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Listen "#21: Changing your life: Love, loss and life"
Episode Synopsis
A little forewarning that in today’s episode we chat about death, loss and grief.
As part of our February mini-series focusing on how when life is hard or throws major challenges at you, the only way to move forward is to take better care of yourself, we bring you a truly incredible and inspiring guest, Cat O’Brien.
Cat’s sharing her story of the sudden loss of her much loved partner and soul mate, Jon. She explores her response to the trauma his loss triggered and explains why you have to move forward in a way that works for you. She emphasises that there is not a one size fits all approach to your health and for her this meant finding what worked for her to simply be able to keep going, and how it’s continuing to evolve as she builds back her strength and health.
Cat gives so much priceless advice for anyone who is struggling with grief or would like to understand better how to support themselves or others when grief comes into your life. She shows how it’s possible for anyone to find growth in grief and how this has enabled her to now be on a path she wouldn’t have chosen, but one she is filled with purpose to now follow.
You’ll learn about:
The choice that lies in front of you when you experience a sudden loss.
How grief invokes a trauma response and impacts your physiology.
The different ways you can support yourself to work through grief and why this has to be individual to you.
The role goal setting can play in helping you to navigate grief.
Why we need to get comfortable with talking about death and grief.
Basing your recovery on fundamentals like getting outside and having quality sleep.
How Cat’s used community to support her strengthening her health and wellbeing.
The different ways we can all build resilience to support ourselves and others for any traumatic life event we might experience.
About Cat:
Cat O'Brien is passionate about helping bereaved people integrate grief into their life and have the opportunity to thrive once more whilst still holding space for grief. Cat's partner Jon died suddenly in November 2020 at just 46 years old, and it set Cat on a journey she could not have predicted and wouldn't wish on anyone. Cat has learned that there are aspects of grief that make you feel like you don't have choices, but now knows that we always have a choice, we just have to find it. We can grieve in a healthy way that honours what we must do to continue, and the memory of who or what we have lost.
Connect with Cat in her free community Love, loss and life:
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
Visit our website
Follow on Instagram
Follow on LinkedIn
Watch the episodes on YouTube
Full episode notes available on our website
As part of our February mini-series focusing on how when life is hard or throws major challenges at you, the only way to move forward is to take better care of yourself, we bring you a truly incredible and inspiring guest, Cat O’Brien.
Cat’s sharing her story of the sudden loss of her much loved partner and soul mate, Jon. She explores her response to the trauma his loss triggered and explains why you have to move forward in a way that works for you. She emphasises that there is not a one size fits all approach to your health and for her this meant finding what worked for her to simply be able to keep going, and how it’s continuing to evolve as she builds back her strength and health.
Cat gives so much priceless advice for anyone who is struggling with grief or would like to understand better how to support themselves or others when grief comes into your life. She shows how it’s possible for anyone to find growth in grief and how this has enabled her to now be on a path she wouldn’t have chosen, but one she is filled with purpose to now follow.
You’ll learn about:
The choice that lies in front of you when you experience a sudden loss.
How grief invokes a trauma response and impacts your physiology.
The different ways you can support yourself to work through grief and why this has to be individual to you.
The role goal setting can play in helping you to navigate grief.
Why we need to get comfortable with talking about death and grief.
Basing your recovery on fundamentals like getting outside and having quality sleep.
How Cat’s used community to support her strengthening her health and wellbeing.
The different ways we can all build resilience to support ourselves and others for any traumatic life event we might experience.
About Cat:
Cat O'Brien is passionate about helping bereaved people integrate grief into their life and have the opportunity to thrive once more whilst still holding space for grief. Cat's partner Jon died suddenly in November 2020 at just 46 years old, and it set Cat on a journey she could not have predicted and wouldn't wish on anyone. Cat has learned that there are aspects of grief that make you feel like you don't have choices, but now knows that we always have a choice, we just have to find it. We can grieve in a healthy way that honours what we must do to continue, and the memory of who or what we have lost.
Connect with Cat in her free community Love, loss and life:
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
Visit our website
Follow on Instagram
Follow on LinkedIn
Watch the episodes on YouTube
Full episode notes available on our website
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