Grief, Trauma & Your Mama

Angela Schellenberg
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Grief is trauma, because it is a break in attachment. Angela Schellenberg is a grief and trauma therapist specializing in attachment, grief, and equine assisted learning. She lost both of her parents while she was still coming of age, and spent years believing she was broken before she understood what had actually happened to her. This show is the manual she went looking for and could not find. Conversations about why grief lives in the body, how loss reshapes your identity, your self esteem and your sense of safety, and what it takes to feel safe again. Attachment wounds are always healable. That is the whole reason this exists.

Episodes

  1. Jul 23

    Why Horses for Grief

    Grief is not just an emotion you move through in five stages. It lives in the body, and when you lose someone during the years you are still forming, it becomes an attachment wound. In this first episode, Angela sits down with Rose Mary Riggs, owner of Shakti Ranch and the equine teacher who trained her. They talk about what horses notice that we do not, and why a 1200 pound animal can feel safer than a person to someone who has lost their trust in people. Rose Mary shares the session where a horse would not stop nipping at her, and the question a facilitator asked that made her see her marriage clearly for the first time. Angela talks about Destiny, the horse who used to lie down in the pasture so she could rest on his neck at sixteen. They get into why talk therapy builds awareness, why awareness by itself does not rewire anything, and what becomes possible once someone finally feels safe in their own body.

    Why Horses for Grief
  • 1 Episode

About

Grief is trauma, because it is a break in attachment. Angela Schellenberg is a grief and trauma therapist specializing in attachment, grief, and equine assisted learning. She lost both of her parents while she was still coming of age, and spent years believing she was broken before she understood what had actually happened to her. This show is the manual she went looking for and could not find. Conversations about why grief lives in the body, how loss reshapes your identity, your self esteem and your sense of safety, and what it takes to feel safe again. Attachment wounds are always healable. That is the whole reason this exists.

Information

  • Creator
    Angela Schellenberg
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    1
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Angela Schellenberg
  • Show Website
    Grief, Trauma & Your Mama