Grief Unveiled
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 78 ratingsYou’ve come to the right place if you’re looking for real talk and real truths about grief and living. Our explorations are infused with a renegade approach to grief, inviting you to get curious about the possibility of more than just surviving your life after loss. Grief Unveiled is hosted by Sarah Nannen, a veteran, military widow and mama turned best-selling author and life coach for widows. Known as The Renegade Widow, Sarah facilitates big conversations that gently bring your sense of Self and empowerment alive. Listen with tender curiosity and an open heart. You never know when a moment of insight will drop in and open you up to a new perspective of possibility. We use the language of widowhood, but the themes we’ll explore in grief and living are universal. We honor the truth that enormous grief springs from myriad life experiences. Whether you’re navigating divorce, health crisis, death of someone you love, a financial loss, and more, there’s a message in these explorations for you. Your story and your grief are important here. Let’s get started. Life is waiting!
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Raw Grief in Real Time (1 of 4)
July 13, 2019 18:57 - 54 minutes - 75 MBI'm thrilled to announce a new project within the Grief Unveiled podcast - a series of FOUR solo episodes titled "Raw Grief in Real Time." The first episode in this series is an examination of something that brings a lot of anxiety, anticipation, even fear into the lives of those who are grappling with grief: Calendar Milestones. I actually recorded this episode on March 1, the fifth anniversary of my late husband Reid's rainbow day (that's what we call the milestone date of the day he d...
The Joy Revolution with Marc Cordon
June 17, 2019 18:05 - 1 hour - 103 MBOh yes I did dare to bring the co-founder of The Joy Revolution on a podcast devoted to the intricacies of grief! They don’t call me the renegade widow for nothing, after all. Marc Cordon’s positivity and joy is contagious and inspiring, especially when we learn that his activism and understanding of the human experience and fascination with psychology was rooted in fear and expressed from a place of anger in its early days. None of this positivity is rooted in spiritual bypass, fake-it-ti...
Inflammation + Healing the Whole Self with Jenny Carr
June 03, 2019 15:56 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBThis week, our guest is Jenny Carr, engaging speaker, author, and leading inflammation expert. Once a professional skier, Jenny found herself bedridden years ago, fighting for her health and at times, literally at the brink of death. Her understanding of the impact inflammation has on the body and mind (regardless of its cause - and there are MANY!) helped her return to a place of true healing, health and restoration. Chronic inflammation shows up in our bodies as bloating, extreme fatigue...
Reclaiming Your Truth with Tonia Adleta
May 20, 2019 00:56 - 57 minutes - 78.5 MBLosing your beloved brings you face-to-face with the question: Who am I now? In the throes of massive life transition, it can be terrifying to lose our sense of Self alongside deep grief, yet when we cultivate the capacity to pause and get curious about the person within, our true Soul mate, we begin to understand the essence of who we really are - who we’ve always been. From this place, somehow the way forward seems more possible - and perhaps, even enjoyable. We cover a LOT of ground...
Holistic Healing with Dr. Christina Bjorndal
May 08, 2019 18:13 - 53 minutes - 74 MBThis episode is packed full of powerful perspectives and informations for anyone who is in search of relief, release, and complete healing. My guest is Dr. Christina Bjorndal, a naturopathic doctor who brings us a revolutionary message on a new (not so new) approach to healing ourselves. In lieu of pharmacological drugs to treat symptoms, she considers her patient’s lifestyle, history, experiences, and overall wellness to encourage healing in their most hurt-filled, tender areas of their sou...
Radical Healing, Body + Mind with Jeanette Bronée
May 07, 2019 12:35 - 1 hour - 86 MBMy guest today is Jeanette Bronée, who guides us through her personal journey to healing after the death of her parents as an adult. She shares about the drastic lifestyle shift she committed to - from running herself into the ground (“I was surviving on coffee and stress”) to a life of balance and boundaries - and the impact that it’s had on her worldview and experience of healing. Jeanette believes (and science supports this!) that our emotional well-being has a significant impact on our...
The Power of Storytelling with Tricia Brouk
April 24, 2019 18:23 - 45 minutes - 17.7 MBToday we’re discussing storytelling and it’s profound impact on the way we’re able to navigate grief with my guest Tricia Brouk, an award winning director and documentary filmmaker whose passion for storytelling has shaped her worked in film, television, and theater for over two decades. If you’re thinking: why on earth would I want to tell the story of the worst day of my life? - you’re not alone. Which is why this episode is SO important to hear. Most of our encounters with grief feel ...
Renegotiating Death and Dying with Susan Mercer
April 22, 2019 09:00 - 53 minutes - 73.1 MBIn this episode of the Grief Unveiled podcast I have guest Susan Mercer—a death doula and energy healer. Today’s topic is death, the transition of dying, and how we talk about it with our families and friends. It’s a topic that’s considered mysterious and taboo by many, which is why we approached it respectfully and with the utmost tenderness. As a death doula, Susan provides comfort and creates a sacred space around the dying one. Her role is to mindfully facilitate the emotional, physica...
Raw Grief in Real Time (1 of 4)
March 19, 2019 21:08 - 54 minutes - 75 MBI'm thrilled to announce a new project within the Grief Unveiled podcast - a series of FOUR solo episodes titled "Raw Grief in Real Time." The first episode in this series is an examination of something that brings a lot of anxiety, anticipation, even fear into the lives of those who are grappling with grief: Calendar Milestones. I actually recorded this episode on March 1, the fifth anniversary of my late husband Reid's rainbow day (that's what we call the milestone date of the day he...
Finding Beauty in Broken with Anna Curnes
March 17, 2019 02:09 - 1 hour - 91.8 MBThe wonderfully creative Anna Curnes, a Dallas-based glass artist, is my guest for this episode full of so many beautiful, personal shares and actionable offerings. Anna was yearning for a way to express her pain (and eventually celebrate her healing) after her younger sister died from colon cancer, and now works closely with her clients’ stories to create custom-designed glass masterpieces. Her work is an expression of her mission: finding the beauty in the brokenness. We’re culturally in...
Finding Yourself with Stephanie McAuliffe
March 07, 2019 23:04 - 51 minutes - 70.2 MBJoin this incredible conversation with Stephanie McAuliffe, coach and best-selling author, as we rework, reframe, and rewrite the grief narrative. This isn’t about forgetting - it’s about learning to understand ourselves and our experiences. Stephanie shares with us her struggle of living amongst alcoholism for the majority of her life. Her own recovery from this trauma began when her coached asked her, “So how do you want to feel?” This question (which she didn’t know the answer to at the...
Owning Your Awesome with Kristina Hallett
February 18, 2019 10:00 - 55 minutes - 76.5 MBKristina Hallett (PhD, ABPP) has achieved quite the roster of accomplishments. As a board certified clinical psychologist, she works with high-level professionals to develop skills to make stress work to their advantage, increasing productivity and overall well-being. In addition, she’s passionate about helping adolescents addressing their major life challenges. An acclaimed speaker, podcast-creator, associate professor, and international best-selling author...you might be thinking, “Is ther...
Mindfulness and Feminist Spirituality with Melanie Klein
February 04, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBSurrounded by loss, Melanie discovered Yoga and it became her companion. More than just moving her body into interesting shapes, Yoga became a healing balm, responding to her agitated nervous system - unresolved grief, trauma, anxiety she couldn’t name or touch. “The egg has been cracked, and I am the yoke running free.” By quieting the mind and reducing stress in the body, we can make decisions from a place of power. Furthermore, we can celebrate the female body and heal the wounds between ...
Kicking Your Sugar Addiction with Jenn Edden
January 21, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBLow energy, nighttime cravings, energy crashes, ineffective diets…sound familiar? Meet my guest, Jenn Edden: sugar addiction expert! With her degree in biochemistry, she has over a decade of experience in helping women kick their sugar addiction. Since healing her own gastritis as a young adult, Jenn Edden has dedicated her life to helping women to kick their sugar addiction in a non-depriving way so they can feel and live their best! With the next meal you eat, you can change the course of ...
Reclaiming Your Identity with Robin Meyers
January 07, 2019 10:00 - 58 minutes - 81 MBRobin Meyers is an international speaker, author, molecular geneticist, professional counselor, podcast host, and much more. She is an expert in transitions and specializes in the power of mindset, leadership, and fear while teaching women to use their voice and create their best life. But it wasn’t until age 53, the same age that her mother died, that she inquired within, “Am I really using my own voice?” Sarah and Robin unpack the generational practice behind women’s hesitancy to use the...
Healing Our Hearts as a Party of One with Sunny Joy McMillan
December 10, 2018 16:14 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBWhy would I bring on a divorce and relationship expert for those navigating life after loss? There is grief in divorce, and there is grief in death, but today we are really looking at this “life after love” picture. Many of us are looking back to make sense of our marriages, to figure out how to honor our marriages, and to figure out what the heck we do now on the other side. Sunny Joy McMillan is here to talk with us about examining a marriage when our partner is no longer here to help us p...
Cultivating Entitlement in Widowhood
November 13, 2018 21:34 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBEntitlement. We hear this word tossed around a lot these days, and it usually comes with a gnarly connotation. But what if the idea of cultivating entitlement could be uplifting, empowering and hopeful. By definition, entitlement is the fact of having a right to something. A right to what? What is that something? What if I told you that you have the right to a life well-lived, a life of joy - even as a widow. Tender curiosities: Take five seconds to scan yourself - how do you respond to t...
Cultivating Sexual Health in Widowhood with Ken Blackman
November 05, 2018 16:23 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBHaving a powerful love life truly starts as a party of one. This episode explores what makes a gourmet love life in the first place, how we thrive in our relationships, looking back on our love story with eyes wide open, understanding how our preferences and needs have emerged in life after loss, how we can turn toward ourselves as a source of love, and how self love is truly our most important relationship. Tender curiosities: Do you have this awful feeling that you are being disloyal to...
Bio-Hacking Grief with Leah Carver
October 29, 2018 11:31 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBTender curiosities: Where does the fear of slowing down come from? How the “grief hustle” is similar to the “hamster wheel”. Pain, fatigue, and fog: Your body is saying “we need your attention”. The two most common body signals emanating from grief, and specific practices for interpreting these messages and bio-hacking your way to relief. “I feel exhausted.” | “My body feels heavy.” | “I cannot think through this fog.” | These are just a few examples of the tremendous toll grief takes ...
How to Get Grief Right
October 11, 2018 19:48 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBTender curiosities: Does it seem like everyone else knows the secret of how to “do this right”? “Getting grief right” has nothing to do with escaping it or fixing it. The six most common pieces of advice we are offered in the name of love and why they are actually hurting us. Let’s acknowledge the elephant in the room. We have all judged someone else’s grief process. We might not say it out loud, but we are thinking it… Why is she still wearing her ring? She goes to the cemetary too mu...
What We Think We Can’t Have
October 10, 2018 19:49 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBTender curiosities: Our grief for what has been lost is often coupled with another grief - the grief for our Self that was lost when we went from Wife to Widow. Changing the 5-year plan to the 5-minute plan. Authenticity is the new little black dress. When my book, Grief Unveiled, was published in 2017, I was asked a really poignant question during an interview with my editor. “What’s the biggest mistake widows are making?” What a terrible question! But when I leaned into the question...
What We Need In Grief
October 09, 2018 23:58 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBTender curiosities: Can you climb down into this pit with me and ask, “What’s it like to be you down here?” Do you still recognize my wisdom, intuition, brilliance, and personal autonomy? Is it possible to build a bridge across this giant, gaping hole in my heart? In grief, we often don’t know what we need, other than we don’t want to keep feeling it. What we need is made more complex by what we’ve been taught - this idea of grief support as rescuing someone who is damaged or wounded. ...
Debunking the LIE that Time Heals All
October 09, 2018 23:04 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBTender curiosities: Why do we measure our love with how long it takes for us to heal? Is there something more we can do with grief than just learning to cope with the pain? What am I supposed to say instead? It is always said with love and good intentions, but I believe it is a lie. The platitude that “time heals all” is subtly teaching us that waiting is what brings healing. And what do we do in the meantime? Survive. The message is that we are victims. And there is nothing that robs ...
The Mythology of Widowhood
October 09, 2018 20:46 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBTender curiosities: What does it mean to be “normal” again, and how long does it take to get there? What’s really happening when the outside facade of us doesn’t match the inside? Can we re-imagine the cultural norm for how we “do grief”, creating space for the metamorphosis from caterpillar soup? What does our culture believe it means to be a widow? She’s an old, creepy crone living on the edge of her community. No one really talks to her. She’s probably stealing your children. She mi...
My Story with Elizabeth Dialto
October 09, 2018 16:01 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBTender curiosities: Might we invite healing by being willing to be seen in our real, honest, naked truth? How might we be trapping ourselves by "trying to get our grief right"? Is it possible to hold space for our shattered spirit and honor that something sacred is happening in our journey through grief? Let’s flip the script on introductions. Elizabeth Dialto, radical, brave, delicious truth-teller, is here to help you to get to know me through the inquiry process rather than a script...