Latest Griefmom Podcast Episodes
97: Healthy vs Unhealthy Competition
Scar Tissue - January 28, 2021 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa breaks down the dark and light side of competition to explain how society can negatively position competition and how you can shift energy to allow competition to be a place of growth and inspiration. About this podcast Each episode we abandon our comfort zones to get a little gutsy an...
96: Two Steps For More Energy
Scar Tissue - January 14, 2021 15:41 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa explains a crucial observation she made early in her grief days when she didn’t have the energy to “spare.” She offers two steps for integrating this concept so you can have more energy no matter where you are at on your journey. About this podcast Each episode we abandon our comfort ...
95: Relationships - Real Talk
Scar Tissue - January 07, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa gets into the nitty-gritty of relationships. You will hear of tools she has coached to help you find more clarity and happiness in your relationships. And then she goes beyond that to tell you the ONE foundational piece needed for happiness in relationships, what to let go of, and how to...
94: Releasing Leyden’s Soul, Part 2 - The Ceremony
Scar Tissue - December 24, 2020 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa builds off last week to take you through a deeply rooted ceremony that draws on the door directions and elements of life. She shares the most challenging and surprising part of it, when she was really tested was the moment she wanted to quit. And helps you consider how you can integrate ...
93: I Released Leyden's Soul - Why & How
Scar Tissue - December 17, 2020 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa shares the hardest part of her grief journey since losing Leyden - the conscious decision to release Leyden's soul. In this episode, she explains what it means to do this, what signs she had that led her to this path, and the resistance she felt in doing so. She relates it to varying par...
92: How to Handle A Non-Traditional Holiday Season
Scar Tissue - November 19, 2020 11:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa connects grief, life, holidays, and the implications of the pandemic, this holiday season to support you in navigating it to feel your best and most connected. She offers action steps for you to take and shares suggested resources to go deeper and best prepare for the heightened emotions...
91: Show Up For Your Pain - Here's How and WHY
Scar Tissue - November 12, 2020 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsHonoring the loss of her grandmother, Melissa abandoned the planned podcast episode and talks straight from the heart, explaining how to show up for your pain through different steps and gets into why it's so important to do so. Not only did doing so allow her to transform from avoiding her gran...
90: Real Talk - Wine or Wine Not, In Grief (and Life)
Scar Tissue - November 05, 2020 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa gets real and raw talking about the energetics behind alcohol as related to grief and life. She expands the same principle to other "defaults" people can gravitate to such as shopping, food, relationships, and more. And she offers her own experience as well as space for you to reflect on...
89: Your Grief (and Life) Depth Chart
Scar Tissue - October 29, 2020 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa teaches you how to create your grief (and life) depth chart to understand how to adjust your responses and explanations to people based on the depth of the relationship. She also identifies three different levels of depth for the people in your life - so that you can connect more meaning...
88: How business building relates to my grief journey, part 2
Scar Tissue - October 22, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsLast week Melissa introduced you to two of the loudest behind-the-scenes voices in building out her work and while this was a big part of her professional journey, it's also been a big part of her personal journey. In this episode, she dives into what to do when things get bumpy and aren't goin...
87: How business building relates to my grief journey - an interview with my first coaches
Scar Tissue - October 15, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsIn this joint episode with 90DAYCEO, Mooch and Melissa are taking it back to the early days of their business building with their very first business coaches, Bowie and Brian. Get ready to hear about the roadblocks Mooch and Mel faced, what made them coachable, how to break through plateaus, and...
86: Losing Leyden to NEC - what and how
Scar Tissue - October 08, 2020 10:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsAs a member of the Board of Directors for the NEC Society, Melissa speaks out to share Leyden’s story to help others understand trauma, anticipated grief, unanticipated grief, and how deadly the disease necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) truly is. Thank you for listening to share in Leyden’s story ...
85: The Power of Saying Yes - an interview with Dawn Canada
Scar Tissue - September 25, 2020 22:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa closes out Interview Interval week with an incredible story. Dawn Canada shares the impact of trauma and substance abuse in her life, relationships, and more. And how that has transformed into her doing the work, to now helping others, do it too. About this podcast Each episode we aban...
84: Defuncting Shame to Step Into Power - an interview with Margaret Ames
Scar Tissue - September 25, 2020 22:05 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa goes deep behind the scenes in an interview with a 1:1 coaching client who talks about the difficulty she experienced sharing her truth from fear, embarrassment, and shame - and the freedom and power she found from finding the tools to do so. About this podcast Each episode we abandon ...
83: Two Reasons We Make Assumptions & How To Stop
Scar Tissue - September 17, 2020 09:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsAssumptions are very common. And very exhausting. Melissa breaks down 2 main reasons WHY we are conditioned to make assumptions and offers ways to break free of that conditioning. When you do, you'll save energy and exhaustion and cultivate more compassion and trust. ##About this podcast Each ...
82: How To/How Not To Support Others in Grief
Scar Tissue - September 03, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa shares the dynamics that go into play when you are feeling loss or pain, while also supporting someone who may have been more directly related to the loss. She teaches you how to create ways for both you and the person you are supporting to grieve productively and shares two examples of ...
81: Four Ways to Start Journaling Productively
Scar Tissue - August 27, 2020 09:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa teaches how and why most of our society journals unproductively, which is often subconsciously why people avoid journaling. You’ll learn four types of journaling and how to integrate each differently based on your needs. Melissa shares the hardest aspect of journaling through her loss an...
80: What Lasagna Teaches Us About Giving In Grief & Life
Scar Tissue - August 20, 2020 09:30 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa uses lasagna and the principles of giving and receiving to show you how to receive more abundantly and to give more intentionally. When you do, you and the people you are connected to will find more fulfillment, ease, and joy. ##About this podcast Each episode we abandon our comfort zo...
79: Keep Going - Understanding the Breakthrough Moment
Scar Tissue - August 13, 2020 12:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsKeep going. Melissa shares a powerful story of two words from a friend that changed her trajectory and teaches you how the moment of wanting to quit can actually be an incredible breakthrough moment for you, too. ##About this podcast Each episode we abandon our comfort zones to get a little gu...
78: The Cost of Perpetually Positive
Scar Tissue - August 06, 2020 09:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa breaks down how the obsession with being perpetually positive or pretending like everything is ok, does major harm to our growth. She teaches how it is a major source of anxiety, shame, depression, unhappiness…and by talking about it more and taking certain action steps, you can shift to...
77: “Must Be Nice” No More
Scar Tissue - July 30, 2020 09:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsWhether you have ever heard "must be nice" said to you, or felt it towards someone else, this episode is for you! Melissa takes you out of the shame of that phrase and into your power. In this episode you will learn: Where "Must Be Nice" comes from What it is telling you How to respond to ot...
76: Your Core Values = Your Core Asset
Scar Tissue - July 23, 2020 10:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsIf you’ve ever struggled with feeling like you are letting people down, this is for you. If you’ve gotten stuck in trying to “prove” what is wrong or right, this is for you. If you’ve felt hurt because someone didn’t agree with you or your choices, this is for you. If you’re like Melissa and don...
75: Dependency Is Like A Drug - Understanding Relationship Dynamics
Scar Tissue - July 16, 2020 09:28 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa gets into the creaks and cracks of relationships - what makes them dependent and what makes them growth-producing. She shares a way to tease out what role different relationships play in your life and how to make shifts to make them even more powerful. And she might also ruin love songs ...
74: Personal Responsibility, The Encore - Why It's Not Fun and So Worth It
Scar Tissue - July 09, 2020 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa goes deeper into the popular, and also not so popular, topic of personal responsibility to offer two ways that you can begin to integrate it into your life. She shows you how doing so will transform you from reactionary to feeling empowered in control. By mastering this for yourself, you...
73: Personal Responsibility is the WORST
Scar Tissue - July 02, 2020 09:55 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa shares how much she loathed a concept taught by Louise Hay - that of personal responsibility. Melissa shares how letting go of the "icky" feeling of the term, the concept itself, changed her grief journey, then her life journey - and how it can begin to do the same for you. ##About this...
72: Forgiving The Unforgivable
Scar Tissue - June 25, 2020 10:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsYou asked, Melissa is answering - how do you forgive the unforgivable? Leyden's case was termed a "catastrophe" and Melissa is teaching you how to move forward in such devastating circumstances - whether, for a situation of medical care or loss or something in your day-to-day, this process will ...
71: The Afterlife is Life's Teacher - An Interview with Dr. Raymond Moody
Scar Tissue - June 18, 2020 21:40 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsIn an emotional interview, Melissa meets with Dr.Raymond Moody, philosopher, psychologist, physician, and author, most widely known for his study of life after death and near-death experiences (NDE). Melissa met Dr.Moody in her infamous quest to understand grief when she traveled out of the coun...
70: 4 Tools For These Transformative Times
Scar Tissue - June 11, 2020 10:19 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsThe protests and push for social justice as a result of the unveiling of the previously unknown or ignored injustices, impacts people differently. It's important to honor and make space for that. Melissa shares 4 tools that will help you through a wide range of emotions and reactions to help you...
70: 4 Tools For These Transformative Times
Scar Tissue - June 11, 2020 10:19 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsMelissa shares 4 tools that will help you through a wide range of emotions and reactions to help you best navigate this time. She reminds us that we all need to individually feel our best to collectively give our best.
69: Your Pain Is Your Power - An Interview With Pharaoh
Scar Tissue - May 28, 2020 10:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsPharaoh joins Melissa today to talk about all things manifestation, growth, pain, and power. He dives deep not only into how at a young age he set out to hit incredibly ambitious goals (and did) but how he was still craving something more. Pharaoh shares how fasting has played an integral part i...
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