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Grief Leave: Finding Healing Through Compassion, Movement, and Self-Care
grief
grief leave
mental health for entrepreneurs
movement
movement is medicine
podcast host
purposeful powerhouse podcast
Jan 29, 2025
Grief is a journey I never imagined I’d face so deeply, but when we had to put our sweet 16 year old Bailey doggo down I realized I had to choose how to move through it.
For me, that choice was "grief leave." I gave myself permission to pause—to feel, reflect, and heal instead of pushing forward like nothing had changed. In this blog, I want to share what I’ve learned about navigating loss with compassion, movement, and self-care, and how these tools have transformed my healing process.
Grief isn’t just an emotional experience—it’s physical, mental, and spiritual. In Hawaiian culture, there’s a concept called kaumaha, which translates to “heaviness.” It beautifully describes how grief feels in the body: a weight that slows us down. Instead of resisting it, I’ve learned to honor that heaviness. Grief has taught me that it’s not something to “fix” but something to hold gently and move through with...