137 How to Heal From Sorrow and Grief Part 4 with Heather Stringer

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

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🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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I am joined today by Heather Stringer, who has lots of experience creating rituals that heal. Heather begins by describing two rituals: one focused on recovering from sexual assault and the second focused on preparing for a double mastectomy surgery. Heather and I talk about why ritual is so unfamiliar to many of us, and the healing that occurs when we begin to move our bodies in particular ways, especially when others are present to bear witness to the ritual.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the place we find ourselves podcasts. I'm Adam Young and this is episode four in a series of episodes about
0:10.6	what we are to do with sorrow with grief with big emotions, particularly
0:17.4	visa-v ritual moving our bodies and
0:21.0	I am joined today by Heather Stringer my friend Heather. It's good to see you
0:26.4	so good to see you
0:28.4	Here's why Heather's here. Heather is here because she actually knows something about rituals and I'm a bit of a
0:36.8	rookie novice. I'm very passionate about it, but I have not
0:41.6	personally or professionally played in these waters like Heather has. So Heather, I've invited you on because
0:49.8	frankly, I would love for your expertise to be shared with the listeners and let's make it
0:56.1	real practical from the get go
0:58.8	because I've done previous episodes kind of fleshing out what rituals are, why they're important, but we need more examples
1:07.0	so can you just start with you you conduct rituals you design them you conduct them you implement them you bear witness to them
1:15.1	Let's start with an example of a ritual where somebody
1:19.2	move their body did symbolic actions in a way that was designed for healing
1:25.0	Well, I am first of all so so happy to be able to talk to you about this like this is such a sweet spot passion of
1:34.4	mind that I mean there's there's so much to
1:38.0	mind here
1:39.3	The first one that comes to mind is just I mean as far as the importance of the body goes and symbolism
1:46.4	There was a woman who had experienced a lot of different sexual trauma more in her adult life and she knew
1:53.8	that she needed to release it
1:55.2	She knew that there was something about the way that it was clinging to her body clinging to her heart that was keeping her from moving into
2:02.2	other relationships and so
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