Sherry Walling on How to Use Movement to Ease Pain and Grief

Episode Highlights With Sherry Walling

• How she got into flying trapeze as an adult and the reason why
• Her personal story around grief and how it led to her work as a psychologist in helping others
• Tips for navigating the experience of grief with kids and why this is so important
• Words we can use with our kids to help them process emotions
• The stages of grief and how understanding them can help your experience of them
• Ways to use movement to ease grief and pain
• What somatic trained therapists are and how they can help
• How we can move our feelings through our body using movement
• Different types of movement to try to process grief
• Ways to encourage kids to talk (at different ages) and how to support them through it
• One of the biggest factors in someone not becoming significantly depressed from grief
• Strategies to protect the mental wellness of your family
• One of the biggest threats to mental well being for kids especially and how to mitigate it
• Her encouragement to dance every day!

Resources We Mention

• Touching Two Worlds: A Guide for Finding Hope in the Landscape of Loss by Sherry Walling, PhD
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
• The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison