Grief and Rebirth: Finding the Joy in Life Podcast

Dr. Peggy DeLong is an accomplished psychologist, author, speaker, and grief therapist. She is known as The Gratitude Psychologist because she teaches people how to harness the power of gratitude and joy to live their best lives, especially through difficult times. She does this through psychotherapy, her group program for healing grief called HEAL, her online monthly membership called Feeling Good with Dr. Peggy, online courses, and speaking engagements. She is also the author of three books, and she is the owner of LOVE in a Bracelet, where she designs bracelets for coping with grief and loss, mental health, and inspiration. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THINGS LIKE: · The inspiring ways the death of both Peggy’s beloved fiancé and her precious dad were connected. · The spiritual signs Peggy receives every year on the anniversary of her fiancé’s death. · How harnessing the power of gratitude and joy heals grief, bereavement, and loss. · The practice of gratitude is backed by research in psychology and brain science. SOME QUESTIONS IRENE ASKS PEGGY: · Why should we allow ourselves to feel unwanted and painful emotions? · What are some of the benefits to be gained by developing a gratitude mindset? · Why is practicing gratitude a universal healer? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/griefandrebirth/support

Sue Frederick is an accomplished speaker and teacher, an Author, an Intuitive, an ordained Unity Minister, a soul regression therapist, a master numerologist, and a certified creative arts therapist. She has been an intuitive since childhood and she is also an accomplished author. Her 6 highly acclaimed books provide roadmaps for manifesting the work we each came here to do, the love we came to experience, how best to connect to our departed loved ones for healing and how to use pain as fuel to fulfill our greatest potential. She has been featured in the New York Times, CNN.com, Real Simple Magazine, Yoga Journal, Natural Health, and Complete Woman magazines and she has presented workshops at venues such as Omega Institute, The Crossings Retreat Center, the American Businesswomen’s Association, and the National Career Development Association. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/griefandrebirth/support

Reid Peterson is a grief counselor who is the creator and founder of a mobile app for grief support called Grief Refuge. He has a master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology, and he has been certified in Death & Grief Studies by the Center for Loss & Life Transition. After losing his biological father to suicide in 2006 and his stepfather to cancer in 2016, Reid felt a calling to help the grieving find peace and purpose after loss. His Grief Refuge app is a daily companion that helps navigate the grief journey, providing comfort and solace in a time of need. Its 7 features, including daily audio musings and a tool to track a person’s grief progress, help a person to cope with loss and feel supported throughout the grief journey. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/griefandrebirth/support

Melissa Lyons and Cathrine Marshall are the enlightened authors of a wise new book titled Freedom Rising from Within: The Ultimate Guide to Freedom and Transformation from the Inside Out. Melissa is a mind-body wellness coach, a best-selling author, and an inspiring keynote speaker whose programs, books, and group events have helped thousands of people identify and modify imbalances and misalignments that block happiness, health, and success, creating an abundance of clarity and opening pathways to freedom, flow, and connection to life’s purpose, co- authored with Cathrine, who is a metaphysical energetic healer, a guide, and an author. For over 33 years, Cathrine has had a deep and diverse life history of personal transformative experiences which has been a rich training to facilitate the healing and raising of consciousness for thousands of individuals! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/griefandrebirth/support

Lora DeVore is an incredible role model for grief and rebirth. She is an author, a therapist, an educator, and a catalyst for transformational change for both health care individuals & institutions. Her wisdom comes from the inside out, from facing the darkest aspects of human experience and mining the dark for the treasures that can be found. Born into poverty and violence, Lora was prostituted at the age of nine and she suffered unspeakable treatment from those who should have protected her. The impact of this early trauma led to her institutionalization soon after she started college, and an incarceration she would not have survived but for a courageous nurse, who fought for her release. Fifty years later, Lora has had a long career as a successful mental health professional, she is recognized as a leading educator, and she is also a sought-after public speaker. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/griefandrebirth/support

Composer and lyricist Peruquois is a remarkable worldwide icon and a profound healer of women who has been touring the globe since 1997, and her life has been filled with fascinating and transformative experiences of grief to healing and rebirth. Her father drowned in a fishing accident when she was three, and her motto became “Love and live now as the future may never come.” Another transformative experience occurred when she was 11, when both of her legs were cut above her kneecaps and then re-attached in a botched surgery designed to cure a genetic hip rotation. At 18, Peruquois honored her dreams to become a jazz vocalist and by 23 she was a bright star on the Australian jazz scene but felt somehow unfulfilled and through a profound transcendental experience, she found intuitive singing which spurred people to call her “the voice of Mother Earth.” She later spent 11 years as an apprentice and one of 7 wives to a Native American Medicine Man in the mountain deserts of New Mexico, where she received a vision that revealed that her healing voice and profound wisdom would one day inspire millions of people to fall back into love and return to harmony and balance. And years after that, she moved to New Zealand and committed to a new partner who was an awakened tantric master, and she became inspired to create a new set of practices for women to open to their sensual nature. And of course, there is more! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/griefandrebirth/support

Michele Benyo is an early childhood parenting coach and mentor who is also a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist. When Michele’s daughter was only three-and-a-half years old, her beloved 6-year-old big brother, who was her best friend and only sibling—died of cancer. She said to Michele, “Mommy, half of me is gone.” The loss was devastating, it left an unfillable void in her young being, and there was little available to help Michele, who was teaching early childhood parenting classes at the time, to navigate her family’s unthinkable new reality. Today Michele’s precious daughter is all grown up and Michele is busy helping families to heal and live forward with grief after the death of their child. Her Good Grief Parenting Approach helps parents get in touch with their parenting wisdom so they can be confident that they are helping their bereaved young child to grieve well as they become hopeful about a future for their family that is bright with possibilities and even joy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/griefandrebirth/support

Winnie Chan is a trauma-informed licensed acupuncturist who is also a Shamanic Tao healer, a Reiki practitioner, a shadow worker, and the co-author of Honoring Darkness: Embrace Shadow Work to Nourish and Grow Your Power. Her mission in life is to deliver LOVE AS MEDICINE – to help everyone discover their original wholeness. She does this by combining the medical science of a clinically trained acupuncturist with the spiritual knowledge of a shaman to help her clients process their trauma, which is the root cause of many physical and emotional illnesses. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/griefandrebirth/support

Maggie Gannon is a board-certified Adult Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist and the CEO/Cofounder of Haven, the all-in-one, under one roof space for legacy preservation. After taking care of head and neck cancer patients for over 25 years and with her own history of death and loss, Maggie created Haven, a customer-focused company built from the ground up to give the dying a voice. This digital, end-of-life platform compassionately helps the dying person and his or her family, along with the companies and agencies that serve them, to successfully navigate the end-of-life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/griefandrebirth/support

Born in the Philippines, Krista Nerestant moved to the US at the age of twelve and became a successful entrepreneur at 17 years old. In addition to being the owner of self-ishlifestyle.com, serving as a certified spiritual medium and teacher to demystify the world of spirit and energy, Krista is a neuro-linguistic life coach and hypnotist specializing in the Satir method of Transformational Systemic Therapy. Her inspiring new memoir, titled Indestructible: The Hidden Gifts of Trauma, tells the story of the tremendous obstacles Krista faced and overcame to champion for the life she wanted for herself and her family. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/griefandrebirth/support