28 episodes
Beauty In The Breakdown: Living & Loving Life After Loss Celenia Delsol
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Are you grieving a loss? Then this podcast is for you. My premise is that grief is a natural response to losses of all shapes and sizes. If you are grieving or if someone dear to you is, I hope this podcast can be a safe haven; a place where listeners will see themselves, find comfort, and imagine a future that may not look like what was "supposed to" be, but holds the promise of beauty, love and joy...again.
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Season 3, Episode 1: Grieving (Less Than) Loved Ones
Sometimes we lose someone with whom we had a complicated, or confusing, or challenging relationship. Perhaps an estranged alcoholic parent, or a former spouse who dies decades after your separation. In some ways, it's like losing that person twice. Recently, my father died. Someone I had not been in relationship with for many years, but about whom I have some treasured memories. I dedicate this episode to him.
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S2, Ep19: An Anniversary Overshadowed
Today, on the 10th anniversary of my son's suicide, I expected to devote this episode to him, but there is so much grief in the United States (and the world at large) at this very moment, it felt more appropriate to shine a light on that instead. We are ALL grieving and mourning these days: the pandemic, the legitimate protests turned violent in multiple cities throughout the United States, the total lack of national leadership...it's a lot. How do we walk THIS grief journey?
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S2, Ep18: Eating Your Way Through Grief
Even though it may not feel like a priority, eating well while grieving is really important. In this episode I discuss why.
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S2, Ep17: Acceptance
Sitting in resistance to your loss vs. arriving at acceptance of your loss: this is the struggle that often defines grief. What do I mean by "acceptance"? How can a griever even begin to think in those terms after a heart-breaking loss? This episode suggests how. For those of you who have experienced a very recent loss, you may find that "acceptance" is not even on your radar yet, so make a note and come back to this episode at some point in the future. You'll know when the time is right. For the rest of you, here's what it does and doesn't mean to accept your loss.
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S2, Ep16: Grief & Motherhood
We survived Mother's Day! And by "we" I mean those of us who have experienced loss related to BEING a mother or HAVING a mother. In this episode I acknowledge all the women - not just the ones who have children of their own - who have experienced loss related to motherhood and deserve to be thought of on this day.
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S2, Ep15: The "Stages" Of Grief
Grief does not have "stages." It is not experienced in neat, predictable linear steps. You are not "done" with grief once you've checked off each step.
There are, however, a multitude of aspects of grief. If your experience of the aspects of grief feels messy and unpredictable, then rest assured you are having a very normal grief experience and you are not alone.
Grief is something that stays with us. We learn to carry it differently than we did when our loss first occurred, but we are never "done" with grief.
In this episode I share some of my own personal experiences with the aspects of grief.
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