Episode 28: Hope
"You know, this is not just an emotional experience, but a physical one, often a spiritual one, to explore those aspects of what is changed in you when grieving and then to start to take stock of resilience and find that hope together, I think those are the values of grief counseling."
Christine Kovach
This episode is part of a Breathing Wind miniseries titled Transforming Grief, hosted by Wendy Rolón. The Transforming Grief miniseries explores what we can do as humans to embrace grief as a tool for growth.
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In this episode, Wendy talks with Christine Kovach, LCSW, a bereavement counselor with Mission Hospice in San Mateo, CA, about grief counseling, healing through expressive arts, and the hope she sees in her work. Christine is an adjunct faculty member of Berkeley City College and also has a small private counseling practice in Alameda, California. Having started her career in hospice care in the early 1990s, Christine specializes in grief and loss, and in supporting those who are facing serious illness and those grappling with the challenges of caregiving. She facilitates a variety of grief support groups and employs expressive arts in the service of healing, finding meaning, and fostering resilience. For the past five years, she has co-facilitated the Alameda Death Café discussion salon.
Christine and Wendy talk about:
Grief in modern culture
Grief counseling and benefits for grievers
How death can teach us how to live more fully
Expressive arts as a way to work with grief
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