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Grief Heals
by Lisa Michelle Zega | Jump Up and Down Productions
We live in a grief-phobic society which tends to minimize loss and avoid the grief that leads to healing. Lisa Michelle Zega, a professionally trained and experienced grief coach, discusses loss and how to experience the natural consequence of grief, leading to healing and wholeness.
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Finding Wholeness
Recorded in an emptied apartment outside Boston, where Lisa Michelle Zega is helping a close friend pack up her life for a move to Austin, this episode explores grief as a force that pulls us into the present. The bare rooms become her metaphor. Clearing out a home, she suggests, is a model for...
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Grief As Witness, Unity and Belonging
What does it truly mean to find inner peace and connection in the wake of suffering, loss, or major life transitions? In this episode of Grief Heals, host Lisa Michelle Zega reflects on a powerful line from Neil Douglas-Klotz’s The Hidden Gospel: "You cannot seek unity without being unified."...
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Carving Sorrow, Carving Joy
Welcome back to Grief Heals with your host, Lisa Michelle Zega. In this grounding episode, we explore the exquisite, inseparable relationship between our deepest heartbreaks and our greatest moments of delight. Diving into Kahlil Gibran’s classic work, The Prophet, we reflect on the powerful…
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Untying the Knots of Grief
When life goes off-script, grief often feels like an enemy that robbed you of the future you were supposed to have. But what happens when you stop fighting the loss and make space for it instead? In this episode, Lisa Michelle Zega uses Aramaic spiritual wisdom to explore what it means to "love...
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Journey to Internal Unity
Lisa explores the profound concept of unity and its intersection with personal healing, sparked by a powerful passage from Neil Douglas-Klots' book, The Hidden Gospel: Decoding the Spiritual Messages of the Aramaic Jesus. The quote, "You cannot seek unity without being unified," serves as the...
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Beautiful Gayle
When I found out Gayle was in hospice, I began talking to her in my morning meditations. Somehow, I knew we were meeting in the spirit world and didn’t question the experience. That changed when she let me know she’d be leaving her body on Father’s Day. I had to be making it up, romanticizing her...
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The Resilience Paradox: Finding Joy in Discomfort
In this episode, Lisa explores the concept that "grief is love" and how reframing our relationship with discomfort can lead to deeper resilience and joy. She discusses how societal conditioning often leads us to reject "bad" feelings, ultimately limiting our capacity for true connection and…
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The Wind Knocked Out of You
What does it mean to be made whole? Made whole not by acquiring something missing, but by returning to what's already here? In this episode, Lisa explores the surprising connections between grief, sacred breath, and unity, drawing on Neil Douglas Klotz's Aramaic rendering of the Beatitudes in his...
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Grief in Context
In this episode Lisa reflects on loss that isn't death, the disappointments, broken promises, and unmet needs that shape us long before we have language for them. Drawing on a story from her coach Billy Soule about imagining his mother's childhood losses, she revisits her own experience at a...
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Welcoming What Is
Lisa returns to the question she's been turning over for a few episodes now — the relationship between healing, wholeness, and being human — and finds her way into it through her own preparation for her oldest son's wedding. What surfaces is an identity she'd been quietly carrying since her...
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Gardens and Grief
In this episode, Lisa reflects on the surprising parallels between gardening and grieving and what her first sprouting bell pepper seeds taught her about wholeness. Drawing on the wisdom of "lazy gardener" Ann (a Tennessee gardener Lisa has been learning from), she explores how plants grow more...
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Grief Humanizes
Lisa reflects on a question that's been sitting with her: What if we renamed this podcast? From Grief Heals to Grief Humanizes because maybe that's the truer thing grief does. She traces the thread from her peepaw's death by suicide when she was 13 (and how quickly life moved on around her, and...
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Gifts of Grief
Grief gives gifts. If that’s true, it opens up a conversation that asks what are the gifts that grief has given me. The first gift that comes to mind is that my life is more than this body. Before Chip died, I’d lost several loved ones including my grandparents and sister. It was different with...
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How Did I Get Here Part Two
Last time I sought to answer the question, “How did I get here? What happened to (for) me?” to become a woman that my Bible college, homeschooling, good christian, pastor’s wife selves, would not recognize. What came out was surprisingly emotional. At points it was hard to get my words out…
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How Did I Get Here?
I asked myself, “How did I get here? What happened to (for) me?” and this is what came out. There are lots of tears as I trace my journey and think about how I became a woman that my Bible college, homeschooling, mom, christian, pastor’s wife selves, would not recognize. I wonder what parts of…
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The Opposite Of Self Criticism: Notice Without Judgment
For nearly six months my girlfriend was pushing down the thought that she can’t stand her hubs – especially because he was sick. What kind of woman is contemplating divorce after her husband is diagnosed with a chronic condition. She couldn’t let herself think like that! Or could she? She decided...
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When Anger is A Voice of Love
Stop. Will you pause for a breath? When I pause and notice, it reminds me that I am alive and I am being lived. What do you notice? This week’s Grief Heals episode is an offering, not a lesson. A slow, 25-minute walk with breath, grief, body, voice, and the quiet ways emotions try to set us free.…
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Salt, then sour, then sweet… and a sky wide enough for all of it
Before I recorded this, I listened to, Salt, then Sour, then Sweet, which plays at the end of Come See Me in the Good Light. It surprised me when I slid down the wall, feeling the weight of my body too heavy to stand upright. Squatted down, my hand over my heart, I could feel the ache, the…
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How Grief Heals Our Lineage
Wherever you are, however you are, please know that all of it is welcome here. I just watched The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper and whoa. So timely because it put faces and history to my longing for communal grieving for our collective losses. I wept, laughed, cried, and its lessons are...
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The Dance, Dog and Unfinished Conversations
Hi love, The day I recorded this, I got yanked off my feet when Bella ran after another dog. The retractable leash extended, I flew in the air and landed flat in the street with knees, palms, elbows bleeding. I’d just loaded Garth Brooks' “The Dance”, so while I’m sobbing, this song played in the...
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Here's What Happened
I hit record not knowing what I’d say, just knowing that I felt tender and full and needed to say something, anything, about how grief has been moving in me… What came out was a web of stories threaded by longing, scripture, comfort, hunger, shame, healing, and breath. There’s the line: “Blessed...
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Among the Stars: A Conversation with Author Denise Clanin
In this very special episode of Grief Heals, host Lisa Michelle Zega is thrilled to welcome the podcast's very first guest, Denise Clanin. Denise is a former accountant turned stay-at-home mom and debut novelist living in North Idaho. What began as a simple college writing assignment over a…
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Welcome to the Kindergarten Carpet_ Grief Makes Room for Us All
Of course you’ve judged yourself for how you feel… cried at work and then felt ashamed… pushed something down in the name of being strong or good or grateful… So – this wildly unpolished episode is for you. Here’s a glorious unraveling and remembering of what I mean when I say grief heals. It…
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Grief As Living -- A Welcome to What Is
I’ve been practicing what it is to truly welcome what is – how it is. I’m talking about welcoming what’s outside the shiny and preferred Like the Ache. envy. not-enoughness. Bugs on the skin. Memories that still sting. Joy that expands vision. I’m exploring grief as living. Yes. Grief as response...
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Grief Heals Lostness in Love
Lately, I’ve been feeling lost. When Chelle asked me what I meant, I described what it would be like to watch me - check my phone over and over, scroll mindlessly, walk to the fridge - open and close it a few times, go for a walk, take a nap… Rinse and repeat. It’s been like playing pin the tail…
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Making Sense of the Drama Triangle
I just recorded an episode that is maybe the most personal, most collective one yet. You know by now—Grief Heals isn’t just a title. It’s a way of life. A lens. A returning. And this week, I explored how grief heals our justice work, our relationships, and the roles we all play—often…
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Does God Grieve?
I recorded this episode inspired by an experience I had with the red ants in my yard. You heard that right. For the whole story, listen to this week’s recording. In short, I got impatient, disrupted an ant hill, got stung, and ended up contemplating – Does God Grieve? I’m not a theologian,...
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Experiencing Fresh Loss Part Two
I recorded this podcast specifically for someone experiencing the fresh loss of a loved one. If that’s you, welcome. I’m gonna keep this brief - and the podcast if brief too. First. There is nothing wrong with you. You can not get this wrong. Your body is responding to a profound disruption to…
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For Those Experiencing Fresh Loss
I recorded this podcast specifically for someone experiencing the fresh loss of a loved one. If that’s you, welcome. I’m gonna keep this brief - and the podcast if brief too. First. There is nothing wrong with you. You can not get this wrong. Your body is responding to a profound disruption to…
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Grief Isn't Pain, It's the Love That Stays
I don’t see grief as something to get over. I see it as something that carries us back to what matters. This week on the podcast, I’m sharing the heart of how I understand grief—not just as a response to loss, but as love in motion. Grief is not the wound. It’s the hand that tends the wound. It’s...
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Stuck in the Middle? Grief Wants You to Know…
Whether you’re in the thick of change, quietly cocooning, or simply not in a space to listen right now—I honor you. Grief Heals is a family, and families know how to feed one another in many ways. So here are a few invitations, tools, and practices for you to carry into your own day: Nourishment...
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Comparison, Belonging & the Grief That Heals What We Learned to Hide
This Episode Is For You If… You find yourself comparing your success, your body, your parenting, or your worth to others. You struggle with feeling “not enough” and don’t know why. You want a way out of the pain loop that doesn’t shame you for how you got there. Hello, hello, hello— Let’s just…
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The Grief of Being Judged and the Sacred Reclamation of You
In this week’s episode of Grief Heals, we explore Chapter 5 of Mel Robbins’ book Let Them, which invites us to let them think bad thoughts about you. And in true Grief Heals fashion, we’re holding that invitation through the lens of grief—not grief as death, but as love bringing nutrients to the...
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When Grown-Ups Throw Tantrums: A Love Letter to Our Unmet Grief
This week’s Grief Heals episode is a deep breath, a full exhale, and a tender look at what happens when our inner eight-year-old is still running the show in a very grown-up life. I’m talking about Chapter 6 of Mel Robbins’ book Let Them, where she explores “grown-ups who throw tantrums”—and of...
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When Self-Protection Takes Over
Courageous, We are living in a time where fear is being wielded to pull us apart—feeding the illusion that we are separate, that it’s us vs. them. But here’s the truth: We belong to each other. And love—real, courageous, unshakable love—asks us to remember that. I know what it’s like to pull away...
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Love in a Time of Fear
We’re living in a world that’s working overtime to convince us we’re separate. That we’re alone. That we should be afraid of each other. But I refuse to buy into that lie. And I know you do, too. That’s why this week’s episode of Grief Heals is about something radical: remembering that we belong…
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Finding Connection in a Divided World
There’s something powerful in remembering that we all breathe the same air. And that’s really what this latest episode of Grief Heals is about—the love we find when we step into our grief, especially collective grief. Right now, there is so much division. So many lines drawn between “us” and...
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The Winds of Adversity: Comfort, Grief, and the Eternal Power of Love
Reflecting on the death of his grandson, my friend shared this on facebook: Two years have passed since Jan 4th, and yet the shadow of that redwood, mighty and indifferent, still looms over my heart as if it fell but yesterday. Aeon—his name an echo of eternity, his spirit a flicker of divine...
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Unmasking the Lie: Embracing Grief, Joy, and the Fullness of the Human Experience
Perhaps isolation is an epidemic because we've been conditioned to think we are less than we are – that we and others don’t have the capacity to be with all that life brings. Love, loss, pain, and joy are all part of the human experience. But we’ve absorbed a lie that we and others can’t handle…
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Grief's Radical Invitation: Slowing Down to Uncover Love and Gratitude
A sweet friend and client sent me, "The Hidden Messages of Water," by Masaru Emoto. The treasure I received from the author and water is Love and Gratitude https://a.co/d/bSAS7zQ This has me thinking about the radical invitation of grief. What if grief’s invitation is to Slow. Down. When I get...
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Grief, Rest and Dreaming Awake
Today’s episode was inspired by a Christmas gift I received from my dear friend Michelle - The Nap Ministry's Rest Deck, created by Tricia Hersey. I explore how her entreaty to rest as a form of resistance against the "grind culture" connects with embracing grief to humanize humanity. I share how...
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2025 - Circle of Life, I AM, and Cherished Belonging
OKAY. However you are coming into the New Year —- WELCOME! Imagine getting to be where you are, how you are, exactly as you are – and welcoming all of you to this space. The happy, sad, good, bad – whatever concoction of duality you notice, what might it be like to practice welcoming all of your...
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Investing in Loss for Personal Profit
Host Lisa Michelle Zega talks about the importance of embracing and investing in personal loss and grief as a path to growth and profit, both for the individual and one's broader ecosystem. In the course of this, Lisa reflects on her childhood experiences and the stories they have held onto and...
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Resilience in the Face of Grief
In this thought-provoking episode of Grief Heals, host Lisa Michelle Zega embarks on a profound exploration of the interconnectedness of all things. Drawing insights from the natural world, Zega delves into the intricate web of human systems and emotions, highlighting the ways in which grief…
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Grief, Witness, and the Celebration of Unique Brilliance
In this episode, Lisa Michelle Zega explores the themes of grief, personal growth, and the importance of being witnessed and celebrated for one's unique brilliance. She reflects on leading a workshop for individuals re-entering the workforce, where she was deeply moved by the profound wisdom and...
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Collective Grief
Host Lisa Michelle Zega leads a thoughtful and introspective discussion on the state of the United States and the human condition. Zega explores themes of unity, division, grief, and the need for collective healing and understanding. She reflects on the complex history of the country, the lasting...
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Navigating Transition and Transformation
Lisa Michelle Zega explores the process of navigating life transitions and personal growth and in the process highlights the role of grief and the need to let go of idealized expectations. The importance of self-compassion and embracing one's human limitations is emphasized as part of the journey...
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Reimagination
In this episode, Lisa Michelle Zega explores the powerful role that self-shaming and reimagination can play in the grieving process. Lisa shares personal experiences and insights on how being present to our own suffering, rather than trying to undo the past, can open us up to deeper…
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Healing Wounds with Compassion
In this thought-provoking conversation, Lisa Michelle Zega explores the profound connection between grief and love. Lisa delves into the idea that true healing requires us to be present to our own suffering, allowing love to enter and minister to our wounds. Through personal stories and...
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Reframing Grief as Love
In this episode, Lisa Michelle Zega shares a profound perspective on the relationship between grief and love. Drawing insights from a course on Black history, Zega has come to see grief not as something to be feared, but as a patient, kind, and celebratory expression of the highest form of love.…
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We live in a grief-phobic society which tends to minimize loss and avoid the grief that leads to healing. Lisa Michelle Zega, a professionally trained and experienced grief coach, discusses loss and how to experience the natural consequence of grief, leading to healing and wholeness.
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Lisa Michelle Zega | Jump Up and Down Productions
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We live in a grief-phobic society which tends to minimize loss and avoid the grief that leads to healing. Lisa Michelle Zega, a professionally trained and experienced grief coach, discusses loss and how to experience the natural consequence of grief, leading to healing and wholeness.
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