Hope and Loss with psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr Stephen Blumenthal

In this episode, an idea suggested by my conversationalist, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr Stephen Blumenthal, we explore the big, painful emotion of loss. We tend to body swerve feeling or thinking about loss, and who can blame us? It hurts, it’s horrible. But loss is essential to growth - think of a snake shedding its skin. In order to go onto the next stage we need to leave the one we’re at. But there’s normal loss such as leaving school or a job, and traumatic loss where everything comes at once, like an unexpected or early death or devastating news. This takes far longer to process. Note: process not get over. The loss I’ve noticed most people don’t want to talk about is death, dying, illness and the accompanying grief and yet, as Dr B tells us, if it’s managed ‘well’ post traumatic growth can be rich. But where would loss be without hope? There has to be hope to make loss’s losses easier to bear. Have a listen and be kind to yourself if you find this tough. If you'd like to support us you can leave a one off donation here: If you'd like to listen to this episode, past or future ones, ad free then consider becoming a Substacker: . From £5 a month or £50 a year you'll get access to all new podcasts as soon as they are available and before general release and ad-free. Plus subscriber exclusive newsletters. You can also support us by sharing this podcast far and wide, it's available wherever you listen to your podcasts. And leaving a review if you can. Thank you so much. Produced by Hester Cant. Art work by Lo Cole. Music by Toby Dunham. Support this show . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hope and Loss with psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr Stephen Blumenthal is an episode from Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri by Annalisa Barbieri.

This episode is 50:09 long.

This episode was published on May 1, 2025.

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