Techniques for Healing through Grief

The grief journey isn't linear or short or easy. As discussed in the first episode, everyone grieves differently, AND there's no "Right" or "Wrong" way to grieve. In this 2nd episode, Dr. Sarah Elizabeth, shares her top five techniques for healing from grief and trauma, as well as a plethora of book titles and authors. Listeners are invited to share additional techniques, and resources, and even respectfully disagree with things Sarah shared in the comments, or via email at [email protected] and MUSIC and INTERVIEW mentioned:Dr. John Sarno’s The MindBody Prescription Book Sarah quoted. Dr. John Sarno’s earlier book that was actually the first one Sarah read when she had severe back pain in the early 2000s that she realized while putting these notes together, oops!Another book by Dr. John Sarno, updated from the 1986 version Sarah read in about 2003 or 2004The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LCSW, SEPIt’s Alright to Cry SONGArticle quoting Rosey Grier former NFL star who sang It’s Alright to Cry. 6 min Good Morning America interview with Suleika Jaouad & her husband, Jon Baptiste, both of the Oscar nominated & Grammy-award winning Documentary, American Symphony.The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika JaouadMotherless Daughters by Hope EdelmanMotherless Mothers: How Losing a Mother Shapes the Parent You Become by Hope EdelmanThe AfterGrief Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss by Hope EdelmanGrief Is Love: Living With Loss by Marissa Renee LeeGetting Grief Right: Finding Your Story of Love in the Sorrow of Loss by Patrick O’Malley, Ph.D. & Tim Madigan