Grieving Voices
207 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago -Grieving Voices is a podcast started by a lifelong griever for grievers. The mission of Grieving Voices is to change the conversation around grief, and how we address our own and that of others and give grievers a platform for sharing what grief has taught them. Through education and personal story, listeners will learn more effective ways to help themselves and others. The Grieving Voices podcast is part of The Unleashed Heart, LLC. Grief resources and additional support are available at www.theunleashedheart.com
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Q&A | How Can I Best Help My Child In Their Grief?
May 09, 2023 08:00 - 16 minutes - 7.55 MBWhen tragedy strikes or challenging times knock on a family's door, the children involved can feel cast aside or as if they are an afterthought while the adults are experiencing their emotional crisis. However, it doesn't have to be that way. As adults become more knowledgeable about grief, learning new tools and new information, beliefs about grief and how to respond to it can change, too. As children's adult caretakers/caregivers connect to their own grief and apply new knowledge and too...
Quandell Wright | Where Are They Now?
May 02, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MBQuandell's first episode was Ep. 28 | The Scars of Abuse, Poverty, and Shame, recorded in October 2020 and went live on January 5th, 2021. Listening to Quandell's first episode is recommended to appreciate where Quandell was and how far he's come in his life. He asks one question in this episode: "How do you grieve?" It's a question we all would benefit from reflecting upon and recognizing where we may need additional support or accountability for moving forward. Personal development an...
Q&A | Is There Such a Thing as Complicated Grief?
April 18, 2023 08:00 - 10 minutes - 4.68 MBMany grief terms have come about to describe grief: abbreviated absent anticipatory chronic collective complicated distorted disenfranchised inhibited delayed masked normal The American Psychological Association describes complicated grief as grief that seems to deviate from what’s expected, interfering with the ability to function. Isn't that grief, in general? Doesn't grief completely flip a person's world and life upside down? Does the term complicated grief and the laund...
Bill Gross | Farm Rescue: Planting Seeds of Hope
April 04, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MBBill Gross, the founder of the non-profit Farm Rescue, has been traveling the world with his career as a UPS pilot for the past 30 years. However, his heart never left or forgot the farm he called home in ND. He knew he wanted to give back to ND farmers once he retired; however, a chance conversation prompted him to ask himself: "Why wait?" We don't know what our future has in store for us. Why put off for tomorrow what you can do today? Thoughts like these prompted Bill to not wait for ...
Q&A | Is Closure Possible?
March 21, 2023 08:00 - 9 minutes - 4.48 MBIt happens often; we hear people say they want or need closure. We also hear it on crime shows and true crime documentaries, too. However, what feels more accurate, and what would be a more helpful expression of what those left behind genuinely desire? Listen to this quick Q&A on closure and discover why it's unhelpful and what would be a more accurate goal to aim for when grieving. Sudden or traumatic loss (or events) often leave people wanting closure. And that desire that may never be...
Susana Morell | Hearts Matter Project: "Bad" Children or Hurting Children?
March 07, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBSusana is no stranger to grief. As a young child, she was a victim of sexual abuse. As a young adult, she lost her mother, later becoming her father's caretaker, only to eventually lose him. The death of her nephew to suicide was when she realized that she could do something - that she needed to do something. Susana would put her strengths, skills, training as a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, education in Clinical Psychology, and, more importantly, the pain of her past into purpose b...
Q&A | Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
February 28, 2023 09:00 - 9 minutes - 4.26 MBThe question on today's podcast is one I have heard a lot and one I've also asked myself if I'm being honest. It's normal and natural to ask ourselves questions like this, and it doesn't mean that you mean any ill will towards others. It also doesn't mean other people are "bad"; bad things should happen to them instead. I see this question as an expression of trying to make sense of tragedy or challenges. When looking at outside circumstances, when you see other people living their lives...
Jill Batiansila | Together, We Heal
February 14, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes - 22.6 MBJill's father walked out of their home when she was sixteen months old and didn't return. He died in a plane crash, and her life was forever changed. Fortunately, her mental health was of the utmost importance, having received counseling and therapy throughout her childhood and adulthood. During that time, the groundwork was being laid to prepare her, or as Jill would say, God was preparing her hands for His work. And that she did. After finding her way from making jewelry for people cel...
Q&A | Why Am I Struggling More With My Spouse's Death Than My Parents' Death?
January 24, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 4.07 MBIn this first Q&A episode, Ruth asks why she's struggling more with her spouse's death than the death of her parents. In my response, I share a perspective you may find helpful when considering your losses. Whether you've been married for five, fifteen, or forty years, or your parents died when you were young or in your fifties, death may finalize the physical relationship; however, the emotional relationship carries on. I'd love to answer your question on the podcast. Submit your Q to ...
A Podcast Announcement
January 03, 2023 16:00 - 22 minutes - 10.4 MBWhat is to come in 2023 for Grieving Voices? Tune in to this episode to find out all of the details. Before you listen, I want to share that this episode came to be after months and months of stewing and contemplation, trying to logically come to a resolution of what to do about Grieving Voices. Should I stop podcasting? Take a sabbatical? I wasn't sure, and the answer certainly was not coming to me quickly, at least one that felt entirely right. And I realize that's because I was solely r...
Takeaways & Reflections | Grief Over Family Dynamics
December 27, 2022 09:00 - 25 minutes - 11.8 MBWhat does family mean to you? Who makes up your family? Not only those you claim by blood but those you choose, who show up when life throws curveballs? There are reasons to grieve family; the family you wish you had and even the family you may wish you didn't have, too. We can't choose our family, but we have a say in their role in our lives. And, when a family is made up of less-than-loving relationships, we can even choose to fill the needs of our hearts by choosing to have people in ...
Kevin Boon | The Masks We Wear
December 20, 2022 09:00 - 44 minutes - 20.6 MBWhen you fill out your calendar, do you intentionally set time aside to reflect and for introspection? Probably not. Most of us don't do so. However, as Kevin shares in this episode, doing so for his grief has made all of the difference in his life. Kevin speaks to the cumulative losses of his career, his father, his mother, and subsequent divorce. He also shares the impact of having a small nuclear family and missing out on a larger, extended family community growing up. We often don't ...
Genesis Amaris Kemp | Caregiving, Covid, and Corporate Grief
December 13, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutes - 18.4 MBGrief is cumulative, and it's cumulatively negative. Every loss we experience stacks on top of those before it. For Genesis Amaris Kemp, attending funerals started becoming a regular occurrence. Add the loss of loved ones before the Covid pandemic (and during) to the loss of a job during the same timeframe, and it can be challenging to find solid footing. Additionally, learning, for the first time, how to advocate for a parent in the healthcare system posed its challenges during this same pe...
Dan Goldberg | Finding the Glory
December 06, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 33.4 MBWas your childhood filled with joy and surrounded by love and support? There may have been some challenging times for your parents or even for you, but what if you indeed did have the ideal life? Dan's childhood was amazing. So when grief hit home hard, and hard it did, he was ill-prepared. He had experienced the death of his grandparents, but even then, there was little discussion about death or grief. His parents did their best to shelter him and his siblings from the sorrows of life. S...
Melissa Reilly | A Longing That Never Leaves
November 29, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutes - 26.1 MBMelissa's episode embodies several different ways one may experience grief. And as she shares each story, she also provides insight into loss from her perspective as a clinical psychologist. At age 4, her older sister (age 7) died of leukemia. Melissa's earliest memories are related to her sister battling leukemia for eighteen months and being bounced from house to house while her parents were away with her older sister for her healthcare. And, once her sister died, life went on as if it ...
Takeaways & Reflections | Be Your Own Hero
November 22, 2022 09:00 - 22 minutes - 10.5 MBWe are all going to die. However, none of us know when, although some may know how (as with a terminal illness). One thing we can do for ourselves and our loved ones, not knowing when our last day will come, is to prepare for it. We will spare our loved ones from making many complex (and conflicting) decisions. You can be your own hero and that of your loved ones by taking ownership of your life as you're living and in death. Being your own hero means that sometimes, it pays to take chan...
Tim Heale | Glass Half-Full Approach to Life
November 15, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 30.7 MBTim's grief was compounded by the loss of his best friend and then-wife within a year of each other. It's enough to send anyone into a tailspin as it did for Tim. He found himself at the lowest point in his life. Grief-stricken, he found solace in a bottle until a friend asked him if he thought he had been drinking too much. From then on, he considered his path and decided to change his approach to life. Love found him where he least expected it; in the arms of the widow of his deceased...
Betsy Smith | The Bulldog Advocate & Caregiver
November 08, 2022 09:00 - 46 minutes - 21.5 MBAccording to Johns Hopkins, 240,000 medical error deaths occur every year. Betsy learned that when it comes to the healthcare system and being a caregiver, becoming informed and a fierce advocate is the only option. Betsy learned real-life experience about medical advocacy while her husband survived prostate cancer, only to be diagnosed with bone marrow cancer five years later. Four years after his bone marrow cancer diagnosis, he passed away. Within six months of his passing, she went ...
Jen Kidwell | Death, Legacy, and the Law
November 01, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 32.8 MBWhat do you want to happen if you are incapacitated while on your deathbed or after you die? If you don't have a will, that decision may be left up to the state. These are big questions that often don't have answers for those who are left behind. In the most emotional moments, the family is left to make decisions that weren't theirs. Each of us has a responsibility, not only to ourselves but those who would be left behind, to address our matters before those things are left to someone els...
Takeaways & Reflections | Spiritually Challenged: Releasing Anger & the Story
October 25, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes - 16 MBThere are two camps of grievers; those who talk about their grief and share their stories and those who keep their grief and stories hidden. Regardless of the camp, you find yourself in, there is one common denominator that is often present with most, if not all, grievers - anger. There is a caveat to sharing your story, though. As we look for meaning in our experiences, including those that cause us grief, we can find ourselves repeating the story without ever getting into how the experi...
Christian de la Huerta | Awakening the Soul of Power
October 18, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 32 MBChristian is one of nine children born and raised in Cuba during turbulent times and in the Catholic faith. His parents instilled in him the importance of excelling and reading. These early lessons laid a foundation. However, those lessons also set the stage for a desire to escape and not be seen. Introversion and depression plagued his adolescence, as was his knowledge of being gay. With courage, he came out to his family. Christian speaks about this challenging time in his life and the...
Scott Deluzio | Seeing Red: A Gold Star Brother & Brothers in Arms
October 11, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 32.4 MBLess than 1% of Americans serve in the U.S. military. That leaves 99% of Americans who will never understand the cost of serving their country, particularly during wartime. Scott shares his path to emotional freedom from the scars of war after deploying to Afghanistan with his brother, Steven. Rather than Scott celebrating homecoming with his brother, he accompanied Steven, killed in action, in a casket draped with the American flag. Although Scott was scheduled to return to Afghanistan t...
Kimberly Bell | The Imprint of Fear and Feeling Unwanted To Finding My Voice
October 04, 2022 08:00 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBEvery human being experiences trauma to some degree. We don't have to experience "Big T Traumas" for those experiences to leave an imprint on our hearts and bodies. At age 5, Kimberly had such an experience after witnessing her father physically abuse her mother while she and her older sibling were present. And, because they were in a vehicle, there was nowhere to run or hide. Afterward, her father dropped off her mother and sibling at a family member's home. On the other hand, Kimberly wa...
Takeaways & Reflections | How To Grieve
September 27, 2022 08:00 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MBPeople say you have to move on or that you should "be over it by now." However, no one tells you or shows you how to do it. For me, after struggling to get beyond the pain of my trauma and losses for 30+ years, the Grief Recovery Method was the how. Naysayers and doubters are welcome. 🤗 I was a skeptic, too. How could a process or method help me move on from the pain after sitting in it for 30+ years? I went into it with some doubt, convinced I would, at the very least, learn new tools...
Phil Cohen | The Pursuit of Healing After an Ocean of Tears
September 20, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 30 MBThey say it's unnatural to lose a child. And, there's no word for a parent who has lost a child other than griever, which somehow doesn't embody all a parent experiences—much less childless parents. What is a word for a parent whose only child dies? As it turns out, there's maybe only one that might describe that inconsolable feeling - lost. Phil found himself lost in an ocean of tears after his only son, Perry, 14 1/2 years old, and his friend became victims of a storm that came out ...
Reid Peterson | Discovering a Legacy with Grief
September 13, 2022 08:00 - 45 minutes - 21 MBReid is the creator of the Grief Refuge app and supports grievers through publishing daily audio messages that soothe and comfort people pained by grief. Grief is something Reid grew up knowing well. As a young adult, his biological father, who struggled with alcohol abuse, died by suicide. Fortunately, his stepfather came into his life as a child and was a positive influence. However, grief would strike hard when his stepfather passed away after a long, eight-year battle with cancer. And,...
Martika Whylly | Learning How to Grieve with Ease
September 06, 2022 08:00 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MBThey say it's unnatural for a parent to outlive and bury a child. Likewise, it's not natural for a child to bury their parent. There is no hierarchy of loss. We all grieve at 100%, and there are no half-grievers. Therefore, all losses are felt at 100%, too. So, who's to say what loss is worse than the next? However, for a moment, put yourself in the shoes of a child who buries a parent. Often, there's another parent in the wings to comfort and console the child. But that's not always the ca...
Takeaways & Reflections | Finding Our Way Home to Self
August 30, 2022 08:00 - 11 minutes - 5.15 MBFinding our way home to self is the journey we’re all on in the physical plain. So that hopefully, when our time is drawing near, we will have experienced a life well-lived. A life filled with joy and more importantly, one of peace. In this week's episode, I share a bit about my journey finding my way home back to myself. And also discuss the stories of the three previous guests and a snippet of how they have been journeying home to themselves. I don't know that we ever fully "arrive" at...
Ram Dass | Learning How to Write a New Song with Grief
August 23, 2022 08:00 - 56 minutes - 26 MBRam Dass Khalsa is a singer-songwriter who, through the loss of his newborn son to Trisomy-18, learned how to write a new song as he learned how to grieve healthily. It would take Ram Dass several years to learn what it means to grieve healthily, and growing up with "yogi" parents, taught him the importance of being in his body. However, he never learned how to be with his feelings. Ram Dass and his partner knew they were expecting challenges ahead. At twenty weeks pregnant, they learned...
Kyira Wackett | Collateral Damage to Adversity Rising
August 16, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 32.7 MBImagine identifying your parent for a crime, knowing that what you disclose will send your only parent to prison. Imagine moving 11x by the time you were in the 5th grade. And imagine being the child of a parent who, for most of your childhood, was struggling with undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Kyira was no stranger to chaos and uneasiness. She was the only child of a parent who turned to substances to cope with her mental health challenges and, in many ways, was the adult in the relationsh...
Stephanie Cerins | Paving a Path to Happiness After Childhood Loss
August 09, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 32.4 MBWe all have intuition. And we all have the power to tap into the intuition within us, too. However, sometimes our intuition doesn't feel good to us. As was the case the day that Stephanie's father wasn't coming home as was expected. She looked out the window, saw his car but didn't see him and instinctively knew something wasn't right. At the age of 15, Stephanie found her father dead. The reminder was constantly there from that day forward, not only of his absence in her life but also t...
Takeaways & Reflections | Mothering Yourself Through Grief
August 02, 2022 08:00 - 13 minutes - 6.18 MBThis week's episode is an invitation to look at how you had been mothered and nurtured by your mother (or mother figure) as a child and how that has influenced you today. I also bring Mother Nature into the conversation because what Mother Nature gives us is a great analogy, in general, for the topic of experiencing mothering and nurturing. When was the last time you gave yourself, as an adult, what you never received as a child? This conversation is less about self-care and more about ...
Maha Bodhi | A Quest for Inner-Peace & Freedom
July 26, 2022 08:00 - 52 minutes - 24.2 MBWere you born and raised in the land of the free and home of the brave, the United States of America? This week's episode reminds me that oppression and enslavement are not only in Yemen, where this week's guest was born but also in the free world. It just looks different from what Maha experienced. Ironically, Maha fled Yemen, where she experienced oppression, enslavement, arranged marriage twice that included violence and rape, and two civil wars in search of a better (more free) life i...
Rachael Burns | The Space Inbetween
July 19, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 32.4 MBHow would you live your life if a ticking time bomb was woven into the very fabric of your everyday life? Would you carry on business as usual? Would you live like tomorrow is not guaranteed and chip away at your bucket list? Rachael's story isn't about a ticking time bomb that is in her body. Rather, it is about the ticking time bomb of grief that lies in wait due to the one her beloved has in his body. However, that is only part of Rachael's story. What if, newly married, you found o...
Rachael Burns | The Space Inbetween
July 19, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 32.4 MBHow would you live your life if a ticking time bomb was woven into the very fabric of your everyday life? Would you carry on business as usual? Would you live like tomorrow is not guaranteed and chip away at your bucket list? Rachael's story isn't about a ticking time bomb that is in her body. Rather, it is about the ticking time bomb of grief that lies in wait due to the one her beloved has in his body. However, that is only part of Rachael's story. What if, newly married, you found o...
Michele Neff Hernandez | The Soaring Spirit of a Widow and Fatherless Daughter
July 12, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 36.3 MBIn this week's episode, Michele of @soaringspiritsintl and a 2021 Top 10 CNN Hero, shares her story about the challenges of blending a family, but then enduring a devastating loss and grieving as a blended family. But because grief is cumulative and cumulatively negative, a previous divorce, followed by the sudden death of her spouse, then the death of her father, taught her so much more about what it means to grieve well. It's hard enough to be a widow and raise your own children, but f...
Elizabeth Catignani | My Shattered Heart: Experiencing Stillbirth & Being a Widow at 27
July 05, 2022 08:00 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MBAs a mother, carrying and growing another human in the womb for nine months, it is expected that a healthy child will be born. However, for Elizabeth, that is not what happened. Her world was shattered when she realized that she wouldn't be a new mom overflowing with joy. Rather, she would become a mother with grieving empty arms. After her firstborn died, Elizabeth and her husband were fortunate to have a healthy daughter. Yet again, her joy was cut short when their daughter was only abo...
Takeaways & Reflections | Leaning Into Trust While Having a Broken Heart
June 28, 2022 08:00 - 10 minutes - 4.77 MBWhen you're pulled between the feelings of what you wish would be different, better, or more, and faced with a moment where a decision has to be made, it can be challenging to cut through all of the emotion and lean into trust. In this week's Takeaways & Reflections episode, I use Kasey and Michelle's stories to illustrate the challenges we can have with trust, not only in our own inner guidance but also that there potentially is something better waiting for us on the other side of leaning...
Michelle Marsh | Flipping the Script on Loss During Covid
June 21, 2022 08:00 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBIn the grief recovery programs, one way we describe grief is that it is the loss of hopes, dreams, and expectations. This description of grief, in this way, has not been better understood by society as a whole more than it has since 2020 with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. As society begins to emerge from the darkness Covid brought to so many lives, we start to see ourselves and others in a new light. We have started to see the impact of the past two years on the psyche of millions, i...
Kasey Carmona | 6 Days of Dying and a Masterpiece of Life
June 14, 2022 08:00 - 53 minutes - 24.7 MBWarning: This episode contains a mother's account of her son, CJ's, final days of life. This may be difficult for some listeners to hear, particularly those who have lost a child. 99 Days. How much life can you squeeze out of 99 precious newborn days? Especially when 84 of those are spent in the hospital? Kabuki, a major theatrical form in Japan for four centuries, became less of a theatrical experience and more of a grieving one. Kabuki Syndrome (a rare genetic syndrome), named in par...
Takeaways & Reflections | The Energy of Addiction
June 07, 2022 08:00 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MBAddiction isn't just applicable to a substance use disorder. Often the anxiousness of learning to live life as a griever can lead to overdoing, busyness, workaholism, etc. We can become addicted to being busy in an effort to avoid feeling our feelings. "Keeping Busy" is actually one of the 6 Myths of Grief. In this week's Takeaways & Reflections episode, I reflect on alcohol and the other ways addiction may be impacting life as a griever. I also dig deeper into the energetics of addictio...
Dru Jaeger + Victoria | The Grief + Alcohol Club
May 31, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 30.8 MBThis week's episode is a collaboration with my friend, Dru Jaeger, co-founder of Club Soda and author of How to Be a Mindful Drinker: Cut Down, Take a Break, or Quit. Dru woke up one morning a happy child with two parents and went to bed that night without a mother. She died suddenly and unexpectedly of a massive brain hemorrhage. Within six months, his father would relocate their family to another country. Like many of us, Dru learned that you suppress it, distract yourself, keep yoursel...
Takeaways & Reflections | Self-Love Through Grief
May 24, 2022 08:00 - 39 minutes - 18.1 MBWhen you're in a place of self-loathing, self-love likely won't come naturally and will be challenging to prioritize and do. However, when grieving, self-love must be a non-negotiable aspect of grieving to grieve well. In this week's episode, I cover the eight dimensions of wellness courtesy of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMH), which collectively address our whole well-being. These aren't areas that need to be addressed all at the same time. However, sma...
Wayne Forrest | Waking Up a C4 Quadreplegic: My Catalyst to Becoming
May 17, 2022 08:00 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MB"Bang, I made a mistake!" Those were the words, my guest, Wayne Forrest, described the moment that changed his life forever. It was a chance happening (or was it?) that Wayne had some teammates out injured from his rugby team, and he filled in to play the game he loved. One play during that game would have him waking up in a hospital bed five days later to realize he could not only move his legs but he couldn't move his arms or hands. In an instant, Wayne became a statistic and a C4 qu...
Wayne Forrest | Waking Up a C4 Quadriplegic: My Catalyst to Becoming
May 17, 2022 08:00 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MB"Bang, I made a mistake!" Those were the words, my guest, Wayne Forrest, described the moment that changed his life forever. It was a chance happening (or was it?) that Wayne had some teammates out injured from his rugby team, and he filled in to play the game he loved. One play during that game would have him waking up in a hospital bed five days later to realize he could not only move his legs but he couldn't move his arms or hands. In an instant, Wayne became a statistic and a C4 qu...
Amy Medcalf | Don't Abandon Me
May 10, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 34.1 MBAgoraphobia is a mental and behavioral disorder, specifically an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety symptoms in situations where the person perceives their environment to be unsafe with no easy way to escape. These situations can include open spaces, public transit, shopping centers, or simply being outside their home. Amy's mom died suddenly and unexpectedly when she was 11 of a massive heart attack. They were the best of friends a mother and daughter could be. As an only child of a...
Takeaways & Reflections | Grief: Don't Do It Alone
May 03, 2022 08:00 - 14 minutes - 6.48 MBIn this Takeaways & Reflections episode, I reflect on the importance of not grieving alone. We all need support through grief because, going it alone, keeps us stuck and ruminating on our grief. Connection to others is what gives a griever hope. I also share in this episode how I took a long way around to find the right support for me and the impact that had on my own life and my grief. If not now, when? And, if what you're doing now isn't working, then when will you seek something else ...
Brent Scarpo | A Secret Sign & Lessons from The Shawshank Redemption
April 26, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 40.4 MBFear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free. - The Shawshank Redemption This week's guest, Brent Scarpo, was a casting director for one of the most acclaimed and beloved films of all time, "The Shawshank Redemption." Through his personal love of the film, he shares a few of his favorite lessons from the movie. These lessons served him well as he grieved the loss of his best friend and mother to cancer. But a chance conversation with his mother years earlier would be the catalyst for...
Takeaways & Reflections | Our Food Relationship & Eating Our Feelings
April 19, 2022 08:00 - 16 minutes - 7.69 MBWhat is your relationship with food? Would you say it's healthy? Does it leave you often feeling shameful? Does the self-critic lurk out from the shadows after you've eaten something that isn't deemed "healthy?" I know I've left a drive-thru at times wondering why on earth I ever stopped, as I just feel like physical crap after eating something I know isn't serving me. Perhaps that is my intuition and my inner-knowing saying "I told you so!" Or, perhaps it's neither good nor bad; rather the...
Hannah Howard | Food: My Perfect Obsession
April 12, 2022 08:00 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MBAnorexia nervosa: an eating disorder characterized by attempts to lose weight to the point of starvation. Hannah believed she was destined to suffer in silence. Her obsession with food, body image, and a strive for perfection began in middle school. She was always the tallest in her class and developed early on as well. Hannah would go through periods of starving herself followed by an episode of bingeing. This went on through college and into her 20s when she finally "got sick and tired o...