Why Do Certain Moments Suddenly Trigger Grief?

Grief has a way of creeping up on us — often when we least expect it. In this deeply personal episode of Own Your Health, Katie Brindle explores why grief can resurface years after a loss, why it often intensifies around Christmas, and how it lives not just in the mind, but in the body.

Triggered after her father’s 85th birthday party, Katie shares her own experience of unexpected grief following the loss of her mother 17 years ago. Drawing on Chinese medicine, breathwork, visualisation, tapping, and mind-body practices, she explains how grief is linked to the lungs, how emot...