Body Grieves, Spirit Calls: Recent Episodes
Grace Bella Harman
An open-ended exploration of the relationship between grief, embodiment and spirituality. By nature, loss changes our perspective on life and death, and can often lead to an opening, deepening or awakening of a connection to something greater, a shift in our personal conception and experience of spirituality. I'm interested in the role of embodiment in this process. This podcast includes personal anecdotes from my own experience of grieving and guiding embodied grief processing for others as well as interviews with others who are walking their own grief path. May it nourish you deeply.
Pablo Cerdera is a Restorative Justice (RJ) Practitioner and Educator and serves as the Deputy Director of Restorative Practices at the University of Pennsylvania. They live on the Indigenous territory known as Lenapehoking, the traditional homelands of the Lenape or Delaware People, in what is now called West Philadelphia. They are committed to sharing the restorative approach and firmly believe in the power to transform harm, promote meaningful accountability, and develop strong and healthy communities through this approach.
In this heartfelt conversation, Pablo and I get into:
- how grief manifests when we are "intellectualizers"
- the breakdown of their last relationship and how it forced them to grapple with the fact that their brain can’t make all the choices
- the gift of having friends who can receive and sit with our ugliness
- the Ojibwa/Anishinaabe medicine circle that they were taught and their orientation to body, mind, heart and spirit
- neglecting body in the relationship, through skin and muscles “you’re not with me”. Looking at self and not recognizing self.
- the difference between choosing to listen to grief and not having a choice
- their parallel griefs as an anti-zionist Jewish person around the unfolding genocide in Gaza
- the ways that grief and trauma can make people turn inwards that can lead them to make harmful decisions and how generational trauma blinds people to reality.
- The way that grief work helped them access anger
- Voice, song and sound as both expression of and expulsion of grief and how doing it in community shows what is available
- How grief helped move them from being in denial of their spirituality towards a deep relationship with their jewish religion and spirituality
- Spirit as is the truth of connection and the tug in their chest
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In this heart opening conversation with Ruthann Gagnon, we explore:
- What heart forward grief feels like
- What it means to respect the process of the the body and the gems we've gathered from the caves of grief
- How and why experiencing grief as an intelligent litmus test of the depth and safety of relationships
- Being sangry (sad + angry) about how grief is so feared in this culture
- How embodiment grows self compassion, love and forgiveness for ourselves and others
- Doing nothing and un-tooling as integration practice
- Working out for the emotional body
- How working for herself opens up the space to feel grief and her daily prayer for meeting it
- What becomes possible when we make a practice of sitting with and stepping through the void/wreath of grief
Ruthann has spent much of her career strategizing and catalyzing creative efforts through organized, thoughtful and collaborative architecture. With two decades of retreat, workshop and event production, she comes the logistical experience to create experiences, alongside the deeper emotional and creative skills to help other find the radiance and confidence needed to execute ideas into reality. She is also extremely passionate about the power of culinary creativity and integrates cooking into her work wherever she can.She currently works with individuals, groups and companies as a creative strategist and ideas architect and is also the co-founder of DEIcipher, a consulting group focused on embodied DEI initiatives in the wellness industry and beyond.
You can connect with Ruthann and her work at https://www.deicipher.com/ and on IG @rubygagnon
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Thanks for being.
In this sweet conversation with my dear soul sister Morgan, we dive into:
- the holiness of holding something that’s painful
- the way that grief quiets the self and expands the senses and literal physiology
- the surrender that grief demands and the growth towards vulnerability, growth and connection to the collective suffering that this surrender allows when it is given the space to move
- the sisterly currents of grief and creativity-both carry God, and are a source of inner guidance that she continues to court
- how her journey with physical pain tested her relationship to spirit and how she found her way back the elastic malleability of this lifelong relationship
- the way that physical pain and grief work as sharpening agents and clarify other relationships
- and how daily dipping in the cold Maine ocean grew her capacity to be with discomfort
Morgan Mitchell is a Creatress. Her work seeks to nurture well-being and wonder through experimental art and nourishing creative community experiences. You can stay connected with her through instagram @morganmitchellcreates and through her website morganmitchell.co
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Thanks for being.
Enjoy this special Q&A episode, where I talk about the importance of ritual, the difference between grief and trauma in the body, the relationship between alcoholism and grief and more.
I hope it feeds you.
Thanks in advance for sharing, subscribing and leading reviews. It helps so much.
If you are ready to step into your wholeness, not in spite of but because of your grief, my 1:1 Moving into Wholeness program is open for enrollment, with new sessions available to begin as early as August. Read more and apply here.
The in person Yoni Alchemy for Grief Transformation group container here in New Orleans will also begin with the full moon in the first week of August. Read more and apply here if you'd like to join.
And! I'm so honored to be hosting a sweet 4 hour Move Your Grief gathering on Sunday July 2nd from 10-1 in Corbett, OR. Limited spots are available, and you can register here if it calls.
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To stay connected to my work, follow me on Instagram and Tiktok @moveyourgrief, check out my website and subscribe to the Grief Letter.
Thanks for being.
Lillian Kemanis is an Artist and Registered Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist who’s work centers around cultivating self-discovery through somatic awareness, movement, and creativity. She is aims to provide immersive, creative, fun, and dynamic learning environments for individual and group exploration. Her teachings are rooted in her dance-making, performance work, and somatic and spiritual informed practice.
You can connect with Lillian and find out more about her offerings at https://www.lilliankemanis.com/
Tina is passionate about being a Ghost Helper: Teaching the Living to Help the Dead®.She wants to empower us all to help all ghosts: this is the compassion we will want forourselves, by using The Crossing Over Prayer© on GhostHelpers.com and in “TheCrossing Over Prayer Book©.” When a psychic only connects to a dead person, theghost does not receive the critical assistance they desperately need. Tina has studiedmetaphysics all her life, gaining insight into the mystical world of magic and spirituality.The author of eight books on metaphysics, her writing comes from an intense desire toknow and understand the hard science behind the unseen world of action and reactioncombined with a sincere desire to share this understanding with other knowledgeseekers. Her lifelong studies into the deeper meaning of events and actions were furtherenhanced by the experiences of a dynamic 20-year career in the Navy, working for theU.S. Submarine Force, retiring at the Commander level.
You can connect with Tina via her website https://tinaerwin.com/
Murielle Fellous was born and raised in France and lived twenty five years in the US where she raised 3 kids as a single mom. She coached women on relationships for years but when her kids became teenagers acting in self-destructive ways, she found herself in deep fear and depression. The experience was so painful and debilitating that she promised herself that she would do everything she could so that no mom would suffer alone!
She helps single moms with teenagers avoid spiraling into:
- Constant arguments
- Fear
- Guilt
- Shame
- Overwhelm
- Anxiety
- Depression
Murielle teaches tools to co-parent with the universe.
To stay connected with Murielle, visit her website at https://www.coparentingwiththeuniverse.com/
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To stay connected to my work, follow me on Instagram and Tiktok @moveyourgrief, check out my website and subscribe to the Grief Letter.
Thanks for being.
What does it mean to mother without a mother? How does this particular grief impact the experience of mothering?
In this conversation with clinical psychologist and coach Melissa Reilly, we explore the specific terrain of being a mother without a loving mom, including:
-Melissa's long time experience of grief
-how grief showed up for her when she was pregnant and postpartum (and how she didn't realize at first that it was grief)
-some particular patterns and community support that is essential for moms without moms to pay attention to and gather around
-the difference between being hurt and being wounded
-the pro-social nature of grief
-and why she's so fired up about supporting moms at this specific juncture
To stay connected with Melissa, visit her website at https://www.momswithoutamom.com/
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To stay connected to my work, follow me on Instagram and Tiktok @moveyourgrief, check out my website and subscribe to the Grief Letter.
Thanks for being.
As the Purposeful Action (Men)tor for the Awakened Man movement, Alain has been on a mission as the beacon for what it means to live an authentic life. For the past three decades, Alain has lived the highs of the Culinary Olympics to the lows of losing it all…almost twice. Today, Alain's purpose is to guide men to rediscover their life's mission starting with a purposeful action plan called: The Return of The King that sets the stage for their Hero's Quest. His mission is to raise the consciousness of men to look both inward and upward for the answers to life's biggest question. Who am I and what is my purpose?
In this conversation, we discuss:
-the journey of grief that got him to this point
-how grief can often feel like anxiety
-the way that being socialized as a man makes it difficult to access vulnerability
-the way that his grief guides him in his work with the men he serves
I'm so honored to share this conversation with you today.
To connect with Alain, visit his website at https://www.theawakenedman.net/ and follow him on instagram @theawakenedman2020
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To stay connected to my work, follow me on Instagram and Tiktok @moveyourgrief, check out my website and subscribe to the Grief Letter.
Thanks for being.
Ash Marshall-O'Dell is the Pranic Reiki™founder, a shaman, Dynamic Change Energy Facilitator, Certified Access Consciousness® Bars Practitioner, spiritual teacher and mentor, empath, psychic medium, certified personal coach, Light Worker, Reiki master & teacher, meditation facilitator, meditative artist, crystal therapist, master’s degree teacher, writer, and author of the book Light Bound: A Healer’s Journey through Trauma, C PTSD, and Anxiety. She is also a wife and mother of both human and furry kids, animal lover, avid learner and reader, poetry dabbler, crystal lover, gardener, tea drinker, coffee & dark chocolate addict, chakra dancer, Earth Lover, spirit and nature communer, journaler, omniest, enlightenment seeker, deep diver, and Divine Feminine channel.
In this heart-full conversation, Ash and I discuss:
-the profound changes that happen & the freedom that opens up When we love the our own grief
-How becoming a mother guided her to process all of her emotions, including grief, so she wouldn’t pass on the patterns that had been a part of her upbringing
-her journey of moving into providing healing work for others
-the way spirit moves us, sometimes in surprising ways, that force us to reckon with our beliefs about ourselves
And so much more!
To connect with Ash and her offerings, visit her website and check out her instagram @sacredjourneyswithash
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If you have ever or are currently processing the grief associated with leaving a spiritual or cult like community, this episode is for you.
Meditation teacher and mentor Neil McKinlay generally walks us through his own grief journey following the experience of leaving his community and:
~ the way this has impacted his awareness of his life and the path he is meant to take
~the way his grief wisdom has become deeply interwoven with the work he does in the world
~his embodied experience of collective grief
~ the impact of these experiences on the way he holds space for others
You can follow him on Instagram @neilmckinlaymeditates and learn more about his online gathering community here
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Kamariah Hopkins is a professional counselor in Illinois and Wisconsin. She is in her ninth year of clinical practice and loves walking with others during their mental health journey. Kamahria’s practice, Where Practical Meets Magical, is focused on the modern mystic wanting to work on authentic self, inner child connection and creative expression. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology with an emphasis in Somatics. She resides in Chicagoland with her 5-year-old son and her 10-year-old mini schnauzer.
In this episode, Kamariah and I chat about
--> her experience working with hospice
--> the loss that led to her spiritual transformation
--> the experience of being at odds with her body in grief and the power of rooting down into relationship
--> disenfranchised grief
--> The tools that she uses in her work with clients and how her own grief experiences inform her work.
To connect with Kamariah, check out her website and follow her on Instagram @where.practical.meets.magical
To stay connected to my work, follow me on Instagram and Tiktok @moveyourgrief, check out my website and subscribe to the Grief Letter.
To become a patron and experience the power of this embodied work for yourself, join the Grief Village.
Former Emotional Hot Mess and World Class Awfulizer, Jennifer Moore supports other highly sensitive intuitive women to release empathic overwhelm and distress so they can access their inner wisdom and power. Jen brings over thirty years of experience to her work where she merges practicality, intuition & skill to offer insight, guidance & emotional freedom to those she serves. Jen is an Accredited Master Trainer for EFT International, founder of the Empathic Mastery Academy, author of Amazon Bestseller Empathic Mastery, host of the Empathic Mastery Show and is the creator of two oracle decks & the photographic Healing Tarot.
To learn more about Jen and her work visit
http://empathicmastery.com
In this conversation we dive into the rich tapestry of grief together, including:
-Our cultural avoidance of death and the unnatural push to do more rather than be with grief
-Why you shouldn't try to tap/practice EFT your way out of grief
-How exhausting grief is, and the reminder that coming up against this wall is natural and normal
-how her ancestry and her parent's responses to their grief impacted her approach to her own grief
-the connection between early loss and the development of her psychic abilities
-what she means by "good grief" and "good death" and how our relationship with the dead + our own emotional healing impacts this
-how understanding love languages has impacted her life and her grief
-why we can't only talk/cognitively process our way through emotional experiences
-How compounded grief shows up and the love and grace we need to give ourselves in these situations
To connect with me and my work, including my upcoming Standing with Grief course for therapists and other practitioners, follow me on instagram and tiktok @moveyourgrief, visit my website and/or become a patron and join the grief village.
Become a monthly subscriber & receive access to bonus episodes on a broader range of grief related content here.
Endless gratitude.
Ifetayo ‘Ife’ is a clinical professional counselor, dance/movement therapist, artist, instructor and group fitness professional. She is also the proud owner of Ase (Ah-Shay) Counseling and Wellness, a private practice based in Chicago, IL. As a Chicago native Ife’s passion for dance and healing began within the African drum and dance community of Chicago. Ife went on to study a variety of other dance styles, however traditional West African and Caribbean dance remained her passion and inspiration. As a result Ifetayo completed her Master’s thesis at Columbia College of Chicago on the innate healing properties and therapeutic aspects of West African dance for people of the African diaspora in a community setting. It is Ife’s philosophy that wellness manifests through mental, physical, spiritual, and communal development, thus her belief and passion for holistic health and wellness drives her life's work. Ife works with individuals and groups to reclaim their power by accessing their inner strengths and using those strengths to achieve their goals, overcome challenges and create new behaviors and practices. When she is not dancing, meditation and writing are some of Ife's favorite ways to recenter. She also enjoys collecting vinyl, the beach, and live music.
In this conversation Ifé and I get into a deeply nourishing chat about:
--> the role of her spirituality and ancestral connection in her grief process and what it's like to lose someone who isn't fighting death
--> the way that her own grief journey and process of seeking support following the loss of her mother inspires her level of presence with and commitment to her clients
--> the way that embodiment can be easy when we have support and guidance that trusts our own bodies and intuition
--> the surrendered knowing that happens when we walk an embodied grief journey
To connect with Ife about her therapeutic, supervisory and dance services, you can visit her at https://asecounselingwellness.com/ and follow her on Instagram @asé.counseling.wellness
To stay connected with me and let me know what you thought of this episode, follow me on Instagram and Tiktok @moveyourgrief and subscribe to the Grief-letter.
You can become a patron of this work and participate in monthly Move Your Grief circles here.
Become a monthly subscriber & receive access to bonus episodes on a broader range of grief related content here.
Thank you!
Welcome to Season 2 and 2023!
In this solo episode, I walk you through how I got from a grieving person to a grieving person who holds space for grief, detailing how the support I received at the beginning and continue to receive laid the foundation for me to do this soul work- guiding people through connecting to their bodies to process and metabolize their grief so they can live their most authentic lives and be the people they want to be.
If you are a practitioner, therapist, social worker or space holder of any kind who works with grieving people, my upcoming Standing with Grief course is for you. Over 8 sessions, I will guide you through the process of attuning to your own embodied knowledge + wisdom and utilizing that to deepen your capacity to hold and work with grieving people more effectively. We begin the first week of March.
To stay connected to me and my work, you can follow me on Instagram and tiktok @moveyourgrief and join my mailing list, the Grief Letter, here. You can also become a patron and receive the benefits of this work here.
Become a monthly subscriber & receive access to bonus episodes on a broader range of grief related content here.
This episode was recorded outside while I was on retreat-excuse/enjoy the organic background sounds :)
Here are my thoughts on wholeness, what it means, and how embodiment, body connection and earth connection help us experience wholeness in the midst of learning how to carry grief after loss.
If you'd like to explore working with me 1:1, please read about and apply to my transformative Moving Into Wholeness program.
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That's a wrap on Season 1 of Body Grieves, Spirit Calls.
We'll be back in January with Season 2.
Stay soft friends.
Amanda Kate is a Kinesiologist, an author and an archetypal life coach. She is also a spiritual Seeker and a truth teller whose inner Sage has an insatiable quest for knowledge, wisdom and new ways of becoming.
In this profound episode, Amanda and I talk about:
-Her and her grief as comfortable roommates.
-the grief of internal deaths, passing through different phases of life, what could have been, of place, of loss of business and of relationships not working out (most all the griefs we carry that aren't a response to physical death).
-how the loss of people forces us to process the death of ourselves.
-the heartbreak we both feel of seeing grief on people’s bodies and knowing they don't have a language for it or understand it as grief.
-how acknowledgment of grief makes life richer and lets our lives be instruments of change.
-the power of changing "but" to "and" and how embodiment invites in the holding of complexity and multiple realities.
-the grief of feeling the parts of us that we’ve suppressed and stifled overtime.
-how we try to make grief into something else to appease other people and protect them from feeling our pain
-The connection between denied parts of grief and chronic fatigue.
-How suppression of self IS a root cause of emotional stress that rarely gets acknowledged or understood as such.
-how the herd mentality allows us to connect to grief that we haven’t let ourselves express and how public figures allow us to project our own stuff
-how other people's grief triggers our fear of death
-the deep embodied satisfaction of giving grief it's full expression
-how her understanding of grief impacts her work with her clients
-the innate capacity we all carry to heal and process our grief.
-the natural physiological process of moving grief and how taxing it is for the body to hold in suppressed grief (feel it to heal it).
-how the body’s intelligence allows grief to unwind in its own way and naturally.
-the power of multi-practitioner help.
-how spirit helped her the access her own grief.
-her process of coming into the deep knowing, with divine guidance, that it was time to start honoring the parts of herself that she had locked away.
To stay connected with Amanda and learn more about her multi-faceted healing work, you can visit https://www.amandakate.com.au/ and follow her on Instagram @Amanda__Kate
Click here to learn more about my upcoming Closing the Loop grief retreat from Dec 16-18th. It's $750 till Nov 15th and $800 after that-all lodging, guided grief experiences and food are included.
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V.C. Pitt grew up in a small Southern town and is an owner of a successful medical billing company. She lives with her loving son, Roman, and challenging dog, Crystal. Her favorite places are the beach and mountains where she enjoys walking and connecting with nature. V.C. loves to watch live music shows in small venues or outdoor amphitheaters. It’s not unusual to find her at a metaphysical shop in search of a specific healing crystal or selecting a new tarot or oracle deck. Always looking for ways to enhance her spiritual growth, she attends retreats and participates in alternative healing modalities. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, she had a successful surgery and radiation which made her a survivor. Her goal with the book is to inspire others when they are trying to find a way out of sadness, anxiety, and depression when all seems lost.
In this conversation, V.C. and I dive into:
-Her daily healing rituals and connection to the earth
-The abuse that she was raised in and how it impacted her self worth
-The unpredictability of abuse and substance use and abuse
-How the death of her father finally allowed her the space to process the grief
-How self worth challenges open up space for twin flames to enter and take up space
-Her multiple losses in 2020 and the choice to release and let people go intentionally
-the ongoing practice of forgiveness-opened her heart up to unconditional love, key to healing
-What a twin flame is and isn't (hint: not a soulmate)
-how isolation and living alone can also open up space to heal
-How talking through before emotions move through cuts the process off at the neck-why reiki, sound healing and plant medicine helped her release attachment to outcome
-Her journey of breast cancer and soul contracts
-Her painful and healing process of writing her book
-he triggered wounds within her that were accelerated when he ghosted her-he was repeating abusive behavior that had been done to him
-the absolute necessity of forgiveness work and how it lessened her anxiety
-her practice of turning to prayer or something higher/greater than
V.C.'s book is called: My twin flame journey of separation, surrender and release: Unconditional Love through Spiritual Lessons and Healing
Her website is: mytfjourney.com
To learn more about my work, visit gracebellaharman.com and follow me on Instagram @moveyourgrief
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Ann Hince is a professional author, speaker and spiritual teacher.
We get into so much goodness in this episode, including:
-Her experience of grief not living in her body anymore
-Her multiple traumas in childhood, including finding her mother dead at 19
-The cultural training to keep going and suppress after loss and trauma.
-The connection between digestive issues and suppressed trauma and grief.
-What led her to finally start looking inside herself for healing and answers rather than to others.
-The power of Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping) and how freedom is truly on the other side of fear.
-How letting grief come out allows it to not run the show and the necessity of releasing resistance to emotion
-Why emotions are really just energy and the power of connecting to sensation without story or mental intervention
-Her unique and incredibly empowering process of feeling and releasing tension in her body.
-The necessity of doing the work associated with past memories in order to be present and not project the past onto the people around us.
-How important the desire to change is to the experience of change
-How damn good it feels to release tension
-How harmful the idea of positive thinking is to grief
-her unique process of developing her internal awareness of her body-getting inside of her head
-the magic of fascia
-the body’s own rhythm of releasing tension
You can connect with Ann and experience this power for yourself at annhince.com and on youtube.
You can connect with me and share your thoughts over on Instagram and learn more about my work (including my upcoming grief retreat!) on my website
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Lisa Sugarman is a mom, a parenting author, a nationally syndicated humor columnist, and a podcast host, creating content that helps empower parents, especially moms, by giving them permission to embrace their perfectly imperfectness. She’s also a survivor of suicide loss, losing her father Jim at age ten, and a member and ally of the LGBTQIA+ community. Lisa writes the syndicated opinion column It Is What It Is and is the author of How To Raise Perfectly Imperfect Kids And Be Ok With It, Untying Parent Anxiety, and LIFE: It Is What It Is, available on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and everywhere books are sold. Sugarman is also the co-host of the podcast LIFE Unfiltered on iTunes and iHeartRadio, and a contributor on Healthline Parenthood, GrownAndFlown, TODAY Parents, Thrive Global, Care.com, LittleThings, and More Content Now. Lisa lives with her husband and two daughters just north of Boston. Visit her online at www.lisasugarman.com. She digs company.
In this deep and informative conversation, Lisa and I dive into:
-The connection between grief work and inner child work
-How grief changes over the life span and in different developmental stages
-the two deaths of her father and how the phases of grief differed
-the way that allowing fluidity in grief leads to grounding, rather than the opposite
-the process of learning to live with the "why?" of death
-why we need to let go of the old 5 stages of grief model
-how attachment and early loss impact nervous system awareness and regulation
-the importance of removing the word "commit" from conversations around suicide
-how grief can become a practice like any other
-you can't do anything if you don't know something is wrong
-the need to collectively care for each other and check in with our people
-the power of saying our people's names
You can connect with Lisa on Instagram @lisa_sugarman and read her nourishing writing at lisasugarman.com
Some Suicide Resources:
The Trevor Project is a national, 24-hour, toll-free confidential suicide prevention lifeline for at-risk LGBTQ+ youth ages 13-24. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call 1-866-488-7386. You can also text them at 678-678. Or, visit TrevorSpace.org, The Trevor Project’s safe and affirming online community for LGBTQ+ young people to find connection, explore identity, find support and make friends.
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is a US-based suicide prevention network of over 200+ crisis centers that provides 24/7 service via a toll-free hotline with the number 9-8-8. It is available to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.
The Crisis Text Line is a global not-for-profit organization providing free mental health texting service through confidential crisis intervention via SMS message. The organization's services are available 24 hours a day, every day, throughout the United States, Canada, UK, and Ireland. Text HOME to 741741.
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Sandie Byrne is an Irish psychic medium who comes from generations of readers. Being born into these generations of readers allowed her to grow up with no barriers against, no inhibitions towards and no doubts about the existence of an afterlife and an ability to predict your life path. For years she has been sharing her abilities with people across many countries and continents, and people tend to seek her out to help them to move beyond grief, hurt and confusion. Her work is focused on helping people reconnect with loved ones, find structure after change and enabling them to gain clarity on their life path.
In this heartfelt and warm conversation, we get into:
-How weather and sensation reminds us of loss
-The struggle with and great need we all have to be kinder to ourselves.
-Irish cultural rituals around grief and loss.
-Grief as unrequited love and its non-linear nature.
-The need to grieve all losses, even those that happened many years before, and the way that grief sneaks up on us.
-The importance of keeping our loved ones in our every day life and how loss impacts the trajectory of life and relationships.
-How the specific experience of losing a young person often leads to a much more constant and painful questioning of why they died and what the purpose was.
-Why spirit connection is not a substitute for grief counseling.
-How pain that isn't processed can lead to a difficulty holding nuance.
-How to choose a medium after loss, what mediumship is and isn't and how it's an embodied experience.
-How connection to self allows for a clearer connection to spirit.
-The necessity of accepting that our loved ones aren't coming back.
I so enjoyed talking to Sandie, and I hope this conversation nourishes you.
To connect with Sandie, you can go to her website sandiebyrne.com, watch her videos on youtube and follow her on instagram @sandiebyrnemedium
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To learn more about my work, you can visit my website and follow me on instagram @moveyourgrief
Nicole Granati is a spiritual counselor, psychic minister and teacher focused on the relationship we, as spirit, have with our bodies. She is the owner of Spiritual Hello, where she guides people in recognizing and using their own abilities to heal, create and enjoy life.
Spiritual Hello is a place for you to embrace and create with the power of your own energy and magic! Nicole offers readings, ceremonies and support for all stages of life, and the places in between. She is based in Los Angeles, California where she hosts Women’s Circles, performs as a musician and tends to her garden. You can find her on instagram @spiritualhello and spiritualhello.com
Nicole and I dive deep on so many things in this conversation, including:
-Her practice of letting grief exist outside of her body
-the difference between allowing and efforting through grief
-the similarities between anticipatory grief to the experience of being on call
-the relationship between self-care and the ease of transition out of this life
-her experience of carrying multiple experiences of loss and the nuances of grieving socially acceptable and stigmatized death at the same time.
-the many nuances of embodied grief
-the medicine of not getting in our own way or in the way of the dying
-how she uses levity and humor as a spiritual practice
-the role of spiritual seniority in challenging family dynamics
-how resistance to discomfort creates room for more discomfort
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In this episode, I share a personal story of body, grief and spirit and how the spirit led work I do is transforming. I get into: -the power of mushroom medicine when used intentionally. -how pussy and womb connection is related to embodying our authentic truth. -the connection between grief and pleasure. -how embodying grief increases our capacity to hold complexity without needing to choose. -the details of my upcoming pussy grief alchemy retreat on Saturday August 13th, 2022
You can read more about the retreat here: https://gracebellaharman.com/grief-alchemy-retreat. If your body says yes I would love to have you. If you'd like to become a patron of this podcast for just $3 a month at the lowest tier, thank you endlessly. You can do so here. Warm reviews and shares of the podcast are oh so welcome. Follow me on instagram @moveyourgrief
Qiddist Ashé is a medicine woman and female health educator who holds space for transformation as we cultivate the inner and outer resources we need to live fully in our power. She is the founder and creatrix of The Womb Room, an online community for female health & spiritual sovereignty. Informed by her maternal lineage of Ethiopian midwives and her own work in authentic midwifery, functional health, herbalism, somatics, and spiritual sovereignty, Qiddist merges the science and the spirit of female health, orienting to all the ways we can reclaim agency and responsibility for our bodies and our lives. Qiddist’s work is rooted in “womb to tomb” midwifery, and her experience of embodiment integrates all that we carry in our wombs beyond our own lives, and how these stories might carry the medicine we need.
In this conversation, we get into:
- grieving what we didn't have and didn't even know we lost
- her first experiences of grieving openly and the containers, spaces and rituals that guided her to her own expansion
- the meaning of ritual as space set aside for feeling
- the nourishment of not trying to fix our grief
- her recent experience in Ethiopia and witnessing the ritualized grieving customs of her family there
- the relationship between disconnection from our bodies and the over dependence on external direction and validation
- the matriarchy in the earth, and the earth as our first mother
- the grief of the systems that disconnect us from a deep reverence for life
- the truth of the question, "what if this (grief) is for me?"
In our conversation, she mentions the book Of Water and the Spirit by Malidoma Patrice Some and I mentioned the book The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise, by Martín Prechtel.
You can find Qiddist on Instagram @thewombroom.co and on her website thewombroom.co
All patrons of this podcast will immediately get access to the gorgeous womb steaming practice and a link to The Womb Room community level membership.
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If you are a person with a pussy who is interested in leaning into pussy and pleasure to move your grief, The Pussy Grief Alchemy Retreat will happen on August 13th, 2022 from 12-2 pm CST. Join us here.
Sabrina Rose Nelson is a writer, collage artist & herbalist exploring grief, lineage, nature, physical pain & the female body. She’s the witch behind Moonbeam Herbs, an apothecary & herbal practice dedicated to helping others harmonize their menstrual cycle, realign with their natural rhythms, & remember their magic through herbal healing & body literacy. She is deeply influenced by the moon, the cyclicality of life & the earth, and the women in her family. To her, creativity is a way to alchemize grief and pain into power, connection, and healing.
In this episode, we talk about:
- The relationship between grief, safety and anxiety.
- The connection between the underworld of grief and being in connection with our full selves.
- Nature, cyclicality and the wisdom of aligning to these cycles.
- How womb health relates to grief.
Sabrina also shares her process of formulating herbal medicine and a particular blend she created specifically for a grieving heart and body.
You can find her on Instagram @xosabrinarose and Twitter @xxsabrinarose.
All patrons of this podcast will get 20% off of her beautiful medicines and cyclical being sessions.
Become a patron here
Learn more about me and my work here at gracebellaharman.com
The Pussy Grief Alchemy Retreat will happen on August 13th, 2022 from 12-2 pm CST. Join us here.
Find me on Instagram @moveyourgrief
Morenike and I get into so much goodness in this episode:
The value of not running away from grief triggers and the connection that has to her spirituality.
The importance of not suppressing grief and where her capacity to hold the complexity of her grief comes from.
The role of art & creativity in processing her grief.
The power of softening into grief. She reminds us that our bodies are what makes us human, we need then on this journey and we don't need to be strong about it.
How grief was a wake up call for her and ultimately led her away from her corporate job and into her life's path.
Find her and her beautiful art at https://artbymorenike.com/ and @artbymorenike on Instagram.
To learn more about my work of guiding people through grief and home to their bodies, go to: https://gracebellaharman.com/
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So much gratitude and lots of love.
I set the foundation for this podcast by discussing what I mean by embodied grief work and how that relates to spirituality. Thank you to Beautiful Chorus for the opening music and Naomi Westwater for the closing.
To join the Release Your Pain: Come Back to Life challenge from July 11-13, book your 15 min meet and greet call here: https://hello.dubsado.com/public/appointment-scheduler/62852233b601ef253c110bcc/schedule
If you'd like to learn more about my embodied grief work, visit https://gracebellaharman.com/ If you'd like to become a patron of this podcast and practice connecting to your own grieving body in community, visit patreon.com/moveyourgrief
Body Grieves, Spirit Calls is an open and non-linear exploration of the relationship between grief, embodiment and spirituality. This podcast will be a collection of stories, reflections and interviews with soulful individuals with their own stories of embodied grief and spirit. I'm so looking forward to opening this conversation and diving into this journey together.
To learn more about my work, visit https://gracebellaharman.com/
To become a patron of this podcast and practice coming into relationship with your own grieving body, visit patreon.com/moveyourgrief
So much gratitude.