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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Courageous Acceptance of Pain and Spiritual Growth
Could embracing the full spectrum of human emotions lead to genuine spiritual growth? Join us for an honest and thought-provoking conversation with our guest, who reveals a compelling journey from chiropractic school to a profound engagement with spirituality. This episode challenges the widespread misconception that spirituality is an escape from life's challenges. Our guest bravely shares their story of navigating immense personal loss, including the heart-wrenching death of their son, and how spirituality became a means of confronting pain rather than avoiding it. We push back against the idea of striving to be "unbothered," highlighting instead the necessity of feeling every emotion as a fundamental part of the human journey.
Our guest offers candid insights, arguing passionately against the tendency to invalidate one's experiences for the sake of others' comfort. Through personal anecdotes and hard-earned wisdom, they illustrate how true spiritual growth demands embracing our full humanity, with all its complexities. This episode is a heartfelt exploration into the courage it takes to own one's grief unapologetically, and the richness of life that emerges when we allow ourselves to feel it all. Prepare for a powerful discussion that might just transform your understanding of what it truly means to heal and grow.
I want to talk about spiritual bypassing some, I would say. In chiropractor school I was around 29,. You know it's year. Well, it's year 1999 when I'm 29. And by the time I graduated it's 2001.
Speaker 1:And I got into spirituality because of some of my peers. And you know, I grew up Southern Baptist and I lived in environments where you didn't discuss spirituality. But I started exploring it in school and I started doing my psychic readings. People just started requesting it and that's what I did for extra money while in chiropractic school. But what I realized as I was exploring more and more spirituality and I had this injury first. You know, about four years before I lost my son, that a lot of people go to spirituality looking to feel good, to feel safe, to run from pain. That's what was going on at the time. It still kind of happens now.
Speaker 1:Um, spirituality was supposed to be this place where, if you believed in it and if you studied it and you practice it, you would forget all your pain. Well, it was interesting for me. It was bringing the pain out to the surface and making me more comfortable and it was helping me in ways that therapy in the past didn't help. I always believed in therapy, and I knew that I needed it because my son died, and you know even before that I knew I needed it because I lost my parents and other family traumas, and what I realized is that spiritual bypassing is like a trauma response and is to avoid trauma, and I was faced with a lot of that. I've had people say to me well, you're spiritual, it shouldn't bother you that your son died. And I said are you really for real? I mean, literally, people said crazy stuff like that to me and I said spirituality isn't to make you immune to the human experience. We are here having a human experience. Spirituality is to wake you up, to filling all the fields. I mean, for me, spirituality really brought me to my knees and and really helped me to grow and and feel safe, healing, and I didn't see it as, oh, my son passed. I shouldn't feel anything. I know he's on the other side and he's in bliss and everything's great. No, my son, he was in a physical body. I'm in a physical body. He's no longer here with me, and I have a right to grieve that.
Speaker 1:And I had learned, though, how many people had that feeling that if they would go to spirituality, they would be unbothered, and I really hate that phrase, unbothered. I see it on social media to this day and I'm like why in the fuck does somebody want to be unbothered? You know why? You know, yes, it's tough to have feelings, but that's what makes us human and we're going to run the gamut of feelings. We're going to have anger, hurt, betrayal, sadness, love, bliss, joy. We're going to have anger, hurt, betrayal, sadness, love, bliss, joy. We're going to have it all at one point or another and we're not designed to feel good all the time. And, yes, some things are really hard.
Speaker 1:I hear a lot of stories in my work. I know people have gone through horrible things. I've gone through lots of horrible things that I don't discuss, um, you know, in an open environment only, in safe places. But we are meant to feel and being unbothered is not a flex, it's not anything to be proud of, because it's saying you're ignoring and you're invalidating who you are and your journey and your experiences. And I didn't want to invalidate me or that I was a grieving mom to keep other people comfortable, and that's what I realized is that people wanted me to keep them comfortable and that was not my job. It's not my job to make sure other people feel good and they don't have to deal with my grief. I have a right to my grief. I don't have the right to take it out on anybody, but I have the right to my grief and that's one thing I started to learn on this journey is to be unapologetic about how I was feeling.