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Episode 70: Emergence Coaching for Grief, Loss, & Shadow Seasons

Heart Healing from Loss - May 15, 2023 14:23 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
“Emergence” is the process of coming into being or of becoming important or prominent. And Emergence is happening for Wendy Sloneker and her coaching process — she’s announcing a shift in her work with clients!  Emergence Coaching is the new direction, and while it incorporates all the tools f...

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Episode 69: Announcing the Shadow Side Leadership Series & Summit in May

Heart Healing from Loss - May 01, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Robin Keesler is an Identity and Self Discovery Coach and she is here with Grief Coach & Specialist Wendy Sloneker to share her own journey of self discovery and finding (and finding again) her identity. Robin believes that we all have the capacity to make change in the world by focusing on hear...

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Episode 68: Girl Hidden, Meeting Author Jesse René Gibbs

Heart Healing from Loss - April 24, 2023 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Today Wendy Sloneker, Grief Specialist & Coach, welcomes a very special guest, Jesse René Gibbs, author of the book Girl Hidden. Jesse shares the traumatic story of her childhood, what it was like discovering the truth about what happened to her, and her journey of healing by finding support and...

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Episode 67: "Grief Is Everywhere In Weight Loss"

Heart Healing from Loss - April 17, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
“Wait,” you say. “Surely healthy, successful weight loss is a cause for celebration, not grief?”  Getting healthier is always a cause for celebration, but as No BS WeightLoss founder Corinne Crabtree tells us, “Grief is everywhere in weight loss.” Friendships and relationships can change, ev...

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Episode 66: Anticipatory Grief & The Peanut

Heart Healing from Loss - April 10, 2023 11:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Today Wendy Sloneker, Grief Coach & Specialist, explains Anticipatory Grief. These are the thoughts and fears about something specific that might be coming or changing, such as a medical diagnosis, a loved one or pet that starts to physically or mentally decline, or the noticing of incremental l...

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Episode 65: Caught in the Middle Can Feel Like a Chronic Illness

Heart Healing from Loss - April 03, 2023 11:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Today Grief Coach & Specialist Wendy Sloneker talks about situations where you might be caught in the middle or at least have the perception of being so. And we all know the “middle” is usually between a rock and a hard place.  “The middle” may be the middle of an uncomfortable situation, it c...

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Episode 64: Serena Hicks Talks Grief & Money Mindset

Heart Healing from Loss - March 27, 2023 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Today on Heart Healing from Loss, Grief Coach Wendy Sloneker welcomes special guest Serena Hicks.  Serena Hicks is a Money Mindset coach and mentor who focuses on connection with others and helping others grow their business by focusing on truth telling, freedom, and rejecting patriarchal prog...

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Episode 63: On Doing New Things, Feeling Like It, and Loss

Heart Healing from Loss - March 20, 2023 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
In this episode of Heart Healing From Loss, Grief Coach Wendy Sloneker talks about being ready to do new things during a season of grief and loss.  Opening yourself up to new things can be a way to navigate difficult feelings and make progress on your journey. However, taking on new things dur...

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Episode 62: Layoffs as Loss...And Worthy of Grieving

Heart Healing from Loss - March 13, 2023 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Today Grief Coach Wendy Sloneker discusses the feelings of grief and loss that come with getting laid off from a job. This is happening to a lot of people in the tech field right now, and it is one of those events in life that brings up a whole lot of feelings, including grief and loss.  Wendy...

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Season 3, Episode 1 - "A Standing Ovation"

Funerals614 - March 03, 2023 21:00 - 56 minutes
Funerals614 is a podcast hosted by Lori Diaz, The Funeral Chic, whose simple goal is to share the FUN in Funerals (Factual, Useful and Noteworthy Information).  On this episode, we discuss funeral personalization.  When a family makes a request for a non-traditional service, we accommodate by pr...

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Episode 61: Trying On New Kinds of Support

Heart Healing from Loss - February 27, 2023 12:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Taking that first step to seek support is a big one! Deciding to take on navigating through grief and loss is challenging enough; finding the right kind of support can be a whole new level of hard.  If you break your arm, you don’t wear someone else’s cast. If you’re ill, you don’t take someon...

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Episode 60: Grief, Sonic Booms, & Golden Yachts

Heart Healing from Loss - February 20, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
"If we try to go with the Nike slogan of 'just do it,' and just, you know, keep pushing through and thinking we're being warriors, we are damaging our mental health, damaging our physical health." Sound familiar? Do you just keep "doing it," pushing forward, moving ahead no matter what it's do...

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Episode 59: What Not To Do On Really Low & Painful Days

Heart Healing from Loss - February 13, 2023 20:54 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Wendy is a little under the weather, so she’s helping us remember how important it is to take care of ourselves. Some days are your “low” days and it is OKAY to have these days. Take care of yourself and give yourself some comfort on a low day. Don’t pressure yourself to be “on” or make big deci...

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Episode 58: Life, with a Splash Lyme: Meet Forest DiMaggio

Heart Healing from Loss - February 06, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Wendy’s guest is Forest Dimaggio and the two of them go WAY back — all the way to kindergarten! Forest shares her journey of five years, 21 doctors, innumerable misdiagnoses and zero relief before she was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2010.  While the news was far from ideal, the mome...

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Episode 57: Feeling Grief Feelings vs. BEING Grief Feelings

Heart Healing from Loss - January 30, 2023 12:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
What is the difference between feeling a feeling and BEING a feeling? If you’re experiencing a lack of progress through your journey with grief and loss, it could be because of being your feeling instead of feeling your feelings. In episode 57, Grief Coach Wendy talks about walking through the...

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Episode 56: Shaking Off Shame About Wants and Needs

Heart Healing from Loss - January 23, 2023 12:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Did you know that when your dog shakes, they are regaining control of their emotions? Unless it's a rainy day, in which case, it's probably just shaking off the wet. Speaking of shaking off emotions, humans can do it too, though maybe not quite as literally.  In this episode, Wendy shares a ...

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Episode 55: Nope. "Being Strong" is Not Required

Heart Healing from Loss - January 16, 2023 16:43 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Nope. You do not have to be strong when going through grief and loss. Sometimes, doing the best you can today is all you have the capacity for. And that’s enough. Grief and navigating loss have nothing to do with strength. Sometimes “being strong” can actually prolong your pain because the def...

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Episode 54: Shifting Our Own Painful Opinions, Even When We're "Right"

Heart Healing from Loss - January 09, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Capacity: When we're in times of change and loss, whatever forms those take in your life, our emotions may feel like they're just too much. You have more capacity than you think. Yes, it's uncomfortable. But learning to jettison what doesn't help you, make space for the things that do (though ...

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Episode 53: A Whole Range of Feelings on the Path to Parenthood

Heart Healing from Loss - January 02, 2023 23:29 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Fertility challenges can come with a whole range of griefs — not just the loss of a pregnancy or the hopes of genetically related children, though those losses can be devastating.  There can also be grief around losing trust in one's body, around decisions made in the past that may or may not ...

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Episode 52: How Will Next Year Be & Feel Better?

Heart Healing from Loss - December 26, 2022 17:57 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
A fresh new year can feel like an opportunity for a fresh start, with all the excitement (and anxiety) that comes with it. That fresh start may require Big Changes. Letting go of toxic emotions, choosing some different paths, shifting a mindset that isn't helping you move forward — all these c...

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Episode 51: Navigating Longing and a Sense of Loss

Heart Healing from Loss - December 19, 2022 12:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Loss means change. And in times of change, there's a feeling of, "It's not what it was" or "It's not what it used to be." We long for the way it used to be. But what is it — specifically — that we're missing or wishing were back to the way it was before? Being specific about the loss or the ch...

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Episode 50: Grief, Loss, and Pomegranates

Heart Healing from Loss - December 12, 2022 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
It's the 50th Episode!!  It takes a team to put a podcast together, and we're celebrating our happy Heart Healing team briefly today, before we get on to pomegranates and what they have to do with grief and loss. So, hoorah to all you listeners, and our gratitude for listening and getting us...

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Episode 49: Transformation Concepts When Navigating Grief — Seeds or Caterpillars

Heart Healing from Loss - December 05, 2022 12:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
The caterpillar-to-butterfly image for transformation is time-honored, but does require the critter in the chrysalis to turn into goo. Maybe the seed is a better metaphor for you? Yes, transformation requires the seed to split open, which seems painful, but when it opens, the seed is no longer...

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Episode 48: The Power and Pleasure of Taking Tiny Breaks

Heart Healing from Loss - November 28, 2022 12:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Holidays are tough. For those of here up north, the days are shorter and darker and the weather is colder. For all of us, there can be so many emotionally loaded memories to contend with. Too much expectation colliding with too much reality. Could tiny breaks scattered through these days hel...

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Episode 47: Indicators of Life When It Feels Like There's No Life

Heart Healing from Loss - November 21, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
"What if the thing that's making you mad is the kernel of truth?" What if grief and loss have left you with a feeling that there's no life left? In this episode, Grief Coach Wendy Sloneker talks about how to start to move past familiar pain and grief and back into life. You can feel your hea...

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Episode 46: Healing from Grief without Pretending

Heart Healing from Loss - November 07, 2022 12:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
"I'm tired of pretending I don't have the feelings I have." Does that feel familiar? Even though you may be grieving, sometimes others make the moment about them, or you may want to hide your feelings to protect others. This can really isolate us, making us feel unseen, unheard, and alone wi...

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Episode 45: Awakened & Conscious, Thanks to Pain, Grief, and Loss

Heart Healing from Loss - October 31, 2022 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
In this episode, Grief Coach Wendy Sloneker remembers people she has known and lost and how their lives and passing have impacted others, including Wendy and her work. Even in remembering those who have passed, we can remember that we aren't alone. Those we remember remain with us. One frien...

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Episode 44: Small Steps, Big Bravery

Heart Healing from Loss - October 24, 2022 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
You may notice that this episode sounds a little different: it was recorded in a car in front of a grocery store. The strangest places can cause all kinds of feelings, including the grocery store, if that's where you spent time with a special person. We all have those ceremonies, which we may ...

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Episode 43: Diagnosis, Loss, & Critical Details

Heart Healing from Loss - October 17, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
A breast cancer diagnosis is a shock to most who hear it. And often our response is simply to allow the medical community to sweep us along into the usual process of treatment. But generally, says expert Carol Lourie, breast cancer is not a surgical emergency. You have some time to listen, to ...

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Episode 42: For Long-Ass Days, Weeks, & Months in Loss and Grief

Heart Healing from Loss - October 11, 2022 00:22 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Does a phrase, a song, a scent, even a number trigger a sweet or silly memory for you?  Those moments of nostalgia can be an opportunity to take a moment out of grief or sadness and remember some sweetness.  And when the weird wibbly wobblyness of grief-time can make a single day stretch for...

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