Grief Heals

Lisa talks about the book she is reading by the late Jim Forest, Writing Straight with Crooked Lines , and Eric reminiscences about how he met Jim, and their almost-thirty-year correspondence. To learn more about the work that Lisa does, navigate to her website at legityou.com

Eric and Lisa talk about cultural messages on suffering and grief, such as the notion that all suffering is to be avoided as much as possible, while pleasure should be pursued as the ultimate objective. Lisa's website: http://www.legityou.com/

Lisa and Eric discuss the Apple TV series, The Crowded Room in the context of grief, love and being human. Mentioned in the podcast: Social Cognitive Theory Humanistic Psychology Ruby Paine's Bridges Out of Poverty To attend Lisa's online Healing Circle on February 6th, visit her website at Legit You, or contact her at lisamichelle@legityou.com #grief, #griefheals, #poverty, #commonroom, #...

Lisa talks about her new work with prisoners, and the conversation turns on the need for an awareness of loss and grief rather than punishment and violence as solutions to social problems. Find out more about how grief heals by visiting Lisa's website: Legit You

Lisa and Eric discuss their personal experience of grief when loved ones die. Grief is sometimes beset with various obstacles; grief is the process of bringing love to the parts of us that are in pain. Lisa's website: Legit You

Lisa and Eric talk about some of their own experiences of grief, and the distinction between taking responsibility and blaming oneself for one's actions. Lisa's website: http://www.legityou.com Lisa can be reached at lisamichelle@legityou.com

Lisa and Eric talk about the experience of shame as an identity or status, and how it relates to grief. Lisa's website: http://legityou.com

Lisa and Eric re-record an episode on forgiveness because of the poor sound quality in the former episode. We discuss what forgiveness is and is not, the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation, and how forgiveness relates to grief.

Lisa and Eric discuss the fifth gate in Francis Weller's Five Gates of Grief, Ancestral Grief. The discussion turns on how unprocessed grief can be inherited both personally and socially. Lisa's website: http://legityou.com/

Lisa and Eric discuss Gate 4 in Francis Weller's five gates of grief: what we expected but did not receive. In this course of this, they discuss expectations, judgement and shame in light of grief and loss. To find out more about Lisa's work, visit her website at http://legityou.com

Taking a short diversion, Lisa and Eric forage into their shared evangelical past, as well as Eric's experience in Eastern Orthodoxy, to ask questions about God's transcendence and immanence, apophatic and cataphatic theology, and grief as a gateway to healing. In the course of this, they discuss intellect, Calvinism, and their personal experiences. To visit Lisa's website, navigate to...

Lisa and Eric discuss the sorrows of the world as the third gate of grief according to Francis Weller. The conversation covers grief as love, a grief-phobic culture in the context of late capitalism, and a few reasons why people might be resistant to grief when suffering loss. If you would like more information about the work Lisa does, navigate to http://legityou.com

Lisa and Eric discuss the second Gate of Grief according to Francis Weller, some consequences of neglect in childhood, and the power of attention.

Lisa and Eric discuss the first Gate of Grief, that we inevitably lose all the people and things that we love. In the course of this, Lisa talks about grief as the arbiter of love, as well as a psychopomp, and how people tend to evade or downplay grief in a death-phobic and grief-phobic culture. Lisa's website: http://legityou.com

Lisa talks with Eric about ways to define grief in a consumerist society that negates the experience of loss and grief. The Five Gateways of Grief as explicated by Francis Weller is used as a springboard. The two discuss the experience of grief as it relates to capitalism, religion, derealization and how in contrast to these variables grief can be a doorway into authenticity.