Learning How to Process Grief in a Landscape of Loss with Dr. Sherry Walling

Your body keeps score. And if you don’t learn ways to release trauma from your body – whether it’s from death or the loss of anything else – this can lead to chronic stress, decreased immune function, difficulty in regulating metabolism, weight gain, and even contribute to cancer, heart disease, and other chronic health problems. But, we’re not taught to navigate grief in our culture. How do we properly heal, balance, and reset our nervous systems? In this episode, JJ talks with Dr. Sherry Walling, a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, author, and mental health advocate. Dr. Walling was catapulted into the world of grief and darkness after she lost her dad to cancer and her brother to alcohol addiction and depression. She needed to find a way to honor the grief and loss, while also staying in the fullness and beauty of life. In our culture, we’re taught to numb out or to get back up and go on with our lives. But we need to learn to grieve better because time doesn’t heal all wounds. “If we don't actively grieve, we're going to passively grieve,” says Dr. Walling. “And that creates a lot of complication for us in our body's systems.” Dr. Walling starts with the simplest place to start navigating grief. Then, she moves into deeper ways to move through our grief actively. When you do address your grief, it can lead to amazing shifts in your physical, mental, and emotional health – and we’re all navigating some type (or types) of grief in our lives. Don’t miss this empowering, uplifting conversation that we all need to hear! Full show notes: jjvirgin.com/sherry Read Dr. Walling's book Touching Two Words: A Guide for Finding Hope in the Landscape of Loss: https://www.amazon.com/Touching-Two-Worlds-Finding-Landscape-ebook/dp/B09JRSQC12 Read Dr. Gabor Mate’s book, When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection:  https://www.amazon.com/When-Body-Says-Understanding-Stress-Disease/dp/0470923350 Listen to my podcast: When Stored Trauma Is Driving Our Health & Our Life with Aime Apigian: https://jjvirgin.com/main-podcast/trauma-responses-with-aimie-apigian-ep-466/ Learn more about Dr. Sherry Walling: https://www.sherrywalling.com/ Learn more about Dr. Joe Dispenza’s programs:  https://drjoedispenza.com/ Listen to Dr. Sherry’s playlist to soothe and encourage you in the darkest moments of grief. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0D54J2QG6HRw4UooIv7XxJ?si=a92a802155694506

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