Episode 85: How is Your Heart Today? Grief, Loss, & The Creation Cycle with Death Doula Tammy Faulds

Welcome to this episode of Show Up Fully where Grief Coach and Death Doula, Tammy Faulds, and I are back for our annual chat! This week’s episode is about the rich interconnectedness between creativity and grief. “Emotions are energy in motion.”

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What’s in This Episode:

• Tammy’s definition for grief is “the end of or change in a familiar pattern of behavior.” Grief encompasses so much more than death — which is why Tammy’s mission is to change the narrative around both grief and death. We learn how being forced into creativity allowed Tammy to reimagine rituals around transition. Curiosity lets us navigate the world from a different perspective. 

• Like any other emotion, grief wants to be honored. I share a recent loss within my family and the challenge of navigating both the creative and grieving process. Tammy helps us understand when we use creativity, curiosity, and bravery, grief can become a portal to a new way of doing things. And tears are the natural, healing response.  

• Tammy and I also discuss creative blocks from the entrepreneur + solopreneur lens and the power of naming grief’s presence. Grief shows up whenever it wants — so how do we make space for it to both exist and exit? Join me as Tammy teaches us how to acknowledge grief and death as part of the cycle while noticing the unique ways it interacts with each of us. Learning the emotion allows us to move forward.  

Topics Covered:

• Welcome back to the podcast, Tammy! 

• The connection between creativity and grief

• Navigating grief to be able to nourish creativity

• Intangible loss vs. ambiguous loss

• Tears as a healing psychological response 

• Multiple cycles occurring simultaneously 

Resources Mentioned:

• Listen to Show Up Fully: Episode #77 with Tammy Faulds

xo Chef Carla

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