Learn seven tips to help you along your grief journey
Start healing after a loss with these gentle, practical steps. Find guidance on managing grief, embracing routines, documenting your journey, and building a supportive community.
In this Episode:
- 03:22 – Road Trip to Florida: Skunk Ape and Strawberry Shortcake
- 07:00 – Goals After Grief: Starting Where You Are, By Lucy Tate
- 15:48 – The Weight of Grief: Lessons in Compassion and Loss by Jeffry Fischer, BSN, RN
- 21:34 – Outro
Incremental Goals Move Us Forward
Marianne shares a writing submitted by listener Lucy Tate. Lucy gives us seven tips to help us with ideas on how to form small, incremental goals to get our feet back under us after a loss. You can also read it in its entirety in this blog post.
When the noise fades, what you’re left with are quiet, flickering choices. They don’t ask you to be productive or even hopeful. They ask you to stay. And one way to do that is to pick a direction, however small, and move toward it with all the gentleness you can manage. Learn ideas on how to do just that in this episode.
The Weight of Grief: Lessons in Compassion and Loss
In his American Journal of Nursing article, Jeffry Fischer, BSN, RN shared his experience with a dying pancreatic cancer. This particular situation unearthed Jeffry’s own unresolved grief “attempting to steal [his] compassion” as he shielded his heart. He wrote that “for the rest of us, “it takes courage to carry on with that weight, to let it shape us rather than consume us, to find meaning in memories without being buried by them.”
S2E4: Caring for the Caregiver was recorded when COVID was causing countless deaths. Listen to learn more about the complicated grief and burnout that healthcare teams can experience, and ways to promote self-care.
Related Content:
- S1E11: Grief
- S1E12: Traumatic Grief
- S3E31: When a Good Friend Dies
- S4E6: The Way Forward after a Spouse Dies
- S5E40: “His Widowed Bride” – Exploring Widowhood and Resiliency with Lori Tucker-Sullivan
- S2E4: Caring for the Caregiver
- S4E28: Healing the Broken Pieces – Applying the Art of Kintsugi to Grief
- Moving Forward After Loss
References:
- 13 Weird Facts About Florida – Facts Mostly
- 9 Fun And Weird Facts About Florida
- The untold truth of Mothman
- 20 Food Classics From Florida You Should Try At Least Once In A Lifetime
- The Weight of Grief: Lessons in Compassion and Loss – AJN The American Journal of Nursing
Resources:
- How to take control and experience happiness again by getting organized and setting goals after loss – AfterTalk
- Free Online PDF Editor – Easily Edit PDFs
- The Importance of Routines in Grief Recovery | Ohio’s Hospice
- How Exercise Can Help with Grief
- Find the Best Group Therapy and Support Groups Near You | Psychology Today
- The Importance of Self-Care During Grief | James H. Cole Home for Funerals
- On the Trail of Florida’s Bigfoot – The Skunk Ape – Smithsonian Magazine
- Dave Shealy’s 2000 Skunk Ape Video
Recipe of the Week
This week we travel to Florida, home of their own version of the Sasquatch, the Skunk Ape.
Thankfully, there’s much more to experience in Florida, like a strawberry growing season that lasts several months. In this traditional recipe, slightly sweetened buttery biscuits are split, filled with strawberries and their syrup, and heaped with whipped cream. Visit Edible South Florida for the recipe.
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