Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share When Your Grief is Activated
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
When Your Grief is Activated
Some days a scent in a store aisle, a word in a meeting, a song on the radio—and your chest tightens, your thoughts race, and a memory barges in uninvited.
We call it activation, and it can make ordinary moments feel impossible. I’m talking through what activation is, and how to meet it with a plan that actually works.
We start with the nervous system and why breath, touch, and orientation can interrupt the alarm. I share simple, discreet tools you can use anywhere: a longer exhale, a hand on your heart, a quiet phrase like I am safe. I encourage you to prepare for these times by checking out last week’s episodes where we went into more detail of ways to release the grief we hold in our bodies. Know yourself and have a few ways in your tool chest for when activation happens. For it will.
Then we get honest about the social side. People can’t read our history. A shirt color or a plant on a desk might be a landmine for one person and nothing to another. Instead of demanding a bubble-wrapped world, we prepare a small safety plan, prime your system before known stressors, and have an exit or pause strategy for when it hits.
You’ll hear a candid example from grief educator training that shows how wildly different activation points can be, and why compassion and practicality must go hand in hand.
If you are longing for grounded, realistic support you can carry into work, family gatherings, or the grocery store, this conversation offers gentle guidance and actionable steps to help you feel steadier, even when the world doesn’t change.
If this helped, follow the show, share it with someone who might need it today, and leave a short review so more grieving hearts can find these tools.
Click here to send me a text. I would love to hear from you your thoughts on this episode.
Sign up for my newsletter, ask questions, and get responses via Email: [email protected]
Follow on FB The Caring Death Doula
https://www.facebook.com/share/1CUfH9Kek6/?mibextid=wwXIfr
IG The_Caring_Death_Doula https://www.instagram.com/the_caring_death_doula?igsh=MXdjOTF3MWo2a3RpYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
View all episodes
By FrancesSome days a scent in a store aisle, a word in a meeting, a song on the radio—and your chest tightens, your thoughts race, and a memory barges in uninvited.
We call it activation, and it can make ordinary moments feel impossible. I’m talking through what activation is, and how to meet it with a plan that actually works.
We start with the nervous system and why breath, touch, and orientation can interrupt the alarm. I share simple, discreet tools you can use anywhere: a longer exhale, a hand on your heart, a quiet phrase like I am safe. I encourage you to prepare for these times by checking out last week’s episodes where we went into more detail of ways to release the grief we hold in our bodies. Know yourself and have a few ways in your tool chest for when activation happens. For it will.
Then we get honest about the social side. People can’t read our history. A shirt color or a plant on a desk might be a landmine for one person and nothing to another. Instead of demanding a bubble-wrapped world, we prepare a small safety plan, prime your system before known stressors, and have an exit or pause strategy for when it hits.
You’ll hear a candid example from grief educator training that shows how wildly different activation points can be, and why compassion and practicality must go hand in hand.
If you are longing for grounded, realistic support you can carry into work, family gatherings, or the grocery store, this conversation offers gentle guidance and actionable steps to help you feel steadier, even when the world doesn’t change.
If this helped, follow the show, share it with someone who might need it today, and leave a short review so more grieving hearts can find these tools.
Click here to send me a text. I would love to hear from you your thoughts on this episode.
Sign up for my newsletter, ask questions, and get responses via Email: [email protected]
Follow on FB The Caring Death Doula
https://www.facebook.com/share/1CUfH9Kek6/?mibextid=wwXIfr
IG The_Caring_Death_Doula https://www.instagram.com/the_caring_death_doula?igsh=MXdjOTF3MWo2a3RpYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr