{"podcast":{"title":"Grief 2 Growth","slug":"grief-2-growth-247728","podcast_index_feed_id":247728,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/695488.rss","website_url":"https://www.grief2growth.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/oe4m0s9pi20ofimsywxiqw00b4jt?.jpg","author":"Brian D. Smith","episode_count":441,"summary":"\"Transform your grief into growth with Brian Smith, an empathetic life coach, certified grief educator, public speaker, and author who has walked the treacherous path of profound loss. Grief 2 Growth unravels the intricacies of life, death, and the spaces in between, offering listeners a new perspective on what it means to be 'Planted. Not Buried.' Join Brian and his compelling guests—bereaved parents, life coaches, mediums, healers, near death experiencers, and experts in various fields—as they discuss topics like survival guilt, synchronicities, and the scientific evidence supporting the existence of the afterlife. You'll come away with actionable advice, renewed hope, and the comforting knowledge that love and life are eternal. One of the most powerful ways we know what awaits us and where we came from is Near Death Experiences. Much of Brian's knowledge is derived from extensive study of this phenomenon, along with interviewing dozens of near death experience experiencers. Brian knows the soul-crushing weight of loss; his journey began with the sudden passing of his fifteen-year-old daughter, Shayna. It's not an odyssey he would have chosen, but it has been an odyssey that has…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T22:18:42.750042+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728"},"episode":{"title":"Why Loss Lives in Your Body (and How to Release It) | Kurtis Lee Thomas | EP 491","slug":"why-loss-lives-in-your-body-and-how-to-release-it-kurtis-lee-thomas-ep-491","published_at":"2026-06-11T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728/why-loss-lives-in-your-body-and-how-to-release-it-kurtis-lee-thomas-ep-491","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728","url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/19331182-why-loss-lives-in-your-body-and-how-to-release-it-kurtis-lee-thomas-ep-491.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/19331182-why-loss-lives-in-your-body-and-how-to-release-it-kurtis-lee-thomas-ep-491.mp3","summary":"We tend to think of grief as something we feel — a heaviness in the heart, a fog in the mind. But what if grief is also something we store, physically, in the body? And what if the breath you take without thinking could be the very thing that sets it free? In this episode, I talk with Kurtis Lee Thomas — the \"Man from the Stars\" — about a path to healing that didn't begin in a wellness studio, but in suffering. A five-year stomach condition no doctor could diagnose. The loss of his brother to...","meta_description":"We tend to think of grief as something we feel — a heaviness in the heart, a fog in the mind. But what if grief is also something we store, physically, in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3730,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grief-2-growth-247728/episodes/why-loss-lives-in-your-body-and-how-to-release-it-kurtis-lee-thomas-ep-491/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728/why-loss-lives-in-your-body-and-how-to-release-it-kurtis-lee-thomas-ep-491.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}