I recently had the opportunity to speak with Susan Casey of the L.E.A.P. podcast about loss and trauma; the challenges that change the course of our lives, leaving us to navigate new territories.
Episode highlights:
- What I discovered about my husband David’s world that led him to suicide
- The letter that David wrote to me before his death
- The intense trauma that this event caused in my life
- The “suicide swamp of shame”
- Going through the deepest descent that I could imagine
- Following a ritual breaking of a vessel
- What to do when your world has been erased by trauma and loss
- How to be able to be with what is
- The power of the Persephone/Demeter myth and how it speaks to the conscious and subconscious mind
- Learning to see in the dark
- Owning my wisdom and power and how I got there
- Accepting the grief journey and where I’m at ten years later
- Reclaiming myself through writing
- My new book, You Make Your Path By Walking: A Transformational Field Guide Through Trauma and Loss
