Episode 23: Grief Anniversaries
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Sometimes a regular day turns into a day that turns your world upside down. It can be due to death of a loved one, loss of a business or a job, or a significant change in identity.
Loss or Grief Anniversaries may include conflicting feelings too. One example that comes easily to mind is when someone dies after a long decline. Feelings of relief for caregivers or loved ones still here on the planet may come up. This is a natural response. No need to apologize at all for human feelings here. Join me as I share briefly on Grief Anniversaries. There's more to be said on this topic, AND this makes a good start. |
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BONUS: What the Hell Happened in September (& Half of October?)
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In a word... Shingles.
And, I'm so glad to be on the other side of it. There was a tremendous amount of... ahem... new experience that happened during this first-ever bout of the Shingles Virus. I share a wee bit about it. There was pain (in this case, nerve pain), discomfort, and a significant need for rest. Plus, I was finishing up a 3-month training intensive at The Life Coach School. It was a lot. Just like life. And I'm glad to be back here with you now! Listen to my short bonus about Shingles in September. |
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Episode 22: Waiting for "The Right Time" to Feel Your Feelings
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What happens when you don't feel your feelings? They can make themselves known in other ways — maybe you reach for a comfort food or drink. Maybe your body simply refuses to do what you ask of it until you've taken care of unfinished business. In this episode, I talk pretty personally about the potential repercussions of ignoring Big Important Feelings for too long... as in, what happened when I kept resisting my own... And then, yes, the relief of working through emotions and dealing with the circumstances behind them. |
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Episode 21: On Not Repeating the Same Relationships After Losses
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Let's get right into it... with Matchmaker and Intuitive Eye Reader... Laureli Shimayo of Thrive-Wise! We are talking about healthy anger, not repeating patterns, and how to approach dating again after a loss. Whether you're getting back into the dating world after a death, divorce, breakup or other loss... this episode shares about actionable tools and choices in next steps. |
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Episode 20: Building Trust After Loss... With a Business Lens
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What about businesses who are looking to build trust with clients (old and new) in this time of unclear, uncertain pandemic-times? I'm so excited to introduce you to Erin MacCoy of Erin MacCoy Coaching! In this episode, we talk about how she helps business owners manage connection, vulnerability, risk, and building trust. As we all navigate and hopefully emerge from this time of loss, grief, and change, what is a "heart-centered business" and how can it help us all integrate our humanity with our work? |
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Episode 19: Loss of Creativity
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For creatives, or those who identify as more enthused on a regular basis... when a loss of creativity is suffered, it is a form of grief.
There can be a loss of energy, vitality, identity, not to mention inspiration. There was for me. This is the episode where I share more about what my personal loss of creativity was like and then how I got it back. It's a whole new relationship with creativity now... and with myself on the whole. |
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Episode 18: Addiction, Loss, Grief, and Recovery
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In this episode, D.J. and Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist Wendy Sloneker talk about how grief and trauma intersect, often destructively.
"You're asking me to give up what makes me feel good. That's the grief." D.J. Burr is a psychotherapist and licensed mental health counselor who specializes in sex and love addiction, clinical trauma, codependency, gaming, and other behavioral addiction concerns. Learn how people seek to numb rather than heal themselves and how the right help can get you on a path to recovery and wellness. This is an amazing episode... I loved this conversation... and I hope you do too! - ws |
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Episode 17: Pet Loss and Griffin's Heart
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If you've ever lost a beloved companion animal, you know how deep the grief can go — and probably how painful it is when others minimize your sadness with, "It was just a dog/cat/bird/horse/etc."
Reagan Pasternak's Griffin's Heart: Mourning Your Pet With No Apologies is more than just a book. It's a healing journal, a workbook, a keepsake, and a loving memoir to her soul animal, Griffin. In this podcast, Wendy talks with author and actor Reagan J. Pasternak about the unique, powerful, and precious love we humans can have with our animal family members. And how we need to respect that relationship and the grief that comes when our animal is gone. If you've loved and lost, whether that's a human, an animal, a job, or a house, grief is still grief and needs to be worked through. When you're ready to move through your personal grief and release the pain of loss, schedule your Connection Call with Wendy. |
Author Reagan Pasternak shares about the unique connection there is to be had between companion animals and people. Get Griffin's Heart: Mourning Your Pet With No Apologies.
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Episode 16: Better Than a Trip To the Dentist...Very funny, and also helpful, in this episode we welcome Michael Georghegan to our ears. Grounded and easy, this conversation shares about getting legal affairs, medical directives, and estate plans in order ... and why we tend to procrastinate getting them done.
We touch on these elements in a candid way, without timelines, "have-to's" or shame... Truly, please listen in... and laugh with us a little bit too! Looking to connect with Michael? Find him here... and say hi from me when you call! Ready to release emotional pain with me? Connect with me now. |
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Episode 15: What Is Anticipatory Grief?... And Do I Have It?
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Change is coming — big change.
It might even be a happy change. But any change can bring grief with it. And that unsettling feeling of knowing something big is coming can jump start the grieving process before the reason for the grief has even occurred. Watching a beloved parent or friend or pet getting older, reaching the end of our time at a job, packing up and saying goodbye to a neighborhood and home, dreading a day of work that can be fraught with its own kinds of loss — they hurt. Can we manage the hurt we have now and the hurt that's to come? We can. In this episode, Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist Wendy Sloneker talks us through the signs and symptoms that we may be grieving already, in anticipation of loss that hasn't happened yet. And she provides tools to help us manage the process and the pain. Have a listen, then find Wendy at HeartHealingFromLoss.com for more help, health, and healing. |
What is Anticipatory Grief? And... do I have it?
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Episode 14: Grief Recovery for Lawyers with Heather Horton
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What if the peoples who work in the legal field (the long and wide legal field) had the tools, support, and skills in creating capacity for themselves to further serve the world?
Heather D. Horton, a colleague and Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist talks about what the world could be like if lawyers, attorneys, paralegals, even judges and other providers knew - and practiced - the Grief Recovery Method®. Heather prepped a few notes for you too... Click for the PDF. |
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Episode 13: Physical & Emotional Scars... & Non-Surgical Treatments
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We go in deep and talk about physical and emotional scars and how the body holds grief or loss events when they aren't emotionally processed. The body does so much!
When the heart becomes clear, and scars are treated (either physical or emotional), both body and heart become lighter... freer. Join me for this candid, lovely talk with Dr. Sierra Storm of Rise Regenerative Medicine. Definitely check out her Scar Solution Masterclass. |
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Episode 12: "Grief Clutter"... do you have it?
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This is a fascinating realm... and it includes... well, stuff.
Stuff you may have gotten, inherited, assumed, or even brought into your home or lifespace to store for someone else. But what frequently happens is, the stuff gets mired into your own life and space... and it gets heavy. There's guilt, grief, loss, and... attachment. Some of this stuff is stuff you don't even want anymore... this is what we're talking about with pro-organizer, Katrina Hamilton. |
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Episode 11: Trish Throop talks grief, loss, & other emotions when a parent's life or health changes
Change is tough to navigate... it's a special kind of tough when you are an adult watching a parent (or two) navigate their own aging, declining health, or facing a move they don't want.
Tough on the adult kids, and tough on the aging parents as well... just in different ways.
We're talking with Trish Throop about losses of many kinds when it comes to eldercare and change.
Listen in now.
Tough on the adult kids, and tough on the aging parents as well... just in different ways.
We're talking with Trish Throop about losses of many kinds when it comes to eldercare and change.
Listen in now.
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Episode 10: How the body holds grief... with Soma BodyWorker Chad Kelderman
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The body knows. The things you may have pushed from your consciousness, the things you've dampened down, the things you've ignored, sometimes for years or even decades -- the body has its own memory, and it doesn't forget.
In this episode of Heart Healing from Loss, Chad Kelderman of SOMA Bodywork talks with Grief Recovery expert Wendy Sloneker about how the body holds grief, even grief you may think you put behind you. We know that touch can release deep emotions: think of the power of a hug on a bad day, or a high five in celebration, a kiss, an arm around the shoulders. Now imagine the healing power of touch and manipulation by someone who understands that connection. Do your joints burn? Is your chest tight? Do your neck and shoulders just ache? Of course there can be physical reasons for all these feelings, but discounting the emotional causes can mean locking yourself in for suffering physical and emotional pain longer than you should. Listen to the episode, then find relief with Chad Kelderman at SOMABodywork.net and Grief Recovery with Wendy Sloneker at HeartHealingFromLoss.com. |
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Episode 9: Her results after working through the Grief Recovery Method
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Just a few episodes ago... #5, to be exact... Nikole Stanfield shared about what she was hoping to attain, achieve... and release before her first session of the Grief Recovery Method.
She's come back to generously share her results, takeaways, and insights just moments after completing the final session in my program... Session 8. Listen in... and thank you, Nikole! |
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Episode 8: Over 2020? Yeah, me neither...
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We are taught to rush ourselves through loss events... for many reasons. One might be that others are uncomfortable in witnessing grief and heartbreak. We may have also been taught to see feeling sad as behaving badly (it's not).
I'm certainly still not "over 2020" and all of the losses that came about during that year. And I share this here. Mostly for those who may be feeling alone or lonely in the same feeling... and partly so I can hear myself say it out loud. Nope. Still not over 2020. So, this episode is a bit of a check in with you... and a little insight into previews of what's to come regarding grief work, services, and programs for parents who want to Help Children with Loss. |
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Episode 7: Finding yourself amidst grief
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Relationship coach, enneagram master, and all-around excellent human Kathy Clayton joins me for a candid chat in this episode.
When a grief event happens, it's all too easy to get kinda lost... time changes, feelings change as we try to make sense or meaning of what happened. This is part of what we cover in this episode. Won't you join us? |
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Episode 6: A surprising, pervasive, & undiscussed grief event... Moving
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Moving house can bring about feelings of loss. It may seem easier to understand this if and when a move must be made.
But an intentional move can also bring about feelings of loss and sadness. Real estate expert Ericka Hardwick and I talk about moving and real estate and grief in this episode. Click & listen in... you might be surprised. |
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Episode 5: What she is looking to get out of learning the Grief Recovery Method®
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Excited for you to meet a lovely person: it's Nikole!
Nikole Stanfield. She is an intuition coach and burn out expert. She generously offered to talk about what she is looking to get out of learning the Grief Recovery Method® with me. We are actually beginning work together before the New Year turns over... And... you might be interested to hear why Nikole isn't waiting for January 1 to learn how to move beyond the pain of her losses. Thank you, Nikole, for your generosity in sharing... Thank you, dear listeners, for joining us :) |
Meet Nikole Stanfield
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Episode 4: Quick tips for navigating grief during winter holiday season
A short listen with big tips about navigating the holidays. Chances are good that this winter season may be, and feel, like none other. I have 2 practical, quick-to-use ideas about how to identify capacity and head off overwhelm and/or anxiety... especially if you're in a bit of a "feelings fog."
Thanks for listening. Hoping this episode helps!
Thanks for listening. Hoping this episode helps!
Episode 3: Grief, loss, food, and freedomJoin lucky, lucky me as I welcome Catherine Dickson of Rise Holistic Health as we talk about grief, loss, food, food behaviors, and the holidays. Welcome, Catherine!
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Welcome Catherine Dickson to the show!
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Episode 2: Do I have unresolved grief due to various losses? How will I know?
Can a person experience unresolved grief when their loved one (or less-than-loved-one) is still alive? What about carrying a broken heart over a divorce, loss, or death that happened months, years, or decades ago?
The answers... Yep. And yep.
In this podcast you'll discover how to identify, name, and understand more about any personal unresolved grief.
Why would you want to do that?
In order to clearly make the next choice - or take the next step - toward moving beyond the pain that comes from loss.
Click and listen now...I'm with you, every step... -w
The answers... Yep. And yep.
In this podcast you'll discover how to identify, name, and understand more about any personal unresolved grief.
Why would you want to do that?
In order to clearly make the next choice - or take the next step - toward moving beyond the pain that comes from loss.
Click and listen now...I'm with you, every step... -w
Episode 1: Death is not required to grieve
It's early on in this podcast, so with the intention of offering clarity and getting (and staying) on the same page... let's get specific about a few terms. Getting clear about grief and loss, even though these are not sexy or fun topics, will help us to identify and move through a little easier... perhaps even a little quicker.
There may be an idea or two in this episode that shifts your thinking & perspective on loss...
There may be an idea or two in this episode that shifts your thinking & perspective on loss...
Episode 0: Whyyy would we talk about death, grief, & loss?
The intro-episode with a little bit of my story. And more about why I choose to work in the realm of grief, death, and loss, which is a part of the realm of the heart.
Thank you for listening.
Wholeheartedly,
w
Thank you for listening.
Wholeheartedly,
w