Grieve That Sh!t

The Sisters discuss how it's so common for people to avoid calling grievers for the special days and anniversaries that honor their loved ones and the most common response they get is "I didn't want to make you feel bad." But what's so widely misunderstood is that grievers feel bad every minute of every day without their loved one.  What grievers want most is to be able to talk about their loved ones without all of the unsolicited advice given to them by others.  

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The Sisters have committed their lives to normalize people talking about grief.  In addition to that we need to normalize talking about our own funerals.  Funeral planning is such a devastating experience and if we had not talked to our loved one ahead time to know what they wanted it can be a nightmare.  Emotions are running high and because grief is unique and individual everyone wants something different based on their relationship with the deceased family member.

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The Sisters discuss how most people are not aware that there are layers to our grief.  It is not uncommon for people to have to grieve every single layer of our relationships.  Erica shares how although she grieved Donovan as her son, but then she had to grieve the loss of the friendship that she shared with him.  Also true when you lose someone who was never there for you.  You will still grieve the layers of that relationship once they are gone.

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The Sisters discuss how important it is to tell your kids the truth.  We need to use emotional words when we speak to our kids so that they are prepared when the family experiences a grieving event.  It's okay to give your kids an age appropriate version of what happened.  We cannot protect our children from grief, but we can equip them with the correct way to mend their broken hearts.

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The Sisters welcome Pauline Rosas and Amanda Mead to share about their experience working in a grief group with Sharon and Erica.  A lot of times people misunderstand what this process is really about and think that it's run like a traditional support group, but it really is nothing like that.  It is so much more than that and adds so much to the healing journey to experience it with a trusted partner.  

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McKenna Hendrickson continues to share her story of the tragedy her family faced after the loss of her father Matt to suicide.  Although her father was very open about his struggle with his mental health he decided to take his life which left her family devastated.

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The Sisters interview their niece McKenna Hendrickson about how she has been coping since her father's suicide.  This shattered her family and it has been a difficult journey for all of them.  McKenna shares how her father's mental health challenges was not something that they avoided talking about as a family.  They were very open about his struggle with depression and he welcomed their questions.  However, when he chose to end his life they were devastated.

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The Sister's interview Ellen Romano a grief specialist that specializes in suicide.  Ellen is also a suicide survivor.  She survives her brother and her husband.  Ellen shares that both experiences were vastly different for herself and her family.  Ellen urges all survivors of suicide to rely on their tribe for support.  To those who are struggling with the idea of suicide she urges you to find a way to connect with anyone and to find something that gives you hope.

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The sisters discuss suicide and how important it is to start having the very difficult conversation with loved ones.  They share how they have been receiving more and more phone calls from surviving family members of loved ones who died by suicide.  It's important that we start talking about it openly and honestly.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255

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The brain is a very powerful tool and it works very hard to protect us from the pain associated with grief.  The brain has many functions and it is very skillful at finding ways to distract us from our grief.  However, the main issue with that is that our grief dies not happen in our brains.  Grief happens in our hearts and if you get stuck in your intellectual grief it will stop you from healing.  

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