*What is Grief? | Exploring Loss in Westernized Cultures with Dr. Dani Baker | Part 1*
🌟 Welcome to another episode of "Tea with the Experts and Dr. Leah Merle"! 🌟
🎙 Episode 21: What is Grief Part 2
📅 Release Date: Jan 1, 2025
👥 Guest: Dr. Dani Baker
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In this illuminating episode of Tea with the Experts, Dr. Leah Merle sits down with Dr. Dani Baker, a renowned grief therapist and educator, to delve into the intricacies of grief and its often-avoided realities in Westernized cultures. Together, they examine societal pressures to “move on” quickly after loss, explore emotional avoidance surrounding grief, and challenge misconceptions about the “stages” of grief. Dr. Baker provides compassionate insights into healthier, trauma-informed approaches to processing loss, inviting listeners to rethink and reshape their relationship with grief.
In the second installment of a three-part series on grief, designed to help you better understand one of life’s most profound experiences, Dr. Baker discusses natural grieving styles of a healthy griever, which are experienced along a continuum - at one end is the instrumental griever and the other the intuitive griever - and over time, most grievers find their way closer to the middle as a blended griever.
Next Dr. Baker discusses that most many grievers experience a primary loss, as well as secondary and tertiary losses, highlighting the complexities and layers of loss healthy grievers are impacted by during times of overwhelming sorrow.
Finally, Dr. Baker shares a broad overview of what healthy grief can look like for many people processing, adapting, and integrating significant loss. To do this, Dr. Baker breaks grief down over an 18-month period, discussing grief via windows of time highlighting typical experiences of grief as well as how to support grief during these fluid experiences of moving in and out of natural grief.
Please note: This part of this discussion is not meant to be seen as hard and fast or a structured step by step process, rather Dr. Baker highlights how healthy grieving is fluid, requiring grievers to take steps forward and backward, over a substantial period of time (between 12 to 18 months) to allow for the brain and body to catch up, then begin to adapt to change, and finally integrate significant loss through meaning making and continued bonds.
Don’t miss this powerful conversation that seeks to destigmatize grief and foster a deeper sense of connection and healing.
*About Dr. Dani Baker:* Every year, countless individuals face the profound challenges of grief after significant loss events. Yet, we live in a society that often struggles to understand or support the complexities of grieving. With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Dani Baker has dedicated her career to helping grieving individuals, families, and groups navigate the multi faceted landscape of grief. Using an integrative, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive approach, Dr. Baker collaborates with her clients to create spaces where healing and growth can flourish.
*Resources*
*Books:*
Bearing the Unbearable Joanne Cacciatore
Grief Works Julia Samuel
Grieving While Black Breeshia Wade
It’s OK You are Not OK Megan Devine
Remember Love Cleo Wade
The Book of Awakening Mark Nepo
Wild Edge of Sorrow Francis Weller
*Websites:*
Refuge in Grief: https://refugeingrief.com/grief-resources
MISS Foundation: https://www.missfoundation.org/grieving/
Speaking Trauma: https://speakingtrauma.com/
What’s Your Grief: https://whatsyourgrief.com/i-am-grieving/
*Instagram:*
@glimpseofarainbow
@grievemebe
@refugeingrief
@thatgriefgirl
@thecreativeworksco
@wpsugrief
*Podcasts*
Grief Out Loud/The Dougy Center
Grief/Relief/Moe Provencher
Grief Works/Julia Samuel
Shapes of Grief/Liz Gleeson
What’s Your Grief/Eleanor & Litsa
*Free Wellness Apps Insight Timer*
Grief Expressions
Grief Compassion Meditation
Grief Riding the Waves
Ease Grief
*Calm*
Grieving Joanne Caccatorie
Caring for your Grief Lama Rod Owens
Daily Move with Mel Mah
Daily Calm Grief Tamara Levitt
*Disclaimer:* The content of this podcast is intended for informational and educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional mental health counseling, therapy, or psychological care. If you are experiencing mental health issues or need support, please seek advice from a licensed mental health professional in your area. If you are in crisis or experiencing an emergency, please contact emergency services in your local area immediately.
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