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
The Exhaustion Nobody Warns You About After Grief
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Dawn explains that grief affects the body as well as emotions, often causing deep exhaustion, heaviness, brain fog, pain, sleep and appetite changes, gut issues, immune crashes, and nervous system and hormonal disruption. Drawing on personal experiences after losing her son and later a father, she describes “grief brain,” difficulty thinking, and how society’s pressure to “keep going” conflicts with a body stuck in survival mode. She challenges common beliefs such as needing to be strong or that time alone heals, emphasizing restoration and rest. Small, consistent actions—journaling, making the bed, stretching, walking, sunlight, cooking, music, and simple creative practices like doodling—can build momentum, support dopamine and endorphin release, and help move grief through the body. There is a free Creative Grief Journey Skool community, journal prompts, and upcoming retreats in Belize and Ohio.
00:00 Grief Lives in the Body
01:41 Physical Signs and Survival Mode
03:13 Grief Brain and Trauma Fog
04:49 Symptoms Checklist and Nervous System
07:44 Grief Myths and Permission to Rest
08:57 Tiny Habits and Creative Healing
12:41 Self Soothing and Momentum
14:25 Community Support and Retreat Tools
16:16 Nature’s Pace of Healing
18:16 Closing Encouragement and Share
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Dawn's Info:
Facebook: Dawn Renee Bova
IG: https://www.instagram.com/dawnreneebova/
YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/HeARTworkbyDawn
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-renee-bova-304049239
Email: dawn@dawnbovaart.com
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