Being With Our Sorrow: Grief and Loss During the Holidays

Kindred Tree’ple Podcast

Vanessa Durrant, licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapy practice owner of Kindred Tree Healing Center, guides us through the intentional process of being with our deep sorrow. In this episode we discuss the different forms of grief, with a special focus on chronic grief and traumatic grief. Vanessa invites listeners to consider that unlike other conditions, one cannot strategize themselves out of feeling grief.

This episode features a guide on how to make space for grief during this time of year. Vanessa shares a step-by-step practice for being with the sorrowful emotions that grief and loss may bring up. She highlights that when difficult emotions are brought to the light, it gives us the opportunity to suffer differently and in connection with others.