Recently, I had the honor of being a guest on Nancy & Dan Loeffler radio show "Morning Conversations with Nancy & Dan" on WFNU 94.1.  Nancy was a previous guest on my podcast and talked about how to put yourself "back together" in grief so I was honored to be invited to her space and continue breaking the stigma of grief. Join us in our conversation as I talk with Nancy & Dan about:Different forms of grief and lossDisenfranchised grief and ambiguous lossTools to begin addressing and grieving this form of lossIf you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Best Self Therapy YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

Are you supporting a loved one who is grieving or going through a challenging time? Do you find yourself struggling with knowing how to best offer and provide said support? Ideally, when you are supporting a loved one who is grieving, you are holding space for them to grieve. But what does that mean? Join me this week as I round out this month's series and talk about:What holding space for grief means, Provide examples as to what holding space looks like andCreate space for you to explore how you can (or already do) hold space for those you are wanting to supportNo one said providing support was going to be easy but that doesn't mean it can't be effective!If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

As my guests and I have talked about in previous episodes, sometimes part of your grief work is just "sitting with" the grief or whatever big emotion is coming up. Okay, great...but what does that actually mean? Join me this week as I continue on with my March series and address the common concept of sitting with grief that has come up time and time again on this podcast. I will address:What sitting with grief actually means,A metaphor to gain further understanding and The purpose behind why we sit in grief (or big emotions) If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

"No one has died but I still feel as though I've lost something. Do I still get to grieve?" YES!!! You can experience grief around non-death (or ambiguous/living) losses. Experiences that may fall into this category could be going through a divorce or a sudden tragic experience not involving death such as a house fire. Even experiences that appear positive and exciting on the surface (such as becoming a parent or retirement) would also bring elements of loss. Join me this week as I continue on with my March series and go further into depth on ambiguous/living losses. In this episode you will:Learn more about what ambiguous/living losses are, Understand the importance of grieving them and the possible dangers if we don't, andEngage in an exercise allowing you to start identifying any possible losses you may want to make space to grieveIf you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

"I'm giving you the permission to grieve." may be a phrase you've heard me communicate throughout my podcast episodes. But it's also been communicated that we get to honor our grief in whatever way we need; so why would we need permission? Join me this week as I talk about what's truly meant behind the phrase "permission to grieve". You'll gain not only an understand of the term but also: Engage in an exercise allowing you to further your understanding andExplore how this term fits within your grief journeyA great pairing with this episode is my "Show Yourself Some Love!" episode from last month. After this episode, you'll have an understanding of why grief is not a selfish process; allowing you to tap into some of the self-care concepts (watch my Exposing Grief YouTube video, "Grief & Self-Care? Yes, It's Possible!" for a self-care assessment.) discussed in last month's episode.  If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

Discovering and shaping your life after an impactful loss can be challenging. It can bring uncertainty around what life can look like and where to go to explore the possibilities. My guest, Susan Hayes, talks about her journey with this process. She solved this mystery through asking herself one question consistently and listening to the answers given to her. Sue also discusses the importance of:Honoring your grief journey andLetting go of judgementTune into this weeks episode to learn the one question Sue asked herself to rediscover her life after loss. Susan Hayes, the Spark Activator, is the CEO of Active Abundance, LLC. She shows women who’ve experienced a significant loss and are ready to reemerge how to reignite their spark of JOY. She takes them on a loving and joyful healing journey so that they can BOLDY and BLISSFULLY embrace the next chapter in their lives. It has been through Susan’s own significant loss of the passing of her beloved husband that has set her on her current path. This loss has served as a catalyst for tremendous growth as it has exposed the unhealed wounds from her childhood. Through her journey, she has discovered powerful and magical tools and strategies that show others how to honor and heal their grief, current and from childhood traumas, so that JOY is in the forefront once again. Prior to losing her husband, Susan served as a SET Therapist (Structural Energetic Therapist) for children and adults. As a SET therapist, she facilitated physical and emotional wellness through rehabilitative massage, breathwork, brain detox, and remote healing. She has also been trained and certified in a multitude of energy healing modalities, such as Reiki and Polarity, which she infuses into all that she offers. Susan also draws upon more than 20 years of experience as a teacher of young children. Susan empowers others as a Keynote Speaker, a Transformational Mindset Coach, a Writer, and an Intuitive Healer. Se habla español. Parla italiano.If you'd like to connect with Sue, check out her website Susan Hayes Speaks. You might also want to check out the few books she mentioned during our conversation. Additional resources mentioned throughout the episode are below:Exposing Grief with Brittany Squillace podcast episode: "Understanding Anticipatory Grief" Grief Blog: "Honor Your Grief Journey: A Thankful Approach to Grief"If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy

"Grief is life changing but it doesn't have to be life ruining" is what my guest, Michelle, discovered as she began walking and continues to walk her grief journey. In addition to this incredible discovery she highlights a few other discoveries she's found along the way:A spiritual awakening that continues as she learns how to live from the inside outLearning how to embrace death as part of life instead of it being something to fearMichelle Kolling is a trained end of life doula and founder of HELD where she helps people create the life they want until their last breath. Michelle provides non-medical practical and emotional support to the dying and their caregivers. In addition to helping people facing end of life, she provides advanced planning services, is a certified life, leadership and communication coach, and is a living funeral ceremony practitioner. Michelle is a member of both INELDA and NEDA and is a member of the Steering Committee for the Minnesota Death Collaborative.Check out Michelle's interview, Give Yourself Permission to Keep Trying, on my Exposing Grief YouTube Channel to learn more about her role as a death doula. If you'd like to connect with Michelle and explore what working with her might look like,  connect and schedule a time with her here. All the other great resources mentioned through the episode are below:Exposing Grief with Brittany Squillace podcast episode: Grief Wishes: 5 Grief Truths Those Who Are Grieving Wish You KnewPodcast episode: Understanding Anticipatory GriefBook: A Grief Observed by C.S. LewisPodcast episode: Show Yourself Some Love!If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

Do you love yourself? Are you actively creating space to show yourself love? Or does the whole idea make you uncomfortable? Whether you believe it or not, it's important to make sure you show yourselves love by taking care of yourself; you can't begin to take care of others if your own well-being is neglected.Join me this week as I talk about two of the most common ways we can show ourself love; self-care and affirmations. In this episode I cover:What self-care is and is not, The various areas of self-care we want to attend to andThe benefits and challenges of engaging in self-careI will also end the episode with a few affirmations for you to tell yourself on the regular; giving yourself reminders that will encourage you to keep going! Be sure to check out the image for the areas of self-care and the self-care assessment to ensure your self-care process is well-rounded. If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

Do you have clutter in front of you that you just don't know what to do with? Is that clutter causing you mental clutter as well? Or could it possibly be that you have mental clutter that you're projecting into your physical space like my guest Missi? Whatever it might be, Missi with Clear Spaces Organizing may be able to help. Join myself and Missi as she talks about professional organizing and how it may benefit particularly those who are walking through a tough life change/transition.If you'd like to connect with Missi, I encourage you to schedule your free consultation.And don't forget to check her out on Facebook and Instagram. If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

What do you want to leave behind? How do you want to be remembered? What do you want your legacy to be? This week, as part of my pre-planning series, we dive into how you might start exploring these questions and getting answers to them with my guests Monique and Christy from Apex Legacy. They discuss:What legacy planning is,How it may (or may not) benefit your grief journey and The importance of legacy planning in advanceTo learn more about Christy and Monique, I encourage you to read their bios. While you're there, you may also want to check out the various resources mentioned in today's episode:Funeral planning blog postResource page Consulting packages available to you and your family If you'd like to connect with Monique or Christy you may do so here.If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

Estates, wills, probates, etc...that's for older people right? Wrong! Anyone who is living and has assets, all of these areas are for you! So with that, you may be asking "When do I need to start looking at these things?" Great question! That's what this series is all about and my guest this week, Gregory, will talk about the importance of pre-planning your estate and the steps to do so. Throughout the episode, Gregory mentions a few resources of his that will help you throughout your process.Signature Law BlogSignature Law Estate Planning YouTube ChannelIf you'd like to connect with Gregory and explore what your time working with him might look like, connect and schedule your free consultation here. If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

"I don't want to have a funeral, I want to have a party" was the common theme being communicated to Kelly Roberts (owner of Roberts Family Funeral Home and SendOff), my guest this week, that launched him into creating a space for families to celebrate their deceased loved ones differently than what a traditional funeral offers. In addition to discussing his new offering to families via SendOff, Kelly also discusses:How a SendOff ceremony could benefit your grief journey, The importance of pre-planning your loved one's SendOff ceremony and The best next steps to take along your journeyIf you're interested in connecting with Kelly to learn more, you may contact him here to explore what your process may look like. If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

Are you expecting a loss in your life (whether it's the loss of a loved one or a big life change/transition)? Did you know grief can show up in the time you're expecting a loss? It's true! It's called anticipatory grief. You may have heard this term mentioned a few times on my podcast up to this point which is why I wanted to dedicate a whole episode to it. Join me as I talk about:What anticipatory grief is, When and how it shows up, The symptoms of anticipatory grief, and Ways to begin coping with this type of grief This episode will also catapult us into my January series where I sit down with three different professionals who will speak with us about the importance of pre-planning. Throughout the episode, I mentioned quite a few different resources to expand on some of the topics I just briefly addressed. You will find these below:A deeper look into the Both/And concept in grief Understanding Ambiguous LossParallels between pet loss and death of a human: Pet Loss, Grief & Lessons LearnedGrief Blog: What Even Is Anticipatory Grief?Resources to take care of you: Grief & Self-Care video and Love Yourself & Take A Grief Break blog article Grief Wishes: Not Your Typical New Year's Resolutions If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

Are you looking for an approach to grief that isn't necessarily a professional service? If so, this week's Exposing Grief podcast episode is for you! Join me as I chat with my guest, Erin, about the benefit of slowing down in life and within your grief journey. She will also touch on how having routine and being flexible comes with great benefit. Many grief myths are highlighted in this episode. To learn more about these grief myths, join me over on my Exposing Grief YouTube channel as I Debunk The Top 5 Grief Myths. Erin Zimmerman is the owner of EZ Visibility, where she serves as visibility strategist and mixed media producer. She helps marginalized voices create fun, sustainable action plans to grow their brands and make a name for themselves so they can be heard, be seen, with ease. Connection, content repurposing, and project management are the name of HER game! Be sure to also connect with her on Facebook. If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

"I've tried talk therapy, yoga, hypnotherapy...nothing seems to be working." Does this sound like you? This week's episode is for you! It's not uncommon to have part of the battle of grief to be finding the best way to process and cope with it. Join me as I continue my December series with Amanda Ferrat who provides EFT tapping to those walking and honoring a grief journey. In addition to sharing her own grief story, she will also talk about:The need for a permission to grieve, The wide range of emotions that come with grief and how to honor them andEFT tapping and its benefitsIf you'd like to learn more about EFT tapping and how it may benefit your grief journey, check out Amanda's episode, EFT Tapping: Inviting All Emotions of Grief, on my Exposing Grief YouTube channel.Amanda Ferrat, founder of Value Yourself Counseling, is a certified Advanced EFT Practitioner and emotional wellness counselor that uses her compassion, empathy, intuition, and skills to help women break barriers and limitations to build new thought patterns and beliefs that allow them to embody their inner Badass and obtain emotional freedom. She pursued her entrepreneurial path after a long and complicated journey with grief, trauma, and physical and mental health struggles. Because her healing journey has not been easy, Amanda actively works to create a world where it is safe to be your authentic self 100% of the time. When not helping others, Amanda loves to spend time adventuring along the Oregon Coast with her dog Ludo, snuggle with her cat Esme, or add to her collections of crystals and craft supplies.If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

There are many ways to process and navigate grief. In last week's podcast episode (Creative Expression in Grief), I identified movement as a creative way to express grief. That movement may take the form of yoga; but not just any yoga, yoga geared towards processing grief. Join me this week as I talk with my guest, Page Park, who is a certified yoga instructor. She speaks to the benefit of partaking in yoga while processing and honoring a grief journey. In addition to sharing her story and how yoga has helped her she will also highlight: The importance of regulating the nervous system,Finding an escape while honoring your grief journey andExperiencing compound griefIf you'd like to learn more about Page and what working with her might look like, visit her website Tulsi Rose Yoga. For grief yoga specifically, click here. You may also follow her on social media @tulsiroseyoga. If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 15 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

One size does not fit all in grief. Everyone's grief journey looks different from the way in which it manifests to how the individual chooses to process the grief. The unique nature of grief requires access to a variety of approaches to processing and expressing grief. Before diving into this month's series (my guests will discuss different approaches to processing grief), I want to take time to talk about creative expression within grief. I'll highlight:What creative expression is, The benefit/purpose of creative expression andBreakdown 4 different forms of creative expressionAfter listening to this episode, you will have some ideas of how you may want to creatively express your grief. Below, you will find the various resources I mention in the episode to expand on the tools discussed. Reclaim Your Independence: There's Grief & Then There's You!Grief Wishes: Not Your Typical New Year's ResolutionsPet Loss, Grief & Lessons LearnedIf you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 30 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

Don't be afraid to address the "elephant in the room" this holiday season. My podcast guest, Kelsey, this week discusses the importance behind this act. We all hurt while grieving, especially when that grief is taking place during the holidays; we deserve to give ourselves and others the space to probably grieve; eliminating the expectation to pretend everything is okay. Kelsey will also briefly discuss:Finding meaning in grief during the holidays and Carrying on legacies within grief Kelsey Pfleiderer is a writer from a small town in Ohio, now residing in the Florida Keys with her husband, rainbow baby boy, and a feisty, orange neighborhood cat. After being diagnosed with a rare spinal tumor in 2017, and being met with the reality of the old cliché of "life is short", she left her career in corporate events to pursue her deepest dream of writing. Kelsey is a contributing writer featured on Her View From Home, Pregnancy After Loss Support, The Mighty, Love What Matters, and many more. She is currently in the process of finding a literary agent for her first book. She believes that by embracing our scars, both physical and emotional, we unfold the roadmap that leads us to the life we were created to live.If you'd like to connect with Kelsey, you can find her on instagram @kelsey.pfleiderer. If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 30 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

Pet loss carries a heavy stigma outside of the holidays but when attempting to honor a grief journey following the loss of a pet while also navigating the holidays, the stigma may be even stronger. When in reality, we find there is a lot of crossover in grieving the death of a loved one and grieving the death of a pet. My guest this week, Jessie, talks to us about how she navigated the loss of her sweet dog (more like "fur baby"), Decoy, just days before the holidays. She speaks on her experience with:The power of utilizing her family as support,Setting boundaries around social media andRecognizing, "no one has the power to undermine what you're feeling"Even if your grief isn't attached to a pet loss, there is something for everyone in this episode who is honoring a grief journey. Jessie is a photographer and freelance urban designer who loves spending her free time enjoying the outdoors with her husband, friends and family. She loves to pet every dog she sees, enjoys lounging around in sweatpants and is always up for a road trip. If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 30 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.

Connecting with your deceased loved ones can be one of the most challenging pieces you encounter along your grief journey. You may even find that challenge is heightened during the holiday season. Join me and my guest this week, Victoria Longo, who is a medium and put her life's work into helping others connect to their deceased loved ones on the other side. She shares with you:The various ways one can connect with their deceased loved ones on the other side, Obstacles that may prevent you from feeling connected to the other side and Provides tips on how to encourage connection with your deceased loved oneIf you are interested in connecting with Victoria, or would like to work with her, you may learn more via her website. During our conversation, I did reference the book The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn From Love and Loss. If you resonated with this episode and you believe someone else would benefit from listening, please share it! I'd also love for you to connect with me on Instagram @exposing_grief so I can thank you personally for playing a big part in removing the stigma of grief and creating a world where it is accepted and welcomed. If you're in need of guidance around your grief journey, or would like to connect further, I encourage you to take advantage of my FREE 30 minute consultation to begin exploring what walking and honoring your grief journey with me might look like. If you're not quite ready for this step, I invite you to check out my grief blog and Exposing Grief YouTube Channel for great free resources that will assist you along your journey. I love connecting with my listeners any chance I can! Feel free to email me (bsquillace@bestselftherapy.net) with any questions or comments you may have.