Trauma for Breakfast

Trauma For Breakfast is a crowded table of wounded children, parents, spouses, caregivers and weary souls. Together we join in honest conversations about the behaviors and challenges of parenting children with trauma.There's always room for one more at the table to share in the stories, science and healing as we learn to better understand and care for each other. We are a table without shame or judgement because life can be hard and lonely and we all know, that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

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Good Grief with Jamie Briscoe

December 13, 2021 • Stacey

We are talking about grief on Pt 1 of 'Good Grief' with Jamie Briscoe.
Listen in as we discuss -

- the ball of grief
- how to respond when friends are in crisis
- what does grief look like post-adoption, post cancer diagnosis, post death of a loved one?
- how do we accept and embrace grief as a human experience?

Show resources mentioned -
How to Respond to People in Crisis: Comfort In; Dump Out | Psychology Today

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/laugh-cry-live/201809/how-respond-people-in-crisis-comfort-in-dump-out
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/laugh-cry-live/201809/how-respond-people-in-crisis-comfort-in-dump-out%3famp

Mindfulness or a self-check-in.

https://positivepsychology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Meditation-for-Radical-Acceptance.pdf

Radical Acceptance -

Radical Acceptance- Current circumstance that causes a lot of pain

We heap SUFFERING on top of our painful experience when we refuse to acknowledge and accept this current situation.

Accept what is- acknowledge reality
What can I control/not control?
Non Judgemental look at situation
Stop resisiting reality
Live in present moment DESPITE pain!
Nurture- routine, rest, soften, ease, hydrate, comfort

Radical Acceptance questions to process:

Realities I am refusing to accept:
Behaviors I choose when I refuse to accept current reality:
How I experience suffering when I refuse current reality:
Resistance I feel in my body when I refuse to accept current reality:

(release tension in stomach, back, neck; allow tension to soften, send deep breath to that place of tension and allow the release of the breath to send out the tension)