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How to Navigate the Path of Grief with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

March 3, 2023 2 Comments

In This Episode, We Discuss How to Navigate the Path of Grief and more!

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  • How there are many different forms of grief
  • Why we need to surrender to our grief and turn toward painful feelings
  • How there are many painful emotions that exist under the “grief umbrella”
  • The challenge of surrendering to grief in a culture that constantly pushes for happiness and avoidance of pain.
  • How we can strengthen our ability to cope with grief by continuing to allow it in
  • The importance of finding emotional support when grieving
  • Why animals provide the best emotional support
  • How providing emotional support to someone grieving includes just being with them and holding space for their grief

Dr. Joanne Cacciatore is a Professor at Arizona State University, where she runs the graduate Certificate in Trauma and Bereavement, and she is also the founder of the MISS Foundation. Since 1996, Dr. Jo has worked with and counseled those affected by traumatic death. She started the first therapeutic carefarm in the world for traumatic grief based on a framework for incorporating 50 plus domestic and farm animals rescued from abuse, torture, neglect, and homelessness, the Selah Carefarm. Her work was featured in Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry’s Apple TV docuseries, “The Me You Can’t See” in episode 4.  Dr. Jo also served on their ‘mental health’ advisory board, along with 13 esteemed colleagues as part of the series.  Her research has been published in peer reviewed journals such as The Lancet, British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Omega Journal of Death and Dying, Journal of Mental Health Counseling, Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, and the International Journal of Nursing. Her best selling book, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief, won the Indies Book of the Year Award. Her subsequents books include, Grieving is Loving, and an Audible Great Courses series called Understanding and Coping with Grief. In addition, her series of meditations for grief are now available on the Calm app.

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, check out these other episodes:

Megan Devine on Grief

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  1. teri says

    March 8, 2023 at 9:24 am

    What an amazing immediate journey for dr joanne to take on such a long schooling you give back with your organizations and talks. She started school when she was breastfeeding her Fifth child — she speaks of awareness to the earth and all its beings —!!!!YET!!!! she has 5 children —breast feeding the 5th. does that mean she birthed 5. or did she adopt. very different for my point here. My point is over producing children. why is it so overlooked because it’s “an innocent child” that Irresponsible parent produce When the have more than 2. 5 children taxes the earth carbon foot print and all that. over population for what the planet can support and over population for what a parent can raise. i’m the 6 th child to catholic oarents. it was fun having so many litter mates but the attention and intention fell short with too many kids for two oarents to pay quality attention to. we as a culture need to raise trauma free future care takers of our planet. not just pooping out addicts that are strung out on a lack of quality upbringing.
    i’m not saying joanne has or has been a crappy parent. but from experience too many kids is too many.

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  2. teri says

    March 8, 2023 at 3:57 pm

    I wrote that first comment with only listening to the first few minutes— i’ve now listened to the whole interview. She started a 4-? year schooling to receive a doctorate— her youngest(?) was breast feeding. she worked 100 hrs a week—- when was she a mother? Seriously. She’s nearly yelling at her audience here to be more compassionate and we need a cultural shift yet she chose to throw the baby out with the bath water by choosing her scientific career ofer raising humans. You. an say all the right things but absence and abandonment speaks to the depth of feeling in these children. Her information is great. she’s done a good service for the culture shift— and or but her tone of yelling and her focus on science —. why did she have children? selfish to try and do both. my opinion

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