Dancing with Grief: In Personal Loss and Collective Suffering (with Glora Eid)

Join Gloria Eid (writer, poet, leadership coach, and grief movement guide) and host Janice Ho for a conversation on grieving – whether it's the grief we feel when losing a loved one, doing our trauma-healing work, or being impacted by the collective suffering we see in the world.

They discuss how they've each created an intimate relationship with grief, and different types of grief practices/supports that can help carry us through hard times. They also share how learning to be with grief can transform us in positive ways, including increasing our resilience and sustaining activism work.

Gloria also gifts us with reading a few poems from her new book Waves: poems on grief.

This episode covers:

4:57 Introducing Gloria Eid
8:12 Poem reading and reflection: Hoping
12:13 What sparked Gloria’s writings on grief (her book Waves)
15:32 When grief engulfs us vs being in partnership with grief
20:05 Why processing grief is important + the many supports we can access for our grief work
27:22 Why the wellness industry doesn’t promote grief practices more
33:16 Poem reading and reflection: The Greatest Task
Allowing for happiness and joy in times of grief
40:27 Finding support from nature (something bigger than us)
42:00 Poem reading and reflection: Breath And
On protesting and collective action
54:11 Returning to “the same” grief – why can’t we just move on?
1:00:46 Grief in trauma-healing work
1:03:41 Alchemizing grief: the other side
1:06:07 Poem reading: Letter From Grief
1:07:37 Grieving collective suffering + finding support
1:19:20 Poem reading: For You
1:20:28 How to connect with Gloria

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Janice is a therapist-in-training and not licensed to work with clients.

DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for working with a professional mental health or healing practitioner.