MwT: Grief Busting with Dina Bell-Laroche, on Emotions

This is our second episode in this “Grief Busting” series with special guest and expert on grief and bereavement, Dina Bell-Laroche. You’ll remember Dina from her chat with me back in November, 2022.   

Today we meander all round myths relating to emotion. English doesn’t serve us well here – in English, grief is both an emotion and an experience. Viewing grief only as an emotion limits us in unhelpful ways, but seeing it as a verb – grieving – makes it an experience, one we can work with more readily…. It becomes a gateway to living with grief, moving with grief, and makes it something active that we can navigate with through time. 

I hope you enjoy this episode, the second of five episodes in our deep dive into grief and how dealing with our grief can deepen our joy. 

Episode Links:

Chapman Coaching Inc.

Dina’s company is Grief Unleashed

She read us the poem “Space for Storms,” the wonderful BC poet Caroline Miskenack

STUG (sudden temporary upsurge of grief), a concept coined by Dr. Therese Rando, see this summary for more

Elizabeth Kübler-Ross and the stages of grief

David Whyte, “What to Remember When Waking” excerpt: “…To become human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others….”

Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov, Dying with Dignity, the Platinum Rule

Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma

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