For episode 236, Sharon is in conversation with Sameet Kumar, Ph.D. Sameet is the clinical psychologist for the Memorial Cancer Institute.

Sameet specializes in working with cancer patients and their caregivers. He is the author of Grieving Mindfully, The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination. He is part of a new anthology, coming out in May of 2024 from New Harbinger Publications, How to Grieve What We’ve Lost.

In this episode, Sharon and Sameet discuss:

How Sameet came to grief counseling
American culture’s denial of the first noble truth
The human experience of pain/pleasure
Grief is whatever it is to you
The non-existent timeline for grief
Widening the scope of what losses affect us
The tools of ACT, CBT and Mindfulness for grief
Sameet’s new anthology book
Dampening the grief stress response
Sameet’s support of COVID front-line workers
Working with add-ons
The role of Ram Dass in Sameet’s life
Sameet closes the conversation with a guided meditation on the refuge tree.

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