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

Published: Sept. 1, 2022, 9 a.m.

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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!

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