Grief Busting is a special on Meanderings with Trudy where we’ll look at the myths around grief and bereavement. These unscripted conversations are like a dance: we jump around the topic of grief and bereavement in service of deepening our understanding, and our connection to joy.
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:
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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