1162: Grief, Growth, And Deep Calm
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina concludes her discussion of grief and how we can use this often misunderstood emotional state for growth and expansion of our deep wellness. The work of Jonny Miller and Gabor Mate are drawn on extensively in this discussion. Coming to understand the wholeness of life cannot be known without experiencing ups and downs that include grief can help us not get stuck in overwhelming anxiety that may occur in association with grief and loss. Listen in and come to know deep calm even in the face of difficult emotional states!
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Chapters
0:26 Welcome to the Podcast
2:35 The Power of Grief
8:09 Emotional Suppression and Healing
10:06 Understanding Grief's Journey
13:29 Grief as a Connection to Life
15:58 Embracing Human Experience
16:55 Closing Thoughts and Aloha
Summary
In this episode, I share the conclusion of our three-part Nervous System Reset series, delving into the intricate relationship between grief and emotional healing. I draw inspiration from Johnny Miller, whose poignant narrative about losing his fiancée, Sophie, highlights the profound lessons that grief can impart. Through his experiences, we explore the concept that grief is not merely an inconvenience to be avoided, but rather a natural, and at times, beautiful aspect of our humanity. By embracing our emotions fully, we can transform grief into a source of guidance, prompting us to reconnect with life's deeper meanings.
I emphasize that allowing grief to flow through us rather than resisting it can be therapeutic. When we allow ourselves to feel and experience our emotions, we prevent the buildup of what Johnny describes as emotional debt. This episode encourages listeners to practice feeling grief in its raw form, without the burdensome narratives we often attach to it. By adopting simple rituals—like lighting a candle, walking in nature, or even taking a moment to sit in stillness—we can create spaces for our emotions and enable them to move through us naturally.
We discuss the power of simultaneous grief and joy, a lesson I have come to learn personally through my own losses. I stress that experiencing these conflicting emotions is not a sign of weakness; instead, it is through the cultivation of resilience that we find the ability to recover more swiftly from life's challenges. The goal is not to escape discomfort but to learn to navigate it with grace.
During a guided visualization towards the episode’s climax, I invite listeners to reflect on their own experiences of loss. This practice serves as a gentle reminder that grief can manifest in various forms, often leading to feelings of being unmoored or uncertain about one's identity. I encourage listeners to welcome their emotions, suggesting that when we sit with our feelings—rather than pushing them away—we learn more about ourselves and the depth of our humanity.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the anxiety coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:23.1 | Aloha. |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches podcast. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm your host and coach, Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today |
| 0:34.0 | as together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its |
| 0:40.5 | natural peace and calm. In today's episode, I'm giving you the final episode of the nervous system |
| 0:49.9 | reset. There were three parts to this, and this one is really close to the heart. Johnny Miller, |
| 0:56.7 | which I talked about him in the other two episodes, he shares openly when I heard him talk. I'll put a |
| 1:03.9 | link to his TEDx talk in the show notes. When he shared openly about losing his fiance, Sophie, you can see how through that grief |
| 1:14.9 | he learned how to let emotions move through him and how to trust that the body knows how to feel |
| 1:24.3 | and heal. And the points I want to make here is that grief is not a mistake. It is a |
| 1:32.8 | natural and even beautiful part of being human. When we stop resisting it, grief can become a guide, |
| 1:42.1 | an opening to awe, to presence, and to meaning in our lives. |
| 1:48.6 | And if we remember from the other things we've talked about here, about emotions and even our |
| 1:55.4 | hormones of stress being released, this lasts only about 90 seconds when we allow them to be fully felt. |
| 2:05.8 | But when we suppress or avoid, we build an emotional debt is what Johnny Miller talks about, |
| 2:14.8 | building an emotional debt. So I want you to be able to practice feeling emotions, |
| 2:23.5 | the grief, without making more of a story around it. Just feel the sensation. See if you can let it |
| 2:32.7 | rise and fall. Ritual can actually help move this emotion through us, |
| 2:41.6 | lighting a candle, going for a walk, sitting in silence on purpose, even just placing your hand on your heart. |
| 2:54.1 | Johnny Miller says that the grief and the joy together can coexist, and I know this to be true. |
| 3:02.0 | I have gone through recently a very big loss in my life, And some of the deepest peace is found when we allow everything |
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