Holistic Counseling Services STL

10/03/2026

New Podcast Feature

Taneshia Carey, MA, LPC, CAGCS, recently joined Sharon Brubaker on Grieve That S**t for a two part conversation about child loss, grief, identity, and what it means to continue living after devastating loss.

In Part 1, Taneshia discusses how grief can affect a person emotionally, mentally, physically, spiritually, and relationally, along with the difference between professional grief knowledge and actually living grief personally.

The conversation also explores parenting surviving children while grieving, fear after loss, staying connected to the person who died, and why functioning should not automatically be mistaken for healing.

One of the central messages from the episode is:

“Functioning tells you what someone is able to do. It does not necessarily tell you how they are doing emotionally.”

This episode offers an honest look at grief from both lived experience and professional perspective.

Listen to Part 1 here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/40GEeTXbnlVg6Gk9Xh1tor?si=KRKtwf-qQ8q1Vo6oj8xCmg&utm_source=copy-link

Part 2 is also available.

Grieve That S**t · Episode

09/10/2026

When grief hits, it does not always wait until you are ready.

It can show up at work, in the car, in the middle of the night, during a holiday, or right in the middle of an ordinary day.

When Grief Hits: Pocket Coping Tools for the Moments You Need Them Most was created as a small, practical grief companion you can keep close and reach for in the moment.

Inside are grounding tools, calming prompts, support for overwhelming emotions, nighttime grief, hard dates, grief in public, permission pages, and a personal Pocket Grief Plan.

It also recognizes that grief is not only connected to death. Relationship loss, estrangement, health changes, identity changes, and major life transitions can all bring grief too.

Small enough to carry with you. Practical enough to use when you need it.

Part of the Let’s Talk Grief Series

Available September 25th.

08/29/2026

08/12/2026

📖 MEET THE BOOK

It’s Time to Talk Grief: All You Need to Know About Grief

Grief is bigger than death.

We grieve people.
Relationships.
Homes.
Careers.
Health.
Safety.
Identity.
Dreams.
Versions of ourselves.
And sometimes, a life we thought we were going to have.

It’s Time to Talk Grief was written to have the conversations about grief that we often avoid.

This book explores what grief actually is, how it affects the mind and body, why it does not follow a straight path, how different types of loss can change us, and what it can look like to learn how to carry grief while continuing to live.

I wrote this book as both a therapist who has spent years supporting people through grief and as a mother who knows what it means to live with a loss that changes you forever.

I did not write this book to tell anyone how to grieve.

I wrote it to help people understand what may be happening to them when grief enters their life and to remind them that grief deserves language, space, compassion, and support.

Because grief is not only something that happens when someone dies.

And healing does not mean forgetting, moving on, or returning to who you were before.

Sometimes healing means learning how to live as the person you are becoming.

🖋️ Truth in Ink

📚 It’s Time to Talk Grief: All You Need to Know About Grief

Coming August 21, 2026

01/28/2026

🤞🏾👌🏾

A lot of us were taught how to survive, not how to cope. We keep pushing, staying busy, showing up for everybody else, while quietly struggling inside. Healing doesn’t mean something is wrong with you. It means you’re finally choosing to learn healthier ways to move through life. You deserve tools. You deserve support. You deserve new normals that don’t require you to stay stuck in survival mode.

If you’re ready for honest conversations, emotional accountability, and support that doesn’t rush your healing, join the KHAOS Kommunity at www.skool.com/khaoskommunity
This is a space where healing is allowed to be real.