30. Healing Rituals for Your Body and Soul
About the episode:
About today’s guest, Amy Peele: Amy enjoyed a thirty-five-year career in organ transplantation before retiring in 2014 from the University of California San Francisco, one of the largest and most successful transplant programs in the United States. Peele has a love for comedy and improv and graduated from Second City Players Workshop in 1985 in Chicago. She has been writing for over eighteen years. She enjoys meditating, practicing & teaching chair yoga, and swimming. To learn more about Amy, go here: https://amyspeele.com/
Today, Amy and I discuss:
the grief she’s experienced throughout her life
the loss of dear friends
grief massage
healing rituals and traditions to remember her friends
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Quotes:
"Every relationship is completely and totally unique... and that’s one thing that’s been really hard for me is that I know that no one who’s alive today understands the relationship I had with my friend."
"When someone close to you dies, you hold the grief in certain parts of your body, whether you're aware of it or not. If you don’t grieve it, it accumulates."
"I think grieving is partially a solo event... You had the relationship you had with your friend, and that's different than any of your other friends may have had with them."
"Knowing there's a toolbox of things that I think is really helpful... the body massage and just working through past griefs as well as the current one to kind of release some of the sadness."