Holding On Through The Holidays: A Compassionate Path Through Grief

Update: 2025-12-16

Description

What do you do when the holidays hit, and instead of feeling joy, all you feel is that old familiar ache? When everyone around you is celebrating but you’re reliving the loss of your mom or someone you loved deeply? And every holiday seems to pull that pain right back to the surface, no matter how much time has passed?

In this special holiday season episode of Infinite Life, Infinite Wisdom, Susan talks openly about what it truly feels like to grieve while the world around you is celebrating. She shares her own experiences of losing family members and how the holidays would trigger waves of emotion weeks before they even arrived. She explains why the body remembers before the mind does, why love turns into emotion when it has nowhere physical to land, and why feeling pain right now does not mean you are broken. It means you loved deeply.

Susan also reveals something comforting from the spirit world. During the holidays, your loved ones draw closer than ever. They nudge your memories, send subtle signs, and wrap you in moments of warmth that many people mistake for coincidence.

This episode invites you to breathe, honor your pace, speak your loved ones’ names, and let the empty chair at the table become a place of connection, not absence. It is a soft reminder that you are held, supported, and never grieving alone.

In This Episode:

[00:00 ] Introduction
[01:33 ] Personal experience with grief and holidays
[03:47 ] Grief as a sign of deep love
[05:04 ] Coping with grief and the empty chair
[06:12 ] Holidays as memory triggers
[07:18 ] Grief as sacred connection
[08:26 ] Spirit world closer during holidays
[12:38 ] Transforming emptiness into love
[13:54 ] Honoring loved ones during holidays
[14:57 ] Asking for signs and connection
[16:55 ] Allowing grief and remembering love
[17:59 ] Holiday memories and signs from spirit
[20:17 ] Staying in the love frequency
[21:22 ] Personal rituals for connection
[22:21 ] Guided visualization for connection
[26:50 ] No right or wrong way to grieve
[27:56 ] Loved ones are always with you
[29:10 ] Grieving pets and all types of loss
[30:17 ] Final encouragement and closing

Notable Quotes

[01:27 ] “It was as though my body was having body memories, even before my mind understood why.”
[07:18 ] “Your grief is actually a sign of the depth of your love.”
[12:04 ] “The empty chair symbolizes two things, the place they once held and the space they still hold.”
[13:09 ] “Spirit will often show me that they stand exactly where I feel the emptiness most..”
[27:53 ] “You’re not grieving alone. Spirit grieves with you. Spirit loves with you.”

Susan Grau

Susan Grau is an internationally celebrated intuitive life coach, a key opinion leader, author, medium and speaker, who discovered her ability to communicate with the spirit world after a near-death experience at age four. Trained by Dr. Raymond Moody, James Van Praagh, and Lisa Williams, Susan is a Reiki Master, hypnotherapist, and grief therapist. Her new book, "Infinite Life, Infinite Lessons," published by Hay House, explores healing from grief and the afterlife. With media coverage in GOOP, Elle, and The Hollywood Reporter, Susan's expertise extends to podcasts, radio shows, and documentaries. She offers private mediumship readings, life path guidance, reiki sessions, and hypnotherapy, aiding individuals in healing and finding spiritual guidance.

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