Untethered: Healing the Pain from a Sudden Death

Podcast 5, Sudden Death: A greater understanding of trauma and grief , provides information about what a trauma response may look like after experiencing the sudden death of a loved one by describing some of the physical, psychological, cognitive, and behavioral responses that many people experience.     Listeners will develop a greater understanding of why everyone responds di...

In today’s podcast I will discuss in detail five techniques that are designed to help you feel emotionally or physically better, or at least different, after using the activities described.    5 things you can do right now to help with your healing:   The frozen orange technique Grounding exercise using your senses Calling a friend Changing your energy and your environment Pleasant...

In today’s podcast, “ It All Sucks: Major Challenges of Living with a Sudden Loss ”, I will discuss the struggles that individuals living with a traumatic loss encounter every day.   I will provide you with an overview of the 5 different challenges that people struggle with after a sudden loss. The sudden death experience is unique and different for everyone, but most of us who are trying to...

In today’s podcast, “My entire world has turned into chaos – the theory of shattered assumptions” , I will discuss how the world as you know it changes after a sudden and unexpected death.  Your world has been shattered or destroyed, leaving you feeling untethered .     I will describe our assumptive world and the importance of the fundamental assumptions that we build our worl...

In this first Podcast the main focus will be to talk about the differences between a sudden and anticipated loss. Grief and loss have never been an easy topic for us to discuss as a society and in this episode I will discuss why. I will be referring to the following grief fundamentals throughout our time together.   Grief Fundamentals: There is no timeline in grief. You never truly get over t...