Susan welcomes Heather Dempsey to today's episode. She is an emotional health coach and Mentor for life and business. Heather is a cat-loving foodie, personal development coach and self-care enthusiast who has helped hundreds of anxious and overwhelmed individuals and service-based entrepreneurs create radical emotional and mindset transformations so that they thrive. She supports her clients — from feeling hopeless, unhappy, and stressed, as if life would never going to be any different from what it has been — to actually feeling optimistic, like anything is possible, energized, and confident they are capable of having everything they desire as they've never experienced in their entire life or business before.

Key Takeaways:

• Heather talks about the loss of her brother and how grief was experienced in the family.
• Grief is also about losing something you were fond of.
• There can be shame in grieving.
• Grieving people do not want a consolation prize, please do not use the words 'At least…".
• Sometimes there is no fixing a situation and "fixing" sometimes might just mean feeling sad.
• Our emotions and feelings have to come through to be complete.
• Susan talks about how families sometimes mismanaged information.
• Show up for the people that you love.
• Heather explains how to turn guilt into gratefulness.
• Heather shares how she works with her clients about the concept of reinvention.
• Make meaning out of your loss.
• Heather shares a beautiful experience of the connection she has with her father that recently passed away.
• Heather suggests everyone struggling with grief to connect with their bodies, it can be as simple as taking a walk, starting with one humble step.

Resources

Tendrilsofgrief.com

Email Susan: [email protected]

Meet Heather Dempsey

Visit Heather's website

Follow Heather on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook.

Learn more about Heather's Course Live Without Limitations.