In Western culture, we’re expected to move on quickly after death. After the memorial service ends, it’s back to business as usual. In this episode, guest and retired network television sports director Meg Streeter Lauck tells a love-filled story of caring for her husband for 20 years after his Parkinson's diagnosis. and 10 years with dementia. After his death on December 31st, 2020, she began a yearlong journey to walk through grief with grace. She shares about how Jenn’s Transform Your Grief Immersion Program and alternative healing methods such as dance helped her to get out of bed and embrace grief as a friend. Meg emphasizes the importance of the phrase “too much, too fast, too soon is too hard,” in the grief process and how we can face life again by slowing down.

Topics:

• Meg shares her love for her husband and her journey being a caregiver for him after his diagnoses of Parkinsons and later, dementia
• Meg’s strategy for communicating with a loved one with dementia
• The beautiful experience of bringing family together to “launch” a loved one over to the other side
• The full weight of grief that hits after the memorial service and when everyone else starts to return to their lives
• That state of shock even after a death you knew was coming for a long time
• Learning to take grief by the hand and connect with it in a positive way
• Bringing grief into the body and healing through dance

Get your free “7 Steps to Walk Through Grief with Grace” guidebook at www.walkthroughgriefwithgrace.com

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Have virtual tea with Jenn! This will be an opportunity for you to get some reflection time on where you’ve been, where you are, and where you want to go. You will get some clarity, and perspective and get a chance to be deeply witnessed. 

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Music by Daniel Plane: www.reelcello.com

Podcast production by Caitlin Epstein

Stillbirth. A topic we often steer clear of because of the sheer weight of life and death happening in the body. In this episode, Soul Chiropractor Tanya English shares about Edward Oliver, her son who was stillborn in 1994, and the healing journey she embarked upon after that tragedy. She encourages us to shift away from blame around death and to instead embrace forgiveness and celebration of life each and every day. Listen for wisdom about healing and grace after tragedy.  

Topics:

• Experiencing stillbirth and finding community in the grieving process
• Explaining stillbirth to children and sharing the idea that death is not about blame
• Finding healing in grief through music
• Embracing the idea that everything happens to your highest good and asking “what can I learn from this?” rather than “why did this happen?”
• Forgiving ourselves day by day
• Finding something to celebrate each and every day

Find Dr.Tanya's work here

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Get your free “7 Steps to Walk Through Grief with Grace” guidebook at www.walkthroughgriefwithgrace.com

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Have virtual tea with Jenn! This will be an opportunity for you to get some reflection time on where you’ve been, where you are, and where you want to go. You will get some clarity, and perspective and get a chance to be deeply witnessed. 

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Music by Daniel Plane: www.reelcello.com

Podcast production by Caitlin Epstein

We may be carrying childhood grief around with us each and every day, and until we take the time to heal that hurt, we will continue to miss out on immense joy and pleasure. In this episode, Trauma-Informed Master Coach Leslie Saglio explores healing the ‘Mother Wound’ and our inner child. She helps us face the idea of the ‘impossible mother,’ learn to embrace the sovereignty we have over our emotions, and move to a place where we can remember with more love than pain.  

Topics:

• Leslie shares her experience losing her childhood best friend to cancer
• Grieving pleasure we have missed out on as a result of trauma
• Exploring the ‘Mother Wound’ and healing our inner child
• Learning to embrace the sovereignty we have over our emotions and our freedom
• Allowing ourselves as women to receive, be celebrated, and be held

Find Leslie here

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Get your free “7 Steps to Walk Through Grief with Grace” guidebook at www.walkthroughgriefwithgrace.com

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Have virtual tea with Jenn! This will be an opportunity for you to get some reflection time on where you’ve been, where you are, and where you want to go. You will get some clarity, and perspective and get a chance to be deeply witnessed. 

https://calendly.com/revjenncormier/tea-with-jenn-what-s-your-big-dream?month=2023-11

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Music by Daniel Plane: www.reelcello.com

Podcast production by Caitlin Epstein

Anger is a common symptom of grief, and it can negatively affect all areas of your life. To help you release this anger, special guest and Trauma-Informed Master Coach Leslie Saglio leads us through a guided tapping meditation specially designed to help you let the anger go and improve your health, self-esteem, and relationships. Listen as many times as you need.

Find Leslie here

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Have virtual tea with Jenn! This will be an opportunity for you to get some reflection time on where you’ve been, where you are, and where you want to go. You will get some clarity, and perspective and get a chance to be deeply witnessed. 

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Music by Daniel Plane: www.reelcello.com

Podcast production by Caitlin Epstein

Grief is not just for death. It is crucial that we also name the layers of loss and honor the closing of businesses, the ending of relationships, the closing of chapters in our lives, and more. In this episode, dancer and grief ritualist Julia Hartsell shares how she honored the closing of her business, the Flowjo, with rituals like an obituary and a funeral. Listen for wisdom around learning to let go, honoring loss in all areas of our lives, and allowing ourselves to not view endings as failures.

Resources:

• Julia’s website and registration for her upcoming Grief Ceremony
• The Obituary for the Flowjo

Timestamps:

• 4:18 The ancient and cross-cultural sacredness of dance and the founding of the Flowjo
• 9:15 The ability of a space to hold us in our grief and allow us to show up in our realness and imperfection
• 13:27 Asking for guidance and learning when it is time to let go
• 24:50 Naming the layers of loss and honoring the closing of business, relationships, and chapters of our lives
• 25:32 Grieving loss in all areas of our lives to better prepare us for bigger losses, and seeing closure and grief as transformational
• 27:49 Taking the time for action with intention and not being wary of the word ‘ritual’
• 36:30 Reframing our mindset to recognize that endings are not inherently failures 
• 40:06 A song honoring the Flowjo and the community it held for ten years

Get your free “7 Steps to Walk Through Grief with Grace” guidebook at www.walkthroughgriefwithgrace.com

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Have virtual tea with Jenn! This will be an opportunity for you to get some reflection time on where you’ve been, where you are, and where you want to go. You will get some clarity, and perspective and get a chance to be deeply witnessed. 

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Music by Daniel Plane: www.reelcello.com

Podcast production by Caitlin Epstein

On this podcast we often speak about the beauty of ritual and celebrating life, and in this episode Jenn shares how we can use ritual, symbols, and giving to celebrate the women of the world this upcoming International Women’s Day. 

Resources:

https://www.ef.edu/blog/language/10-ways-international-womens-day-is-marked-around-the-world/

https://forum.generationequality.org/news/invest-women-and-girls-science-entrepreneurs-urge-global-leaders-generation-equality-action

internationalwomensday.com

unwomen.org

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Have virtual tea with Jenn! This will be an opportunity for you to get some reflection time on where you’ve been, where you are, and where you want to go. You will get some clarity, and perspective and get a chance to be deeply witnessed. 

https://calendly.com/revjenncormier/tea-with-jenn-what-s-your-big-dream?month=2023-11

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Music by Daniel Plane: www.reelcello.com

Podcast production by Caitlin Epstein

‘The tapestry of grief and the tapestry of love are woven in the same colors.’ In this episode, guest Beau Stubblefield-Tave weaves a tapestry about losing loved ones, the struggle of addiction and mental health challenges, and the beauty of goodbye through his life experiences and insightful poetry. Listen for so many nuggets of wisdom on topics ranging from finding our own ways of expressing grief to the importance of the early detection of cancer. 

Do you have limited listening time? We've identified some especially moving parts of this episode with Beau:

• 2:59 The 'Slow-Motion Grief' of losing a loved one to dementia and the challenge of grieving for someone who is still here

• 5:31 Beau shares a piece of his poem, The Tapestry of Grief

• 8:07 Saying goodbye to his sister through a family trip to Hawaii and capturing those final happy memories to hold onto

• 15:30 Facing expectations of how we are allowed to express grief and finding our own ways of how we want to express and share it

• 19:37 Beau shares the ‘distilled wisdom’ of a poem about the facets of humanity by Margarita Battle

• 23:08 Beau’s personal message to men about being sure to get screened for prostate cancer and the importance of early detection for all forms of cancer

• 27:52 The grief and struggle of mental health challenges, drug addiction, and the opioid epidemic, and how we can move to being more open about struggle and taking things one day at a time

Beau’s poem The Tapestry of Grief

The tapestry of grief

And the tapestry of love

Are woven in the same colors

Woven by the same weaver

They are seen through the lens of life

And the lens of death

They are two sides of the same coin

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Get your free “7 Steps to Walk Through Grief with Grace” guidebook at www.walkthroughgriefwithgrace.com

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Have virtual tea with Jenn! This will be an opportunity for you to get some reflection time on where you’ve been, where you are, and where you want to go. You will get some clarity, and perspective and get a chance to be deeply witnessed. 

https://calendly.com/revjenncormier/tea-with-jenn-what-s-your-big-dream?month=2023-11

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Music by Daniel Plane: www.reelcello.com

Podcast production by Caitlin Epstein

Are you curious about alternative funeral options? Are you interested in home funerals or eco-friendly burials, or simply looking to avoid the exorbitant costs of modern-day funerals? In this episode with Death Midwife and educator Jerrigrace Lyons, she answers your questions and shares how reclaiming end of life care can be a transformative practice that alters our relationship with death and grieving.

Watch the trailer for the PBS documentary “A Family Undertaking:P.O.V.” about Jerrigrace’s work.

Find Jerrigrace’s trainings and programs here. 

• 3:20 - Jeri’s touching, personal journey to becoming a death midwife through caring for a friend after their death
• 10:10 - Caring for and washing a body as a transformative practice to help you move from fear and uncertainty to relief and peace
• 15:04 - Diminishing our fears around dying through caring for someone after death and embracing and restoring old traditions
• 19:04 - Jenn’s personal journey to after-death care, learning our legal rights when a loved one dies, and taking all the time we need to be with a loved one after death
• 22:20 - Home funerals and their ability to slow down the process of saying goodbye
• 32:29 - Inviting children into home funerals and dispelling the mystery and fear around death
• 35:10 - The revolving door of birth and death - the thinning of the veil
• 44:27 - Learn more about alternative funeral options and end of life doula trainings

Get your free “7 Steps to Walk Through Grief with Grace” guidebook at www.walkthroughgriefwithgrace.com

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Have virtual tea with Jenn! This will be an opportunity for you to get some reflection time on where you’ve been, where you are, and where you want to go. You will get some clarity, and perspective and get a chance to be deeply witnessed. 

https://calendly.com/revjenncormier/tea-with-jenn-what-s-your-big-dream?month=2023-11

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Music by Daniel Plane: www.reelcello.com

Podcast production by Caitlin Epstein

Addiction often has the power to take our loved ones away both in life and through death. In this episode, Spiritual Life Coach Tatiana Berindei shares the life and loss of her brother to drug addiction, and his struggle to exist in a physical body. She expands on healing after his death through communicating with him and learning from Indigenous rituals. Listen for stories of family, strife, and learning to live fully after a death.

Find Tatiana’s work and her podcasts here. 

• 14:14 Learning to live at a deathbed
• 15:36 The challenge of being in a physical body, addiction, and losing a loved one to addiction
• 22:43 Post-death rituals and caring for the body
• 28:50 Learning from Indigenous rituals and using physical movement and labor to transform grief in the body
• 41:18 “Grief is not logical to the mind, it is a process that comes from the heart”
• 48:41 Learning valuable lessons in grief through dreams

Get your free “7 Steps to Walk Through Grief with Grace” guidebook at www.walkthroughgriefwithgrace.com

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Have virtual tea with Jenn! This will be an opportunity for you to get some reflection time on where you’ve been, where you are, and where you want to go. You will get some clarity, and perspective and get a chance to be deeply witnessed. 

https://calendly.com/revjenncormier/tea-with-jenn-what-s-your-big-dream?month=2023-11

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Music by Daniel Plane: www.reelcello.com

Podcast production by Caitlin Epstein

Do you find yourself feeling guilty or regretful over things left unsaid? After her father’s death, Maria Heartsong regretted not calling him one last time. In this episode, she shares how we can connect with lost loved ones and how it is never too late to say what we want to say. She gifts us with one of the songs she receives from beyond the veil and with a heart song activation.

A Soothing Heart Song Across the Veil Coaching package from Maria. 

Maria’s Heart Song Activation ‘Lighthouse’

• 07:18 Facing the "guilt" we might feel when we haven't managed to see, call or reach out before someone passes
• 11:25 Receiving songs from the other side of the veil
• 20:54 Maria shares the song "By Your Side"
• 29:05 Maria's journey with channeling songs
• 35:21 A Heart Song Activation

Get your free “7 Steps to Walk Through Grief with Grace” guidebook at www.walkthroughgriefwithgrace.com

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Have virtual tea with Jenn! This will be an opportunity for you to get some reflection time on where you’ve been, where you are, and where you want to go. You will get some clarity, and perspective and get a chance to be deeply witnessed. 

https://calendly.com/revjenncormier/tea-with-jenn-what-s-your-big-dream?month=2023-11

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Music by Daniel Plane: www.reelcello.com

Podcast production by Caitlin Epstein