Episode 371 - Helping Little Ones through Grief and Loss with Annie F. Downs and Tatum Green

The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast · Apr 2, 2025 · 1h 1m

How do we begin to help young children understand loss? What can we do to help little ones grieve while we are walking through it alongside them?

For author, speaker, and podcaster Annie F. Downs, these questions became real when her infant nephew, TJ, passed away from a severe medical condition less than two months after he was born. Wanting to help her sister, Tatum Green, and her young son, Sam, process through this loss, Annie did what she was uniquely gifted to do. She wrote Sam a book to help him as he tried to grasp the loss of his little brother. Once it was written, Annie and Tatum…