Beautiful Tragedy

In this episode, Carrie talks about healing being a choice. It is intentional. She
shares that even though you don’t want to move forward, life keeps happening. You can choose to find joy again, it is not easy but it is possible.

Carrie talks about how Trauma Informed Yoga has been transformational in her healing journey. Learning how to slow down and listen to her body through TIY has really helped to unlock some trauma. Trauma Informed Yoga is invitational and you learn to listen to your body because it will tell you what it needs, if you tune in. 

Carrie talks with Teresa whose sister died when she was 14 years ago. 32 years later, it is still painful to talk about. She talks about how hard it was as a sibling and watching her parents grieve. She does family centered therapy as a result of the lack of therapy available when her family needed it. 

Carrie and Dr. Murphy Rising talk about how the death of her father at the age of 27 affected her and how it shaped her as a therapist. She works with children and emphasizes the importance of giving children a space to talk about life’s difficulties. She also talks about the signs she has received from her father and the difference between grieving and mourning.

Dr. Janys Murphy Rising is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington state with 18 years of clinical experience, and over a decade teaching graduate level counselors. Janys works with adolescent transitions, substance use, eating disorders, grief, spirituality, and life adjustments. Their approach is yoga informed, enneagram informed, and anti-diet. Janys's counseling helps people learn patterns that support spontaneity, presence, and how to be the person you they were born to be.

In this episode, Carrie talks about how important it is for grievers to be able to grieve the way they need to and not be told by society that we are doing it wrong. Everyone grieves differently and just like no one would tell you how to love, people shouldn’t be telling us how to grieve either. There is a time for us to be a student and then a time to be a teacher and share what you have learned.

In this episode, Carrie talks with Ceramo about how he turned the loss of his wife into a foundation that helps others who are either fighting or surviving cancer. He shares about how he is able to “Be the Light in the darkness.” He shares how important it is to reach out to someone you know who is fighting cancer and just how important that can be for someone.

Carrie wraps up all of the subjects that were discussed in season one. Season 2 will continue to destigmatize grief and the idea that it is something we will get over.

Carrie and Michelle talk about the challenges of parenting while grieving but that you can get through it and there is help available. Good Grief Parenting offers a course to help parents learn how to see the whole horizon and live forward with their surviving child.

Carrie and John have a conversation about John’s only son, Christian, who died of cancer in 2020. John shares the things that he learned from Christian and how he influenced John with so much of his life. John shares his healing journey and how we went from not leaving the house to losing weight and living again. 

Carrie and Meghan discuss how trauma affects the brain and the types of therapy that can help you work through PTSD. They talk about how EMDR can help you process a feeling/emotion that might have you stuck. Trauma creates neural pathways in the brain but healing can create new neural-pathways. 

Meghan Riordan Jarvis, MA, LCSW is a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and grief and loss who works in private practice in Washington, DC. After experiencing PTSD after the deaths of both of her parents within two years of each other, Meghan started the platform “Grief is My Side Hustle” which includes her popular blog, links to her podcast under the same name, and her free writing workshop “grief mates.” Meghan’s memoir “The End of The Hour” publishes with Zibby Books in 2023.