46 min
Staying Open-Hearted and Flexing Our Emotional Muscles After Loss with Cara H. Cadwallader Walk Through Grief with Grace
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- Spirituality
When was the last time you relly talked with someone about loss? Or flexed your crying muscles? In this episode, Embodiment Artist, Emotional Fitness Co-Creator, and mother Cara H. Cadwallader joins us to share about her journey dealing with compounded grief after losing her life partner Burt to cancer at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares about her journey as a mother and a widow amidst a shifting world and addresses such important facets of grief, like the urge to judge ourselves and our reactions, the challenge of allowing ourselves to fully feel and experience our emotions, and the instinct to apologize for our feelings. Listen for inspiration to be open about your grief, flex your crying muscules, and go on the journey that you need after a loss.
Resources:
Learn more about Cara and her work here
Learn more about the Mama Caravan and pre-order Cara’s book The Mama Caravan: A Maternal Mental Health Map for Life After Loss here
Read Cara’s Huffington Post article “The Love of My Life Died From Cancer. Now I’m Struggling to Raise Our Son Through Grief”
Join the Grief and Grace private Facebook group
Enjoying the podcast? Support our production costs by donating here
Receive your Free Grief Guidebook and find Jenn’s work here
Music by Daniel Plane: www.reelcello.com
Podcast production by Caitlin Epstein
When was the last time you relly talked with someone about loss? Or flexed your crying muscles? In this episode, Embodiment Artist, Emotional Fitness Co-Creator, and mother Cara H. Cadwallader joins us to share about her journey dealing with compounded grief after losing her life partner Burt to cancer at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares about her journey as a mother and a widow amidst a shifting world and addresses such important facets of grief, like the urge to judge ourselves and our reactions, the challenge of allowing ourselves to fully feel and experience our emotions, and the instinct to apologize for our feelings. Listen for inspiration to be open about your grief, flex your crying muscules, and go on the journey that you need after a loss.
Resources:
Learn more about Cara and her work here
Learn more about the Mama Caravan and pre-order Cara’s book The Mama Caravan: A Maternal Mental Health Map for Life After Loss here
Read Cara’s Huffington Post article “The Love of My Life Died From Cancer. Now I’m Struggling to Raise Our Son Through Grief”
Join the Grief and Grace private Facebook group
Enjoying the podcast? Support our production costs by donating here
Receive your Free Grief Guidebook and find Jenn’s work here
Music by Daniel Plane: www.reelcello.com
Podcast production by Caitlin Epstein
46 min