EPISODE SUMMARY
Sarah Davis shares advice on dealing with grief, how to help friends and family who are experiencing loss and what she has learned from her guests on the Breathing Wind podcast.
EPISODE NOTES
Sarah Davis is a podcast producer, learning experience designer and writer, living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the host of Breathing Wind, a podcast about grief, parent loss, change and healing. Also, don't miss Part One, where Sarah shares her journey through grief, her transformation and creation of the podcast, Breathing Wind.
Connect with Sarah:
Websites: www.breathingwind.com | www.davispodcastproductions.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/breathingwindpodcast
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breathingwindpodcast/
In This Episode:
1:21 - Advice to listeners for dealing with grief
2:54 - Key learnings from her guests on the Breathing Wind podcast
8:43 - The most surprising thing about experiencing grief
10:30 - Advice for helping friends and family through loss
13:10 - What we can do to continue to support friends as time passes after their loss
16:05 - Sarah shares special memories of her father
Resources From Sarah:
Correction: Cheryl Jones' podcast name is Good Grief (Weathering Grief is her website).
Sarah would like to add that a somatic practice that really helped her is called "Grief Tending" -- it's a ritual led by the Pacific Healing Circles. They offered the practice virtually during the pandemic and still offer it online (though they've gone in person for many of their events again). Sarah talked with one of the founders in season 1: https://www.breathingwind.com/episodes/11
Here are the links to individual episodes mentioned in this episode:
Cheryl Jones – Ep 41 – You can’t be prepared for grief, but you can prepare. You can have a sense of direction from hearing others’ stories but you will have to experience your own loss in your own time and way. https://www.breathingwind.com/episodes-2/41
Leaning into loss and being by your loved one’s side is less frightening than it may seem at first. https://www.breathingwind.com/episodes-2/38
How difficult, and yet important it is to have conversations about death and dying –as well as The Conversation Project (Deborah Szeto ep35) https://www.breathingwind.com/episodes-2/35
How to stay connected after someone has passed away, and how to honor their loss (Ep 32, 33) https://www.breathingwind.com/episodes-2/32 https://www.breathingwind.com/episodes-2/33
Vinyasa and other physical practices can help us move through grief (ep 30) https://www.breathingwind.com/episodes-2/30
Sound affects the way our brain processes information, and it allows us to get more deeply in touch with ourselves (ep 29) https://www.breathingwind.com/episodes-2/29
Grief counseling – it is about ultimately working through the experience of loss, adapting, finding ways to maintain connection with the one you lost, and make meaning in the aftermath of that loss. (ep 28) https://www.breathingwind.com/episodes-2/28