Overcoming Grief: How To Develop Emotional Wellness Through Creative Healing
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 β’ 1K Ratings
ποΈ 9 June 2025
β±οΈ 29 minutes
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Summary
Grief is a painful journey that can feel isolating and endless. So what tools can we use to process grief, experience its pain, and ultimately learn how to live fully again? Claudia Coenen, a creative grief counselor and certified thanatologist, joins the podcast to discuss her unique perspective on this sensitive topic.
Claudia has a private practice at The Karuna Project and is a consultant and grief specialist at The REACH Center for Crime Victims. She is also the author of Shattered by Grief: Picking Up the Pieces to Become WHOLE Again, a book that helps readers work through their grief via expressive therapies and activities.
Tune in now to learn about:
- How to deal with different types of grief.
- Factors that help and hinder the process of grief.
- The most impactful ways to manage grief.
- The ways that journaling can help people externalize their pain.
By encouraging others to explore their pain through storytelling, self-care and ritual, and honest reflection, Claudia has achieved remarkable results. This creative approach to grief counseling was inspired by her own experience of loss β and she's eager to share it with the worldβ¦
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| 0:28.7 | Here come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.3 | This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:37.6 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast, now part of the Finding Genius |
| 0:42.2 | Foundation. |
| 0:43.2 | My guest is Claudia Conan. |
| 0:44.9 | She's the author of Shattered by Grief, picking up the pieces to become all again. |
| 0:49.1 | And the second book is Vola, the Creative Toolkit for Working with Grief and Periement |
| 0:53.6 | of Practitioners Guide. So we're going to talk about her work and her writings. And she's also developed what's called the Heronacard that she developed while she was working in hospice. So we'll go over all those things and how people deal with grief and how they can do so better. So welcome, Claudia. Thanks for coming. Thank you, Richard. Yeah, if you would, just tell me a bit about, you know, your background and what led to you to, you know, be involved with greetings if you're okay to say. |
| 1:15.5 | Yeah, I mean, I come from an arts background. |
| 1:17.7 | I was a musician as a child and a teenager, and I always danced, and I always was involved in creative expression. |
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