"When feel resourced [to handle grief], then we feel confident. When we have growth in our confidence to experience it [grief], then there's a bit of invincibility. And that invincibility makes us fearless. Then grief is not the same experience anymore in our life."
This week's special guest on Welcome to the Other Side is AmarAtma Khalsa, a Grief Coach and overall delightfully deep human.
AmarAtma (a two word first name that means Eternal or Timeless Soul) is a Grief Coach with advanced certification as a Grief Recovery Specialist. He’s a Board Certified Chaplain, having worked with thousands of hours with grievers in a Trauma-1 University Hospital specializing in end-of-life care, palliative care, trauma, and critical care. He has a dual Master’s Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Divinity and uses a trauma-informed, mind-body-spirit approach to teaching and helping grievers from the many losses that occur through life. He currently offers 1:1 virtual grief coaching to grievers on how to grieve and how to let go.
AmarAtma shares a new way of approaching grief in our lives, one that will leave us transformed and ever more resilient.
For the divorced moms in the audience, we talk about the various forms of grief in divorce, including how to grieve loss of control of our kids' lives.
Here are a few quotes from AmarAtma:
"This is real emotional scuba diving."
"Grief is a response, not an emotion."
"Grief in divorce is a death without a body."
"Grief is defined as many emotions at the same time, sometimes contradictory or conflictual with each other; with varying power & energy."
"Grief work is emotional resiliency work."
"We don't drown in our emotions. We drown in our thoughts about our emotions."
Fair warning, you're going to want to hire AmarAtma as soon as you listen to this. I do. He's on my list of next coaches to work with. Brilliant, fun, deep, human.
Enjoy!
p.s. AmarAtma mentioned using a Feelings Wheel to help us get more specific about naming the emotions we're feeling within our grief. Here's an example of a Feelings Wheel: https://feelingswheel.com/
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