The House of Mourning: Embodied Wisdom from Grief, Loss and Trauma

The House of Mourning: Embodied Wisdom from Grief, Loss and Trauma

By Joëlle Croteau-WillardHealth & FitnessMental Health
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The House of Mourning: Embodied Wisdom from Grief, Loss and Trauma episodes

  • Grief, Growth and Starting Again

    Kicking off Season 2 of the House of Mourning Podcast, Joëlle re-emerges after a significant break to share her journey through grief, loss, and the challenges of motherhood. She discusses her new placement as an Intern Therapist, the importance of accessible therapy, and her studies in transpersonal psychology. Joëlle emphasizes the need for a holistic approach to mental health that considers the individual's cultural and spiritual background. She invites her audience to engage with her on topics related to grief, trauma, and healing as she resumes her podcasting journey.

    Takeaways:

    Joëlle shares her struggles with her pregnancy after loss.

    The importance of accessible therapy in today's world.

    Grief as a continuous process that affects the body and mind.

    Joëlle's commitment to exploring healing through her podcast.

    The significance of community support in navigating trauma.

    Transpersonal psychology and the integration of spiritual and cultural aspects of healing.

    Joelle encourages audience engagement for future topics.

    The podcast will feature a mix of interviews and personal insights.

    14 min
  • Grief, Growth, and Starting Again

    Kicking off Season 2 of the House of Mourning Podcast, Joëlle re-emerges after a significant break to share her journey through grief, loss, and the challenges of motherhood. She discusses her new placement as an Intern Therapist, the importance of accessible therapy, and her studies in transpersonal psychology. Joëlle emphasizes the need for a holistic approach to mental health that considers the individual's cultural and spiritual background. She invites her audience to engage with her on topics related to grief, trauma, and healing as she resumes her podcasting journey.

    Takeaways:

    • Joëlle shares her struggles with her pregnancy after loss.
    • The importance of accessible therapy in today's world.
    • Grief as a continuous process that affects the body and mind.
    • Joëlle's commitment to exploring healing through her podcast.
    • The significance of community support in navigating trauma.
    • Transpersonal psychology and the integration of spiritual and cultural aspects of healing.
    • Joelle encourages audience engagement for future topics.
    • The podcast will feature a mix of interviews and personal insights.
    16 min
  • Unbroken: Reframing Trauma

    In this episode, Mary Catherine McDonald (MC) discusses her experience with grief and loss, as well as her research on trauma. She highlights the grief-phobic nature of society and the need for more open conversations about loss. MC reframes the concept of trauma, emphasizing that the trauma response is never wrong and that shame is the real problem. She also explores the importance of relational support in healing from trauma and grief. The conversation delves into the challenges of navigating identity after a traumatic event and the need for society to acknowledge and support those who have experienced loss.

    Takeaways from this episode:

    • Society is often grief-phobic, making it difficult for individuals to openly discuss and process their grief.
    • The trauma response is an adaptive mechanism that is designed to respond to extreme overwhelm and keep us alive.
    • Shame is the real problem when it comes to trauma and grief, as it prevents individuals from seeking help and healing.
    • Relational support is crucial in the healing process, and healing can happen in various relationships and settings.
    • Trauma and grief can lead to a loss of identity, and individuals may need to reorient themselves and redraw their map of the world.
    • It is important to challenge societal narratives around trauma and grief, and to recognize that healing is a unique and individual process.

      • Content by Chapter:

      1. 00:00 Introduction and Background
      2. 01:33 Experience with Grief and Loss
      3. 03:36The Grief-Phobic Society
      4. 08:23 The Thin Spaces of Grief
      5. 11:49 Reframing Trauma
      6. 15:30 The Concept of Brokenness
      7. 18:15 The Trauma Response is Never Wrong
      8. 21:57 The Importance of Relational Support
      9. 25:24 The Isolation Impulse
      10. 29:12 Loss of Identity
      11. 32:06 The Elephant in the Room
      12. 36:09 The Aftermath of Trauma
        13. 59 min
      13. Feel It To Heal It

        In this episode, bereaved father Jason Dykstra speaks frankly about the partner's perspective on grief, pregnancy loss, and healing. Join us as Jason shares his insights on male-identifying folks and how often their experiences get overlooked as well as dismissed. He shares his experience learning to allow himself to stop, and intentionally feel his grief after his son Ezra was stillborn.

        Jason Dykstra is a father of four as well as an international speaker, author, and coach specializing in grief, and conflict resolution.


        Contact Jason Dykstra at:

        https://www.jasondyk.com/


        Instagram:

        @jasondyk


        Buy his new book:

        "Welcome to the Shit Club:

        A Male's Perspective on Stillbirth, Grief and Loss"


        Contact Joëlle CW at:

        @joellespeaks


        1 hr 1 min
      14. Grief as Soul Work

        Annie Gudger lost her husband Kent tragically in a car accident and was widowed at the age of 28 while being pregnant with their son Jake. Anne shares candidly about this life shaking loss that happened 36 years ago, through the eyes of a grief holder, writer and now founder and community leader of multiple grief and loss spaces.


        Annie and Joëlle explore grief as soul work; as a journey that cracks us so deeply open, we have no choice but to be working from the soul level of healing. Anne also shares about her new book, a memoir, that just came out in Sept 2023, called The Fifth Chamber. This one is not to be missed.


        Anne Gudger can be found at:

        Instagram: @annegudger

        Facebook:

        Coffee & Grief Community & Monthly Events

        Podcast:

        Coffee, Grief & Gratitude

        30-day Grief writing group:

        https://writeyourgriefout.thinkific.com/


        Joëlle can be found at:

        Instagram @joellespeaks

        House of Mourning Blog

        Youtube Channel: Joëlle CW Baby Loss & Grief

        51 min
      15. Smashing the Myths of Grief

        Join us for this powerful conversation as Ayako Gallagher and Joëlle CW discuss the myths of grief and pregnancy loss & rediscovering yourself after loss. Ayako shares candidly about what she has experienced after losing her stillborn daughter Emi. She shares what she has learned about supporting her partner as well as how she has incorporated Emi in every day of her family's life. She talks about the grief myths she has proudly smashed along the way.

        Ayako is an ICF accredited Grief Coach and PILSC trained group facilitator, and more than anything she is a bereaved parent, community organizer and baby loss advocate.


        Find & Follow Ayako on Social Media:

        @mamasmatterhere

        @emi.and.company


        Her newly launched Retreat for Sping 2023 Brochure:

        From Loss to Love Retreat


        Find and Follow Joëlle CW on social media:

        @joellespeaks

        Joëlle CW's Youtube Channel

        56 min
      16. Grief is Not Linear

        Join us for this beautiful discussion with the profound Grief and Loss Educator, Expert, Author, and Psychologist - Dr. Mekel Harris.

        Joëlle and Dr. Mekel explore the impacts of grief and loss on the corporate workplaces as well as the impacts of the pandemic and the grief that has emerged because of it.

        Dr. Mekel shares about one of the biggest falsehoods that we have been lead to believe in grief: that grief in fact is NOT linear. She shares candidly about her own loss of her mother, and later her father as well. Lots of gems to uncover in this one!


        @drmekel

        @growwithbloomwell

        https://mekelharrisphd.com/


        44 min
      17. Grief as Transformation: Honouring Jacob

        Join us for a heartfelt, raw conversation about the realities behind infertility, pregnancy loss & a couples journey to uncover their feelings about being childlessness, and not by choice. Jessica Van Wyen shares her beautiful baby boy Jacob with us, what she went through to become his mama, and also all she went through in and after losing him. Jessica shares her journey to give back through working in the Pregnancy and Infant Loss community with an incredible Californian Perinatal Loss Charity (RTZ: Hope).


        Follow Jess on Instagram:

        @jessvanwyen


        Work with Jessica and Return to Zero: Hope Charity here:

        https://rtzhope.org/register

        https://rtzhope.org/support-group-facilitators

        1 hr 9 min
      18. The Power of Permission

        @Joellespeaks with Mary McElhattan: Author, Chaplin, Funeral Director and Permission Mission advocate

        This episode uncovers the power of giving ourselves and others permission to embrace our mortality as a change agent for enriching our lives while earthside. This is a profound conversation about not how we want life to be - but how it is - and taking out the "shoulds" in our experiences of grief, loss & death and dying.

        Mary's vision is to share courage and freedom while having honest discussions about mortality. Her intention is to create a peace for the passing and for the living still here.


        Links/Contact info:

        Mary's YouTube channel is: http://www.YouTube.com/@permissionmission

        > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mary.mcelhattan & Permission Mission.
        > Author to: Rocket Risks-Not knowing the how
        and doing it anyway. Available here on Amazon.
        > Linked In: Mary McElhattan


        Joëlle CW:

        Facebook: Joëlle Croteau-Willard

        Instagram: @Joellespeaks

        Website: https://pregnancylosshealing.com/coaches/joelle-croteau-willard/

        52 min
      19. Time Does Not Heal

        Joëlle speaks with world renowned Performance Coach and author Kelly Poulos about her grief, wisdom and the loss of her 18yr old son, Frankie, just over 30 years ago. Kelly shares what worked for her in grief and healing journey, and what has mattered, above all, over the past 30 years of life after losing her adult son. She also shares her truth behind the ever so cliché and very unhelpful concept of "Time heals all wounds".


        Follow Kelly Poulos on Instagram: @kellytalks

        Also on Facebook: Kelly Poulos

        Purchase Kelly's book "Secrets to Winning":

        https://www.amazon.ca/Secrets-Winning-Kelly-Poulos-ebook/dp/B00RN4AJ7K


        Follow Joëlle CW on Instagram at:

        @joellespeaks

        On Facebook:

        Joëlle Croteau-Willard

        Joëlle's website:

        https://pregnancylosshealing.com/coaches/joelle-croteau-willard/


        39 min

      About The House of Mourning: Embodied Wisdom from Grief, Loss and Trauma

      From the publisher's feed

      Living through two life shaking losses, the death of her father and now the death of her second child, Joëlle explores the unique wisdom and world view that comes with lived experience of grief, loss…