The Beautiful Side of Grief Helen Morris

What does abundance have to do with grief I hear you ask. It's about understanding the foundation of abundance, so when you are ready to take your new normal to another level, your life can be everything you want it to be...whether that be getting your finances back on track, attracting another soul mate, or simply being in a place of peace and harmony.
 
Rebecca Whitman is a master at helping overworked and overwhelmed women transform from burned out to balanced, beautiful and abundant. She takes us through her 7 Pillars of Abundance to help you create a balance in ALL areas of your life. Take a listen as there is a reason she is being recognised and picking up awards all over.
 
Rebecca's Bio
Rebecca Whitman, the Magnetic Abundance Mentor, and International best-selling author, graduated with honors from Princeton University. She was awarded Life Coach of the Year and Empowered Woman of the Year by International Association of Top Professionals. “LA Weekly” magazine featured her as one of the Top 7 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2023.
She hosts the top 5% globally ranked “Balanced, Beautiful, and Abundant” podcast, which won the Positive Change Award. Her philosophy divides life into 7 Pillars of Abundance which include: spiritual, physical, emotional, romantic, mental, social, and financial. She helps people achieve balance within these seven areas, so they can experience more fun and freedom in life!
She has been featured in “New York Weekly,” “Miami Magazine,” and “LA Weekly” magazines. In addition to her appearances on ABC and CBS, she has guested on over 100 podcasts. She has given keynote speeches at Columbia University and UCLA; and has shared virtual stages with renowned thought leaders, Grant Cardone, Jack Canfield, and Les Brown.
 
In this episode, Rebecca shares...
[00:04:01] Shock of being one of LA's top 7 entrepreneurs to watch
[00:05:50] Background story
[00:07:46] Writing How to Make a 6 Figure Incme working part time
[00:09:19] Defining abundance
[00:10:17] 7 Pillars of abundance
[00:15:18] 1 of 3 areas women get stuck in
[00:16:31] Taking a stress-free approach
[00:19:46] Life coaching vs other forms of coaching
[00:22:14] When you're ready for change
[00:25:26] Benefits of having a morning ritual
[00:29:30] Importance of self-care
[00:32:24] How I manifested my soul mate
[00:36:05] Attracting who you are, not what you want
 
... and so much more!
 
Quote:
"So I simply looked at what I did that worked and I reverse engineered it for my clients." ~ Rebecca Whitman
 
 
Resources:
 
Rebecca's links:
Free Journal Prompts: https://bit.ly/abundancejournalprompts
Website:  https://www.rebeccaelizabethwhitman.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.whitman
IG: www.Instagram.com/rebeccaewhitman
Twitter: www.twitter.com/rebeccaewhitman
Podcast - Balanced Beautiful & Abundant: https://balancedbeautifulabundant.buzzsprout.com/
 
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And thanks, Gabe Dovaston for the great music! www.themusicacademypapamoa.com
 
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It's hard enough to lose your mother in her prime. Though to lose her to a random shooting, well that's even harder to get your head around. In this episode Farah shares how she embarked on a journey to understand the mysteries of her mother's death in tragic circumstances...
Why would she choose for her mother to be shot?
What was there to learn from this?
As she unravelled these questions and more, her love of yoga and baking, yes, baking, provided much-needed respite. We discuss her book - Meher & Me, which portrays the struggles she faced of reconciling her childhood with her mother’s life and subsequent death, to eventually harness her inner strength to find equanimity (this is an Amazon #1 Bestseller by the way!). This episode is full of wisdom and wonderful insights to manage grief which will leave your heart full.  
 
Farah's Bio
Farah, who is of Parsi origin, was born in London and raised in North India. She is a British national with an Indian heart and embraces the different facets of her identity with ease. After the untimely loss of her mother, struggling to reconcile the mysteries of life and death, Farah embarked on a journey inward to find a conduit to channel her loss and pain. Farah has built a career in the banking industry, across continents, over the span of thirty-plus years and is now based in Dubai. In her spare time, Farah is an avid baker and Yogi
 
In this episode, Farah shares:
[00:01:08] Who her Meher is
[00:05:46] Farah & Parsi heritage
[00:07:46] Sense of displacement
[00:08:40] A melting pot of people, cultures and experiences
[00:12:16] The phone call & dream
[00:14:24] Getting to Meher
[00:16:17] Defying the odds
[00:18:54] The shades of grief
[00:19:41] Understanding why my mother would be shot as a lesson to learn
[00:22:55] Sharing the story to help others
[00:24:03] Facing my worst fears
[00:26:25] Baking and yoga
[00:31:54] The book - Meher & Me
[00:33:18] Dealing with the emotions that arose
[00:36:02] Struggles that teach us to develop emotional strength
[00:42:29] Homatha, Ukatha, Uvarashtha
[00:44:19] Biggest learning
 ... and so much more!
 
Quote:
"...that memory of that moment is something that I don't think you ever really get over. It's like time takes, perhaps, the sting out of it, but the memory stays." ~ Farah
 
Resources:
 Farah's links:
Website & Book (+ recipes 😊):  www.farahpress.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/Farah.Press
 
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Facebook:  https://facebook.com/thebeautifulsideofgrief
Website: https://healing2bu.com
 
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Are you looking to know how you can talk about your loved one?
Or how to have healthy conversations about your loved one?
Or maybe you want to understand what your loved one coming to you in your dreams signifies...
 
My guest today, Katie Cosgrove is going to help you out with that and so much more. Katie is a beautiful, compassionate soul whose dad died when she was 15, after an 18-month illness. She had no one to talk about him to in her social circle. Then one night, years later, he came to her in a dream that changed her entire life.
 
This experience led Katie to founding her website, Grief is Good, writing her book I'll See You in Your Dreams Tonight - a heartwarming story that helps children process grief in a healthy way, doing a wonderful job as a Grief Doula in end-of-life care, and becoming a Trauma Informed Care Specialist.
 
Let yourself be immersed in this beautiful soul and all that she is doing!
 
Katie's Bio
Katie Cosgrove is a Certified Trauma Support Specialist and once-grieving child. Growing up with death as a taboo subject, Cosgrove made it her mission to start talking about her grief publicly and encouraging others to do the same. In 2023, she founded Grief Is Good, a platform to discuss death and dying openly and honestly. She is also in the process of becoming an end-of-life doula.
 
Cosgrove currently works for a leading publishing company as a Project Director and cares for dogs with behavioral issues. In her advocacy for healthier conversations about grief in her life and career, Cosgrove seeks to bring her values of empathy, care and compassion to everything she does.
  
In this episode, Katie shares the following:
[00:01:16] Being a dog lover and dog sitting
[00:04:34] Losing her dad at 15
[00:05:17] Depression and the connection of not talking about dad
[00:07:04] Grief dream
[00:09:07] Talking to your loved ones and healthy grieving
[00:12:51] Talking to children about grief
[00:14:57] Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs
[00:16:15] Not having friends to speak to about grief
[00:19:50] Making new memories and traditions
[00:21:57] How Here to Eternity changed her life
[00:25:11] Living a good life with grief
[00:30:11] What a trauma-informed specialist is
[00:33:52] Role of a Death Doula
[00:37:06] What I'll See You in Your Dreams Tonight is about
[00:46:28] How you can have a grief dream
 
... and so much more!
 
Quote:
"...focusing on yourself is dealing with your own trauma first and your own biases, because you can't hold space from somebody if you're triggered or if you're dealing with some feelings." ~ Katie Cosgrove
 
 
Resources:
 
Katie's links:
Website:  www.griefisgood.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/itskatiecosgrove/
TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatiecosgrove
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Ill-See-Your-Dreams-Tonight-ebook/dp/B0CFJ7S5D5/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=i%27ll+see+you+in+your+dreams+tonight+katie+cosgrove&qid=1692118612&sprefix=I%27ll+see+you+in+your+drea%2Caps%2C110&sr=8-1
 
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Facebook:  https://facebook.com/thebeautifulsideofgrief
Website: https://healing2bu.com
 
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And thanks, Gabe Dovaston for the great music! www.themusicacademypapamoa.com
 
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'It's all in how you choose to look at the situation. And happiness is a choice'
- Clay Boatright
 
Clay has definitely lives by these words. He nursed his wife and cherished friend, through two bouts of cancer, the later taking her life. And in between all of that, they their raised twin daughters, Paige and Mia, with severe disabilities, along with their elder daughter Blaine. Through this journey, Clay discovered a passion for advocacy, helping other families deal with disabilities at high levels both locally and nationally. He has a calm, centred approach to life and doesn't buy into drama. As you listen (and read his bio), you will discover he has a wealth of wisdom and knowledge which he shares in his book 'God's Plan, Our Circus'. This is a great conversation!
 
Clay's Bio
A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Clay Boatright has lived in Texas since 1994, where he and his wife Carole raised three daughters, including identical twins with severe intellectual disabilities and autism. With undergrad and graduate degrees from the University of Memphis, Clay managed two full-time careers for almost twenty years, one in the consumer-packaged goods industry to pay the bills and another as a volunteer advocate for people with disabilities.
 
Over the years, Clay developed a deep understanding of the disability industrial complex and served on a host of health and education advisory committees, including Board President for both The Arc of Dallas and The Arc of Texas. In 2011, President Barack Obama appointed Clay to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Washington, DC, and in 2013, he was appointed Founding Chairman for Texas Health & Human Services’ IDD System Redesign Advisory Committee, which he held for six years.
 
Published multiple times in various media, Clay is often contacted by legislators, the media, nonprofit organizations, and parents of children with disabilities to help understand the challenges that families like his live every day.
 
Following Carole’s death in 2020 from ovarian cancer, Clay maintains a close relationship with his daughters and embraces the future with enthusiasm and a desire to help everyone know that God has a plan for their lives.
 
 
In this episode, Clay shares:
[00:01:42] His special memories of Carol
[00:03:33] Carol's first experience with cancer
[00:06:44] Birth of the twins
[00:07:38] Knowing things were different
[00:09:42] Where Paige & Mia are ta today
[00:10:54] Asking 'why'
[00:14:17] Asking God and getting the answer to 'why'
[00:18:37] President Obama appointment
[00:20:18] Juggling work, home and advocacy work
[00:26:14] Fortuitous timing of second bout of cancer
[00:33:22] What happened in Aisle Nine on Valentine's Day
[00:35:42] Becoming Clay version 2.0
[00:37:30] God's Plan, Our Circus
[00:39:38] Everybody has experiences and challenges, baggage and drama
[00:42:29] The only thing I can control is my attitude
[00:43:30] When people feel sad and depressed, they have no options
[00:45:57] Importance of giving to others
[00:53:01] Top 5 pieces of advice for families with disabilities
[00:58:55] Smiling in the face of severe disability
[00:59:30] Out in public with the twins
 ... and so much more!
 
Quote:
"Baggage and drama are optional. It's all in how you choose to look at the situation. And happiness is a choice." ~ Clay Bowright
 
Resources:
 
Clay's links:
Website:  https://clayboatright.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clay.boatright.9/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clayboatright/
 
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Do you need he

What are your thoughts on what happens to us once we die?
 
Dr Lynn Carey is a chiropractor, author and entrepreneur who believes there is no death, only changing forms.
 
Her experience as an only child, being a perfectionist, worrying about everything, having her father pass over at a young age, her battle with scoliosis, all led her to the discovery of healing from within. Whilst figuring out what major to take, the sentence "the power that made the body heals the body", on a promotional pamphlet for chiropractic school set her on a pain of discovering wellness within, healing others, and ultimately creating the life she desired.
 
Lynn's Bio:
Dr. Lynn Carey earned a doctorate in chiropractic and a bachelor's degree in nutrition from Life University. She owned a practice in Wilmington, Delaware, for eighteen years, and has traveled to Brazil and India. Dr. Carey loves empowering others to create their desired life of health, wealth, and perfect self-expression. Today, she stays busy pursuing her entrepreneurial dreams and homeschooling her teenage son.
 
 
In this episode, Lynn shares the following:
[00:02:08] Background of childhood
[00:02:30] Passing of her dad
[00:06:10] Scoliosis
[00:12:02] Deep knowing
[00:13:17] The world of chiropractic
[00:13:59] Honoring the whole body
[00:14:59] Understanding how emotions create symptoms
[00:16:26] The role of fear
[00:16:46] Gonstead method
[00:20:11] Philosophy of chiropractic
[00:22:53] a practice of wellness
[00:24:06] Brazil and India - the philosophy of oneness
[00:25:43] Allowing the body to heal itself
[00:30:36] Importance of feeling the emotions
[00:31:57] Stuck energy
[00:39:14] Raising a child naturally
[00:46:58] My Journey to Grace
 
... and so much more!
 
Quote:
"...the more you work on people, you realize, oh, we're all energy and there's something bigger than me going on here." ~ Dr Lynn Carey
 
 
Resources:
 
Lynn's links:
Website:  https://www.creatingmydesiredlife.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/lynn.carey.54/
 
Follow me on:
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Facebook:  https://facebook.com/thebeautifulsideofgrief
Website: https://healing2bu.com
 
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Families! We all have them, though I secretly suspect many of us have harboured the thought of wishing we could magically belong to someone else's family. I know I certainly did. Toxicity in families is real. It exists. Yet, it is often swept under the carpet to deal with another time - or not at all.
My guest today, Susan Gold, experienced an unimaginable childhood! From a very young age she adopted coping mechanisms to exist within this dysfunctional framework - invisibility; independence; hyperawareness; excessive exercising; overeating; little self-love and self-worth; co-dependency; and so many more... which worked until they didn't. As Susan boldly forged a highly successful career in the entertainment business of New York and LA, she also carried the baggage of her family trauma on her back, slowly unravelling it as crisis after crisis led her to new heights of discovering her authentic self. Amidst it all she learned how to understand and honour her family and embrace the learnings her childhood had etched upon her soul. That's what we will be discussing today, and how an internal 'knowing' gave her repeated hope to overcome the challenges she faced. 
 
Susan's Bio:
Susan's experience with performing arts led her into the world of mainstream entertainment after college, first at the global talent agency, ICM and later FOX. Within the entertainment industry, Susan became known for attaching celebrity talent to projects which led her into producing for television and film. Susan has booked A-list celebrity talent such as Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Taylor Swift, David Beckham, Andy Warhol and more.
In addition to Susan’s business background, she is a decorated endurance athlete having competed in three marathons, dozens of triathlons, and has the distinction of finishing third in her age group at the treacherous Escape from Alcatraz event. Hanging up the gruelling demands of her swim, bike, run focus she turned to competing as a Master’s swimmer and within four years achieved multiple top ten national rankings including third in the country in the 400 IM.
Susan is a big supporter of helping homeless animals, especially dogs and cats, and helping other business owners move up their career ladder. Her biggest pride is her son, a political science major at the University of the Pacific
 
 
In this episode, Susan shares the following:
[00:02:33] Andy Warhol
[00:06:40] Being newly sober
[00:08:49] Childhood
[00:10:54] Therapist's office and alcoholism
[00:12:40] Being empathic and trauma
[00:12:40] Different perspectives on same situation
[00:12:40] Coping mechanisms
[00:16:49] Hurt and damaged children raising hurt and damaged children
[00:20:28] Inner light
[00:22:39] Inner child
[00:25:37] Loving yourself
[00:29:05] Feeling trauma in the body
[00:33:47] Greatest guru
[00:37:36] Impact on son
[00:43:03] Earth is not for the faint of heart
[00:45:47] Appendix of Tools
[00:47:42] The power of Yes
 
Quote:
"I kept repeating that mantra 'This is the universe doing for you what you cannot do for yourself'." ~ Susan Gold
 
 
Resources:
Susan's links:
Website:  https://susangold.us
Facebook: https://linktr.ee/susangold
IG: https://linktr.ee/susangold
TikTok: https://linktr.ee/susangold/susangold
 
 
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Facebook:  https://facebook.com/thebeautifulsideofgrief
Website: https://healing2bu.com
 
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And thanks, Gabe Dovaston for the great music! www.themusicacademypapamoa.com
 
Do you need help to shift your heartache, grief, guilt, anger, anxiety, dread, or despair? Check out my website or send me a message 💟