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.
Episodes
113 episodes
Sister Chat: Sarasota Daydreams and Banter
The host welcomes listeners and chats with her sister Denise about having fun, their day trip to the Ringling Art Museum in Sarasota, and an unplanned Goodwill stop that ran long and led to a hanger dispute. They share laughs as part of grief r...
A Childs Raw Take on Grief
In this episode of the Creative Grief Journey, the host talks with her guest, Brynnlee, about what grief feels like for a child after her baby brother Willy died when he was one. Brynnlee shares that she felt sad and describes how painting, col...
Why Heartbreak Makes You More Creative
Discussing how being a multi-creative who once felt pressured to choose one passion, now sees many passions as a gift, a lesson reinforced through grief. While preparing the backyard and cleaning the pool, an unexpected memory of Bradley gettin...
How Can I Dream Again
The speaker explores how grief affects both sleeping dreams and “living dreams,” sharing personal stories of losing her father in an automobile accident and later her son, Brad, and how these losses altered her relationship with dreaming. She r...
I Stopped Living After Loss; Here's How I Came Back
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 af...
The Exhaustion Nobody Warns You About After Grief
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 ex...
Grief Doesn't Have to Destroy You, Here's What I Did
In this episode, the host shares a personal shift in her grief journey, describing grief and life as ongoing works in progress and suggesting grief can be a catalyst for joy, abundance, freedom, and contentment. Drawing from Rhonda Byrne’s The ...
Can't Sleep After Loss, You're Not Alone
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 compl...
Grief Hacks to Cope When You Feel Stuck
The speaker shares a recent experience of feeling immobilized by grief despite trying coping strategies, emphasizing that “vegging out” isn’t failure and that grief isn’t something to fix but to manage through normal ups and downs. They introdu...
Turning Loss into Levity: Ebrace the Creative Grief Journey
The host returns after a pause and explains stepping away due to feeling overwhelmed and taking a stressful full-time, on-call job that they later resigned from. After leaving, new aligned opportunities emerged, including joining a ...
How to Turn Setbacks into Comebacks
Welcome to the Creative Grief Journey podcast, hosted by Dawn Renee Bove. In this episode, Dawn sits down with John Kippen, an entrepreneur, magician, coach, and author who shares his powerful story of overcoming adversity. Diagnosed with a bra...
From Recovery to Success: Michael Fabian's Inspiring Journey
In this heartwarming and motivating episode, we sit down with Michael Fabian, owner of Fabian Digital Media, to discuss his incredible journey from addiction recovery to becoming a successful sports media professional.Michael shares his ...
Trauma to Triumph: Emotional Healing Insights from Dr. Linda Waters
In this episode of Creative Grief Journey, host Dawn Renee Bova and guest Dr. Linda Waters, an expert in psychology and trauma counseling, discuss the impact of societal division and trauma on mental health. They explore how grief c...
Transformative Steps for Grief: Awareness, Decision, and Discipline
In this episode of the newly named 'Creative Grief Journey' podcast, the host explores the lifelong journey of grief and how to navigate it creatively. Dawn delves into the three essential steps: awareness of one's emotions and trig...
A Conversation with Psychic Medium Patrick Gorman
In this final episode under the current podcast name, we discuss the transition to 'The Creative Grief Journey' while maintaining our focus on healing and creativity. Today's guest is Patrick Gorman, a psychic medium with a decades-long career....
We Need to Talk About Suicide
In this heartfelt episode of 'Catch Some Soul Shine,' Dawn welcomes special guest Ava Henrickson from Denver to discuss the deeply important and sensitive topic of suicide. Ava courageously shares the story of losing her son Adam, w...
Ready to Let go of Victim Mentality featuring Tena Cacic
Join us in this deep and insightful conversation with Tena, a PhD writer, speaker, scientist, and teacher who has transformed her life journey of incredible loss and trauma into one of clarity, connection, and joy. Learn about her u...
Have You Tried Glow Writing? Turn Your Grief to Light
In this soul-nourishing episode of 'Catch Some Soul Shine,' we dive into transforming pain into purpose. The host shares personal experiences of grief and how it reshapes one's identity. Key highlights include the concept of 'glow writing,' a h...
How to Raise Your Vibration
In this heartfelt video, join me as I share my recent life experiences, from battling a chest cold to finding solace at a Women to Women conference. I reflect on the importance of self-care, gratitude, and maintaining a high vibrati...
How to Find Daily Peace, Love, and Joy Through Simple Practices
In this episode, I delve into the concept of omnipresence and how love, peace, and joy are always accessible, even amidst life's chaos. Through personal anecdotes and practical tips, I discuss ways to reconnect with these positive e...
Are You Open to Transformation: Creative Grief Formula
In this episode, we delve into the power of open-mindedness in transforming grief. We explore the concept of open-mindedness as a crucial component of the Creative Grief Freedom Formula, and how it can lead to emotional healing and brain rewiri...
Grief! How to Get Unstuck
The contrasting states of stillness and movement, specifically related to grief recovery. We discuss the importance of recognizing and embracing both states without judgment, because each has unique benefits. Dawn shares...
How to Harness Hope Through Grief with Tiny Habits
In this episode of Catch Some Soul Shine, we delve into the often overlooked importance of hope during grief. Dawn shares insights from live Zoom sessions and introduces a new formula to transform grief into something manageable.&nb...
How Poetry Became A Lighthouse for Grief
In this impactful episode of 'Catch Some Soul Shine,' we converse with Faye Rhodes, a young author who has faced significant life challenges such as deafness, epilepsy, and addiction. Faye shares her journey of grief, not from losin...
Live Your Life in Full Color: Awakening Radiance Divine Light Series - Episode 4
Welcome to the fourth episode of the Awakening Radiance Divine Light Series, where we delve into the concept of living in full color. We will discuss sacred rituals, nurturing through nature, and the importance of embodying radical ...