Grief Dialogues: Out of Grief Comes Art Podcast Series

This week’s episode focuses on the power of music and sound! Renee Benmeleh, a multicultural vocalist/composer/instrumentalist, founded Sound Nourishment where she leads workshops and events using mindfulness practices, vocal and movement games, and improvised melody/rhythm games. Having found refuge through music and sound to work through her own grief, Renee works lovingly with others who are deep in grief and emotion, and looking to express themselves. 

Listen in to hear this incredible story of personal transformation. Renee loosens Halle up with some vocal exercises, shares a snippet of one of her upcoming singles, and gives us all a breakdown of the science behind sound.

What a powerful way to start a Wednesday morning...

This episode, the Grief Dialogues duo Elizabeth Coplan and Halle Williams speak with Henry "Hank" Greenspan, a phenomenal playwright, actor, and psychologist (University of Michigan, emeritus) whose work has focused on survivors of genocide. His plays have been produced for radio on NPR and at more than three hundred stage venues worldwide. 

Today's grief topic: Genocide. Where (and how) does one even begin to wrapping their heads around this massive level of grief? Hank walks listeners through various perspectives, including those of survivor caretakers, and how grief often carries through generations. 

Hank is also a master of creative expression, which is exactly why he has been featured on the Grief Dialogues podcast. His plays and publications manage to capture and translate grief in a unique way, transporting the audience to feel the grief in real time, challenging stigmas and assumptions, and igniting a spark of community and passion within their souls.

Keep up with Henry "Hank Greenspan" on his website: https://www.henrygreenspan.com/

This morning we chat with the founder of Grief Coach, Emma Payne! Grief Coach is a texting service that delivers expert support to grievers, and gentle coaching to friends and family who want to support them, but may not be sure how. 

#griefcoach #texts #grief #lovedones #lossandlove #griefjourney

About Emma Payne: 

Emma Payne is the Founder and CEO of Grief Coach, an innovative service that delivers personalized grief support via text message. Grief Coach combines Emma's passion for mobile technology and engagement, with her deep commitment to providing affordable, accessible, and personal grief support. Emma knows that, while grief is hard, it’s a little easier when we have people by our side.

Follow Grief Coach online:

https://www.instagram.com/grief.coach/

https://twitter.com/mygriefcoach

https://www.facebook.com/mygriefcoach

https://www.linkedin.com/company/griefcoach

https://vimeo.com/griefcoach

Katherina Thomas is a writer, narrative practitioner, medical humanities researcher and infectious diseases social scientist working with stories as a medium in healthcare. However, she is also a daughter who worked lovingly with her father before his passing to co-author an incredible story. Together, they “boarded the plane” of life through words, creating a treasure she will never forget and have forever. 

“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”

― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

This episode, Halle and Elizabeth speak with Katherina in depth about her writing journey with her father, and how doctors recognized this process as therapeutic treatment during her father’s time in the hospital. 

Connect with Katherina Thomas online:

Katherinathomas.com

Twitter: @klgthomas

This week we are pleased to introduce Robert Pardi, who joins our episode all the way from Italy! In today’s episode, we discuss how life is like a mosaic, and we are the artists. What piece of the mosaic represents your grief? Halle and Elizabeth also get into Robert’s books, and how his own grief sparked a new journey in his life, and ultimately the exploration of his inner child.

Robert Pardi is a three-time Author, Keynote Speaker, Transformational Life Coach, and Adjunct Professor. After his young wife passed away of breast cancer, Robert re-imagined his life by changing everything to share the many lessons he’s learned. He now splits his time between his native New York and his ancestral Italian village Pacentro.

Learn more about Robert:

www.robertpardi.com

Read his books:

https://www.chasinglifethebook.com/

https://www.apimbytale.com/

And follow him online!

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-pardi/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robert.pardi.author.keynotespeaker.coach

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.pardi/

"We all deserve healing!"

Rana Awdish is a pulmonary and critical care physician in Detroit, Michigan. She began painting when she was incapacitated after a near fatal illness that left her bed-bound for months. She has no formal art training, and rather enjoys the process of discovery and of being a novice, which she is not as able to be in other aspects of her life.

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https://www.ranaawdishmd.com/

https://muchmoreart.com/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RanaAwdish

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RanaAwdish

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rana-awdish-a40362b3/