Breathe, Darling with Emily Riggs

Welcome back to Breathe, Darling with Emily Riggs! Thank you for your response to our first episode. We're so encouraged by this community and are excited to dig in this week with a new episode about change, acceptance, and growth. Change is often messy, and for the most part, we'd just rather not when it comes down to it. But change is inevitable. Our acceptance of change, and the proceeding growth, are optional. How do we learn to practice acceptance of change, both the voluntary and involuntary, and set ourselves up for wholehearted living? How do we let others change along the way? It's all here, friends. Be sure to check out the song referenced in the podcast, "Grow as we go" by Ben Platt. It's been a game-changing affirmation for accepting change and embracing growth. Song Link: https://tinyurl.com/hr7knsv3

Hello friends! Welcome to the first episode of Breathe, Darling with Emily Riggs. I am excited to share about the meaning behind the name of the podcast and what to expect from the podcast moving forward. I share a bit about my journey with grief and how I embrace my humanity on my "hard days". I also ask for your help in celebrating my mom's birthday today. Be sure to tag us in your posts of celebration!Follow us on Instagram:@breathedarlingpodcast@emilyriggstherapyReferenced Content: S.C. Lourie (quote author): @butterfliesandpebblesAundi Kolber, author of Try Softer: @aundikolber

Hello, friends! And welcome to Breathe Darling, the podcast. I am your host, Emily Riggs and I am so excited to share this space with you.

Breathe, darling is about learning to live with the uncomfortable, the difficult, and the unimaginable— and what it takes to show up wholeheartedly along the way. It’s about crafting a meaningful life, one where we laugh, cry, process, mourn, hope, and heal. It’s about knowing that no matter what we face, there is room to inhale a little deeper, exhale a little longer, and honor what we were designed to feel in the midst of it all.

As a psychotherapist specializing in care for women, specifically in the areas of grief, loss, and trauma, I spend my days holding space for stories of pain, and have the honor of a front row seat to the healing that can come. As someone intimately acquainted with hardship, I know firsthand the journey of grief and growth after life-altering loss. It’s been the hardest, and most worthwhile, work of my life. And I know I’m not alone.

Years of collective suffering have reiterated the truth that “everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”.

In these conversations, we’ll explore what it looks like to hold space for that suffering, and cultivate more compassion, care, and understanding, for one another and ourselves. Because whether we like it or not, we’re in this thing, called life, together.

I cannot wait to share these conversations and stories with you, starting on Wednesday, September 28th. So take a deep breath, pull up a seat, and let’s begin.