The Creative Grief Journey
Welcome to the Creative Grief Journey Podcast.
Each soul-led podcast offers tools and stories to help you navigating loss through creativity, community, and sacred practice.
Hosted by intuitive artist and grief recovery expert Dawn Renee Bova, this podcast explores how creativity, nature, and rituals can gently transform your darkest moments into light.
Together, we explore love, life, and loss—with courage, color, and compassion.
The Creative Grief Journey
Can't Sleep After Loss, You're Not Alone
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The speaker, a nurse practitioner who has experienced multiple traumatic losses, discusses how grief commonly disrupts sleep through rumination, intrusive thoughts, stress and hormone changes, noting research that up to 91% of people with complicated grief have sleep problems and that untreated insomnia can worsen depression, anxiety and PTSD. They recommend cognitive behavioral therapy and share practical sleep-hygiene strategies: consistent bedtimes, reducing screen time and moving phones away, keeping the room cool, creating a wind-down ritual, using calming music or guided meditation, breathing exercises, progressive muscle relaxation, limiting caffeine after noon and avoiding alcohol. They also mention options like occasional melatonin, potassium, essential oils, herbal teas, journaling (including dream journaling), mantras, and possibly weighted blankets, emphasizing persistence, seeking therapy or short-term medical help if needed, and finding support through community and lifelines.
00:00 Grief And Sleepless Nights
01:48 Why Grief Disrupts Sleep
03:49 Help Options And Therapy
05:06 Bedtime Routine Basics
07:11 Music Breathing Meditation
09:24 Caffeine Alcohol And Relaxation
10:57 Natural Sleep Supports
13:52 Journaling And Support
17:04 Mantras And Final Encouragement
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