When a trauma therapist with over 20 years of experience is blindsided by her own debilitating grief after losing both parents, where does she turn? In this deeply moving conversation, Meghan Riordan Jarvis takes us on her journey from professional expert to admitted patient at the same treatment facility where she once sent her toughest cases.

With raw honesty, Meghan shares how grief affected her physically, emotionally, and spiritually.  From finding spirituality in a documentary about mushrooms to spontaneously road-tripping across America during COVID with her kids, Meghan's personal transformation insights will reframe how you think about loss, healing, and what's really needed to support grievers.

Meghan's hard-won wisdom disrupts our cultural awkwardness around grief as she calls on employers  to stop avoiding this universal human experience. 

Get ready to question everything you think you know about the "rules" of mourning as you hear:

• Why talking about the five stages of grief is like saying the world is flat
• Why you should ignore some of the most common advice grievers hear
• Who needs to step up to change things in Western culture
• The surprising places you might find new sources of spirituality
• What we can learn from children about processing difficult emotions
• And so much more...

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