Pablo Cerdera is a Restorative Justice (RJ) Practitioner and Educator and serves as the Deputy Director of Restorative Practices at the University of Pennsylvania. They live on the Indigenous territory known as Lenapehoking, the traditional homelands of the Lenape or Delaware People, in what is now called West Philadelphia. They are committed to sharing the restorative approach and firmly believe in the power to transform harm, promote meaningful accountability, and develop strong and healthy communities through this approach.

In this heartfelt conversation, Pablo and I get into:

• how grief manifests when we are "intellectualizers"
• the breakdown of their last relationship and how it forced them to grapple with the fact that their brain can’t make all the choices
• the gift of having friends who can receive and sit with our ugliness
• the Ojibwa/Anishinaabe medicine circle that they were taught and their orientation to body, mind, heart and spirit

• neglecting body in the relationship, through skin and muscles “you’re not with me”. Looking at self and not recognizing self.

• the difference between choosing to listen to grief and not having a choice

• their parallel griefs as an anti-zionist Jewish person around the unfolding genocide in Gaza

• the ways that grief and trauma can make people turn inwards that can lead them to make harmful decisions and how generational trauma blinds people to reality.
• The way that grief work helped them access anger

• Voice, song and sound as both expression of and expulsion of grief and how doing it in community shows what is available
• How grief helped move them from being in denial of their spirituality towards a deep relationship with their jewish religion and spirituality

• Spirit as is the truth of connection and the tug in their chest

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In this heart opening conversation with Ruthann Gagnon, we explore:

• What heart forward grief feels like
• What it means to respect the process of the the body and the gems we've gathered from the caves of grief
• How and why experiencing grief as an intelligent litmus test of the depth and safety of relationships
• Being sangry (sad + angry) about how grief is so feared in this culture
• How embodiment grows self compassion, love and forgiveness for ourselves and others
• Doing nothing and un-tooling as integration practice
• Working out for the emotional body
• How working for herself opens up the space to feel grief and her daily prayer for meeting it
• What becomes possible when we make a practice of sitting with and stepping through the void/wreath of grief

Ruthann has spent much of her career strategizing and catalyzing creative efforts through organized, thoughtful and collaborative architecture. With two decades of retreat, workshop and event production, she comes the logistical experience to create experiences, alongside the deeper emotional and creative skills to help other find the radiance and confidence needed to execute ideas into reality. She is also extremely passionate about the power of culinary creativity and integrates cooking into her work wherever she can. She currently works with individuals, groups and companies as a creative strategist and ideas architect and is also the co-founder of DEIcipher, a consulting group focused on embodied DEI initiatives in the wellness industry and beyond.

You can connect with Ruthann and her work at https://www.deicipher.com/ and on IG @rubygagnon

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Thanks for being.

In this sweet conversation with my dear soul sister Morgan, we dive into:

• the holiness of holding something that’s painful
• the way that grief quiets the self and expands the senses and literal physiology
• the surrender that grief demands and the growth towards vulnerability, growth and connection to the collective suffering that this surrender allows when it is given the space to move
• the sisterly currents of grief and creativity-both carry God, and are a source of inner guidance that she continues to court
• how her journey with physical pain tested her relationship to spirit and how she found her way back the elastic malleability of this lifelong relationship
• the way that physical pain and grief work as sharpening agents and clarify other relationships
• and how daily dipping in the cold Maine ocean grew her capacity to be with discomfort

Morgan Mitchell is a Creatress. Her work seeks to nurture well-being and wonder through experimental art and nourishing creative community experiences. You can stay connected with her through instagram @morganmitchellcreates and through her website morganmitchell.co

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Thanks for being.

Enjoy this special Q&A episode, where I talk about the importance of ritual, the difference between grief and trauma in the body, the relationship between alcoholism and grief and more.

I hope it feeds you.

Thanks in advance for sharing, subscribing and leading reviews. It helps so much.

If you are ready to step into your wholeness, not in spite of but because of your grief, my 1:1 Moving into Wholeness program is open for enrollment, with new sessions available to begin as early as August. Read more and apply here.

The in person Yoni Alchemy for Grief Transformation group container here in New Orleans will also begin with the full moon in the first week of August. Read more and apply here if you'd like to join.

And! I'm so honored to be hosting a sweet 4 hour Move Your Grief gathering on Sunday July 2nd from 10-1 in Corbett, OR. Limited spots are available, and you can register here if it calls.

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Thanks for being.

Lillian Kemanis is an Artist and Registered Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist who’s work centers around cultivating self-discovery through somatic awareness, movement, and creativity.  She is aims to provide immersive, creative, fun, and dynamic learning environments for individual and group exploration. Her teachings are rooted in her dance-making, performance work, and somatic and spiritual informed practice.

You can connect with Lillian and find out more about her offerings at https://www.lilliankemanis.com/

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Thanks for being.

Tina is passionate about being a Ghost Helper: Teaching the Living to Help the Dead®. She wants to empower us all to help all ghosts: this is the compassion we will want for ourselves, by using The Crossing Over Prayer© on GhostHelpers.com and in “The Crossing Over Prayer Book©.” When a psychic only connects to a dead person, the ghost does not receive the critical assistance they desperately need. Tina has studied metaphysics all her life, gaining insight into the mystical world of magic and spirituality. The author of eight books on metaphysics, her writing comes from an intense desire to know and understand the hard science behind the unseen world of action and reaction combined with a sincere desire to share this understanding with other knowledge seekers. Her lifelong studies into the deeper meaning of events and actions were further enhanced by the experiences of a dynamic 20-year career in the Navy, working for the U.S. Submarine Force, retiring at the Commander level.

You can connect with Tina via her website https://tinaerwin.com/

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Thanks for being.

Murielle Fellous was born and raised in France and lived twenty five years in the US where she raised 3 kids as a single mom. She coached women on relationships for years but when her kids became teenagers acting in self-destructive ways, she found herself in deep fear and depression. The experience was so painful and debilitating that she promised herself that she would do everything she could so that no mom would suffer alone!

She helps single moms with teenagers avoid spiraling into:

• Constant arguments
• Fear
• Guilt
• Shame
• Overwhelm
• Anxiety
• Depression

Murielle teaches tools to co-parent with the universe.

To stay connected with Murielle, visit her website at https://www.coparentingwiththeuniverse.com/

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Thanks for being.

What does it mean to mother without a mother? How does this particular grief impact the experience of mothering?

In this conversation with clinical psychologist and coach Melissa Reilly, we explore the specific terrain of being a mother without a loving mom, including:

-Melissa's long time experience of grief

-how grief showed up for her when she was pregnant and postpartum (and how she didn't realize at first that it was grief)

-some particular patterns and community support that is essential for moms without moms to pay attention to and gather around

-the difference between being hurt and being wounded 

-the pro-social nature of grief

-and why she's so fired up about supporting moms at this specific juncture

To stay connected with Melissa, visit her website at https://www.momswithoutamom.com/

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Thanks for being.