Embracing Grief: Healing in a Culture that Avoids Sorrow with Jenn Andreou

The Prosperous Empath® Podcast

Trigger warning:

This episode may contain triggering content for some listeners affected by child loss; please review the show notes to know if this episode is proper for you now.

As an empath, it can often feel like we’re living in a world that’s grieving hardship and heartbreak. This is why I’m grateful to sit down with Jenn Andreou, an Actualized Living Coach and Grief Recovery Method Specialist. In her work, Jenn helps grievers who feel stuck in the pain of their losses to move through grief and take action to regain their wellbeing. Throughout the episode, we talk about living with grief and allowing yourself to feel pain, sadness, and sorrow instead of fixing or bypassing them. After living through two tragic losses, it took Jenn seventeen years to truly begin to heal and find her way back to joy. Why? Because while grief is emotional, we as a society often intellectualize it and don’t allow ourselves to truly embrace and process our feelings. Jenn joins me for a heartfelt discussion on taking action (not the kind you may think), becoming more honest with yourself, and embracing the idea that it’s okay for things to not always be good so you can heal and move forward.

Topics:

• How to use the Grief Recovery Method to embrace and process grief instead of waiting for time to heal your wounds

• Uncovering the fact that society discourages us from feeling bad and normalizing the idea that it’s okay to not always be okay

• How to make grief a more welcomed topic in your community and practice bringing curiosity instead of knowing, fixing or bypassing

• The simple ways in which you can become disconnected from yourself and how to connect more routinely with your inner world

• Insights on how to help your loved ones grieve and become a heart with ears

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