Grief is a beast...with a mind of its own. How do you manage the wild ride of grief, trauma, and unresolved pain? Do you? Or do you put it up on a shelf, planning to get to it someday but really hope it goes away entirely? Or have you found the courage to look it in the eye and deal with it?

Since the 2022 murder of his brother, Philip, Brendan Shaw has been courageously facing his pan through storytelling, social media, and community work to process his own grief and help others feel less alone in theirs. He joins Amanda for an engaging and vulnerable conversation about the invisible and long-term effects of grief, offering tools to meet your grief in a helpful and healthy way, with a focus on encouraging men to summon the courage to grieve.

These two survivors of sibling loss offer insight into:

🔥How to observe your grief with a birds eye view or like a 3rd party to reduce overwhelm

🔥Tools to bring yourself back from ruminating about the moment of your loved ones death to avoid additional trauma

🔥The lifelong, often invisible effects of grief that many don't talk about

🔥Why it's difficult for men to address their emotions (grief and others) and the impact it has on middle-aged male suicide rates

🔥The magic of grief to guide you to a deeper purpose

🔥Where do our loved ones go? And how their spirits live inside of us, compelling us to do the work we both do

🔥Accepting that your grief will always be there and that this is your new normal

🔥How reframing what you are feeling helps to put your grief in perspective, thereby lessening the fear and overwhelm of processing it

Brendan Shaw is the founder of The Phil With Love Foundation, a nonprofit created in his brother Philip's memory, which has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for medical scholarships, domestic violence organizations, food banks, animal welfare humane societies, and more. He creates content as "BrendanShawGrief" on social media that speaks to the often invisible, long-term impact of loss. Through honest conversation and a willingness to share what many people shy away from, Brendan attempts to brings comfort, validation, and connection to anyone walking through life with grief.

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Check out his website for more information about Brendan and what's to come, including a free newsletter.

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Do you believe that you can communicate with your departed loved ones in spirit? Have you had such an experience or are you curious about it?

Join Amanda and her guest, Kelly Daugherty, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Fellow in Thanatology, and Board Certified Coach with more than twenty years of experience supporting individuals and families after the death of a loved one for an in depth look at Induced After Death Communication, the therapeutic process used to bridge connection between the seen and the unseen.

Together, the ladies explore:

🔥Kelly's personal story of losing her mother at 14 years old (and dad just recently) and how her pain motivated her to study death, dying, and bereavement, and how she helps grievers navigate loss in a therapeutic setting

🔥How grief therapists, coaches, educators, and other professionals are sometimes expected not to grieve and how Kelly handles that

🔥The reason for the resistance to Induced After Death Communication therapy (and other forms of communicating with the departed)

🔥Kelly's personal journey with IADC and how she released resentment and found peace around her father's death experience.

🔥Kelly's podcast The GRIEF Ladies, based on the anagram GRIEF, trail markers to help you move forward through your grief

🔥Their belief that the stigma around "woo-woo" concepts such as communicating with the departed will diminish in time and become an accepted, mainstream ideology

Kelly owns a private clinical practice in Malta, New York, and is the founder of the Center for Informed Grief and co-creator of the GRIEF Ladies podcast. Kelly develops and leads grief-informed trainings for therapists, schools, and organizations nationwide, and facilitates group experiences and retreats that help individuals find meaning, connection, and growth following loss.

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Kelly's website

And her podcast: The Grief Ladies Podcast

Register for Kelly's free workshop Facing the Harder Days and/or book an appointment with her at https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=16839935

Induced After Death Communication by Alan Botkin.

Another book on IADC by Tom Nehmy

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How strong is your resilience muscle? Have you considered that strengthening your resilience now might make future losses slightly less painful? And how does reframing the meaning of resilience from strong to soft change how you move through grief?

Join Amanda and special guest Blair Kaplan Venables, grief and resilience expert and coach, motivational speaker and the Founder of The Global Resilience Project, for a good look at what resilience is, how to cultivate it, and its place in your grieving process.

The ladies also talk about:

🔥Blair's story of compounded loss and her incredible resilience that drives her passion as the founder of The Global Resilience Project and the Resilient AF book series.

🔥How building your resilience muscle results in a calmer nervous system while in the throes of trauma and loss.

🔥Blair's miscarriage and the hopeful meaning she assigns to it that supports her mission.

🔥Blair's original neuroscientific-proven "Navigating Grief Framework: G-R-I-E-F" for grievers and those who support grievers in a professional setting.

🔥Reclaiming the word resilient as a positive attribute where we bounce forward instead of one which people often associate with pity and struggle.

🔥Blair's experience with Spirit and dream visitations from her mother.

Blair's expertise has been featured on media platforms like Psychology Today, Forbes, TEDx, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur, and Thrive Global. She is named the Top Grief and Resilience Expert of the Year 2024 by IAOTP. USA Today listed Blair as one of the top 10 conscious female leaders to watch, and she empowers others to be resilient from stages around the world. 'MyStory,' which is a television show available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Google Play, showcases Blair's life story. She is the cohost of the RESILIENT A.F. with Blair and Alana podcast and specializes in helping people strengthen their resilience muscle using scientifically proven methods and guides grieving high performers with her Navigating Grief Framework. The Global Resilience Project's award-winning books are international bestsellers. In her free time, you can find Blair writing, in nature, traveling the world and helping people to strengthen their resilience muscles.

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Visit Blair's website and The Global Resilience Project website.

Feel free to connect with Blair via email at blair@blairkaplan.ca

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