Healing Our Grieving Hearts Podcast

Healing Our Grieving Hearts Podcast

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Healing Our Grieving Hearts Podcast episodes

  • When Love and Resentment Exist Together

    Introduction

    1. Topic Introduction [00:56]

    Main Topics

    1. Love Does Not Cancel Out Difficult Emotions [02:53]
    2. The Hidden Weight of Caregiving [04:20]
    3. When Love Becomes Mixed with Loss [05:57]
    4. Making Peace with Complex Emotions [08:36]
    5. Allowing Love to Remain at the Center [10:13]
    6. Closing [11:35]

    Additional Resources

    1. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/
    2. https://purpose.healingourgrievinghearts.com
    3. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/media
    4. https://www.facebook.com/kay.fontana

    15 min
  • Sound, Silence, and the Language Beyond Words

    Introduction

    1. Topic Introduction [00:56]

    Main Topics

    1. When Words are Not Enough [02:53]
    2. The Healing Power of Sound [05:12]
    3. The Wisdom of Silence [07:28]
    4. Finding Balance Between Sound and Silence [09:25]
    5. Learning to Listen with the Heart [11:28]
    6. Closing [12:57]

    Additional Resources

    1. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/
    2. https://purpose.healingourgrievinghearts.com
    3. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/media
    4. https://www.facebook.com/kay.fontana

    16 min
  • Letting Hospice Help You

    Introduction

    1. Topic Introduction [00:56]

    Main Topics

    1. Understanding What Hospice Really Is [02:18]
    2. The Emotional Resistance to Calling Hospice [04:17]
    3. How Hospice Supports You as the Caregiver [05:27]
    4. What the Final Days May Look Like [07:04]
    5. Letting Hospice Help You is an Act of Love [08:17]
    6. Closing [09:31]

    Additional Resources

    1. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/
    2. https://purpose.healingourgrievinghearts.com
    3. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/media
    4. https://www.facebook.com/kay.fontana

    12 min
  • Making Peace with What You Cannot Fix

    Introduction

    1. Topic Introduction [00:56]

    Main Topics

    1. Understanding the Fixer Within [03:10]
    2. When There Truly Was Nothing More You Could Do [04:51]
    3. Acceptance is Not Approval [06:52]
    4. Grieving Instead of Fixing [08:37]
    5. Trusting a Larger Holding [10:17]
    6. What Peace Actually Feels Like [11:22]
    7. A Gentle Practice for Releasing Control [12:24]
    8. Closing Reflection [13:13]

    Additional Resources

    1. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/
    2. https://purpose.healingourgrievinghearts.com
    3. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/media
    4. https://www.facebook.com/kay.fontana

    16 min
  • Grieving in a World That Wants You to Be Fine

    Introduction

    1. Topic Introduction [00:56]

    Main Topics

    1. The Culture of "Fine" and the Silence Around Grief [02:31]
    2. The Inner Pressure to Appear "Okay" [04:20]
    3. What Grief Actually Needs [05:54]
    4. Learning to Tell the Truth Gently [07:41]
    5. You Are Not Here to Perform Healing [08:55]
    6. Closing [09:44]

    Additional Resources

    1. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/
    2. https://purpose.healingourgrievinghearts.com
    3. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/media
    4. https://www.facebook.com/kay.fontana

    12 min
  • Who Are You Beyond the Role of Caregiver?

    Introduction

    1. Topic Introduction [00:56]

    Main Topics

    1. When Caregiving Becomes the Center of Everything [01:49]
    2. How Caregiving Slowly Shapes Identity [03:06]
    3. The Fear and Guilt Beneath the Question [05:54]
    4. Remembering the Parts of You That Went Quiet [07:41]
    5. Integrating Caregiving Without Losing Yourself [09:25]
    6. Closing [11:02]

    Additional Resources

    1. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/
    2. https://purpose.healingourgrievinghearts.com
    3. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/media
    4. https://www.facebook.com/kay.fontana

    13 min
  • The Grief That Begins Before Goodbye

    Introduction

    1. Topic Introduction [00:56]

    Main Topics

    1. What is Anticipatory Grief [02:32]
    2. The Invisible Emotional Weight of Caregiving Grief [04:18]
    3. The Body and Nervous System in Anticipatory Grief [06:01]
    4. Caring for Yourself While You Are Still Showing Up [07:10]
    5. Love, Presence, and Sacred Moments Along the Way [09:18]
    6. A Gentle Reframing of This Season [10:11]
    7. Closing [11:05]

    Additional Resources

    1. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/
    2. https://purpose.healingourgrievinghearts.com
    3. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/media
    4. https://www.facebook.com/kay.fontana

    13 min
  • Caring for Your Body While Your Heart Heals

    Introduction

    1. Topic Introduction [00:56]

    Main Topics

    1. When Grief Lives in the Body [01:33]
    2. Grief is a Full Body Experience [02:58]
    3. Listening to Your Body with Compassion [04:59]
    4. Gentle Ways to Support Your Physical Self [06:35
    5. When Self-Care Feels Hard [08:37]
    6. Integrating Body and Heart Healing [09:33]
    7. Closing [10:27]

    Additional Resources

    1. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/
    2. https://purpose.healingourgrievinghearts.com
    3. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/media
    4. https://www.facebook.com/kay.fontana

    13 min
  • Rediscovering a Sense of Purpose in Daily Life

    Introduction

    1. Topic Introduction [00:56]

    Main Topics

    1. When Life No Longer Looks the Way You Imagined [01:22]
    2. Redefining Purpose After Loss [03:40]
    3. Trusting the Quiet Voice Within [05:30]
    4. Purpose Lives in the Ordinary [07:12]
    5. Becoming Without Rushing the Becoming [08:40]
    6. Closing [09:57]

    Additional Resources

    1. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/
    2. https://purpose.healingourgrievinghearts.com
    3. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/media
    4. https://www.facebook.com/kay.fontana

    12 min
  • The Alchemy of Tears: How Grief Transforms the Soul

    Introduction

    1. Topic Introduction [00:56]

    Main Topics

    1. Grief Arrives in its Own Way [01:37
    2. Tears as a Language of the Soul [03:29]
    3. How Grief Quietly Refines Us [05:38]
    4. Becoming More Fully Yourself [08:41]
    5. Closing [11:04]

    Additional Resources

    1. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/
    2. https://purpose.healingourgrievinghearts.com
    3. https://healingourgrievinghearts.com/media
    4. https://www.facebook.com/kay.fontana

    13 min

About Healing Our Grieving Hearts Podcast

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I’m Kay Fontana, and have faced profound loss throughout my life, giving me a deep understanding of the pain it brings. My journey began with the loss of my brother to cancer when I was just nine, altering the dynamics of our family as my parents grappled with grief. Later, I experienced the anguish of losing my mother to Alzheimer’s and my father to cancer shortly after his diagnosis. The most heartbreaking of all was the death of my husband and soul mate of 40 years in January 2023 due to multiple health challenges.