Loss and Leaving Corporate America with Melissa Herriott of M.Herriott Designs
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In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal have a conversation with Melissa Herriott founder and owner of M.Herriott Designs, a Charlotte-based firm that specializing in custom artwork and home design. Melissa, a long time friend of Crystal, shares her experience with grief around a change within her self identify. As well as personal grief losses that she experienced in the midst of the 2020 pandemic. Follow along as Melissa shares how the story of her career shift to entrepreneurship and a successful business venture was based in a complete identity shift that happened from an earth...
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S2 E9: The Gift of Grief with Ally Hunt
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In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal have a conversation with Ally Hunt, Digital Storyteller, Fat Activist and Podcast host of 'The Fab Fatties'. Ally shares her journey and experience with grief. The grief of losing someone, losing someone who is still alive and losing yourself, through trauma and mental health. Follow along as the group discusses Ally's loss of her father, who she had estranged relationship with. Receiving the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), losing her career and removing contact with toxic family members from her life. To keep up with Ally and learn...
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S2 E8: A beautiful talk with Kyle Freeman, Grief Coach, Grief Educator and Death Doula
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*Note: at 39:50 Crystal references Jayne Mattingly, advocate and author. You can learn more about Jayne by visiting her website And purchasing her book 'This Is Body Grief: Making Peace with the Loss That Comes with Living in a Body' by Jayne Mattingly at ------ In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal are joined by Kyle Freemam, a grief coach, educator and death doula. Kyle speaks about her journey in this career path and her experience with grief, through the loss of her brother and mother. As well as the grief surrounding her chronic health conditions. Describing herself as an anti-shame...
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S2 E7: Cadence Cares: A conversation with Andrew Barclay and Amy Liebaert from Cadence
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In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal have a conversation with Andrew Barclay and Amy Liebaert from Cadence. Cadence is a tech company that supports businesses and individuals in offering holistic estate planning tools and estate settlement tools, as well as grief support. With a vision to revolutionize the way the world manages death. Andrew and Amy share how they found Cadence and what connected them to the mission, to bring simplicity, clarity and compassion to the estate planning and settlement process. Follow along as the group discusses terminology like Executer, the executer...
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S2 E6: Our discussion with Kaela O'Donnell from KinderMourn
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TW: Pregnancy loss, miscarriage, and infant loss. In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal have a conversation with Kaela O'Donnell, Executive Director and Clinical Director of KinderMourn. Kaela was also the Grief Counselor for Alyce's daughter, Amelia. Kaela shares the work that KinderMourn does, from the age range of children they work with to their adult programs, like the 'Empty Arms' program. Stay tuned as we learn how KinderMourn was founded, when Lucy Christopher experienced the death of her infant daughter, Sally. Lucy had a vision to help parents cope with the loss of a child and...
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S2 E5: Death Ceremonies and Death Doula Training
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In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal have a conversation with Juli Cher, founding owner of Khali Yoga Center, a founding board member of the Big Love Yoga Barn and a Death Doula. Juli shares her journey of becoming a Death Doula, speficially highlighting that wasn't aware of what a Death Doula was in the beginning when the term first popped appeared in her mind. Through out the conversation, Juli talks about the feeling of being present in the room during the final moments of someones life. The ways death and grief show up and her personal experience with it. From constantly moving in her...
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S2 E4: Talking Bereavement with Jena Kirkpatrick from Evermore
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In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal have a conversation with Jena Kirkpatrick from Evermore. Jena speaks about her experience with grief; losing her son traumatically, her husband losing his job the day after and the financial burdens that began to pile up in their household. During the grieving journey, Jena realized how unfair and unsustainable the Bereavement process was. And when a friend shared a Washington Post article about this topic with Jena, she reached out to the founder of Evermore, Joyal Mulheron, and found herself beginning a new career advocate for the mission of...
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S2 E3: Using Somatic Practices to Recalibrate and Move Through Grief
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In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal are joined by Bethany Anderson of Pranayama House. Bethany speaks about her experience with yoga and sound bowl healing as a way that allowed her to move through grief. When Bethany first began grieving the loss of a loved one, a relationship and sense of herself, she found Yoga allowed her to truly release the feelings that felt trapped within her. And as she explored somatic practices, sound bowl healing became something she felt she need access to daily for her and her son. Find Bethany at on Instagram. If you seek to dive deeper into the Mourning...
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S2 E2: A Child's Perspective on Loss
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In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal are joined by a very special guest, Amelia, Alyce’s daughter. Amelia speaks with Crystal and Alyce about the loss she has experienced, including the loss of her mimi, who is Alyce’s mother. And what those losses felt like at that time in her life. Amelia shares when she first learned about her grandmothers sickness, she thought it was something like the flu. It wasn’t until her grandmothers passing, when Amelia began to process that this was a loss. As you listen to the conversation you will find them talking about tools they used to process...
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S2 E1: Our Hour with Hospice Nurse Penny
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In this week's episode, Alyce and Crystal are joined by Penny Smith BSN,RN,CHPN , also known as, Hospice Nurse Penny They discuss the difference between palliative care and hospice, the sacred process of ones life journey coming to an end, Penny's personal experience with different types of grief and anticipatory grief. Alyce and Crystal share moments where they related to Penny's journey and storytelling, as they read her book 'Influencing Death: Reframing Dying for Better Living'. Which can be preordered through this link: Alyce closes out the episode reading the last paragraph of the...
info_outlineIn this week's episode, Crystal and Alyce continue the conversation around loss of identity and major life changes that push us to redefine ourselves.
In their conversation, Alyce talks about how becoming a mom and her divorce were two major life changing events that redefined who she is and allowed her to shed her old self.
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