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September 19, 2024 46 mins

Exploring conscious grief work, speaker Chris Beaudry joins Ramdev to chat about transmuting pain into compassion.

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In this episode, RamDev and Chris go over: 

  • Chris’ spiritual journey through AA and sobriety
  • How Chris witnessed a traumatic bus crash full of people he knew
  • Seeking comfort through Ram Dass and ending up in Ojai
  • Allowing oneself to be sad for awhile
  • Conscious grief work and working with grief in an embodied way
  • The raw sweetness of opening our hearts during painful times
  • How community and compassion helps us to heal
  • Accepting reality for what it is
  • How familiarity with impermanence prepares us for the end of life
  • The difficulty in cutting through illusions
  • The importance of regular practice

About Chris Beaudry:

Chris ‘Critter’ Beaudry is a father, farmer, and public speaker who uses his lived experiences as grist for the mill for personal and spiritual growth. Read more about Chris HERE.

“Life is hard. You’re not getting out of this one alive. You’re going to grieve, you’re going to lose, that’s the nature of reality. But, that doesn’t mean we have to harden to it. That doesn’t mean we have to be cruel to each other.” – Chris Beaudry

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