In this episode, Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist Wendy Sloneker talks with Laureli Shimayo, Matchmaker and Intuitive Eye Reader, about healthy anger, not repeating patterns, and how to approach dating again after a loss.

What does it mean to adopt the Sumo position? Why does it feel so good to cuddle a soft critter and when is "oozing" actually a good and healthy thing?

Find out the answers and so much more, then find Laureli at Thrive-Wise.com to learn all about her approach to helping you find your soul mate. 

If grief over previous loss is holding you back from living a rich and whole life, visit Heart Healing from Loss and make an appointment with Wendy to explore how she can help you. 

This podcast is produced by Audiotocracy Podcast Production. 

It's Episode 20, and we're so thankful to have made it this far! Thank you for listening and sharing the podcast and helping others work through their grief and loss.

In this episode, Erin MacCoy of Erin MacCoy Coaching spoke with me about how she helps business owners manage connection, vulnerability, risk, and building trust. 

As we all navigate and hopefully emerge from this time of loss, grief, and change, what is a "heart-centered business" and how can it help us all integrate our humanity with our work?

Have a listen, then come talk with me at Heart Healing from Loss to learn more about heart-centered healing and moving forward.

Losing creativity can be like losing a fundamental part of yourself and your identity, which can cause grief all on its own.

But is a loss of imagination and creative spirit the result of an unresolved grief? Can healing old wounds bring back that creative spark?

In this episode, Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist Wendy Sloneker shares a very personal story of having her creative side retreat and how she got it back again.

Listen, then visit her website, Heart Healing from Loss, and schedule a free consultation. It's time to heal. 

"You're asking me to give up what makes me feel good. That's the grief."

D.J. Burr is a psychotherapist and licensed mental health counselor who specializes in sex and love addiction, clinical trauma, codependency, gaming, and other behavioral addiction concerns. 

In this episode, D.J. and Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist Wendy Sloneker talk about how grief and trauma intersect, often destructively.

Learn how people seek to numb rather than heal themselves and how the right help can get you on a path to recovery and wellness.

If you've ever lost a beloved companion animal, you know how deep the grief can go — and probably how painful it is when others minimize your sadness with, "It was just a dog/cat/bird/horse/etc."

Reagan Pasternak's Griffin's Heart: Mourning Your Pet with no Apologies is more than just a book. It's a healing journal, a keepsake, and a loving memoir to her soul animal, Griffin.

In this podcast, Wendy talks with author and actor Reagan Pasternak about the unique, powerful, and precious love we humans can have with our animal family. And how we need to respect that relationship and the grief that comes when our animal is gone.

If you've loved and lost, whether that's a human, an animal, a job, or a house, grief is still grief and needs to be worked through. Learn more from Wendy or make an appointment at the Heart Healing from Loss website. 

Coping with a death can be so very difficult. One of the greatest gifts you can leave behind is having your affairs in order. 

Michael Geoghegan of Northwest Strategy and Planning helps individuals and families through the will and probate process. Removing uncertainty from end-of-life decisions can make it so much easier on the family that remains. 

If you've been putting off creating or updating your will and making end-of-life decisions, we get it — your own passing is not the most pleasant thing to think about. But you'll love the relief when it's accomplished and you know loved ones are taken care of.

In this episode, Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist Wendy Sloneker and attorney Michael Geoghegan talk about the ways their work overlaps, how each approaches the subject of death with respect, empathy, and a little gentle humor, and how being prepared with the right resources before and after a death can make such a crucial difference for those left behind.

Change is coming — big change. It might even be a happy change. But any change can bring grief with it. And that unsettling feeling of knowing something big is coming can jump start the grieving process before the reason for the grief has even occurred.

Watching a beloved parent or friend or pet getting older, reaching the end of our time at a job, packing up and saying goodbye to a neighborhood and home, dreading a day of work that can be fraught with its own kinds of loss — they hurt. Can we manage the hurt we have now and the hurt that's to come?

We can. In this episode, Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist Wendy Sloneker talks us through the signs and symptoms that we may be grieving already, in anticipation of loss that hasn't happened yet. And she provides tools to help us manage the process and the pain.

Have a listen, then find Wendy at HeartHealingFromLoss.com for more help, health, and healing.

Can a person's struggle to move past grief impact their work?

Absolutely.

And if your work involves helping people through their own difficult times, like, say, being a lawyer or attorney, you may not be the asset to your client that you want to be.

In this episode, Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist Wendy Sloneker invites in Heather Horton, who does Grief Recovery with lawyers.

Once a practicing lawyer herself, Heather has an intimate understanding of the ways grief can show up in work that's already stressful and high-pressure.

Have a listen, and if you're struggling with grief or want the tools to be prepared for any of the 40 (yes, forty) ways grief can be triggered, visit Wendy at Heart Healing from Loss or Heather at Heather D Horton. 

Resources mentioned in the podcast:

DC Bar Spring Wellness Fair, May 6, 2021
How do you know if you're grieving? and 10 simple truths about grief for lawyers (PDF)

Scars are more than a marker of where an injury has healed. Physical and emotional scars often extend much deeper into the body and psyche than we understand. And not dealing with them can mean carrying unnecessary pain, restriction, and grief.

In this fascinating conversation, Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist Wendy Sloneker talks with Naturopathic Physician Sierra Storm about the scars we bear and how liberating it can be to finally be released. 

Dr. Storm uses a unique therapy to release adhesions from surgical and other scars that cause pain and limit range of motion. Her patients often experience immediate relief, so if you've had a Cesarean section, knee surgery, appendix removal, or accident — even if it occurred years or decades ago — take advantage of her free consultation to see if scar therapy might be a good option for you.

Have a listen and check out Dr. Storm's page on scar therapy. Then scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page to get access to The Scar Solution Masterclass, a mini-dive into scar injection therapy.

Piles of pictures, newspaper cuttings, postcards, silverware, a doll collection or stamps or coins.... All of these can end up in your home after a loved one passes.

But you don't collect stamps, and the silverware will likely never get used. So what do you do with the items an important person in your life has left behind? Shove them in the attic and make them the next generation's problem? Feel guilt over your neglect of those photo albums full of people you don't know?

Or do you figure out how to deal with it in a way that frees up your space AND honors the person they belonged to?

Katrina Hamilton helps people work through their "grief clutter." It is, after all, your relationship with the person that matters; not your relationship with their high school yearbooks. 

Listen to Wendy Sloneker, Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist, and Katrina Hamilton, owner of Katrina Consults, talk through how we can be burdened by objects that aren't our own. And how we can find our way out from under all that stuff.