Future Chaplain and weaver of words, Andi Scarbrough joins us to chat about using mixed media to journal the loss of a loved one. How can we use the somatic experience of Journaling to build a field guide of grief as if we were Wildlife Documentarians? Exploring taboo subjects like the loss of a child and suicide, Andi shares how she has used dance, poetry, and vocalizing to process the alchemical fires of deep loss.  A must listen. 

We discuss:

• "Wildlife documentarian" style of Journaling your grief journey
• Weather tracking your emotional atmosphere 
• Neutral observer of the experience
• Time-stamping your grief
• Field notes road map inside and outside yourself towards your heart
• Engaging your senses to come into presence (essential oils, tea, candles, etc)
• Repetitive thoughts as a guide to enter journaling
• Free form writing, create a sacred space and "let it rip" then burn it
• Haiku as a way to keep the artist pipes from freezing
• "Being in the horror of it is just as fleeting as the beauty of it"
• Sharing Taboo moments publicly and how "trigger warnings" may not always serve
• Keeping memorabilia in a footlocker to remember
• Becoming a living scrapbook as a legacy of loving 
• Shamanic Journeying to process the suicides of Andi's Father and Grandfather
• "A death is as traumatic as it needs to be in order to trigger the changes needed within everyone around"
• Suicide as the taboo amongst taboos 
• Destigmatizing mental health support

Andi shares potent practices, prompts, and tools for listeners to engage with in their own journaling grief work. 

About Andi:

Holistic Hairdresser, Reiki Master, Breathwork Facilitator, studying towards Chaplaincy.

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