What We Get Wrong About Grief: Healing From Loss Of Loved Ones, Pets, Friendship Breakups, & The State of the World

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Gina Moffa, LCSW, discusses different types of grief, how they physically and emotionally affect us, and exactly what you can do to start healing from them today. Specific tools for navigating different types of losses, like losing loved ones, friendship breakups, the state of the world, and more Whether or not we NEED closure to move on from loss What to do if you live in fear of future loss (even when everything is technically great at the moment!) How to access and process your emotions if you feel numb The profound physical impacts of grief and how to heal your body in addition to your heart and mind How to support people you love while they are managing grief, including the best and worst things to say Why pet loss is especially difficult & exactly how to cope with the loss of a pet And so much more For more from Gina, you can find her on Instagram at @ginamoffalcsw or www.ginamoffa.com. Her book, Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss is available where books are sold. To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order my new book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! This episode is sponsored by: AG1: visit drinkag1.com/lizmoody and get your FREE year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs today. ARMRA: go to tryarmra.com/LIZMOODY or enter LIZMOODY to get 15% off your first order. Osea: get 10% off your first order at oseamalibu.com with code LIZMOODY10. Air Doctor: go to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code LIZMOODY for up to $300 off air purifiers and a free 3 year warranty on any unit. Previous episodes referred to in this episode: All The Fertility Qs You’re Too Nervous To Ask: Answered Tiny Ways To Infuse Your Life With Joy with Radhi Devlukia-Shetty This Celeb-Beloved Therapy Offers A Radical New Way To Heal With Dr. Richard Schwartz The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello friend and welcome back to the Liz Moody podcast. I'm your host Liz Moody and I'm a
0:06.0	best-selling author and longtime journalist. This podcast is all about helping you live
0:10.0	your healthiest happiest life. Whether we're sitting down with a top doctor
0:13.4	to have her answer all of the questions
0:15.6	that we have been too scared to ask about fertility,
0:18.6	learning tiny ways to infuse our lives with joy,
0:21.6	or diving into a unique therapy method that offers a radical new way to heal anxiety.
0:27.0	And yes, those are all real episodes and they are linked in the show notes if you want to listen.
0:32.0	Today we are talking about great. in the show notes if you want to listen.
0:32.8	Today we are talking about grief.
0:36.0	Grief is so pervasive, yet we do not create the space
0:39.8	to talk about it, which has a hugely negative impact on our ability to actually heal.
0:45.3	Today we're getting into not just the grief of having a loved one die, although we will
0:50.2	definitely cover that, but also the many other types of grief that fill our
0:54.8	lives from pet loss to friendships ending to the grief of the state of politics in our
1:00.9	country right now.
1:02.8	My guest, Gina Mafa, is a trauma-informed grief therapist and mental health educator
1:08.2	working with patients dealing with loss and trauma. She's been featured by outlets like NPR, the New York Times, Time magazine
1:15.4	in USA Today for her expertise in managing grief and she's the author of the
1:21.0	beautiful book,
1:23.2	Moving On doesn't mean letting go, a modern guide
1:26.2	to navigating loss.
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