Did you know there are over 43 different types of loss? Neither did Libby Carstensen. And then her grandfather and father died suddenly within 45 days of each other. Devastated by their unexpected deaths, Libby had an even bigger revelation – although she was trained as a life coach and a meditation and yoga teacher, she was ill-prepared for loss. She felt alone, devastated, and misunderstood.
The revelations around loss continued, like the unmet hopes, dreams, and expectations of past jobs, relationships, moves, finances, and health that were festering and causing her grief.
Now, 4 years later, Libby is a trained Grief Recovery Specialist and she coaches clients moving through all types of loss. As a kundalini yoga and mindfulness teacher, Libby teaches us the idea is not just to feel better but get better at feeling.
In this episode we talk about:
- how we are all grieving and dealing with loss right now
- that grief is not just something felt from someone dying
- allowing yourself to feel and not judging yourself for those feelings
- not invalidating your own experience or feelings even if you feel you have it better than most
- how this loss and grief is bringing up the losses we haven’t yet fully healed
- inviting our feelings in and having tea with our emotions
- the power of naming our feelings (with science backing that)
- how we avoid feeling our feelings
- my process for moving through my feelings
- The RAIN method for mindfulness and self-compassion for moving through your feelings
- how no one is free from feeling grief, pain, anger, sorrow
- anticipatory grief
- asking yourself “how is this serving me?”
- how Libby is making meaning out of this time for her and how to making meaning out of it for yourself.
Join Libby on her mission to normalize grief and learn how to get better at feeling though her online classes, courses, and live events.
Coming soon >> Libby’s online program, “GRIEVE BETTER”. Visit the link www.libberated.com/freegift to get on the waitlist and access your free download 61 Tips on the experience of grief and how to move through it.
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- LINKS to other things/people/music we mentioned!
Libby’s first podcast with me about her journey
My podcast on not comparing how you are handling this to how anyone else is
The podcast on dissapointment and how I felt through my feelings after this call was originally canceled.
The Chalkboard Mag article I wrote on navigating through heavy feelings
PS. If we mentioned something and I forgot to include it here leave a comment and I will track it down for you!
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F THE SHOULDS. DO THE WANTS.
Forget what you have been told you should do or should be.
Instead ask yourself, “What do I want?
Learn how to listen to what it is that you truly feel & want so that you are living your most present, aligned, and alive life.
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