Grief, Relationship & the Heart

Grief can be bad for us, but can it also be good for us? In 2016, after actress Carrie Fischer died, her mom, actress Debbie Reynolds, died two days later. People said she'd died of a broken heart. Did you know that grief can negatively impact your physical heart? But our experience of grief can also promote heart health and enhance emotional resilience as well as feelings of connection, belonging, joy, and even love in the midst of it. How we relate to the experience shapes how we're impacted by it.

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Parenting can lead us to a threshold in life we hadn’t known before. We're bringing into the parenting dynamic with our kids the momentum of our previous experiences - our resources and resilience, as well as our disconnection and disembodiment due to trauma (individual, familial, cultural, historical & intergenerational).  Beyond the challenges we face to parent in ways we may not have been parented, there is a deep love for our children that wants to be expressed and known in presence with them. There's also a yearning in us to experience that deep love ourselves; to feel our power and to live authentically, just as we yearn to protect that for our kids, too. The urgency to heal what's still alive within us might come up with a force because of them, and yet it's ultimately a reclamation of our life force, vitality, joy, connection and creativity we're most hungry for. It’s sometimes a desire bold as love that fuels our courage to meet what we fear to face.