31: A Work in Progress

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31: A Work in Progress

What is meaning making, mortality, and medicine?

Breathing Wind Podcast

Mar 16, 2021

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“Medicine is really what we create for healing in our grief journey.”
Ken Breniman

What is meaning making, mortality, and medicine? In this episode, Ken Breniman from Season One (ep 08) and Sarah Davis, founder of the Breathing Wind podcast, talk about belonging, medicine, ritual and normalizing healing.

This episode is part of a Breathing Wind miniseries titled Meaning Making, Mortality and Medicine, hosted by Ken Breniman, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, certified yoga therapist, plant medicine integration specialist and a thanatologist. Ken’s miniseries explores finding ways to bring meaning in our grief journeys, making sense of being mortal and and making the most out of life, and healing medicines, which he defines as “what we create for healing in our grief journey.”

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Ken and Sarah talk about:

His use of ritual in the podcast and how music became the backdrop for his episodes
The meaning of meaning making, mortality and medicine
Normalizing healing and cultivating welcoming spaces for grief stories

Related resources:

Ken’s website (kenbreniman.com)
Madeleine Bachan Kaur’s website (Episode 32, coming soon)
Dave Koz’s website (Episode 33, coming soon)
Ken’s episode 08 from Season One
Wikipedia article on Thanatology
Wikipedia article on Avengers’ Thanos
Healing Nation by Bachan Kaur
An Overview of Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy
Planting Seeds: Ayahuasca as a Potential Intervention for Prolonged Grief Disorder, article written by Ken Breniman

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Breathing Wind

Breathing Wind is a podcast about grief and loss and how we journey with these lifelong companions.

Naila Francis, grief coach, writer and former journalist and Sarah Davis, podcast consultant, speaker and writer, are cohosts. We offer warm, honest and insightful conversations for the introspective at heart.

Launched in 2019 as a personal grief project, the podcast struck a chord with listeners looking for a space to feel less alone in their grief. Quickly, a dedicated community grew around the candid and compelling conversations with others who knew grief just as intimately and those who offered guidance for navigating this universal human experience.

In its three seasons of publishing monthly episodes, Breathing Wind has become a trusted space to explore who we become and how we make meaning in the midst of our post-loss lives. It's also the place where joy, laughter, wonder and possibility co-exist alongside deep heartbreak.

Find out more at www.breathingwind.com.

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