TW: mentions of suicide and trauma

I share a bit of my story about how I navigated grief and depression and I offer some gentle suggestions.

If you're struggling with thoughts of suicide, please reach out for support. Call 988, the national crisis hotline, or 911 or your local crisis hotline.

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On the 4th Friday of each month, I will be offering you a prompt to journal about in relation to grief and your grieving process.

Today's prompts: 1. How are you feeling about your grief process? 2. Do you believe you need extra support?

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Sometimes the grief journey gets complicated when we discover we are actually grieving more than one loss. I talk about the existence of secondary losses in this episode.

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I share how I'm getting through a low period of my life.

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I talk about a few topics that will be appearing in Season 3 of this podcast and share some updates.

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I offer some questions for you to ponder and/or journal about to help yourself prepare for 2024 and the next holiday season as they relate to your grief.

Here are the questions:

1.   How did you navigate your grief during this holiday season?

2.   Did you honor your grief during this time? If the answer is yes, how did you do it?

3.   What did you do that felt good to you?

4.   What did you do that didn’t feel so good?

5.   Is there anything you would like to change about how you observed the holidays? If so, what would that be?

6. As the new year dawns, is there anything you would like to accomplish in the next year?

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As we get closer to the apex of the holiday season, I do a brief check-in using some writing prompts. Here's the list of prompts:

1.   How are you doing – really?

2.   How are you navigating the

3.   Name one positive thing from

4.   Name one negative or

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Finding joy while grieving and while observing the holidays can seem impossible. I approach this topic in a different way by going over a few small ways you can tap into joy.

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TW: I offer an exercise that may bring up discomfort or pain, especially for survivors of trauma. Please proceed with caution or feel free to skip the exercise.

What can you do with those memories that seem to pop up a lot during the holiday season? I offer some guidance here as well as some journal prompts to gain further insight.

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In this episode, I talk about what grief splurges are and how they can help you cope with grief.

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