Grief is a Gift: The Importance of Witnessing Physiological Death with Michelle Rigot

Sammy’s step-mom, Michelle Rigot, comes on the podcast to share her story of meeting the love of her life, grieving the love of her life, and now being with and learning to love differently with Sammy’s dad. She opens up about her love-at-first-sight experience with her late husband, Jonathan, and the process of creating life with him, and later, being bedside when he passed on. We talk about the larger scope of witnessing rather than fearing life, birth, death, and love.

*Produced by Mountain Valley Media

In this episode:

• How Michelle came into Sammy’s life after her Dad’s divorce
• The journey of Michelle’s late husband’s cancer diagnosis
• The circle of life: getting comfortable with death
• Symbiosis between birth and death
• Physiological death vs. medicalized death
• Dipping into a death practice
• Grieving alongside single parenting
• Honoring her love with her late-husband while finding new romantic love again
• Talking about those who have passed: keeping their spirit alive

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• https://archive.storycorps.org/interviews/mby009750/

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