After the Storm: Where Healing Begins
Presenter
Life doesn’t come with a roadmap for loss. Whether you’ve lost a spouse, a child, a parent, or a future you’d planned on – grief has a way of leaving you standing in the rubble, wondering how you’ll ever find your way through.
After the Storm: Where Healing Begins is for everyone who has loved deeply and lost. Certified grief educator and life coach Brian D. Smith brings his own hard-won experience and nearly a decade of walking alongside grieving people to honest, heartfelt conversations about what grief really looks like — and what healing actually requires.
This isn’t about getting over it. It’s about finding out who you are on the other side of it.
The storm was real. The pain is real. And so is what comes next.
Join Brian and let’s find it together.
Episodes
After the Storm: Where Healing Begins
Fluent in Silence - Rich Dunning on When Saying Nothing Becomes Dangerous. Silence was his first language. How it can protect you, and what it can cost you.
After the Storm: Where Healing Begins
Guilt After Loss - Why you replay the ‘if only,’ what guilt is really telling you and how to loosen its grip while still honouring how much you loved.
After the Storm: Where Healing Begins
Where Grief Can Lead - Hope keeps you putting one foot in front of the other. Explore post-traumatic growth and the people who found purpose after loss.
After the Storm: Where Healing Begins
Grief isn't a straight line. Oscillating between missing them and living your life isn't broken. It's how healthy grief actually works.
After the Storm: Where Healing Begins
Why! Brian pivots from grief science to philosophy, sitting with meaning, suffering and death - and the question that never leaves those who grieve.
After the Storm: Where Healing Begins
There's No Place You're Supposed to Be - Why the five stages were never a map for grief and what to do instead of chasing a timeline or finish line.







