Working with Grief with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

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🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

There are some emotions that are so deeply tied to the human experience that it’s impossible to avoid them. One of these is grief, which we have yet to discuss in detail on the podcast. On this episode we’re changing that, and have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Joanne Cacciatore to the podcast to explore how we can bear the unbearable, and heal the trauma associated with grief. As with all of our episodes associated with traumatic experiences, please be kind to yourself. Be aware that the material explored here includes descriptions of traumatic events - including bereavement. Dr. Cacciatore is an Associate professor at Arizona State University and founder of the MISS foundation, a volunteer based organization providing counseling, advocacy, research, and education services to families experiencing the death of a child. Dr. Cacciatore is also the author of Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief. Her research has been published in a number of peer reviewed journals, and she’s been featured in the New York Times, Boston Globe, CNN, NPR, and the Los Angeles Times. If you’d like to support the MISS Foundation, you can make donations to their Selah Carefarm here. Dr. Cacciatore and the MISS Foundation offer a variety of wonderful resources, including: Grief resources and self-help guides. An online course to help individuals through their traumatic grief. Clinical support for traumatic grief, or to become a CBC provider. Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon! Visit us on the web Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Timestamps: 03:30: Joanne's journey. 11:39: How can we accept and make space for our positive moments even during times of intense suffering? 16:10: Developing resources to cope with challenging emotions. 17:48: Ways to bear the unbearable. 24:42: Trauma and grief. 34:59: Working with anger. 41:02: If you could speak to a younger version of yourself, what would you say? From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hanson. I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen.
0:16.4	On this podcast we've talked a lot about getting the most that we can out of our lives and also about our relationship with death. One of the
0:22.1	things that we haven't talked about very much so far, though, has been grief and the process
0:27.4	of coming to terms internally and externally with the deaths of others,
0:33.0	particularly when those deaths have been somewhat traumatic in nature.
0:36.5	Neither Dr. Hansen nor myself would describe ourselves
0:39.5	as experts in this topic,
0:41.2	but today we have the absolute pleasure of being joined by somebody who is.
0:45.4	Dr. Joanne Kachatori. Dr. Kachatori is an associate professor at Arizona State University
0:51.5	and founder of the Miss Foundation,
0:53.4	a volunteer-based organization providing counseling, advocacy,
0:57.3	research and education services to families experiencing the death of a child.
1:01.7	She specializes in counseling those affected by traumatic death. the of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
1:15.0	and the National Center for Crisis Management.
1:17.6	She spearheaded and directs the graduate certificate
1:20.2	in trauma and bereavement program at ASU and is also an ordained Zen priest affiliated with
1:25.6	Zen Garland and its child bereavement center outside of New York City. She's also the author of
1:31.1	Bering the Unbearable, Love, Loss, and The Heartbreaking Path of Grief.
1:35.3	Her research has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals and she's been featured in the New York Times,
1:40.4	Boston Globe, CNN, NPR, and the Los Angeles Times.
1:45.0	As you might expect, during this episode, we explored a lot of topics that can be really
1:50.4	challenging for people.
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