Sometimes we lose someone with whom we had a complicated, or confusing, or challenging relationship. Perhaps an estranged alcoholic parent, or a former spouse who dies decades after your separation. In some ways, it's like losing that person twice. Recently, my father died. Someone I had not been in relationship with for many years, but about whom I have some treasured memories. I dedicate this episode to him.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celenia-delsol/message

Beauty In The Breakdown: Living & Loving Life After Loss

Season 3, Episode 1: Grieving (Less Than) Loved Ones

Today, on the 10th anniversary of my son's suicide, I expected to devote this episode to him, but there is so much grief in the United States (and the world at large) at this very moment, it felt more appropriate to shine a light on that instead. We are ALL grieving and mourning these days: the pandemic, the legitimate protests turned violent in multiple cities throughout the United States, the total lack of national leadership...it's a lot. How do we walk THIS grief journey?   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celenia-delsol/message

S2, Ep19: An Anniversary Overshadowed

Even though it may not feel like a priority, eating well while grieving is really important. In this episode I discuss why.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celenia-delsol/message

S2, Ep18: Eating Your Way Through Grief

Sitting in resistance to your loss vs. arriving at acceptance of your loss: this is the struggle that often defines grief. What do I mean by "acceptance"? How can a griever even begin to think in those terms after a heart-breaking loss? This episode suggests how. For those of you who have experienced a very recent loss, you may find that "acceptance" is not even on your radar yet, so make a note and come back to this episode at some point in the future. You'll know when the time is right. For the rest of you, here's what it does and doesn't mean to accept your loss.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celenia-delsol/message

S2, Ep17: Acceptance

We survived Mother's Day! And by "we" I mean those of us who have experienced loss related to BEING a mother or HAVING a mother. In this episode I acknowledge all the women - not just the ones who have children of their own - who have experienced loss related to motherhood and deserve to be thought of on this day.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celenia-delsol/message

S2, Ep16: Grief & Motherhood

Grief does not have "stages." It is not experienced in neat, predictable linear steps. You are not "done" with grief once you've checked off each step.  There are, however, a multitude of aspects of grief. If your experience of the aspects of grief feels messy and unpredictable, then rest assured you are having a very normal grief experience and you are not alone.  Grief is something that stays with us. We learn to carry it differently than we did when our loss first occurred, but we are never "done" with grief.   In this episode I share some of my own personal experiences with the aspects of grief.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celenia-delsol/message

S2, Ep15: The "Stages" Of Grief

Sorry I wasn't around last week. I lost my equanimity. But it's back! And in this episode I share the tale of losing "it" and getting "it" back. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celenia-delsol/message

S2, Ep14: Equanimity In The Time Of Covid-19

This episode addresses the anxiety we are all experiencing because of the coronavirus. Although anxiety serves to warn us about "threats" in our environment, too much of it can be harmful (especially to our immune system - which is the last thing we need at the moment!). So having a few tools readily available to address it can be very helpful. I offer some "quick fixes", including the "5-4-3-2-1 Method," the Body Scan, and the written exercise called "What If...?"  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celenia-delsol/message

S2, Ep13: Managing Anxiety

This podcast is about loss and grief. My premise is that grief is a natural response to losses of all shapes and sizes. If you are grieving or if someone dear to you is, I hope this podcast can be a safe haven; a place where listeners will see themselves, find comfort, and imagine a future that may not look like what was "supposed to" be, but holds the promise of beauty, love and joy...again.

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Beauty In The Breakdown: Living & Loving Life After Loss

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