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Future Chaplain and weaver of words, Andi Scarbrough joins us to chat about using mixed media to journal the loss of a loved one. How can we use the somatic experience of Journaling to build a field guide of grief as if we were Wildlife Documentarians? Exploring taboo subjects like the loss of a child and suicide, Andi shares how she has used dance, poetry, and vocalizing to process the alchemical fires of deep loss. A must listen.
We discuss:
- "Wildlife documentarian" style of Journaling your grief journey
- Weather tracking your emotional atmosphere
- Neutral observer of the experience
- Time-stamping your grief
- Field notes road map inside and outside yourself towards your heart
- Engaging your senses to come into presence (essential oils, tea, candles, etc)
- Repetitive thoughts as a guide to enter journaling
- Free form writing, create a sacred space and "let it rip" then burn it
- Haiku as a way to keep the artist pipes from freezing
- "Being in the horror of it is just as fleeting as the beauty of it"
- Sharing Taboo moments publicly and how "trigger warnings" may not always serve
- Keeping memorabilia in a footlocker to remember
- Becoming a living scrapbook as a legacy of loving
- Shamanic Journeying to process the suicides of Andi's Father and Grandfather
- "A death is as traumatic as it needs to be in order to trigger the changes needed within everyone around"
- Suicide as the taboo amongst taboos
- Destigmatizing mental health support
Andi shares potent practices, prompts, and tools for listeners to engage with in their own journaling grief work.
About Andi:
Holistic Hairdresser, Reiki Master, Breathwork Facilitator, studying towards Chaplaincy.
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