Grieving Voices

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  • Takeaways & Reflections | How To Grieve

    People say you have to move on or that you should "be over it by now." However, no one tells you or shows you how to do it.

    For me, after struggling to get beyond the pain of my trauma and losses for 30+ years, the Grief Recovery Method was the how.

    Naysayers and doubters are welcome. 🤗 I was a skeptic, too. How could a process or method help me move on from the pain after sitting in it for 30+ years?

    I went into it with some doubt, convinced I would, at the very least, learn new tools, knowledge, and information I could use to help others. However, what I got was so much more. The program and my experience through it (albeit emotionally challenging and, at times, draining) exceeded my expectations.

    In this week's episode, I explore the phrase "How To Grieve..." We all find our way through the messiness of life and the grief that comes with it. However, what if there was an evidence-based process that cuts through the crap, gets to the heart of the story of what happened (the emotion and what's emotionally incomplete as a result), and brings with it peace within at the end of it. What would that experience be worth to you? Furthermore, what is doing nothing, or what you've always done, costing you? 

    RESOURCES:

    • NPR Article
    • Do Grief Differently™️
    • Ep 115 | Martika Whylly
    • Ep 116 | Reid Peterson
    • Ep 117 | Phil Cohen
    • Virgin River

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    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you or anyone you know is struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    Are you enjoying the podcast? Check out my bi-weekly newsletter, The Unleashed Letters.

    💛 Would you like to Learn Your Energy Type? Free Quiz ➡️ HERE! ⬅️

    SUPPORT THE SHOW:

    • Rate & Review: Apple Podcasts
    • Purchase my published book about my grief journey.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    Send Victoria a text message!

    Support the show

    _______

    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you are struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    This episode is sponsored by Do Grief Differently™️, my twelve-week, one-on-one, in-person/online program for grievers who have suffered any type of loss to feel better. Click here to learn new tools, grief education, and the only evidence-based method for moving beyond the pain of grief.

    Would you like to join the mission of Grieving Voices in normalizing grief and supporting hurting hearts everywhere? Become a supporter of th...

    31 min
  • Phil Cohen | The Pursuit of Healing After an Ocean of Tears

    They say it's unnatural to lose a child. And, there's no word for a parent who has lost a child other than griever, which somehow doesn't embody all a parent experiences—much less childless parents.

    What is a word for a parent whose only child dies?

    As it turns out, there's maybe only one that might describe that inconsolable feeling - lost. 

    Phil found himself lost in an ocean of tears after his only son, Perry, 14 1/2 years old, and his friend became victims of a storm that came out of nowhere while fishing on their 19' fishing boat off the Jupiter inlet in Jupiter, Florida. It was a beautiful summer day that turned treacherous on July 24th, 2015, and it was a day that changed the trajectory of Phil's life forever, as grief does.

    The waves and tides of the ocean are often an analogy used for grief. There is irony in Phil's story of how he lost his only son, never to be found. However, what Phil did find was his voice, a calling in his pain, and lessons in the heartache along the way.

    Phil lives his life as if it were a love letter, continually being written to his beloved and only son. Although it's a letter, he would rather not be (metaphorically) writing, and he would change that day if he could, knowing that healing is the only thing he can do about it.

    Phil has chosen to listen to his son's voice, which he believes he heard one night while crying alone: "Get up, dad!"

    May this episode inspire others, especially if you've lost a child, to come to terms with what happened and what you cannot change, and dare to GET UP and do something about it now.

    RESOURCES:

    • TEDx Talk | When I Lost My Only Child
    • The work of Elisabeth Kubler Ross | The Five Stages of Grief®

    CONNECT:

    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

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    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you or anyone you know is struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are HERE.

    Are you enjoying the podcast? Check out my bi-weekly newsletter, The Unleashed Letters.

    💛 Would you like to Learn Your Energy Type? Free Quiz ➡️ HERE! ⬅️

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    Send Victoria a text message!

    Support the show

    _______

    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you are struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    This episode is sponsored by Do Grief Differently™️, my twelve-week, one-on-one, in-person/online program for grievers who have suffered any type of loss to feel better. Click here to learn new tools, grief education, and the only evidence-based method for moving beyond the pain of grief.

    Would you like to join the mission of Grieving Voices in normalizing grief and supporting hurting hearts everywhere? Become a supporter of th...

    1 hr 6 min
  • Reid Peterson | Discovering a Legacy with Grief

    Reid is the creator of the Grief Refuge app and supports grievers through publishing daily audio messages that soothe and comfort people pained by grief.

    Grief is something Reid grew up knowing well. As a young adult, his biological father, who struggled with alcohol abuse, died by suicide. Fortunately, his stepfather came into his life as a child and was a positive influence.

    However, grief would strike hard when his stepfather passed away after a long, eight-year battle with cancer. And, Reid would learn, for the first time, the difference between grief and mourning.

    By the time his stepfather had passed away, he had also experienced the loss of friends due to cancer and suicide. However, it was the loss of his stepfather that would be the loss that would shape him to become a helper of grievers and strive to be the best husband he could be.

    We often underestimate our impact and influence on other people's lives. And, as a society, we don't make a point to articulate to others what they mean to us or the positive influence and impact they have.

    Grief cracks us open, but usually after losing someone we love. What if we challenged ourselves to be cracked open by the love we are given here and now? Then, reflect that back to those who give it by sharing, vulnerably, what that love means to us while the other person can hear it.

     Let this episode inspire you to share how much the people (and the love and positive influence they have) in your life mean to you.

    RESOURCES:

    • Grief Refuge App
    • Website | Grief Refuge

    CONNECT:

    • Instagram
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn

     ______

    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you or anyone you know is struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are HERE.

    Are you enjoying the podcast? Check out my bi-weekly newsletter, The Unleashed Letters.

    💛 Would you like to Learn Your Energy Type? Free Quiz ➡️ HERE! ⬅️

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    Send Victoria a text message!

    Support the show

    _______

    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you are struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    This episode is sponsored by Do Grief Differently™️, my twelve-week, one-on-one, in-person/online program for grievers who have suffered any type of loss to feel better. Click here to learn new tools, grief education, and the only evidence-based method for moving beyond the pain of grief.

    Would you like to join the mission of Grieving Voices in normalizing grief and supporting hurting hearts everywhere? Become a supporter of th...

    46 min
  • Martika Whylly | Learning How to Grieve with Ease

    They say it's unnatural for a parent to outlive and bury a child. Likewise, it's not natural for a child to bury their parent.

    There is no hierarchy of loss. We all grieve at 100%, and there are no half-grievers. Therefore, all losses are felt at 100%, too. So, who's to say what loss is worse than the next? However, for a moment, put yourself in the shoes of a child who buries a parent. Often, there's another parent in the wings to comfort and console the child. But that's not always the case.

    Martika's mother completed suicide when she was 15. And this experience followed a circumstance of abuse in the home at the hands of Martika's stepfather. So, by the time she experienced the death of her mother, she had plenty of grief she was trying to deal with already.

    The loss of her mother would lead Martika down a dark path of suicidal ideation. All the while, her grandparents passed away, and she found her biological father. However, when she found her father, she learned he died two days before.

    With the loss of everyone she cared about, though, she did gain a whole family - her biological father's family. But, as life does, it includes death, and Martika lost another special person in her life, her young cousin, by suicide.

    Martika had to learn to surrender, and once she did, she found ways to strengthen her faith and spiritual life and gain a renewed sense of hope. She shares things that helped her along her path and lessons that have helped her to remain present while she longs for the after-party that awaits her when she'll be united with those she loves once again.

    When the dominos of loss fall, perhaps it will help you to know that you can't kill energy, as Martika shared. You also can't take from someone who also has. And from Martika's experience, it is possible to grieve with ease.

    RESOURCES:

    • Book | Having Fun With God: A Book Report for Miss Winfrey
    • Podcast | Grieve with Ease
    • Book by Don Miguel Ruiz | The Mastery of Love

    CONNECT:

    • Website | Grieve with Ease
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

     ______

    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you or anyone you know is struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are HERE.

    Are you enjoying the podcast? Check out my bi-weekly newsletter, The Unleashed Letters.

    💛 Would you like to Learn Your Energy Type? Free Quiz ➡️ HERE! ⬅️

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    Send Victoria a text message!

    Support the show

    _______

    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you are struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    This episode is sponsored by Do Grief Differently™️, my twelve-week, one-on-one, in-person/online program for grievers who have suffered any type of loss to feel better. Click here to learn new tools, grief education, and the only evidence-based method for moving beyond the pain of grief.

    Would you like to join the mission of Grieving Voices in normalizing grief and supporting hurting hearts everywhere? Become a supporter of th...

    57 min
  • Takeaways & Reflections | Finding Our Way Home to Self

    Finding our way home to self is the journey we’re all on in the physical plain. So that hopefully, when our time is drawing near, we will have experienced a life well-lived. A life filled with joy and more importantly, one of peace.

    In this week's episode, I share a bit about my journey finding my way home back to myself. And also discuss the stories of the three previous guests and a snippet of how they have been journeying home to themselves.

    I don't know that we ever fully "arrive" at feeling completely healed. There's always more to discover. There's always something that rubs us wrong that others do or say, which start to have less and less affect on us as we connect more deeply to ourselves.

    Additionally, there's always going to be grief and loss that will likely, for a time, send us in a tailspin. We have to learn to recalibrate and get back on track again. How we do that will vary from person to person. And, the why behind doing so is often the first step in doing anything about our current emotional condition.

    In doing nothing, there is much to lose - even if you don't feel like there is.

    We are all a piece in someone else's puzzle.

     
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    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you or anyone you know is struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    Are you enjoying the podcast? Check out my bi-weekly newsletter, The Unleashed Letters.

    💛 Would you like to Learn Your Energy Type? Free Quiz ➡️ HERE! ⬅️

    SUPPORT THE SHOW:

    • Rate & Review: Apple Podcasts
    • Purchase my published book about my grief journey.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    Send Victoria a text message!

    Support the show

    _______

    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you are struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    This episode is sponsored by Do Grief Differently™️, my twelve-week, one-on-one, in-person/online program for grievers who have suffered any type of loss to feel better. Click here to learn new tools, grief education, and the only evidence-based method for moving beyond the pain of grief.

    Would you like to join the mission of Grieving Voices in normalizing grief and supporting hurting hearts everywhere? Become a supporter of th...

    12 min
  • Ram Dass | Learning How to Write a New Song with Grief

    Ram Dass Khalsa is a singer-songwriter who, through the loss of his newborn son to Trisomy-18, learned how to write a new song as he learned how to grieve healthily.

    It would take Ram Dass several years to learn what it means to grieve healthily, and growing up with "yogi" parents, taught him the importance of being in his body. However, he never learned how to be with his feelings.

    Ram Dass and his partner knew they were expecting challenges ahead. At twenty weeks pregnant, they learned their baby boy would not thrive very long once he was born. Going against the recommendation of abortion, they felt it was important that they go through the process of his birth and his death.

    They weren't expecting their son to live a full day. Instead, they got to experience his life for three. After his death, everyone had their individual grief experiences, and it became emotionally too much for Ram Dass and his partner, and ultimately, they parted ways.

    And thus, a new chapter of Ram Dass's life and music began.

    Even when we expect a loss to occur, there are no words or actions that can fully prepare a heart to say goodbye to another. The finality of death isn't felt until the moment it happens. And for some, including Ram Dass, grief and loss become a pivotal experience that changes one's life -- for the better.

    RESOURCES:

    • EP | And Now He Has Wings
    • Song | "Elegy for a Yellow Bird"
    • Song | "The Water Poem"
    • Medicine Path
    • Rachel Kaplan | Emotional Potty Training Program

    CONNECT:

    • Website
    • Instagram
    • YouTube

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    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you or anyone you know is struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are HERE.

    Are you enjoying the podcast? Check out my bi-weekly newsletter, The Unleashed Letters.

    💛 Would you like to Learn Your Energy Type? Free Quiz ➡️ HERE! ⬅️

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    Send Victoria a text message!

    Support the show

    _______

    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you are struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    This episode is sponsored by Do Grief Differently™️, my twelve-week, one-on-one, in-person/online program for grievers who have suffered any type of loss to feel better. Click here to learn new tools, grief education, and the only evidence-based method for moving beyond the pain of grief.

    Would you like to join the mission of Grieving Voices in normalizing grief and supporting hurting hearts everywhere? Become a supporter of th...

    57 min
  • Kyira Wackett | Collateral Damage to Adversity Rising

    Imagine identifying your parent for a crime, knowing that what you disclose will send your only parent to prison. Imagine moving 11x by the time you were in the 5th grade. And imagine being the child of a parent who, for most of your childhood, was struggling with undiagnosed bipolar disorder.

    Kyira was no stranger to chaos and uneasiness. She was the only child of a parent who turned to substances to cope with her mental health challenges and, in many ways, was the adult in the relationship. Perhaps to compensate for her shortcomings, her mother had no boundaries in her parenting, and Kyira pretty much dictated many decisions that had to be made; from which bedroom she got to have in a new place to if a man would get a second date with her mom, the buck stopped with Kyira.

    What you may think would lead to entitlement instead laid the foundation for Kyira to be a high-performing, academically thriving student who would develop an eating disorder for eight years.

    There are many twists and turns in Kyira's story. And what's most fascinating about Kyira's story is how she managed to go from being collateral damage to rising from the ashes of the adversity she experienced in her life.

    RESOURCES:

    • Blog posts on raising food-neutral and body-positive children.


    CONNECT:

    • Website
    • Join Kyira's Email List

    ______

    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you or anyone you know is struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    Are you enjoying the podcast? Check out my bi-weekly newsletter, The Unleashed Letters.

    💛 Would you like to Learn Your Energy Type? Free Quiz ➡️ HERE! ⬅️

    SUPPORT THE SHOW:

    • Rate & Review: Apple Podcasts
    • Purchase my published book about my grief journey.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • Facebook

    Send Victoria a text message!

    Support the show

    _______

    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you are struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    This episode is sponsored by Do Grief Differently™️, my twelve-week, one-on-one, in-person/online program for grievers who have suffered any type of loss to feel better. Click here to learn new tools, grief education, and the only evidence-based method for moving beyond the pain of grief.

    Would you like to join the mission of Grieving Voices in normalizing grief and supporting hurting hearts everywhere? Become a supporter of th...

    1 hr 12 min
  • Stephanie Cerins | Paving a Path to Happiness After Childhood Loss

    We all have intuition. And we all have the power to tap into the intuition within us, too.

    However, sometimes our intuition doesn't feel good to us. As was the case the day that Stephanie's father wasn't coming home as was expected. She looked out the window, saw his car but didn't see him and instinctively knew something wasn't right.

    At the age of 15, Stephanie found her father dead. The reminder was constantly there from that day forward, not only of his absence in her life but also the trauma of that day so close to home.

    Life was a rollercoaster from then on, a life of partying, drinking, and working hard at burying that day in her psyche altogether. But as grief does, it spills out into all areas of our lives. Such was the case with her first two marriages, where she would see patterns repeating in her life and ultimately found the courage to seek help through Alcoholics Anonymous and get out of an abusive marriage.

    After getting sober at the age of 24, her past began to resurface - and so did the memories she had long-buried. 

    You don't get a course in life when you are born. - Stephanie Cerins

    Isn't that the truth? 

    We are all learning as we go. Through the trials, tribulations, and grief packed into it all - it is through life experience we grow in wisdom. And it is through the wisdom we glean from our lives that we can be of service to others. That is exactly what Stephanie has done in her life. 

    One of Stephanie's greatest lessons in A.A. was that no matter how big of a mess you are, you can still help someone. 

    RESOURCES:

    • Book, Healing My Heart, After A Loss: Affirmations That Encourage Me To Feel & Heal My Grief
    • HeartMath.org


    CONNECT:

    • Website
    • Instagram
    • Facebook

    ______

    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you or anyone you know is struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    Are you enjoying the podcast? Check out my bi-weekly newsletter, The Unleashed Letters.

    💛 Would you like to Learn Your Energy Type? Free Quiz ➡️ HERE! ⬅️

    SUPPORT THE SHOW:

    • Rate & Review: Apple Podcasts
    • Purchase my published book about my grief journey.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • Facebook

    Send Victoria a text message!

    Support the show

    _______

    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you are struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    This episode is sponsored by Do Grief Differently™️, my twelve-week, one-on-one, in-person/online program for grievers who have suffered any type of loss to feel better. Click here to learn new tools, grief education, and the only evidence-based method for moving beyond the pain of grief.

    Would you like to join the mission of Grieving Voices in normalizing grief and supporting hurting hearts everywhere? Become a supporter of th...

    1 hr 11 min
  • Takeaways & Reflections | Mothering Yourself Through Grief

    This week's episode is an invitation to look at how you had been mothered and nurtured by your mother (or mother figure) as a child and how that has influenced you today.

    I also bring Mother Nature into the conversation because what Mother Nature gives us is a great analogy, in general, for the topic of experiencing mothering and nurturing. 

    When was the last time you gave yourself, as an adult, what you never received as a child? 

    This conversation is less about self-care and more about something deeper - an experience of loving unconditionally and receiving wholeheartedly, so much so that it is transformative. 

    A mother's love, or motherly love, has the potential to be transformative. Listen to this week's episode, and then sit with what comes up for you. Then contemplate how you can utilize mothering and nurturing energy to transform your life and the inner child in you that craves it. 

    RESOURCES:

    • Ep. 106 Elizabeth Catignani
    • Ep. 107 Michele Neff Hernandez
    • Ep. 108 Rachael Burns
    • Ep. 109 Maha Bodhi

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    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you or anyone you know is struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    Are you enjoying the podcast? Check out my bi-weekly newsletter, The Unleashed Letters.

    💛 Would you like to Learn Your Energy Type? Free Quiz ➡️ HERE! ⬅️

    SUPPORT THE SHOW:

    • Rate & Review: Apple Podcasts
    • Purchase my published book about my grief journey.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    Send Victoria a text message!

    Support the show

    _______

    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you are struggling with grief due to any of the 40+ losses, free resources are available HERE.

    CONNECT WITH VICTORIA: 

    • Instagram
    • Website
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook

    This episode is sponsored by Do Grief Differently™️, my twelve-week, one-on-one, in-person/online program for grievers who have suffered any type of loss to feel better. Click here to learn new tools, grief education, and the only evidence-based method for moving beyond the pain of grief.

    Would you like to join the mission of Grieving Voices in normalizing grief and supporting hurting hearts everywhere? Become a supporter of th...

    14 min
  • Maha Bodhi | A Quest for Inner-Peace & Freedom

    Were you born and raised in the land of the free and home of the brave, the United States of America?

    This week's episode reminds me that oppression and enslavement are not only in Yemen, where this week's guest was born but also in the free world. It just looks different from what Maha experienced.

    Ironically, Maha fled Yemen, where she experienced oppression, enslavement, arranged marriage twice that included violence and rape, and two civil wars in search of a better (more free) life in America. A life where she could purchase a dress for the first time and make everyday decisions for herself without her father's dictatorship and abuse from her mother.

    This episode begs the question: Where is freedom truly found; is it a state of mind? Or is it simply where your feet touch the ground?

    It depends on who you ask. Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl said: "It is not freedom from conditions, but it is the freedom to take a stand toward the conditions."

    Maha took a stand against her conditions. And we all have that power to do so, particularly within the confines of our minds.

    Follow Maha's journey from oppression to freedom when she became a U.S. citizen in 2018. Today, she truly is an unleashed heart, sharing her gifts, wisdom, and experience with all who are open to receiving her message.

    There's a story behind her name. Listen to learn the depth of her name and, more importantly, what it has meant to her as she's reinvented herself as a free Maha.

    The degree of your surrender is the degree of your success. - Maha Bodhi

    RESOURCES:

    • Docu-Series: Scars Unseen
    • High Performance Mind Masterclass
    • YogiMaha | Insight Timer
    • Website

    CONNECT:

    • YogiMaha | Instagram
    • Women in Leadership Space | Instagram
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • YouTube

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    NEED HELP?

    • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
    • Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support via text message. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a trained Crisis Counselor

    If you or anyone you know is struggling with grief, free resources are available HERE.

    Are you enjoying the podcast? Check out my bi-weekly newsletter, The Unleashed Letters.

    💛 Would you like to Learn Your Energy Type? Free Quiz ➡️ HERE! ⬅️

    SUPPORT THE SHOW:

    • Rate & Review: Apple Podcasts
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Grieving Voices is a podcast started by a lifelong griever for grievers. The mission of Grieving Voices is to change the conversation around grief, and how we address our own and that of others and…