Mourning Call

Alyce Cristina and Crystal Leigh
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Mourning Call is a podcast about how to move through grief and mourning with grace and compassion. It is a safe place to explore various experiences of loss and to help change the conversation around death to a more authentic one in our culture. We invite you to dive in with us as we share in the hope, weight, laughter, tears, and lightness of the mourning journey. With stories, interviews, and conversations that connect us heart to heart as we explore the universal experience of loss that evokes the becoming of one’s true self. Hosted by Alyce Cristina & Crystal Leigh, two friends who connected through yoga and movement and ultimately found a deeper connection over our own parental losses. Alyce is a Movement Artist and Embodiment Coach. The stars call her Leo Queen, her family calls her Partner, Mama, Daughter, Sister, Nanan. Alyce dabbles in many creative endeavors from performer, artist, choreographer, lightyear leadership coach, to yoga, dance teacher, and educator. At the heArt of her being lives the movement of dance, her first true love. This modality of movement has been the root and path to unearthing her purpose and passion for life. Alyce uses heart-centered practices to awaken and empower others to live in-tune, aligned, and integrated to the unique movements of one's own life. The unexpected loss of her Mother in 2020 left her with a profound shift in her own understanding of life’s lesson: Letting Go. This now informs how Alyce moves through the unknown in her fullest expression moment to moment. Her mission here is to compassionately disrupt the conversation around loss and offer a space of healing and growth as a community. As a Gemini and ruled by Mercury, Crystal was born a natural communicator. With a degree in Communications Studies, she has been in some form of marketing and communications her entire career. She considers language itself her love language. She also has her 200 hour yoga teacher training certification and believes that movement is medicine, not just physically, but mentally, emotionally and spiritually. She is also a fertility awareness educator, helping others return to their natural, cyclical nature. Crystal had a profound loss in 2017 that changed her at her core and shaped who she is today. She hopes that using her voice to share learnings from her own experience of loss and grief will help others be more prepared for their own losses and feel less alone on their mourning journey. —----------------------------------------------- CONNECT WITH US: Subscribe and follow us @MOURNINGCALLPODCAST on Apple Podcast/Spotify/YouTube/Instagram Fill out our listener survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bhcziZ-HAwePNm8HcQWzww0cCDXUggkBNY9fjiKD0PU/edit?ts=660da03a Email - mourningcallpodcast@gmail.com

  1. 8 ИЮЛ.

    Loss and Leaving Corporate America with Melissa Herriott of M.Herriott Designs

    In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal have a conversation with Melissa Herriott founder and owner of M.Herriott Designs, a Charlotte-based firm that specializing in custom artwork and home design. Melissa, a long time friend of Crystal, shares her experience with grief around a change within her self identify. As well as personal grief losses that she experienced in the midst of the 2020 pandemic. Follow along as Melissa shares how the story of her career shift to entrepreneurship and a successful business venture was based in a complete identity shift that happened from an earth shattering loss. Losing her younger cousin, a brother and twin flame to her, who battled with cancer. While she struggled with that idea of him dying and the fact that he did not deserve that, she also lost her step dad, who came into her life at 19 years old until she was in her 30s. And while she was not lacking a father figure or a father-daughter relationship, she was calloused to her step dad’s love. It wasn’t until his passing that she realized how deeply he loved her. The three discuss how they have felt in disbelief that this person, who they each personally loss, is no longer on the earth side. And the feeling of your world stopping in its tracks but everyone else keeps on going. Keep up with Melissa by following her social links below and stay tuned for her upcoming HGTV show call 'Renovation Resort' premiering this July. Instagram: instagram.com/@melissaherriott Website: https://mherriottdesigns.com/ We want to hear your stories and widen the conversation to support and empower our grief experiences, as we collectively become our true selves. If you seek to dive deeper into the Mourning Call community, email us, subscribe to our page, leave a review, and fill out our survey. Mourning Call Listener Survey: Take the survey here Find "Mourning Call" and subscribe on all podcast platforms YouTube: @mourningcallpodcast Instagram: @mourningcallpodcast You can also email us at mourningcallpodcast@gmail.com. Edited by: @FamiliaCreativeMedia

    1 ч. 7 мин.

  2. 20 ИЮН.

    S2 E9: The Gift of Grief with Ally Hunt

    In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal have a conversation with Ally Hunt, Digital Storyteller, Fat Activist and Podcast host of 'The Fab Fatties'. Ally shares her journey and experience with grief. The grief of losing someone, losing someone who is still alive and losing yourself, through trauma and mental health. Follow along as the group discusses Ally's loss of her father, who she had estranged relationship with. Receiving the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), losing her career and removing contact with toxic family members from her life. To keep up with Ally and learn more about her work check out the links below: Instagram @lightscameraally @thefabfatties The Fab Fatties Podcast: Listen here Youtube- @TheFabFatties We want to hear your stories and widen the conversation to support and empower our grief experiences, as we collectively become our true selves. If you seek to dive deeper into the Mourning Call community, email us, subscribe to our page, leave a review, and fill out our survey. Mourning Call Listener Survey: Mourning Call Listener Survey Find "Mourning Call" and subscribe on all podcast platforms YouTube: @mourningcallpodcast Instagram: @mourningcallpodcast  You can also email us at mourningcallpodcast@gmail.com. Edited by: @FamiliaCreativeMedia

    1 ч. 16 мин.

  3. 3 ИЮН.

    S2 E8: A beautiful talk with Kyle Freeman, Grief Coach, Grief Educator and Death Doula

    *Note: at 39:50 Crystal references Jayne Mattingly, advocate and author. You can learn more about Jayne by visiting her website Jaynemattingly.com And purchasing her book 'This Is Body Grief: Making Peace with the Loss That Comes with Living in a Body' by Jayne Mattingly at This is body grief by jaynemattingly ------ In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal are joined by Kyle Freemam, a grief coach, educator and death doula. Kyle speaks about her journey in this career path and her experience with grief, through the loss of her brother and mother. As well as the grief surrounding her chronic health conditions. Describing herself as an anti-shame activists, Kyle shares why it is important for her to be outspoken on items that remain unspoken in the world. Follow along as the group discusses the types of individuals and griefs Kyle works with. As well as the importance of asking for help while experiencing grief and allowing your community to have the opportunity to go into the cave with you. Stay tuned for a reading of the poem 'The Thing Is' by Ellen Bass You can read the poem here: The Thing Is To stay connected with Kyle and her work, follow her handles below: Website - LifeBeyondLossGriefCoaching.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kyle.freestyle/ @kyle.freestyle TheCompanyKeepers.com The Invitation: A poem by Oriah Mountain The Invitation a poem by Oriah Mountain Dreamer If you seek to dive deeper into the Mourning Call community, email us, subscribe to our page, leave a review, and fill out our survey. Mourning Call Listener Survey: Mourning Call Listener Survey We want to hear your stories and widen the conversation to support and empower our grief experiences, as we collectively become our true selves. Find "Mourning Call" and subscribe on all podcast platforms YouTube: @mourningcallpodcast Follow @mourningcallpodcast on Instagram. You can also email us at mourningcallpodcast@gmail.com. Edited by: @FamiliaCreativeMedia

    1 ч. 3 мин.

  4. 2 МАЯ

    S2 E7: Cadence Cares: A conversation with Andrew Barclay and Amy Liebaert from Cadence

    In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal have a conversation with Andrew Barclay and Amy Liebaert from Cadence. Cadenceco.com Cadence is a tech company that supports businesses and individuals in offering holistic estate planning tools and estate settlement tools, as well as grief support. With a vision to revolutionize the way the world manages death. Andrew and Amy share how they found Cadence and what connected them to the mission, to bring simplicity, clarity and compassion to the estate planning and settlement process. Follow along as the group discusses terminology like Executer, the executer process, ways to begin planning your estate and approaching this conversation with your family. To learn more Cadence please visit their website: Cadenceco.com Find @cadencecares across all channels Facebook: Facebook.com/Cadencecares  Instagram: Instagram.com/Cadencecares LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/Cadencecares X: X.com/CadenceCares We want to hear your stories and widen the conversation to support and empower our grief experiences, as we collectively become our true selves. If you seek to dive deeper into the Mourning Call community, email us, subscribe to our page, leave a review, and fill out our survey. Mourning Call Listener Survey: Take the survey here Find "Mourning Call" and subscribe on all podcast platforms YouTube: @mourningcallpodcast  Instagram: @mourningcallpodcast You can also email us at mourningcallpodcast@gmail.com. Edited by: @FamiliaCreativeMedia

    1 ч. 12 мин.

  5. 8 АПР.

    S2 E6: Our discussion with Kaela O'Donnell from KinderMourn

    TW: Pregnancy loss, miscarriage, and infant loss. In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal have a conversation with Kaela O'Donnell, Executive Director and Clinical Director of KinderMourn. Kaela was also the Grief Counselor for Alyce's daughter, Amelia. Kaela shares the work that KinderMourn does, from the age range of children they work with to their adult programs, like the 'Empty Arms' program. Stay tuned as we learn how KinderMourn was founded, when Lucy Christopher experienced the death of her infant daughter, Sally. Lucy had a vision to help parents cope with the loss of a child and that vision became KinderMourn. Follow along as Alyce, Crystal and Kaela discuss the importance of using the words 'death' and 'dying'. As well as the different type of grief support the children and families need when they come to KinderMourn. To learn more and support KinderMourn, please visit their website: https://www.kindermourn.org/ We want to hear your stories and widen the conversation to support and empower our grief experiences, as we collectively become our true selves. If you seek to dive deeper into the Mourning Call community, email us, subscribe to our page, leave a review, and fill out our survey. Mourning Call Listener Survey: Mourning Call Listener Survey Find "Mourning Call" and subscribe on all podcast platforms YouTube: @mourningcallpodcast Instagram: @mourningcallpodcast You can also email us at mourningcallpodcast@gmail.com. Edited by: @FamiliaCreativeMedia

    59 мин.

  6. 13 МАР.

    S2 E5: Death Ceremonies and Death Doula Training

    In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal have a conversation with Juli Cher, founding owner of Khali Yoga Center, a founding board member of the Big Love Yoga Barn and a Death Doula. Juli shares her journey of becoming a Death Doula, speficially highlighting that wasn't aware of what a Death Doula was in the beginning when the term first popped appeared in her mind. Through out the conversation, Juli talks about the feeling of being present in the room during the final moments of someones life. The ways death and grief show up and her personal experience with it. From constantly moving in her childhood, losing loved ones and major career transitions, Juli has grown familiar with death and grief. Follow along as Alyce, Crystal and Juli discuss the polarity of joy and grief, death ceremonies and the topic of death. We want to hear your stories and widen the conversation to support and empower our grief experiences, as we collectively become our true selves. If you seek to dive deeper into the Mourning Call community, email us, subscribe to our page, leave a review, and fill out our survey. Mourning Call Listener Survey: Survey form here Find "Mourning Call" and subscribe on all podcast platforms YouTube: @mourningcallpodcast Instagram: @mourningcallpodcast You can also email us at mourningcallpodcast@gmail.com. Edited by: @FamiliaCreativeMedia

    1 ч.

  7. 24 ФЕВР.

    S2 E4: Talking Bereavement with Jena Kirkpatrick from Evermore

    In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal have a conversation with Jena Kirkpatrick from Evermore. Jena speaks about her experience with grief; losing her son traumatically, her husband losing his job the day after and the financial burdens that began to pile up in their household. During the grieving journey, Jena realized how unfair and unsustainable the Bereavement process was. And when a friend shared a Washington Post article about this topic with Jena, she reached out to the founder of Evermore, Joyal Mulheron, and found herself beginning a new career advocate for the mission of Evermore. Follow along Alyce, Crystal and Jena discuss what grief does to your brain, how grief grows with and more. To learn more about Evermore visit: Evermore.org If you or a loved one need support or resources about Bereavement visit: Evermore.org/Grief Resources or Evermore.org/Grief Support Directory Find informative videos from Evermore on the Youtube channel: Youtube.com/@Evermore If you seek to dive deeper into the Mourning Call community, email us, subscribe to our page, leave a review, and fill out our survey. Mourning Call Listener Survey: Mourning Call Listener Survey Form We want to hear your stories and widen the conversation to support and empower our grief experiences, as we collectively become our true selves. Find "Mourning Call" and subscribe on all podcast platforms YouTube: @mourningcallpodcast Follow @mourningcallpodcast on Instagram. You can also email us at mourningcallpodcast@gmail.com. Edited by: @FamiliaCreativeMedia

    51 мин.

  8. 3 ФЕВР.

    S2 E3: Using Somatic Practices to Recalibrate and Move Through Grief

    In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal are joined by Bethany Anderson of Pranayama House. Bethany speaks about her experience with yoga and sound bowl healing as a way that allowed her to move through grief. When Bethany first began grieving the loss of a loved one, a relationship and sense of herself, she found Yoga allowed her to truly release the feelings that felt trapped within her. And as she explored somatic practices, sound bowl healing became something she felt she need access to daily for her and her son. Find Bethany at @PranayamaHouse on Instagram. If you seek to dive deeper into the Mourning Call community, email us, subscribe to our page, leave a review, and fill out our survey: Mourning Call Listener Survey. We want to hear your stories and widen the conversation to support and empower our grief experiences, as we collectively become our true selves. Find "Mourning Call" and subscribe on all podcast platforms. YouTube: @mourningcallpodcast Follow @mourningcallpodcast on Instagram. You can also email us at mourningcallpodcast@gmail.com. Edited by: @FamiliaCreativeMedia

    57 мин.
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Mourning Call is a podcast about how to move through grief and mourning with grace and compassion. It is a safe place to explore various experiences of loss and to help change the conversation around death to a more authentic one in our culture. We invite you to dive in with us as we share in the hope, weight, laughter, tears, and lightness of the mourning journey. With stories, interviews, and conversations that connect us heart to heart as we explore the universal experience of loss that evokes the becoming of one’s true self. Hosted by Alyce Cristina & Crystal Leigh, two friends who connected through yoga and movement and ultimately found a deeper connection over our own parental losses. Alyce is a Movement Artist and Embodiment Coach. The stars call her Leo Queen, her family calls her Partner, Mama, Daughter, Sister, Nanan. Alyce dabbles in many creative endeavors from performer, artist, choreographer, lightyear leadership coach, to yoga, dance teacher, and educator. At the heArt of her being lives the movement of dance, her first true love. This modality of movement has been the root and path to unearthing her purpose and passion for life. Alyce uses heart-centered practices to awaken and empower others to live in-tune, aligned, and integrated to the unique movements of one's own life. The unexpected loss of her Mother in 2020 left her with a profound shift in her own understanding of life’s lesson: Letting Go. This now informs how Alyce moves through the unknown in her fullest expression moment to moment. Her mission here is to compassionately disrupt the conversation around loss and offer a space of healing and growth as a community. As a Gemini and ruled by Mercury, Crystal was born a natural communicator. With a degree in Communications Studies, she has been in some form of marketing and communications her entire career. She considers language itself her love language. She also has her 200 hour yoga teacher training certification and believes that movement is medicine, not just physically, but mentally, emotionally and spiritually. She is also a fertility awareness educator, helping others return to their natural, cyclical nature. Crystal had a profound loss in 2017 that changed her at her core and shaped who she is today. She hopes that using her voice to share learnings from her own experience of loss and grief will help others be more prepared for their own losses and feel less alone on their mourning journey. —----------------------------------------------- CONNECT WITH US: Subscribe and follow us @MOURNINGCALLPODCAST on Apple Podcast/Spotify/YouTube/Instagram Fill out our listener survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bhcziZ-HAwePNm8HcQWzww0cCDXUggkBNY9fjiKD0PU/edit?ts=660da03a Email - mourningcallpodcast@gmail.com

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  • Автор
    Alyce Cristina and Crystal Leigh
  • Годы выхода
    2024 - 2025
  • Выпуски
    24
  • Ограничения
    С ненормативной лексикой
  • Авторские права
    © 2024
  • Сайт подкаста
    Mourning Call