The Care Advocates with Lance A. Slatton & Sharon's Son, George "Managing Grief"
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Care Advocates is brought to you by the All Home Care Matters Media team and focuses on providing family caregivers and their loved ones with support, resources, and discussion on the issues facing them in the matrix of long-term care.
The Care Advocates are honored to welcome, Eryn Elder as guest to the show.
About Eryn Elder:
Eryn Elder, MA, is the author of Blooming Through Loss: Tending to Grief with the BloomPathTM. She is a certified grief and loss support specialist and an ICF-trained life coach and coach trainer who helps adults navigate the difficult journey of loss. Eryn is also the creator of the BloomPathTM, a practical tool designed to help grievers find hope and start to heal authentically.
Through her one-on-one coaching, group sessions, workshops, and trainings, Eryn helps people rebuild their sense of self and purpose after loss. She co-hosts the podcast Coaching as Benevolence, where she shares thoughts on personal growth and living with compassion.
Eryn resides in Longmont, Colorado, with her husband and two children while honoring the memory of her first-born daughter.
About Roots and Wings Grief and Loss Coaching:
At Roots and Wings Grief and Loss Coaching, I help people rebuild their lives after loss—gently guiding them through purposeful healing, authentic growth, and hope that lasts. My work offers comfort in the pain and clarity for what comes next. I am an advocate for interdisciplinary approaches to understanding grief and healing with grief and loss, and to reimagine a world grounded in compassion and healing.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm Welcome to the care advocates where we're advocating for you. |
| 0:36.2 | I am joined as always by my esteemed friend |
| 0:38.7 | and colleague, Dr. George Ackerman, also known as Sharon's son George. Welcome, George. How are you |
| 0:43.9 | today? Thanks. Always pleasure to see you, catch up. And as we take short breaks or prepare for |
| 0:50.5 | the next month, the world continues, caregiving continues today our guess as someone |
| 0:55.3 | means a lot to me because the topic of grief i don't feel it's discussed enough sometimes it's |
| 1:00.5 | because it's troubling sometimes we don't want to face some of the tougher time but she's out there |
| 1:05.5 | inspiring so many and i'm honored to have her on with us today. Absolutely. And, you know, I know you cared for |
| 1:12.1 | your mother, Sharon. I cared for my father. And for me, one of the, you know, the grief, obviously, |
| 1:17.5 | is tremendous. And at times it can be overwhelming. One of the things that I found for my experience |
| 1:23.7 | and a lot of the families that we talk to with our company is the anticipatory grief |
| 1:28.6 | is sometimes the worst because, you know, grief is definite. Anticipatory grief can be ongoing, |
| 1:35.8 | but we can get into that a little bit later, but you set it up for us wonderfully, George. |
| 1:40.1 | We would like to welcome Aaron Elder. She is a grief support specialist, and she is the author of Blooming Through Lost, Tending to Grief with the Bloom Path. |
| 1:50.7 | Welcome, Aaron. |
| 1:51.5 | How are you today? |
| 1:52.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:53.5 | Thanks for having me here today. |
| 1:55.1 | I am well. |
| 1:55.8 | I'm here in Colorado, and must say, I've been enjoying the summer here and appreciate having you, appreciate the time |
| 2:02.8 | you are giving me today to talk about grief. As George said, it's a topic that doesn't get |
| 2:09.0 | enough attention and we all experience it. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I want to first start off. |
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