Show Notes
Grief and Unprocessed Loss: How to identify and name what your body is grieving but your mind has ignored. Grief is not something you process in five stages and then 'get over'—it is something you learn to live with, move through, and integrate. In this powerful episode, we explore how grief lives in the exiled, displaced body, how trauma reshapes the grieving process, and how somatic healing can help us transition from acute grief to grace.
Host Ana Mael, a somatic trauma therapist and survivor of war and displacement, shares profound insights into grief recovery, emphasizing that healing does not mean forgetting but learning how to exist with loss.
This learning is split into 4 parts. Fifth part of somatic meditation is in Premium mebership.
For somatic healing and integration key is to absorb micro lessons with micro doses of the content. This is a space for integrative learning and not content overloading.
In this first part of the episode, you’ll Learn:
✔ Why grief is not meant to be fixed or overcome—and why forcing it only deepens the pain.
✔ How the nervous system processes loss differently from the mind—and why emotional numbness is part of grief. Broken heart, heartbreak is grief you experience.
✔ The stages of embodied grief: Moving from grief to sadness, from sadness to sorrow, from sorrow to grace.
✔ The role of somatic healing in grief recovery—how to feel without being consumed by pain.
✔ How to hold space for grief while still engaging in life’s continuous changes.
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Meet Your Host: Ana Mael
Ana Mael is a genocide and war survivor, somatic therapist, and founder of the Somatic Trauma Recovery Center. She has dedicated her work to helping survivors reclaim their identity, dignity, and self-trust.
She is the bestselling author of The Trauma We Don’t Talk About—a #1 book in over 10 categories, including Mental Health, Personal Testimonies, and Memoirs.
Ana lives in Toronto, Canada, where she works directly with clients and educates mental health professionals and counsellors on displacement, exile, and war trauma recovery. She leads training programs, provides trauma-informed therapy, and conducts research to bridge the gap between somatic therapy and global crisis trauma care.
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