Grief Coaching and Spiritual Living
Welcome to Grief Coach and Spiritual Living with Dr. Donna – the podcast where healing meets spirituality. I’m Dr. Donna Lee, a trauma-informed psychic life coach, somatic practitioner, and intuitive spiritual guide.
In each episode, we explore the complex journey of grief, the art of making peace with your story, and the power of spiritual practices to navigate life’s most challenging moments. Whether you’re healing from loss, seeking emotional freedom, or ready to step into a life of abundance and alignment, this podcast is here to guide and inspire you.
Join me as I share tools like somatic healing, EFT, mindfulness, and shadow work, along with heartfelt stories, meditations, and coaching tips. Together, we’ll honor your grief, rewrite your story, and embrace a life of soulful living. This podcast is your safe space to process your emotions, set energetic boundaries, and reconnect with your higher self. Whether you’re healing from loss, overcoming people-pleasing, or ready to step into your power, you’ll find inspiration and guidance here.
If you’re ready to heal, grow, and reconnect with your spiritual self, hit play and let’s journey together.
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Become a balanced Giver & Receiver
"The Balanced Giver: 5 Steps to Harmonize Giving and Receiving" is a concise, actionable guide that outlines a step-by-step process to help women balance their giving nature with the ability to receive. It covers practical tips on setting boundaries, recognizing overgiving tendencies, and simple daily practices to open up to abundance.
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Embracing Defeat: A Mother's Journey Through Grief and Acceptance
Grief is a complex and personal journey, and sometimes it brings with it an unexpected companion—defeat. Join me, Donna, as I navigate the emotionally charged terrain of losing my son and the profound sense of powerlessness that followed. My story is not just about loss, but about the relentless questioning and self-doubt that accompanied my decisions during my son's illness. I open up about the painful reflections on whether I did enough, made the right choices, or if there was something else I could have done to change the outcome.
This deeply personal narrative takes us through the heart-wrenching reality of being faced with circumstances beyond our control. From the halls of Stanford, where my son received care, to the eventual realization that love and support sometimes have to be enough, I share the long, arduous path towards acceptance. This episode is a testament to the resilience required in the face of grief and the understanding that, even amidst defeat, healing is possible. Tune in for a heartfelt conversation that seeks to bring comfort to those who have felt alone in their own grieving journey.
Hi, it's Donna and I want to talk about feeling defeated. When it comes to grief, that was probably the next emotion that I felt was defeat, after shock and numbness, and what I mean by feeling defeated is that I felt as a mom I was doing everything I was supposed to do to help my son. You know I got him to the right hospital. You know I made sure that. You know everybody who loved him was there. I, you know, comforted him, I talked to him, I encouraged him through this whole process of him, knowing that he would need brain surgery to remove the tumor, and I really thought everything was going to work out for him. I said early on in videos I've known people to have brain tumors, have surgery and survive. So I thought, why wouldn't my son survive? His tumor was benign, but it was deep in the brain, in a bad location, attached to a brain cell, I mean to a blood vessel. So it was just very challenging to figure out how not to feel defeated, I mean, every day. I thought should have been a different hospital, but no, stanford is an excellent hospital, ucsf is excellent, but you know we are at Stanford. They're both excellent places and they both have top docs and I started thinking, wow, should I have been meaner to him when he was always holding the cell phone to his ear, for he was an adult. How could I tell him what to do?
Dr Donna:I really was trying to replace so many things and I was wearing myself down and making myself more sad, more depressed by doing that and what I realized is that feeling defeat is very much a part of grief. I don't think it's one of the five stages of grief. I can't think about the five stages offhand, but I think it's important to talk about feeling defeated like, oh, I did all I could do and I still lost. I still lost a person that I love. I couldn't save them. You know, some people may look at the survivor's guilt aspect, but I think it's important to go deeper and look at feeling defeated and what I had to do over time it took a few years of having this feeling of defeat off and on.
Dr Donna:You know, because I'm 16 and a half years into my grief journey of losing my son is that I had to just really look back and say I did all I can do and there's nothing else that I could have done and this is just how things were supposed to turn out. I don't have to like it, I don't, you know, um, I don't have to accept it. I guess there's some level of acceptance that the person is gone. You know my son's gone, he's not coming back, but it is what it is, sadly, and I just had to really make peace with. I can't undo anything, I can't change anything, I can't go back and make anything different, because at the time I really feel like I was making great decisions and you know, later on I would go to Stanford and have fibroid surgery and I just realized they're just so darn caring, you know, just an amazing place.
Dr Donna:So it gave me peace that I did pick the right hospital for my son, you know, and they helped me solve his financial issues because of course he's not working and he's in the hospital and he's going to have bills and you know they still have to be settled. Although he passed away, and you know the way they took care of him and checked in on him, I just I had to go to the place of. He was surrounded by love, love of family, love of strangers, and we did all we could. And you know, I'm sure the doctor had wondered if he could do something different, he did all he could do. The brain tumor had to come out. It could not stay in and you know they already looked at if chemo or radiation would have worked and it would not have worked. So, unfortunately, you know, that was just the reality that we were faced with and that helped me to release that feeling of defeat.