Sherry Walling on How to Use Movement to Ease Pain and Grief

Episode Highlights With Sherry Walling How she got into flying trapeze as an adult and the reason why Her personal story around grief and how it led to her work as a psychologist in helping others Tips for navigating the experience of grief with kids and why this is so important Words we can use with our kids to help them process emotions The stages of grief and how understanding them can help your experience of them Ways to use movement to ease grief and pain What somatic trained therapists are and how they can help How we can move our feelings through our body using movement Different types of movement to try to process grief Ways to encourage kids to talk (at different ages) and how to support them through it One of the biggest factors in someone not becoming significantly depressed from grief Strategies to protect the mental wellness of your family One of the biggest threats to mental well being for kids especially and how to mitigate it Her encouragement to dance every day! Resources We Mention Touching Two Worlds: A Guide for Finding Hope in the Landscape of Loss by Sherry Walling, PhD The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison