Female Voices: Life & Loss
I told Teresa’s story-and I would like to introduce you to her podcast.
Read her full story here: https://www.glowinto.com/interviews/the-grief-we-carry-the-purpose-we-grow-into
About Female Voices: Life & Loss
Female Voices: Life & Loss creates space for honest conversations about grief, loss, life transitions, healing, and the experiences that shape us.
Through personal stories, guest conversations, and thoughtful reflections, host Teresa Reiniger invites women to feel less alone in what they are carrying and reminds listeners that there is no single way to navigate life after loss.
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Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/2GjDYwKpqZV3SoIqNuCcgp/episodes
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/female-voices-life-and-loss/id1520102779
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FemaleVoicesLifeLossPodcast
Episode 7
Dena Woulfe | Two Coaches, One Mission: Helping Women Find Themselves Again
Release Date: August 6, 2026
Episode Summary
In this episode, Teresa Reiniger welcomes returning guest and coaching partner Dena Woulfe for an honest conversation about identity, grief, people-pleasing, nervous-system regulation, and the hidden beliefs that shape how women move through life.
They explore why feeling exhausted, stuck, or disconnected does not mean you are weak. It may be the result of years spent surviving, carrying responsibilities that were never fully yours, or defining yourself through roles such as wife, mother, caregiver, helper, or fixer.
Teresa and Dena discuss how awareness, breathwork, supportive coaching, faith, healthy boundaries, and identity work can help women reconnect with the person beneath those roles. They also explain why the nervous system must feel safe before meaningful change can begin.
Listeners navigating grief, divorce, caregiving, burnout, an empty nest, relationship changes, or the loss of a familiar role may recognize themselves in this conversation and feel encouraged to begin choosing themselves again.
Guest Name & Background:
Dena Woulfe is a registered nurse, holistic health coach, NLP master practitioner, business owner, and Teresa’s coaching partner. She brings a nursing, faith-centered, holistic-health, and nervous-system-informed perspective to helping women reconnect with themselves.
In This Episode
Why coaching should never be one-size-fits-all
How guilt, shame, rejection, and abandonment create repeating patterns
Why the nervous system needs safety before change can happen
How women lose themselves inside roles and responsibilities
When helping others turns into people-pleasing
What women can expect from The Woman I Used to Be retreat
What You’ll Take Away
Survival patterns often began as protection.
Awareness helps uncover hidden beliefs.
Feeling “tired but wired” may signal high alert.
You can help without carrying everyone’s burdens.
Healing can mean remembering who you already are.
Listen or Watch
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5R8sxQ67OndjWOlSQ6mMWR
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dena-woulfe-two-coaches-one-mission-helping-women-find/id1520102779?i=1000780230587
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee2bUMuG2tk
Episode 8
Am I Going Crazy or Is This Grief? Hearing or Sensing a Loved One After Loss
Release Date: August 13, 2026
Episode Summary
In this solo episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, Teresa Reiniger explores the surprising ways grief can affect the brain, body, heart, and nervous system.
Through compassionate stories and relatable everyday moments, Teresa explains why grieving people may struggle with memory, concentration, decision-making, exhaustion, emotional inconsistency, or the feeling that they heard, smelled, or sensed someone they lost.
She also discusses why grief can surface in ordinary places, from the grocery store to a quiet self-care appointment, and why having a good day does not mean you are forgetting the person you love.
Listeners will receive reassurance that grief does not follow a straight line, healing is not measured by the absence of tears, and joy is not a betrayal of love.
Teresa Reiniger is a certified grief specialist, NLP master coach, life transition guide, founder of Living After Grief, and host of Female Voices: Life & Loss. She brings years of experience walking alongside women through grief, loss, identity changes, and life transitions.
In This Episode
Why grief can affect memory, concentration, energy, and decision-making
Why people sometimes hear, smell, dream about, or sense someone they lost
How familiar routines remain wired into the brain after a loved one dies
Why ordinary questions, objects, songs, and places can activate grief
How the nervous system responds to loss, trauma, caregiving, and prolonged survival
Why laughter, joy, and new memories do not erase love
What You’ll Take Away
Forgetfulness does not automatically mean your mind is failing.
A difficult day does not erase your healing.
Grief and joy can exist together.
Your grief does not need to look like anyone else’s.
Self-compassion may help replace fear and shame.
Listen or Watch
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2EUPjoCjtGk4bvNV0PkMaP
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/teresa-reiniger-am-i-going-crazy-or-is-this-grief-hearing/id1520102779?i=1000783128734
Episode 9
Why Am I Grieving More Now? Why Grief Doesn’t Always Hit Hardest at the Beginning?
Release Date: August 20 2026
Episode Summary
In this solo episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, Teresa Reiniger explores a part of grief that can catch people by surprise: sometimes the deepest emotions arrive months, or even years, after a loss.
In the beginning, there may be funeral arrangements, paperwork, family responsibilities, phone calls, and decisions that simply have to be made. Your body may focus on one thing—surviving the day. But when life becomes quieter and everyone else begins returning to normal, grief can finally have room to surface.
Teresa talks about the difference between surviving a loss and living with a loss, why ordinary moments can suddenly become painful, and the guilt some people experience when laughter, joy, and hope begin returning.
If you’ve wondered, “Shouldn’t I be doing better by now?” this episode offers a compassionate reminder: deeper grief does not necessarily mean you are moving backward.
Sometimes your heart is finally safe enough to feel.
Teresa Reiniger is a grief specialist, women’s coach, and founder of Living After Grief. In this episode, she draws from her work alongside grieving women to offer reassurance, perspective, and hope for those learning how to carry both love and life after loss.
In This Episode
Why grief may feel stronger months after a loss.
How survival mode can postpone overwhelming emotions.
The loneliness of watching the world return to normal while yours has changed.
Why everyday routines and “firsts” can trigger unexpected waves of grief.
The guilt that can come with laughing, enjoying life, or feeling hopeful again.
What it means to begin living again without leaving your loved one behind.
What You’ll Take Away
Feeling more grief later does not mean you are failing.
Your body may wait until it feels safer before allowing emotions to surface.
Grief includes mourning the ordinary life you shared.
Joy and grief can exist together.
Healing does not require forgetting or “getting over” someone.
Listen or Watch
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6p31mGWq8dz7yHw5Jw8V5h
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/teresa-reiniger-why-am-i-grieving-more-now-why-grief/id1520102779?i=1000784580995
Episode 10
National Grief Awareness Day: What Grieving People Wish You Knew
Release Date: August 27, 2026
Episode Summary
After a significant loss, the question may eventually shift from “How do I get through this?” to something much deeper: “Who am I now?”
In this solo episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, Teresa Reiniger explores the often-overlooked connection between grief and identity. She talks about the widow who is no longer a wife or caregiver, the person grieving a pet, relationship, health, dream, career, or future, and the women who became “the strong one” simply because survival required it.
In recognition of National Grief Awareness Day on August 30, Teresa also shares what grieving people often wish others understood: you don’t need perfect words. Keep showing up. Keep inviting them. Say their loved one’s name. Don’t minimize a loss simply because you don’t fully understand it.
Most importantly, this conversation offers permission to stop measuring healing by how closely you resemble who you were before.
Teresa Reiniger is a grief specialist, life transition guide, founder of Living After Grief, and host of Female Voices: Life & Loss. Through her work, she supports people navigating grief, identity changes, and major life transitions.
In This Episode
Why grief can change your identity, roles, routines, and sense of the future
How the brain continues expecting the life it knew before a significant loss
Why grieving people need presence more than perfect words or advice
How pet loss and other misunderstood losses deserve to be acknowledged
Why continuing to invite someone matters, even when they repeatedly say no
How the identity that helped you survive may not be the identity you need forever
What You’ll Take Away
You don’t have to become your “old self” again.
A loss doesn’t need anyone else’s approval to matter.
Supporting grief can be as simple as staying present.
Joy and grief are allowed to exist together.
Healing can include discovering who you’re becoming.
Listen or Watch
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Zw1t3uuHPUeGtnOnl75tk
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/teresa-reiniger-national-grief-awareness-day-what-grieving/id1520102779?i=1000786271870
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