Susan, your host, welcomes Gwenda Lambert to today's episode. Long before becoming an Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist, Gwenda was drawn to helping people navigate loss. She had experienced 17 deaths by the time she was 21 as well as being the daughter of a Gerontology nurse.

Her greatest loss came in 2012, a loss of health. She experienced a Post Traumatic Stress diagnosis that completely sidelined her. She was unable to focus or hold a thought. She was unable to sleep or actually even feel safe enough to leave her home most days. Even in all the chaos, she knew she had to find out what was going on. Basically, all those traumas and emotional losses including deaths and loss of trust that were locked in a room burst out. While she is well versed in the death and dying part, grief and embracing all those messy emotions still needed work. She had tried many different modalities from Yoga and somatic work to talk therapy yet it wasn't until she found the Grief Recovery Method, a simple, yet not easy, four-step process that allows you to get a lay of the land of your own emotional landscape, that she was able to embrace her incomplete relationships and trauma that held her back in ways she wasn't aware of. Now she wants to share that emotional freedom with you.

Key Takeaways:

• Anger, loneliness, and confusion are all part of grief too.
• Gwenda talks about the brain after experiencing trauma.
• Grief not only comes from death.
• Laughing and crying are both expressions; if you are not comfortable around tears you need to ask yourself what is wrong with you with this emotion.
• Gwenda explains how she ended up with post-traumatic stress disorder.
• Everyone grieves differently.
• Self-care is never selfish.
• It is hard to be supportive sometimes, we need to learn how to support people.
• Allow yourself to feel how you feel because if you don't, it will come out in an unexpected way.
• Grieving is not necessarily being strong but it is courageous and brave to do what you can each day.
• If you got through the first year after losing someone and you are still standing, prize yourself, it is not easy to grieve.
• Practice self-attention, pay attention to yourself, and learn to treat yourself with compassion and respect.

Resources

Tendrilsofgrief.com

Email Susan: [email protected]

Meet Gwenda Lambert

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