Grief Coaching and Spiritual Living

Embracing Vulnerability: Rediscovering Joy Through Storytelling

Dr. Donna
Speaker 1:

You know I'm not used to talking about myself and my story in a public setting like this. Normally I have, over time well, I've always been an introvert and over time I've just learned to have like a safe group of people to share my life with. And whenever I did social media it was always for work, it was never for me, it was never my personal stuff other than my personal Facebook page and this is all new for me to share my story. But it feels good to do. I was worried about a lot of things. I'm not great with video. I've got allergies right now so I have bags, but all of a sudden I said I really didn't care and that felt amazing to me because I see all these videos with people looking great and they got the camera and the background and I never really had those things.

Speaker 1:

I've been a one-on-one, you know, coach and in a small world and you know I post the stuff on social media, but it wasn't resonating with me. Right now it's like my story is what really was resonating, to share it, because of going down that rabbit hole in TikTok where I'm hearing about, you know, seeing these videos of people with their loss and what they're going through and I just thought, wow, they're at the beginning. I don't know if they have support, I don't know if they know what to expect. You know we're all going to have different things happen on our grief journey, but I said I want to keep sharing mine and I just want to keep on talking about it and maybe it'll help someone maybe not, but Maybe not. But it's been good to share, despite not having the perfect parameters that I would like to share in. And it's been very freeing to share my story with everyone and to just let people know there are so many people walking among us who have gone through so much, who have gone through grief, gone through trauma and are making it through.

Speaker 1:

And I look at my life now and I've really come out of a lot of it. Yes, the grief is always there, but I can manage it now I I remember when it first happened losing my son I felt so Like, how am I going to get through life? And I see myself getting through life and enjoying life. So for those of you who are in your grief process, you will enjoy life again, you'll be able to put perspective on things and I will continue to share what has happened with me throughout the years and how I dealt with things. You know, I just wanted to lay the foundation of what I went through because I wanted to be totally transparent and it's felt, it's felt so good to do it really has, and I will continue to share because it's been very liberating.

Speaker 1:

I've always lived for my work. You know, once I lost my son. I, you know, I've traveled, I've done fun things and have friends, but I've lived for my work, trying to really be there for other people and just sharing professional stuff. And it's been nice, it's really been nice to share. That is all. That's all I wanted to say.