Recently, I had the honor of being a guest on Nancy & Dan Loeffler radio show "Morning Conversations with Nancy & Dan" on WFNU 94.1.  Nancy was a previous guest on my podcast and talked about how to put yourself "back together" in grief so I was honored to be invited to her space and continue breaking the stigma of grief. 

Join us in our conversation as I talk with Nancy & Dan about:

• Different forms of grief and loss
• Disenfranchised grief and ambiguous loss
• Tools to begin addressing and grieving this form of loss

If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed.

If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like.

If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Best Self Therapy YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. 

I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me ([email protected]) with any questions or comments you may have.

Are you supporting a loved one who is grieving or going through a challenging time? Do you find yourself struggling with knowing how to best offer and provide said support?
Ideally, when you are supporting a loved one who is grieving, you are holding space for them to grieve. But what does that mean? Join me this week as I round out this month's series and talk about:

1. What holding space for grief means, 
2. Provide examples as to what holding space looks like and
3. Create space for you to explore how you can (or already do) hold space for those you are wanting to support

No one said providing support was going to be easy but that doesn't mean it can't be effective!

If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed.

If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like.

If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. 

I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me ([email protected]) with any questions or comments you may have.

As my guests and I have talked about in previous episodes, sometimes part of your grief work is just "sitting with" the grief or whatever big emotion is coming up. Okay, great...but what does that actually mean? 

Join me this week as I continue on with my March series and address the common concept of sitting with grief that has come up time and time again on this podcast. I will address:

• What sitting with grief actually means,
• A metaphor to gain further understanding and 
• The purpose behind why we sit in grief (or big emotions) 

If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed.

If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like.

If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. 

I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me ([email protected]) with any questions or comments you may have.

"No one has died but I still feel as though I've lost something. Do I still get to grieve?" YES!!! You can experience grief around non-death (or ambiguous/living) losses. Experiences that may fall into this category could be going through a divorce or a sudden tragic experience not involving death such as a house fire. Even experiences that appear positive and exciting on the surface (such as becoming a parent or retirement) would also bring elements of loss. 

Join me this week as I continue on with my March series and go further into depth on ambiguous/living losses. In this episode you will:

• Learn more about what ambiguous/living losses are, 
• Understand the importance of grieving them and the possible dangers if we don't, and
• Engage in an exercise allowing you to start identifying any possible losses you may want to make space to grieve

If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed.

If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like.

If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. 

I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me ([email protected]) with any questions or comments you may have.

"I'm giving you the permission to grieve." may be a phrase you've heard me communicate throughout my podcast episodes. But it's also been communicated that we get to honor our grief in whatever way we need; so why would we need permission? 

Join me this week as I talk about what's truly meant behind the phrase "permission to grieve". You'll gain not only an understand of the term but also: 

• Engage in an exercise allowing you to further your understanding and
• Explore how this term fits within your grief journey

A great pairing with this episode is my "Show Yourself Some Love!" episode from last month. After this episode, you'll have an understanding of why grief is not a selfish process; allowing you to tap into some of the self-care concepts (watch my Exposing Grief YouTube video, "Grief & Self-Care? Yes, It's Possible!" for a self-care assessment.) discussed in last month's episode.  

If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed.

If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like.

If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. 

I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me ([email protected]) with any questions or comments you may have.

Discovering and shaping your life after an impactful loss can be challenging. It can bring uncertainty around what life can look like and where to go to explore the possibilities. My guest, Susan Hayes, talks about her journey with this process. She solved this mystery through asking herself one question consistently and listening to the answers given to her. Sue also discusses the importance of:

1. Honoring your grief journey and
2. Letting go of judgement

Tune into this weeks episode to learn the one question Sue asked herself to rediscover her life after loss. 

Susan Hayes, the Spark Activator, is the CEO of Active Abundance, LLC. 
She shows women who’ve experienced a significant loss and are ready to reemerge how to reignite their spark of JOY. She takes them on a loving and joyful healing journey so that they can BOLDY and BLISSFULLY embrace the next chapter in their lives. 

It has been through Susan’s own significant loss of the passing of her beloved husband that has set her on her current path. This loss has served as a catalyst for tremendous growth as it has exposed the unhealed wounds from her childhood. Through her journey, she has discovered powerful and magical tools and strategies that show others how to honor and heal their grief, current and from childhood traumas, so that JOY is in the forefront once again. 

Prior to losing her husband, Susan served as a SET Therapist (Structural Energetic Therapist) for children and adults. As a SET therapist, she facilitated physical and emotional wellness through rehabilitative massage, breathwork, brain detox, and remote healing. She has also been trained and certified in a multitude of energy healing modalities, such as Reiki and Polarity, which she infuses into all that she offers. 
Susan also draws upon more than 20 years of experience as a teacher of young children. 

Susan empowers others as a Keynote Speaker, a Transformational Mindset Coach, a Writer, and an Intuitive Healer. 

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If you'd like to connect with Sue, check out her website Susan Hayes Speaks. You might also want to check out the few books she mentioned during our conversation. Additional resources mentioned throughout the episode are below:

• Exposing Grief with Brittany Squillace podcast episode: "Understanding Anticipatory Grief" 
• Grief Blog: "Honor Your Grief Journey: A Thankful Approach to Grief"

If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed.

If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like.

If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. 

I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy

"Grief is life changing but it doesn't have to be life ruining" is what my guest, Michelle, discovered as she began walking and continues to walk her grief journey. In addition to this incredible discovery she highlights a few other discoveries she's found along the way:

• A spiritual awakening that continues as she learns how to live from the inside out
• Learning how to embrace death as part of life instead of it being something to fear

Michelle Kolling is a trained end of life doula and founder of HELD where she helps people create the life they want until their last breath. Michelle provides non-medical practical and emotional support to the dying and their caregivers. In addition to helping people facing end of life, she provides advanced planning services, is a certified life, leadership and communication coach, and is a living funeral ceremony practitioner. Michelle is a member of both INELDA and NEDA and is a member of the Steering Committee for the Minnesota Death Collaborative.

Check out Michelle's interview, Give Yourself Permission to Keep Trying, on my Exposing Grief YouTube Channel to learn more about her role as a death doula. If you'd like to connect with Michelle and explore what working with her might look like,  connect and schedule a time with her here. 

All the other great resources mentioned through the episode are below:

• Exposing Grief with Brittany Squillace podcast episode: Grief Wishes: 5 Grief Truths Those Who Are Grieving Wish You Knew
• Podcast episode: Understanding Anticipatory Grief
• Book: A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
• Podcast episode: Show Yourself Some Love!

If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed.

If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like.

If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. 

I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me ([email protected]) with any questions or comments you may have.

Do you love yourself? Are you actively creating space to show yourself love? Or does the whole idea make you uncomfortable? Whether you believe it or not, it's important to make sure you show yourselves love by taking care of yourself; you can't begin to take care of others if your own well-being is neglected.

Join me this week as I talk about two of the most common ways we can show ourself love; self-care and affirmations. In this episode I cover:

• What self-care is and is not, 
• The various areas of self-care we want to attend to and
• The benefits and challenges of engaging in self-care

I will also end the episode with a few affirmations for you to tell yourself on the regular; giving yourself reminders that will encourage you to keep going!

Be sure to check out the image for the areas of self-care and the self-care assessment to ensure your self-care process is well-rounded.

If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed.

If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like.

If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. 

I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me ([email protected]) with any questions or comments you may have.

Do you have clutter in front of you that you just don't know what to do with? Is that clutter causing you mental clutter as well? Or could it possibly be that you have mental clutter that you're projecting into your physical space like my guest Missi?
Whatever it might be, Missi with Clear Spaces Organizing may be able to help.

Join myself and Missi as she talks about professional organizing and how it may benefit particularly those who are walking through a tough life change/transition.

If you'd like to connect with Missi, I encourage you to schedule your free consultation.
And don't forget to check her out on Facebook and Instagram.

If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed.

If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like.

If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. 

I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me ([email protected]) with any questions or comments you may have.

What do you want to leave behind? How do you want to be remembered? What do you want your legacy to be? This week, as part of my pre-planning series, we dive into how you might start exploring these questions and getting answers to them with my guests Monique and Christy from Apex Legacy. They discuss:

1. What legacy planning is,
2. How it may (or may not) benefit your grief journey and 
3. The importance of legacy planning in advance

To learn more about Christy and Monique, I encourage you to read their bios. While you're there, you may also want to check out the various resources mentioned in today's episode:

• Funeral planning blog post
• Resource page 
• Consulting packages available to you and your family 

If you'd like to connect with Monique or Christy you may do so here.

If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed.

If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like.

If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. 

I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me ([email protected]) with any questions or comments you may have.