How To Deal With Grief and Trauma

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186 Battle-Tested, Not Broken: How to Start Rebuilding After Devastating Loss | Amanda Anderson

April 27
44 mins

Episode Description

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Nathalie and Amanda go beneath the speaker and the frameworks to the private, unscripted territory of grief. 

In this episode, we cover

  • What it costs to hold it together when falling apart isn't an option
  • The parts of the story that resist being turned into a growth tool
  • The difference between resilience as armour and resilience as a path back to yourself
  • What genuine support actually looks like in the darkest hours
  • Where grief still lives in the body today, and how to tend to it

About our guest

Amanda Anderson is a keynote speaker, trauma survivor, and mental health advocate with over 17 years of experience working in NLP, resilience, and real-world mental health. Her credentials are not academic — they are lived. Her brother was murdered. Her sister and father died of terminal illness. She survived a stroke, divorce, and sustained frontline trauma exposure. From that wreckage, she built a body of work that helps high-functioning, resilient people, the ones who have always been "the strong one", stop merely surviving and consciously rebuild something fierce and true.

Her work sits at the intersection of trauma, grief, and identity. Through keynotes and writing, she gives language to the experiences people have been carrying silently for years. She doesn't offer surface-level motivation. She offers permission to stop pretending you were never hurt, and to choose, deliberately, what you build next.

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