Andrew Blanche spent years working as a funeral director and celebrant. He sat with families in the early days of grief, helped them navigate decisions, and witnessed what happens when people are given space to show up honestly in the middle of loss.

In this conversation with Belinda, Andrew reflects on what led him into the funeral industry and why he eventually chose to leave it. They speak about burnout, emotional labour, and the reality of holding space for others when you're not fully holding space for yourself.

Andrew also shares what he’s learned about grief, ritual and silence. This episode is steady, thoughtful, and grounded in lived experience. It offers a rare, honest look behind the scenes of an industry most people never get to see.

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Kathryn Gordon is an energy healer and the founder of Soul Activation. In this conversation with Belinda, she shares how grief shaped her work. And how she helps others process the emotions they’ve stored away.

They talk about how emotion shows up in the body, how to move through grief without bypassing it, and why trusting your intuition can bring clarity when logic can’t. Kathryn explains what happens in an energy healing session, how she supports people with unresolved emotion, and why she always tells clients they’re the ones doing the healing..not her.

This episode is about slowing down, listening to what your body already knows, and letting emotion do what it’s meant to do.

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What does it mean to lose someone twice?

Keri Kitay was in her late twenties when her mum, Terry, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at just 54. In the years that followed, Keri and her family faced the slow, painful process of losing her. Memory by memory, function by function, until her death nearly a decade later.

In this episode, Keri joins Belinda to talk about what that looked like up close. She shares how her family navigated the early signs, the diagnosis, and the brutal logistics of care. You’ll hear what helped, what hurt, and what we all need to understand about dementia…especially when it shows up young.

Keri also shares why she chose not to get tested for the Alzheimer’s gene, what she’s doing instead, and how writing The Long Goodbye helped her process her grief.

You can purchase Keri’s book here: https://www.kkprojects.co/thelonggoodbye

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