On this week's episode, our guest Ryan Mulkowsky shares his experience in the world of hospice care and grief work. After years working as a hospice chaplain and bereavement coordinator in Atlanta, Georgia, Ryan has developed his own approachable methodology for grievers to explore their losses and find resolution on their own terms. Content warning: With the conversation around death and dying, we discuss anticipatory grief with illness, as well as various outcomes to medical treatments that may be disturbing or upsetting to some. Please listen with caution.

Restorative Grief will be taking a two week break from new episodes. We will return with episode 13 on December 12th. Maybe a two week vacation from new input is a good idea for you, too. Take care of yourselves, and make some margin. I'll see you in a few weeks!

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Without margin, we get pushed around our own life and sometimes, right off the cliff's edge. Let's talk about the value of margin for our grief, too.

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Grief is the great equalizer, and yet we do not experience equal access to mourn as needed. Consider your own story and the privilege to grieve with this week's episode of Restorative Grief.

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This week, I'm inviting you into a practice of lament through a simple act of mercy toward yourself. I'm also sharing a little bit about The Restorative Grief Project, which is free, private, and open to anyone who wants to join.

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Reckoning with our grief in a way that brings permission to the process is necessary, but it is very easy to dismiss our right and need to grieve. In my conversation with author and educator Meghan Crozier of The Pursuing Life, Meghan shares her story of disenfranchised grief and what it meant to her story when she realized just how heavy a weight she carried.

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If you're anything like me, you grow weary of hearing accolades of your strength. Join me this week for a quick hit of permission to let your guard down in the pursuit of a soft place to land.

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It can be nightmarish to decide where to begin processing our grief stories. This week, we take notes from author C.S. Lewis to unpack his concept of grief like fear and to ask questions about where we can make progress in our journey toward healing.

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Knowing & Owning Our Stories

This week, we are touching on the concept of opening up to our stories in a new way. In grief, we deserve insight into how best we can process our losses, find healing, and learn about ourselves with compassion through the lens of the enneagram. If this is your first episode, it's a great place to jump in. 

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Enneagram coaching with Melissa Kircher

Buy the Book, “Restorative Grief: Embracing our losses without losing ourselves: https://amzn.to/38nBnXJ

Transcript: https://www.mandycapehart.com/knowing 

Exploring Grief Literacy with Ryan Pfeil

In this week’s conversation, we welcome Ryan Pfeil to the show. Ryan is the editor of my book,  Restorative Grief, as well as a long time friend and a writer as well. He has come face to face with grief in the last five years through some very unexpected circumstances, and is going to share the importance of learning about grief both as one to feel it and in order to support others well.

Get in touch with Ryan via Twitter - @RyanPfeil - he would love to hear from you!

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Grief Literacy Infographic - https://www.mandycapehart.com/literacy

Buy the Book, “Restorative Grief: Embracing our losses without losing ourselves: https://amzn.to/38nBnXJ

To request a transcript of this episode, please visit MandyCapehart.com.