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Sapna Makwana

Sapna Makwana

Sapna Makwana Hanspal is a Singapore-based counsellor and psychotherapist (Safe Space / The School of Positive Psychology) and former financial analyst who has spoken publicly about grief.

Sep 7, 2026

Ella Podcasts

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How Do You Survive Grief? Losing a Child, a Parent & Learning to Live With Loss

Sep 7 · 28m

Jonathan Marshall
Jonathan MarshallHOST
10:47
What do you think? How was it for you? What was good for you?
Sapna Makwana
Sapna MakwanaGUEST
10:51
Yeah, I mean, I think for me, my experience of death, I guess, started at a fairly young age.
Sapna Makwana
Sapna MakwanaGUEST
10:57
You know, my early teens, I started to lose people in my family who I was very close to and quite suddenly and quite young.
Sapna Makwana
Sapna MakwanaGUEST
11:06
I think that's what I remember.
Sapna Makwana
Sapna MakwanaGUEST
11:07
Like my uncle was 40 something when he died.
Sapna Makwana
Sapna MakwanaGUEST
11:10
My grandparents were both 65 on my dad's side, so very young for what they were.
Sapna Makwana
Sapna MakwanaGUEST
11:17
But the loss that really shaped me the most was losing my father.

12 MINS LATER

Jonathan Marshall
Jonathan MarshallHOST
23:27
Did you find yourself helped by a narrative, like a meaning making of your father's death?

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