We're all familiar with "conventional" grief, but what happens when you're grieving somebody who is still alive? It's a grief that feels all-consuming, yet can be totally invisible to others and doesn't carry with it any of the societal norms or customs we experience when someone dies.

Today's guest is Stephanie Sarazin, a brave soul who's traversed the labyrinth of ambiguous grief and emerged as a guiding light for others. Stephanie's world was majorly disrupted by the discovery of chronic betrayal in her marriage. The destabilizing experience sparked a quest in her to understand ambiguous grief and formulate a way to navigate it. She then went on to develop a pioneering model that defines the ambiguous grief process. Stephanie's  Gold-winning book, Soul Broken, serves as a helping hand to the 96 percent of people who will experience ambiguous grief at some point in their lives.

In this episode, you will be able to:

• Draw back the curtains on ambiguous grief, including its manifold challenges and coping methods.
• Embark on an exploration of various healing practices that are effective after life-altering events and periods of grief.
• Unmask the common practice of concealing trigger events in ambiguous grief to safeguard loved ones
• Discover what it means to be soul broken.
• Find out why hope is a double agent.
• Learn how to put away things you can't control. 
• Embrace the internal hope that allows you to live the life that is, rather than the life you used to have.

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