1: Holiday healing

Your grief is real; the grief someone else in your life may be carrying is real. The holiday season can amplify the intensity of the emotions and experiences attached to grief. While it’s impossible to try to avoid or dismiss the reality of this, it’s important to employ strategies to navigate through and position ourselves to feel the best we can through such challenge. Here I share 3 strategies to employ during the holidays (and in truth year-round) to support you in your journey.

Highlights of this episode:

1:40 - How I got the nickname, Elf
2:56 - The holidays change significantly
5:21 - Effective strategies for managing our grief journeys
6:44 - Strategy #1: Identify the TYPES of supporters in your life
8:28 - Strategy #2: Recognizing your triggers
9:56 - Strategy #3: Have a game plan

About this podcast:

Grief, Guts & Smoothies. These three things changed my life – they might change yours too. Each episode we abandon our comfort zones to get a little gutsy and hold space to grow into stronger versions of ourselves.

In 2014, the birth of my daughter Leyden changed my entire world. Four months later, grief shattered it. I was broken, scared, lost, angry and hopeless. I didn’t want to live and wasn’t really sure how to.

I sought every mean to “fight” grief: researching, joining parent groups, and I even traveled outside of the country twice, to hear world-renowned grief speaker Dr. Raymond Moody.

Disappointed, I discovered like all adversities in life, there is no way to “beat” grief. But, thankfully, there were effective strategies I could employ when navigating such choppy waters. Whether it was understanding the gut-brain connection, or getting gutsy in my ability to face discomfort, the tools I learned, truly saved my life.

There are not nearly enough resources to support each other through uncomfortable challenges – be it loss of a job, a relationship, a sense of self… or life. Talking about uncomfortable things, well that takes guts. And we are going to get really gutsy here.

Connect with me:

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Credits:

Podcast edited and mixed by Andrew Geary - https://twitter.com/spelledgeary

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