The One About Grief & Loss, Heartbreak & Healing With Christa Couture

The Papaya Podcast

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer, and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer, disabled, and a mom.

Christa, through her life experiences from the loss of her leg due to childhood cancer, the tragic death of her infant son, only to lose her second son, as well. Then, divorce, Christa, has undoubtedly become an expert in loss.

Now a mother, with a robotic floral leg and a 3-year-old daughter, she’s released her memoir called How To Lose Everything.

This conversation with Christa walks us through grief, loss, joy, catastrophic thinking, guilty and the ability to feel and honour the swings in between it all. As well as support through loss, and how to navigate when someone we love is going through loss.

This episode is one you’ll be bookmarking to come back and replay, again and again, it truly was so healing to be in conversation over this.

Follow Christa on IG @ChristaCouture and visit her website www.christacouture.com for more + to buy her book How To Lose Everything

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0:33.4	Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess,
0:38.4	trying her most to serenical and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with
0:44.3	some seeds of wisdom or something like that. So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real
0:51.7	because we are all in this digital space together.
0:59.4	Today's guest I actually found via a photo on social media. It was on Instagram. She had
1:05.2	modeled for next someone that I a brand I am very close to and I was blown away at this image.
1:11.5	I immediately followed this woman because she looked absolutely stunning with a floral robotic leg
1:19.9	and I immediately had to find out more about her. Not soon after that she ended up emailing me and
1:27.2	telling me a little bit more about her story and that's what I knew exactly that she had to come on
1:32.0	here and talk to all of us. Kristi Kutcher is an award-winning performing and recording artist,
1:38.4	non-fiction writer and broadcaster. She's also proudly indigenous, mixed-create and Scandinavian,
1:43.6	queer, disabled and a mom, but she is also an expert in loss. She sings and speaks and writes
1:50.4	about the childhood cancer that led to the amputation of her left leg, abortion and the tragic deaths
1:55.7	of her two infant sons. She is now a mother to a little girl as well and has had her photos go viral
2:03.8	more than once. Being somebody who is an expert in loss, there's also the run of the mill type of
2:12.0	loss. There is divorce. There is body change. And now she's out with a new book called How to
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