Episode 11: How Grief Can Lead to Healing and Growth

🎙️ In this heartfelt episode I sit down with Reshma Kearney, a Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher and Healing Guide who helps individuals and families navigate life after loss.

After losing her husband to suicide in 2022, Reshma turned to mindfulness and movement as lifelines in her own healing. Today, she leads Healing Circles for those walking the difficult path of grief, creating compassionate spaces for remembrance, release, and renewal. To me, she is a real leader helping her children, family, and communities grieve and heal with compassion.

Together, we explore how grief can become a teacher — guiding us toward deeper self-awareness, tenderness, and purpose.

🎧 Key Takeaways

1. Grief reshapes us. It can become a powerful teacher that deepens our empathy, resilience, and connection to what truly matters.
2. Healing isn’t about “getting over it.” It’s about learning to live with love, loss, and gratitude all at once — honoring the full range of human experience.
3. Movement and mindfulness reconnect us. Simple, embodied practices can help us feel grounded and reclaim parts of ourselves that grief can silence.
4. Community heals what isolation cannot. Healing Circles and shared spaces remind us we don’t have to carry pain alone — collective healing creates profound transformation.
5. Purpose can emerge from pain. When we allow grief to soften rather than harden us, it can guide us toward service, creativity, and deeper meaning in life and leadership.

📣 If this episode spoke to your heart, share it with someone who needs to hear they’re not alone and connect with Reshma for grief and mindfulness support.

📚 And for a deeper exploration, pick up my book The Loss That Binds Us — part memoir, part guide — wherever books are sold.

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