Sherry Walling on How to Use Movement to Ease Pain and Grief
The Wellness Mama Podcast
Katie Wells
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Episode Highlights With Sherry Walling
- How she got into flying trapeze as an adult and the reason why
- Her personal story around grief and how it led to her work as a psychologist in helping others
- Tips for navigating the experience of grief with kids and why this is so important
- Words we can use with our kids to help them process emotions
- The stages of grief and how understanding them can help your experience of them
- Ways to use movement to ease grief and pain
- What somatic trained therapists are and how they can help
- How we can move our feelings through our body using movement
- Different types of movement to try to process grief
- Ways to encourage kids to talk (at different ages) and how to support them through it
- One of the biggest factors in someone not becoming significantly depressed from grief
- Strategies to protect the mental wellness of your family
- One of the biggest threats to mental well being for kids especially and how to mitigate it
- Her encouragement to dance every day!
Resources We Mention
- Touching Two Worlds: A Guide for Finding Hope in the Landscape of Loss by Sherry Walling, PhD
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
- The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison
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