“This is the chance you have to stop performing your life and start embodying it.”

Do you know where to begin when you’re grieving? Most of the time, we suspect we simply wait until it hurts too much, then allow ourselves (or don’t) to burst like a dam until the tears stop applying emotional pressure.

This week, we’re going to talk through how to grieve with intention when we notice all those griefs we’ve disallowed ourselves from feeling over the years.

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• Join The Restorative Grief Project
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"I’m a little less than I would have been without my struggles, and also a little more. My children are not what make me whole. But they are part of what I needed to stop feeling broken."

Learning to tell our story as a griever is an art form a transformation, and a necessary part of the healing process but often, it can feel unsafe to get started. In her new book Held Together: A Shared Memoir of Motherhood, Medicine, and Imperfect Love, author Rebecca N. Thompson explores the many ways that grief shows up in the world of parenting.

Her own work as a family medicine and public health physician wasn’t exactly insulation against her own pregnancy complications and losses, but it did allow her to begin creating a container where others in similar situations could learn to tell their stories, too.

Links + Resources from this episode:

• Learn more about Rebecca
• Order Held Together
• Visit Restorative Grief on social media
• Become a Patron!
• Learn more about 1:1 coaching opportunities

"Happy, healthy, and independent people understand the power of sorrow."

What if your shortcut to happiness has been with you since birth—but was silenced to keep others comfortable? This week, we're digging into distress tolerance—the skill that helps us hold sorrow without bypassing it. Many of us were raised in emotionally dismissive environments, and it’s time to unlearn that conditioning.

You’ll learn why distress tolerance is vital for emotional health, how avoidance keeps us stuck, and what it means to re-parent your inner child with presence and compassion. Whether you're a parent or not, this episode will remind you that feeling your feelings is not weakness—it’s wisdom.

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• MandyCapehart.com/coaching

• Patreon.com/MandyCapehart
• Connect with Mandy on Instagram