Recipes for Grief

Welcome to episode 13 with Kristin Tappan. She shares about her incredible and easygoing grandmother Connie, the time she survived a 16-day coma and Connie's visit during said near death experience. Yes y'all...a 16 day coma AND a grandmother visitation!

She also shares about something her grandmother modeled for her: maintaining strong friendships in adulthood, which was *key* to her surviving her near death experience. Kristin's experience is so personal and unique, yet what she's learned from grief is universal and relatable.

kristin tappan is originally from la. she found her way to the bay area for college and now splits her time between the two. kristin is a marriage and family therapist, a blogger and as of this january, a podcaster. most of her free time is spent on experiences - whether that be travel, music festivals or quality time with loved ones.  

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- Intergenerational childhood home / intergenerational grief

- Therapy and the people who won't go

- Not allowed to go to her great-aunt's funeral- Being the first grandchild

- Grandmother Connie modeling adult friendship- Becoming friends with our grandmothers

- Taking over family hosting responsibilities (while grieving) 

- Personalized wrapped gifts at Christmas

- Misu says hello (Tiramisu the pup)

- Near death experience dreams

- Hearing what people are saying while in a coma

- Kristin's very first psychic reading

- Self care as an investment

- The responsibility of having an emergency as a therapist who clients rely on

- Being well-loved and well-connected, like Grandmother Connie

- The importance of friendship

- Our shared favorite word embedded in a Lauren Hill song

- Beyond Grief the book

- Allowing oneself to change and feel more thru grief

- How grief can be like a trash can

- Grief does not have a timeline

- Cultivating journaling, blogging, friends and spaces where grief is not taboo

- Openness to love

Join me in taking a few deep breaths. This meditation is just under 7 minutes.

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Episode 012: The Harriet Tubman Episode

Much has been said about Harriet Tubman, and for very good reason, but less attention paid is to her divine intuition that guided her so much in her fight for freedom on the Underground Railroad and during the Civil War. Listen to me dissect the response that Tubman has conspired to answer my question: what is the purpose of intuition?

Whatcha Gonna Do - Jayo Felony f. Method Man and DMX

Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

HooDoo Tarot by Tayannah McQuillar

Harriet Tubman, Precog

The Spirit of Harriet Tubman: Awakening from the Underground by Spring Washam 

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Bodhisattva

Stigmata

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Gran's Rolls aka Milk Line Rolls...the recipe that started it all. Tune in to hear the full story of me recreating an aunt's roll recipe while in the deep grief of infertility. Dreams, ancestors, endometriosis, flour, butter. Knead, rise, bake, taste.

Julia Mallory is Black and alive and hates bios. Listen as we chat about creativity as a recipe for grief and rice.

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CONTENT ALERT: There is brief mention of s3xual abuse. Also, if you're in acute grief, save this episode for another time.

Sour Cream Cake: This Cake is Made for Sharing

Gracelyn Bateman shares how she returned to humor after her father died and how his famous cookies, Kip's Chips, were a gift to other grievers even before he died.

Gracelyn Bateman is the co-founder of Luna Peak Foundation and builds the Instagram community @snapshotsoflifeafterloss. She specializes in photography and helping people tell their stories of loss, survival, and resilience within the grief and cancer communities. Her grief books include “Beyond Grief” a photography book of 80 grief interviews, “The Grief Workbook” and the holiday version titled “Season’s Griefings.” She loves hosting workshops and helping people express themselves and process their grief with humor.
www.lunapeakfoundation.org - nonprofit website

www.lunapeakpublishing.com - multicultural books of hope

@snapshotsoflifeafterloss share your story and join our grief community

"Recipe for Starting a Podcast". Ride along while I tell stories about pizza, singing in the car as a child with my auntie, my grad school failure and hearing that same auntie's voice in the shower...and what any of that has to do with starting this podcast.

Book recommendations: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler and The Will to Change by bell hooks

Pedro Navarro is an educator by trade, originally from Guatemala, now firmly rooted in Long Beach, CA. He enjoys company with family and friends, yet appreciates time alone under the sun running or tending to his plants and observing nature.

Carmen Spagnola and I talk about Earth Day 2023, animism and nettles.

Carmen Spagnola is a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef turned trauma recovery practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist, and kitchen witch. She is author of The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes & Rituals for the Wheel of the Year, host of The Numinous Podcast, and founder of The Numinous Network, an online learning and support portal for people healing from trauma through a cross-pollination of somatics, attachment, and nature-based spirituality. As a chef, author, and facilitator, Carmen holds space for renewal amidst turmoil. Her work is an invitation to re-enchantment, soul nourishment, and a deeper and more animistic relationship to the natural world. She provides frameworks and skills to create cultures of collective care in precarious times.

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