Episode 25: Irrational Thoughts

“Still I can’t see past the fact that here lies my dad – my sick dad I would bring meal trays to, my dad whose feet I meant to protect from harm.”

What role does wonder have in grief? How do we change when grief affects us so young? This is the last episode of Season One and I’ve chosen Surya Ohara to represent the conclusion, as she also represents the beginning of this podcast. We met at The Everything Conference in 2019, at a time when I really needed to have a community of others pursuing nontraditional paths to inspire me to keep going. In this episode, we touch on her story. We talk about her memories of her father, her father’s funeral, and how grief and wonder didn’t come to her until later in life. She also shares an excerpt from her blog titled “The Role of Wonder in Surviving Grief.”

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In this episode, Surya talks about:

• Her father and his funeral in Laos

• Her role as peacemaker and how that manifested after losing her dad at a young age

• Her pursuit of finding wonder in grief

Additional resources (Surya’s story):

• Surya’s website

• The Role of Wonder in Surviving Grief

• What happens during a Laotian funeral?

• Culture of Laos

• Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

Links mentioned in the intro:

• The Everything Conference

• Out on the Wire, the Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio

• Charlie Gilkey

• Transom

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Episode 24: Family Man

“To me, that would have been a moment...I always wanted to show my dad how great i can be, and to just make him proud.”

How does who we are carry on from who our parents are? Christopher Williams’ dad, Donald, passed away suddenly when he was in his late thirties. In this episode, we talk about his dad, his family and upbringing, his values around family, and even his plans for his dad’s barbeque sauce.

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In this episode, Chris talks about:

• His memories of his dad, and how food was a foundational part of his connection with him

• His mom and dad’s strong relationship, and how this has influenced his views on relationships 

• How he reacted to his dad’s death, as well as how his family and community supported him during the loss

Additional resources:

• Chris’ website

• Chris’ Instagram

Chris’ label for his dad’s barbeque sauce

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Episode 22: The Male Dynamic

“Being vulnerable is a strong thing to do.”

What role does our gender play in grief? Paul Sockett is from England and has been developing his career as a professional actor and performer for 15 years. Paul considers himself an empath and, during the time of this recording, he was with his partner, supporting her through her loss. His feelings related to grief, even anger, came forward in this recording. In this episode, we talk about Paul’s experience and how grief shows up in his life today, as a man, actor, and partner.

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In this episode, Paul talks about:

• The role grief played in his life and some reflections on society’s expectations of men with respect to grief

• How he coped with his dad’s passing

• How to help others with grief

Additional resources:

• Paul’s Twitter

• Paul’s Instagram

• Good Life Project Podcast

• The Everything Conference

• Understanding the Way Men Grieve

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Episode 21: The Silver Linings Person

“I had been the kind of person who didn’t know what to do and say.”

As grievers, I think we can all relate to hearing something like, “At least they didn’t suffer,” or “Well, they had a good life.” These cringe-worthy glass-half-full clichés are etched into how our American culture processes loss. So, what do you say to someone who’s grieving? This is what Laura specializes in.

In this episode, I interview Laura Jack, a Mastery Level Transformational Life Coach, speaker, and compassionate leadership trainer. Laura talks about her mom and how her mom’s death catalyzed her growth from being a silver linings person to someone who feels all of her feelings authentically, her relationship with grief and happiness, and how she came to understand compassionate communication was her gift to the world.

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In this episode, Laura talks about:

• Being authentic to herself about her grief, compared to finding the silver linings 

• Inspiration for her book on compassionate communication 

• How her now husband showed up for her when her mom died

Additional resources:

• Laura’s website

• The Compassion Collective

• The Compassion Code (her book)

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Episode 20: Training Wheels

“I realized that your relationships with other people are the most important things. Because that’s what you really have at the end to show for your life.”

What do you prioritize in life and why? In this episode, I interview Andrew Kaufteil, a marketing executive and friend of mine. When he lost his dad, he shifted his approach to prioritizing relationships over success and status. Andrew discusses his dad’s memory, his loss, and how he focuses now on his mom.

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In this episode, Andrew talks about:

• His memories of his dad and family dynamics at his death 

• Changing views on grief and his changing values after losing his dad

• How he prioritizes his mom and relationships differently

Additional resources:

• Archived photo of Andrew’s father, Ted

• Borat

• Carousel

• Glide church

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Episode 19: Trauma, Grief, and Emotions

“Grief is about a big loss, and it’s about the loss of something that has value to you,” Joie Seldon.

What effect does trauma have on our bodies? How does grief fit in? Joie Seldon is a trainer, coach, and specialist in the field of Emotional Intelligence. In this episode, she talks about the type of parent loss and trauma situation that Saam faced (Episode 18) and goes beyond this to focus on grief and parent loss in general, in context of how our body processes emotions, the lost expectations that can cause grief, and microtraumas surrounding parent loss. Though our conversation was recorded during pre-Covid times, it still holds relevance today.

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In this episode, Joie discusses:

• How our minds and bodies process emotions

• Trauma and microtrauma stemming from parents and parent loss

• Some ways to work with our challenging emotions

Additional Resources:

• Emotions: An Owner’s Manual

• Joie’s website

• Breathing Wind Episode 18 (Saam Barringer)

• When You’re Emotionally Affected by Trauma

• Mind Matters: Parental Mirroring Provides Child Sense of Self Worth

• How Grief Shows Up in Your Body

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Episode 18: Loss is a Relief

My ongoing constant fear was that I would become like my father.

In this episode, I interview Saam Barringer about the experience of losing his father, and how having a challenging relationship shifted his perspective on his loss.

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Saam talks about:

• His father’s parenting style 

• Divorce stigma and how it prolonged his mother’s decision to divorce

• How his perspective on parenting was shaped by the fear of becoming his dad

Additional Resources:

• Grieving Someone You Didn’t Like, What’s Your Grief blog

• Divorce and the LDS church

• Finger Fishes, Saam’s game that he developed with his kids

• National domestic violence hotline

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Episode 17: Tending to Grief

Right now, what I’m working on is recognizing what the signs are of grief for me, and what grieving looks like for me, so that, when I feel that, I can get up and do the things I need to do to take care of it.

What does it mean to tend to our grief? Alica Forneret is a writer, facilitator, and Grief Guide who creates spaces for people to explore their grief. She is fiercely committed to making sure that we have more conversations about grief, death, and dying - whether that’s at home, at work, or with strangers on the bus. This episode was recorded live in collaboration with the “Reimagine: Life, Loss, & Love,” virtual festival, a response to COVID-19. In this episode, we talk about Alica’s mom and how grief has shaped her work today.

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Alica talks about:

• Her mom and family life growing up

• Planning her mom’s funeral and the advice she gives for those in similar situations

• Learning about and tending to her grieving process

• How her work has helped her process

Additional Resources:

• Alica’s Website

• Alica’s Facebook page

• Alica’s Instagram: @alica.forneret

• Alica’s LinkedIn

• Reimagine: Life, Love, & Loss

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Episode 16: Uncovering Her Mom’s Narrative and Redefining Her Own

I had this fear...of really deeply committing and probably to some extent still do, and I think it's definitely rooted in that fear of loss, because, again, if your first big loss...is your mom, it leaves a huge imprint of...abandonment.

How can we make sense of and reshape our narratives around loss when the loss is so formative? In this episode, I interview Christina Vo, a women's mentor and guide, about the experience of losing her mother at age 14, and how she's understood and incorporated her mother’s death into her narrative over time.

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Christina talks about:

• Her mother’s journey from Vietnam, and how her experience was reflected in her character and parenting style.

• Discovering more about her mom’s life after her death.

• How she understands her mom’s death in her life now, 25 years after her passing, and how this is reflected in her personal life.

Additional Resources:

• Christina’s Instagram

• Christina’s Website

• An Invitation to Spirits: Đám Giỗ for My Mother by Christina Vo, diaCRITICS blog

• Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

• The Ways We Grieve, Psychology Today blog entry by Amanda Habermann, M.S., Sovereign Health

• What should I say to someone grieving? 64 of the Best Things Ever Said to a Griever, by Litsa Williams, What’s Your Grief

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Episode 15: A Feeling of Completeness

If we can start to lean into the idea that ...the end of one’s life doesn’t have to be so awful and fraught with pain and anxiety, we can actually do the emotional and spiritual work at the end of life to make it okay so that we die in a peaceful way, where we feel completeness.

When we die, what choices do we consciously make? How might we be guided through this major transition? Wendy Rolón’s background is in birth and end of life doula work, music, writing and fiber art. She is particularly awed by grief's ability to transform and expand our lives. A long-time supporter of those in transition, Wendy brings a calm and loving presence to any situation. In this episode, we cover a range of topics, from the Covid-19 pandemic, to her personal and early loss of her mother, to how this has informed her work today.

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Wendy talks about:

• The pandemic and end of life work

• Her early experience of losing her mom, and how it has informed her work

• Her perspectives and beliefs around end of life

Additional Resources:

• Wendy Rolón, MFT Website

• Wendy Rolón's Instagram

• “Are you grieving yet?” Blog post by Wendy Rolón

• Wendy’s current workshop offering, “Are you grieving yet?” Self Care and Expansion in a Wobbly World, a collaboration with Emma Stern, Yoga and Fitness Instructor and Serena Malkani, Sound Bath Artist and Aruvedic Practitioner. 100% of proceeds go to BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health) 

• International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA)

• BJ Miller

• The Center for Living and Dying

• Sunita Puri

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Episode 14: Living Every Year Like it's the Last

If I were to die next week, would I be able to look at myself on my deathbed, morbid as this sounds, and say that I had lived a life that was purposeful, and if so, what does that mean?

How can we make sense of tragedy? In this episode, I interview April Rinne, a public speaker, advisor, writer and globetrotter. She advises, speaks, writes and advocates for businesses and policies fit for the 21st century change (adopting what she calls a "flux mindset"). April discusses the experience of losing both of her parents in a car accident when she was 20, and how, out of that tragedy, she set out to make better sense of the world (including a world in flux), and eventually, help make the world a better place.

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April talks about:

• Her parents and her changing views of family after losing them

• Her travels and taking the uncommon path after college

• Living a purpose-filled life to serve others

Additional Resources:

• April Rinne’s website

• Flux Mindset

• How to Navigate our Uncertain Future - April Rinne speaks at TEDxFrankfurt

• April Rinne and David Kessler - Facebook Live recording

• The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks

• When Twinning is Losing by April Rinne (Modern Loss)

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Episode 13: The Space to be Messy

It is no accident that my relationship to my mom has gotten a lot better in the last few years because I have people in my life with whom I can talk about her freely and like, make sense and meaning out of not only her death, but her life.... We don't grieve alone and we never have. And we don't have to in this moment.

Grief is at an unprecedented level during Covid-19 and yet we are losing the normal in-person ways we grieve. How can we stay connected? Lennon Flowers is the co-founder of The Dinner Party, a platform for connecting mostly 20 and 30 somethings, as well as early 40 somethings, people who are often among the first in their peer community to experience a loss. In this episode, Lennon and I have a discussion about authentic conversations and creating spaces, virtual and in-person, that help people dealing with loss.

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Lennon talks about:

• The format of The Dinner Party and the role of the host.

• Modeling vulnerability and encouraging authentic conversation, even in online spaces.

• The paradox of grief in this moment of Covid-19: Both heartbreak and hope can coexist.

Bonus Tracks:

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• The Dinner Party

• Social Connection in the Age of Physical Distancing: A Story-Sharing & Listening Guidebook for Virtual Gatherings

• The Center for Courage and Renewal

• Ken Breniman’s Breathing Wind Episode 08

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Episode 12: Beyond the Bookends

Your loved one is in every tree and breeze and Starlight.

Your loved one is in the rain in the sunlight and a flower.

Your loved one is in your very in breath and your out breath.

Your loved one is in all of life...

And anytime and every time that you think of them and recall them.

Grief is at an unprecedented level during Covid-19 and yet we are losing the normal in-person ways we grieve. What can we find from the spirit world to guide us during these times? And, what can we do to show our loved ones we care when they’re transitioning? Sand Symes is a Northern California-based modern medicine woman, shamanic practitioner, spiritual teacher, certified coach, former social worker and intuitive healing guide. Sand and I talk about the concept of transition and how this fits in her viewpoint on death as a shamanic practitioner.

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Sand talks about:

• Her views as a shamanic practitioner on the experience of loss during this pandemic

• Shapeshifting, intuition, and transitions in the context of death, life, and growth

• How to show your love when loved ones pass away

Additional Resources:

• Sand’s website

• Sand’s Instagram

• Sand’s Facebook

  Rise as She Community

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Episode 11: When Spirit Eats Beauty

We’re so used to grieving alone in our culture…[grief ritual is] learning how to do this in a village and be held by our fellow brothers and sisters who all have experienced loss in our lives.

Grief is at an unprecedented level during Covid-19 and yet we are losing the normal in-person ways we grieve. How can we create connected ways to grieve? Siena Tenisci is a facilitator, or “grief tender,” of the Pacific Healing Circle’s online grief rituals. She brings her background in body-based somatic healing practices, group therapy, and ceremonial work to community grief tending. Siena and I talk about the ways the Grief Tenders are holding a sacred online space for grieving during these times. We talk about how there’s no right way to “do” grief, and Siena covers some of the many ways people express grief through their online sessions. We also talk through the importance of beauty in ritual, and the ways we can take care of ourselves while taking part in ritual.

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Siena and I discuss:

• Ritual and beauty as a form of honoring our ancestors and recognizing the grief we collectively feel.

• How to embody grief, to connect back to ourselves and to each other, even when online.

• The concept of the sacred witness, or deeply present listening.

Additional Resources:

• Pacific Healing Circles

• Pacific Healing Circles Facebook Page

• Community Grief Tending Ritual

• The Geography of Sorrow - an interview with Francis Weller and Tim McKee for Sun Magazine

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller

• Of Grief and Reverence (Episode 04, A New and Ancient Story Podcast, Charles Eisenstein)

• Laurence Cole

• Malidoma Some

• Sobonfu Some

• The Seen and the Unseen: Spirituality Among the Dagara People by Sobonfu Some, Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine

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Episode 10: Comfort in the Written Word

There is just something so close and intimate about characters and books, understanding what you're going through, you feel like they're there for you.

Grief is at an unprecedented level during Covid-19 and yet we are losing the normal, social ways we grieve. What are some tools we can use to process our grief? Charlotte Fox Weber and I talk about grief and bibliotherapy as an approach to processing grief during the age of Covid-19.

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Charlotte and I discuss:

• Her work with the School of Life and bibliotherapy

• The value of reading and re-reading during grief

• Our go-tos for authors and literature

Additional Resources:

• The School of Life

• Charlotte Fox Weber’s Bio

• Alain de Botton

• Harvard Business Review - “That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief” by Scott Berinato

• Staring at the Sun by Irvin Yalom

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• Sheryl Sandberg’s Facebook post

• As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life by Walt Whitman

• The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

• Dorothy Parker

• Anne Lamott

• W.B. Yeats

• Elizabeth Gilbert - excerpt from a Ted Interview podcast episode on grief

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Episode 09: Seeing Your Story in Others

I started seeing my own story in other people’s stories.

In this episode, I interview Dara Kosberg, Director of Programming for Reimagine, who discusses art and connecting as ways to process her grief, her views on her parents, and how she has chosen to live her life in the present.

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She talks about:

• Her changing views on her loss over the years

• How she processed grief through art and connection, and how this appears in her life today

• Losing a feeling of security when her mom passed away

Additional Resources:

• Reimagine

• The Dinner Party

• Minor White - Wikipedia article

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Episode 08: Finding Our Response to Grief

You can't rush a caterpillar out of the chrysalis.

In this episode, I interview Ken Breniman, a licensed yoga psychotherapist specializing in providing trauma-informed, bereavement-sensitive, thanatologically-inspired yoga therapy to individuals and groups in the Bay Area. Ken discusses his views on his mother’s journey, his experience of prolonged grief and connectedness, as well as his views on mortality.

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He talks about:

• His prolonged grief experience in his 20s

• The legacy his mom left and how that relates to his legacy

• Making meaning in life and spirituality

Additional Resources:

• Ken Breniman’s website

• Prolonged Grief - Overview and symptoms provided by Mayo Clinic

• Living Dying Project

• No Death No Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh

• How To Practice Ho’oponopono (And Why You Should) by Megan Winkler 

• Living Life Forward, Understanding it Backward - Blog post by Denise Hisey at Inspired2Ignite.com about Kierkegaard’s philosophy

• The Toolshed Grief Group is an example of Instrumental Grief; this Wikipedia article describes the comparison between intuitive and instrumental grief

• The Field of Thanantology by Chris Raymond

• 3 Powerful Shamanic Practices To Help You Deal with Death and Grief by Life after Death

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Episode 07: Teachable Moments

Is this just him trying to teach us – not just me but my family – how to deal with loss?

In this episode, I interview Sara Karbeling about how her father’s death helped her family understand death, how she learned that death is a part of life, and how she chooses to maintain his spirit today.

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In the episode, Sara talks about:

• The sudden loss of her father

• How her father’s loss taught her to help others deal with loss

• Keeping her dad’s memory alive through traditions

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Episode 06: Bonus - Best Friends

As an only child with a small family, it meant a lot to me to be so deeply enmeshed in another person's life--and by someone who got me, and continued to get me through life.

Hello listeners! I have been operating mostly on pause due to extended travel in France and Spain, as well as dealing with the general fatigue of jet lag and self-quarantine after. I recently heard about a close friend passing away from cancer. She is the daughter of Anne Marie, whose interview I published in February. This is a bonus episode to share my thoughts on our friendship and her lasting meaning in my life.

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In the episode, I talk about:

• My high school best friend, Melissa.

• Our friendship and its lasting meaning for me.

Links and Resources

• Episode 4: A Part of the Family - Interview with Anne Marie, Melissa’s mom

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