Susan Hannifin-Macnab is the Founder of A2Z Healing Toolbox®, an organization which provides powerful tools and resources to accompany and accelerate the healing journey of those living with grief and/or trauma. She is also a social worker, education, speaker, and an author of the five-time award winning book, A to Z Healing Toolbox. Susan H. shares her grief story, why you need community to heal, and explains how no one is truly alone in this journey.

Key Takeaways:

• Susan H. shares her grief story. Her husband disappeared for two weeks and she didn't know where he went.
• Susan H. didn't want to live. She just wanted to be in her pit of despair.
• How did Susan H. work through her grief and try to get out of it?
• What was Susan H's big breakthrough moment? It was a bunch of small things that added into a big thing.
• Susan H. shares how she turned her grief into something with purpose.
• Susan H. found community and realized she needed community to help her heal.
• When you give back, you don't only help others, but you help yourself.
• When you have community, you don't feel judged for your grief. You have people who understand you and can hold space for you.
• We are changed by grief. Susan shares an exercise she did with a group to realize you're not alone in your feelings.
• It's okay to be angry. It's okay to feel. Life isn't always fair.
• You have to get that pent up energy out of your body. Whatever that looks like for you, but you need it out.
• Susan talks about how she used her 'rage on a page' technique to help her get her anger out.
• What is sand therapy?
• Susan H. shares her tips on how to help move through grief.
• Ask for help, and then accept that help.
• People want to help you. It's their gift to you. Let yourself receive it.

Resources:

A2zhealingtoolbox.com

Soaringspirits.org

Susan on LinkedIn

Dying To Be Me Book by Anita Moorjani

Campwidow.org