97. The Cost of Angel Wings | June K Collins
The Beautiful Side of Grief
March 20, 2012, at 4:00 AM, my nightmare began. My Kaleb gained his angel wings. I still, years later can remember every single detail of the night he died. It is a trauma I never will forget. Despite knowing Kaleb's day would come sooner than most, June was shocked when it happened unexpectedly. She felt alienated. That she had to walk alone in her grief. It was a year later that June made the courageous decision to fight the demons taking over her life and find her way back from child loss. In doing so, she discovered almost everything about herself and her life had changed. Through...
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96. Abundance & Grief | Rebecca Whitman
The Beautiful Side of Grief
What does abundance have to do with grief I hear you ask. It's about understanding the foundation of abundance, so when you are ready to take your new normal to another level, your life can be everything you want it to be...whether that be getting your finances back on track, attracting another soul mate, or simply being in a place of peace and harmony. Rebecca Whitman is a master at helping overworked and overwhelmed women transform from burned out to balanced, beautiful and abundant. She takes us through her 7 Pillars of Abundance to help you create a balance in ALL areas of your...
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95. For The Lessons We Learn | Farah
The Beautiful Side of Grief
It's hard enough to lose your mother in her prime. Though to lose her to a random shooting, well that's even harder to get your head around. In this episode Farah shares how she embarked on a journey to understand the mysteries of her mother's death in tragic circumstances... Why would she choose for her mother to be shot? What was there to learn from this? As she unravelled these questions and more, her love of yoga and baking, yes, baking, provided much-needed respite. We discuss her book - Meher & Me, which portrays the struggles she faced of reconciling her childhood with her...
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94. I'll See You in Your Dreams Tonight | Katie Cosgrove
The Beautiful Side of Grief
Are you looking to know how you can talk about your loved one? Or how to have healthy conversations about your loved one? Or maybe you want to understand what your loved one coming to you in your dreams signifies... My guest today, Katie Cosgrove is going to help you out with that and so much more. Katie is a beautiful, compassionate soul whose dad died when she was 15, after an 18-month illness. She had no one to talk about him to in her social circle. Then one night, years later, he came to her in a dream that changed her entire life. This experience led Katie to...
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93. Happiness is a Choice | Clay Boatright
The Beautiful Side of Grief
'It's all in how you choose to look at the situation. And happiness is a choice' - Clay Boatright Clay has definitely lives by these words. He nursed his wife and cherished friend, through two bouts of cancer, the later taking her life. And in between all of that, they their raised twin daughters, Paige and Mia, with severe disabilities, along with their elder daughter Blaine. Through this journey, Clay discovered a passion for advocacy, helping other families deal with disabilities at high levels both locally and nationally. He has a calm, centred approach to life and doesn't buy...
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92. The Power that Creates heals | Dr Lynn Carey
The Beautiful Side of Grief
What are your thoughts on what happens to us once we die? Dr Lynn Carey is a chiropractor, author and entrepreneur who believes there is no death, only changing forms. Her experience as an only child, being a perfectionist, worrying about everything, having her father pass over at a young age, her battle with scoliosis, all led her to the discovery of healing from within. Whilst figuring out what major to take, the sentence "the power that made the body heals the body", on a promotional pamphlet for chiropractic school set her on a pain of discovering wellness within, healing...
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91. Transforming Family Toxicity | Susan Gold
The Beautiful Side of Grief
Families! We all have them, though I secretly suspect many of us have harboured the thought of wishing we could magically belong to someone else's family. I know I certainly did. Toxicity in families is real. It exists. Yet, it is often swept under the carpet to deal with another time - or not at all. My guest today, Susan Gold, experienced an unimaginable childhood! From a very young age she adopted coping mechanisms to exist within this dysfunctional framework - invisibility; independence; hyperawareness; excessive exercising; overeating; little self-love and self-worth; co-dependency; and...
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90. Courageous Grief | Clint Hatton
The Beautiful Side of Grief
Seriously, how much does one person have to endure over a lifetime? It seems that some people get more than their fair share of BIG life-changing challenges. My guest today, Clint Hatton is one such person. At 12 years old he lived with his mum having suicidal ideation. He was an addict, was divorced by his late 20's, tragically lost a 17 year old son in a plane crash, experienced multiple close calls with the births of his children - yet, has used all of this to empower himself and his family to be resilient and thrive again no matter what life throws at them! ...
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89. Letting Go of Baby Too | Tsombawi Knibye Jr
The Beautiful Side of Grief
This episode is dedicated to all dads, or would-be dads, who have suffered the crushing loss of losing a child through miscarriage. May your thoughts, feelings and emotions be heard through what Tsombawi shares today. And if you have been going it alone, trying to understand why this little being meant so much to you, I hope this episode can be the stepping stone to you being able to reach out and share the load you've been silently carrying. We often hear about miscarriage from a mother's perspective, so I'm excited to share with you this frank and open conversation from the lens of a...
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88. Are you an Empath? | Jennifer Moore
The Beautiful Side of Grief
Are you a hot emotional mess? You know when you feel EVERYTHING - your brain goes into overdrive, and when you feel pain it's unnaturally intense, and the struggles you face seem to be on another level compared to others. Well I've got a guest today who I hope is going to help you make sense of all this and let you know it doesn't have to be this way. Her name is Jennifer Moore and she is a multi award winning author with her book Empathic Mastery. She's also an energy healer, an intuitive guide/psychic, and a mentor and master trainer for EFT International. Her passion is...
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In this episode, we are talking to an inspiring individual, Susan Hannifi-McNab, whose life took a dramatic turn in 2012 with the sudden loss of her bagpiper-surfer-professor husband. With a Masters in social work - the path this young mum and widow took over the following years led her to realise that the tools and resources she was using to help herself and her son could help others - and so was born the A2Z toolbox workshops.
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- How the tools in the a2z toolbox can help you along in your journey
- What the 5 pillars of trauma are
- How Soaring Spirits supports widows
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"That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking." ~ Sarah Dessen