432: Your Brain and Body on Grief with Meghan Riordan Jarvis
The Adult Chair
Michelle Chalfant
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this heartfelt episode, we dive into the often uncharted waters of grief with the incredible Meghan Riordan Jarvis. As a trauma-trained psychotherapist and TEDx speaker, Meghan joins us to uncover the hidden layers of grief that many of us don't recognize. Spoiler alert: it’s not just about tears and sadness. We explore how grief can sneakily manifest in our bodies as physical ailments or even mimic depression.
Join us as we journey with Meghan, who shares her personal experiences and expert insights on processing grief instead of letting it simmer under the surface. You'll learn why acknowledging grief as an energy that needs to be expressed, not suppressed, is crucial. Meghan and I discuss practical strategies for emotional healing through movement, nourishment, and connection. Plus, we touch on those pesky feelings of guilt and regret that can hold us back.
Whether you're navigating a loss yourself or supporting someone who is, this episode serves as a compassionate guide to integrating grief into a life filled with growth and healing.
In this episode, you will hear:
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Understanding grief as an energetic response that can manifest as physical symptoms or depression.
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The importance of processing and expressing grief rather than suppressing it.
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Societal shortcomings in supporting those experiencing grief and the need for cultural change.
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Practical strategies for managing grief through movement, connection, and nourishment.
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Differentiating between guilt and regret in the grieving process and the role of vocabulary in healing.
Resources from this Episode
Instagram: @meghan.riordan.jarvis
Website: https://meghanriordanjarvis.com/
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The Adult Chair® Website
Membership: The Academy of Awakening
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The Adult Chair® Facebook Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/theadultchair/
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https://www.youtube.com/c/Michellechalfant
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michelle Chalfant, psychotherapist, holistic life coach, and human, just like you, |
| 0:09.2 | learning to navigate life challenges. With over 25 years' experience, I teach people how to get |
| 0:14.9 | healthy using the adult chair model. The adult chair model is where simple psychology meets grounded spirituality, and it teaches |
| 0:22.9 | us how to become healthy adults. From anxiety and depression to codependency and relationship issues, |
| 0:29.8 | you can use the adult chair for just about anything. Each week, I share practical tips, |
| 0:36.3 | tools and advice from myself and a wide range of experts |
| 0:39.9 | on how to get unstuck, how to live authentically, and how to truly love yourself, all |
| 0:45.6 | while sitting in your adult chair. |
| 0:48.6 | Welcome to the Adult Chair podcast. |
| 0:52.1 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Adult chair podcast. I am Michelle Shelfont. |
| 0:58.7 | Happy to be here with you today talking about such an important topic, one that needs to be |
| 1:05.0 | talked about more and more and more, which is grief. I've talked about it a lot on this podcast, |
| 1:10.1 | and I was really excited to have |
| 1:12.0 | Megan Reardon Jarvis on the show today talking all about grief. You know, here's the thing. |
| 1:22.2 | So often we experience some sort of loss, and at later date we have physical symptoms that are linked |
| 1:32.4 | to that loss and we don't link those two together. So we touch on that a little bit, but I got to |
| 1:37.9 | tell you, we go really deep into grief and what you can do about it and how do you know |
| 1:43.4 | if you might be experiencing grief. |
| 1:46.3 | We got into, again, the brain and body. |
| 1:49.9 | Like what happens to the brain and body on grief? |
| 1:53.1 | It's a subject that just as humans I find because we're a little bit clumsy feeling our |
| 1:58.0 | emotions, but really the hard ones like grief, We don't know how to feel and process. |
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