Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 10
In this episode of Good Grief., Watershed Voice's Aundrea Sayrie discusses psychological refuge tools, and the ways we learn to protect ourselves when life becomes too painful or overwhelming.
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Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 9
In this episode of Good Grief., Aundrea Sayrie explores Black grief, the toll of repeated loss and racial injustice, and the psychological refuge mechanisms folks develop to survive what sometimes feels impossible to process.
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 8
In the eighth episode of the Good Grief. Podcast, Aundrea Sayrie reflects on her late father who died just over a year ago. Aundrea writes about memories, trials, and tribulations related to her father, and how she has navigated through her grief over the past year.
Letter to the editor: The loss of Beacon’s gym will be felt generationally
Reverend Nicole Smith of Three Rivers writes, "A healthy human being is healthy physically, mentally, and emotionally. Health Trac sought to be a place where everyone from families with small children to octogenarians could gather safely and not just exercise but also socialize, interact on an intergenerational basis, and find not just a healthier body but release from stress, anxiety, fear, and loneliness."
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 7
Grievers are all around us and most of the time, we have no idea.
In recognition of National Grief Awareness Day, August 30, this episode of Good Grief. explores what awareness asks of all of us.
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 6
We’re told to grieve alone, in private, but why? In the sixth episode of the Good Grief. Podcast, Watershed Voice’s Aundrea Sayrie discusses what grief is, how we do it, and why we need others to witness it.
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 5
We hear it all the time: just give it time. In the fifth episode of the Good Grief. Podcast, Watershed Voice’s Aundrea Sayrie unpacks what happens when we stop waiting for the pain to disappear and start intentionally tending to the places that still hurt.
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 4
In the fourth episode of the Good Grief. Podcast, Watershed Voice’s Aundrea Sayrie examines one of the biggest misconceptions about grief – "[it] only happens when someone dies."
"As I reflected I realized something that on one hand, the level of grief I experienced losing my mom was unlike anything I had ever experienced. But on the other, it was quietly familiar.
"Not in its intensity. But in its depth. In its ache. I began to recognize grief at the edge of nearly every significant loss I'd experienced since childhood. I simply hadn't known to call it grief."
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 3
In the third episode of the Good Grief. Podcast, Watershed Voice's Aundrea Sayrie explores one of the most common misconceptions surrounding grief: the Five Stages of Grief.
"Many of us have searched for ourselves somewhere between denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, wondering why our grief didn't seem to follow the 'right' order. The truth may surprise you."
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 2
In the second episode of the Good Grief. podcast, Watershed Voice's Aundrea Sayrie shares the deeply personal reason behind her passion for grief education, healing, and emotional wellness.
"Grief is not one thing. It is not one emotion. It is not one dimensional. Looking back, I realize grief has been a quiet companion for much of my life. Not only through death, but through survival."
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 9
In this episode of Good Grief., Aundrea Sayrie explores Black grief, the toll of repeated loss and racial injustice, and the psychological refuge mechanisms folks develop to survive what sometimes feels impossible to process.
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 8
In the eighth episode of the Good Grief. Podcast, Aundrea Sayrie reflects on her late father who died just over a year ago. Aundrea writes about memories, trials, and tribulations related to her father, and how she has navigated through her grief over the past year.
Letter to the editor: The loss of Beacon’s gym will be felt generationally
Reverend Nicole Smith of Three Rivers writes, "A healthy human being is healthy physically, mentally, and emotionally. Health Trac sought to be a place where everyone from families with small children to octogenarians could gather safely and not just exercise but also socialize, interact on an intergenerational basis, and find not just a healthier body but release from stress, anxiety, fear, and loneliness."
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 7
Grievers are all around us and most of the time, we have no idea. In recognition of National Grief Awareness Day, August 30, this episode of Good Grief. explores what awareness asks of all of us.
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 6
We’re told to grieve alone, in private, but why? In the sixth episode of the Good Grief. Podcast, Watershed Voice’s Aundrea Sayrie discusses what grief is, how we do it, and why we need others to witness it.
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 5
We hear it all the time: just give it time. In the fifth episode of the Good Grief. Podcast, Watershed Voice’s Aundrea Sayrie unpacks what happens when we stop waiting for the pain to disappear and start intentionally tending to the places that still hurt.
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 4
In the fourth episode of the Good Grief. Podcast, Watershed Voice’s Aundrea Sayrie examines one of the biggest misconceptions about grief – "[it] only happens when someone dies." "As I reflected I realized something that on one hand, the level of grief I experienced losing my mom was unlike anything I had ever experienced. But on the other, it was quietly familiar. "Not in its intensity. But in its depth. In its ache. I began to recognize grief at the edge of nearly every significant loss I'd experienced since childhood. I simply hadn't known to call it grief."
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 3
In the third episode of the Good Grief. Podcast, Watershed Voice's Aundrea Sayrie explores one of the most common misconceptions surrounding grief: the Five Stages of Grief. "Many of us have searched for ourselves somewhere between denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, wondering why our grief didn't seem to follow the 'right' order. The truth may surprise you."
Listen: Good Grief. Podcast, Episode 2
In the second episode of the Good Grief. podcast, Watershed Voice's Aundrea Sayrie shares the deeply personal reason behind her passion for grief education, healing, and emotional wellness. "Grief is not one thing. It is not one emotion. It is not one dimensional. Looking back, I realize grief has been a quiet companion for much of my life. Not only through death, but through survival."
