Episode 49 - Mondays with Melissa
Mending Families is hosted by Melissa Pemberton and she brings you weekly content that is a mix of trauma aware interviews, parenting tips for those caring for kids from adversity, and stories from people just like you as they share their beautiful messy moments. Melissa hopes that when you listen each week, you will feel encouraged, inspired and take a little something away to help you and your family move from broken to mended.
On today’s episode, Melissa shares her thoughts on the conversation she had with Leslie on last week's episode. She expands on what we might think of as loss and gives tangible ideas on how we can help our kids process loss, but also how we can process our own losses as well. This episode is not just for parents as we all have kids in our lives that have experienced loss and have big feelings around that.
Topics Melissa mentions:
*Here are some past episodes that cover the topic of grief/loss - Episode 13 and Episode 14
*Melissa breaks down some losses that we may not think of as a loss
*She shares some thoughts on handling our grief from the many losses we might experience - don’t hide your emotions, talk about it, and find a good therapist
*Using rituals to help with the long term processing of grief and loss
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