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
I Stopped Living After Loss; Here's How I Came Back
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How grief can pull you into survival mode, making you stop dreaming, planning, and caring for yourself, and argues that healing isn’t “moving on” but coming back to yourself without toxic positivity or denying the pain.
How grief affects the nervous system and brain—fatigue, depression, guilt about joy, memory issues, decision fatigue, increased cortisol, low dopamine—and emphasize that neglecting yourself isn’t laziness but overwhelm.
This episode offers practical “baby steps” and bigger steps to rebuild identity and safety through movement/strength training, decluttering, creativity, nourishing routines, community, and retreats, and discusses visualization, neuroplasticity, and intentional action (including a personal story of manifesting a Florida home).
Inviting you to a day-long Younique Wellness retreat in Bellevue, Ohio focused on creativity, nourishment, nervous system regulation, and community.
00:00 When Grief Erases You
00:41 Coming Back to Yourself
02:03 Why Self Care Stops
03:37 The Healing Pivot
04:56 Tiny Habits That Rebuild
06:57 Creativity and Flow State
07:52 Manifestation With Action
11:13 Dream Home Visualization Story
13:58 Let Yourself Desire Again
15:10 Baby Steps vs Big Leaps
17:45 Retreat and Community Healing
19:24 You Still Get to Live
20:15 Final Goodbye and Subscribe
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Dawn's Info:
Facebook: Dawn Renee Bova
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-renee-bova-304049239
Email: dawn@dawnbovaart.com
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