When someone you know dies suddenly, everything changes in an instant. The world you once knew can feel unfamiliar and unsafe, and finding your way back to even the smallest sense of stability can feel impossible.
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Jennifer Levin, therapist, educator, podcast host, and author of The Traumatic Loss Workbook: Powerful Skills for Navigating the Grief Caused by a Sudden or Unexpected Death. Jennifer specializes in supporting people grieving sudden or unexpected deaths that can completely upend how we see the world and shift our sense of safety.
We discuss:
- The differences and overlap between the terms: sudden, unexpected, and traumatic
- How grief affects the body, mind, and nervous system
- What it means when the "assumptive world" - our sense of how life should work - is shattered
- Ways to support yourself when sensory memories of the death are overwhelming
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