we tell ourselves generalized statements. What does "it" even mean. What would it look like if it was working? Get help with your grief while staying true to your faith. www.catholicgriefcoach.com
After the initial shock and numbness of death wears off, you may find yourself not only mourning the future moments with your loved one, but also past memories. You may find yourself thinking, 'I wish I had told them thank you more', 'Why didn't I appreciate all they did for me instead of snapping at them.' This episode will help you recognize when you get stuck in a guilt and shame spiral and what to do about it. Want a place to talk about your grief without having to defend your faith? Go to www.catholicgriefcoach.com and sign up for the next grief group cohort.
I have joined a new walking challenge. What I have realized is that I have a hard time pausing and being present. This is especially true when grief is spiraling around in our brain. Pausing feels scary. Pausing feels painful. This episode I talk about pausing more. Resting in the Lord. Allowing it to feel scary. Allowing the Lord to heal. Join my Catholic Grief Group. We start the next cohert Nov 7th. Go to www.catholicgriefcoach.com
You were just trying to survive and get through the day. It was too hard to say no to food, drink, scrolling, or shopping. So you didn't. Now you are starting to see that the thing that helped you cope is getting out of control. It doesn't make you feel good, it just makes you feel guilt and shame. This episode, I talk about how those things can be helpful, but what do we do when they aren't. Learn how to cope without using a crutch anymore. Want help with this? Go to www.catholicgriefcoach.com to find out more.
For those of us on the grief journey, there is always some element of guilt that comes in. Specifically if the relationship with the deceased was not what we hoped it to be. This episode I show you how to handle the guilt that will come. I talk about how to heal the relationship, even though the person is no longer alive. For help with your grief, go to www.catholicgriefcoach.com
There have been so many tragic losses this past week. Iryna Zarutska was brutally murdered on a train coming home from work. Charlie Kirk was assassinated. We had the anniversary of 9/11. We naturally look to why things like this happen. It feels senseless. It shouldn't be happening. Something needs to change. This podcast episode I talk about what needs to change. How all can feel hopeless. What needs to change and what you can start doing immediately to help. Looking for a place to talk. Feel like life is heavy and you are struggling alone with your grief. Go to https://www.catholicgriefcoach.com to start to feel hope again.
You are experiencing grief. Maybe it's the death of a loved one. Maybe it's the loss of a job. Maybe you child's best friend recently moved away and they are really struggling. As a Catholic, you hear that you should offer it up. So you try. You tell yourself that there are people experiencing war. You tell yourself that people are going through worse things than you are. This is not offering it up as Jesus asks of us. This is guilting and shaming ourselves in the search to try and do what is right and true. This episode I walk through how to truly offer it up. Looking for a community to help you in your grief? https://www.catholicgriefcoach.com
Most of the time when we think of grieving, we think someone died. Grief is a very intricate part of life. We experience grief when we didn't get the job we applied for. We experience grief when we have a falling out with friends or family. Often we don't recognize it for what it is; grief. When our children experience grief we can sometimes dismiss it without realizing. Just like when things are painful for us and we want to feel heard, so do they. This episode I walk you through how to hear your children's grief without dismissing them or having them dwell on it. Want help with your grief? Go to www.catholicgriefcoach.com to get help.
There are so many things on your mind. Relationships have changed. There are things to take care of. There are the basic day to day things to get done. It all feels so heavy. It feels like you are walking through mud. This episode I talk about all the other things that we focus on. In the reading of Luke 10: 38-42, Jesus tells Martha that she is "worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing." What worries are you distracted by? Looking for a way to feel better. Join my 6 week Catholic grief group. We focus on the one thing. The other things don't go away completely but life feels like it has hope again.
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