Grief Recovery & the Healing Power of Color
Terri is the founder of Womb Cocoon, a groundbreaking, nurturing healing place for women suffering from womb-wounds caused by abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth and failed IVF. Terri is an Online Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist ™, An Aura-Soma™ Practitioner/Distributor/Teacher as well as a Holistic Nutritionist, (CNP) and former Postpartum Doula. Womb Cocoon supports women in their return to wholeness after womb-related wounds.
Visit her website to learn more at: https://wombcocoon.ca/
Show Notes:
1:39 Terri’s intro
2:11 Terminated 3 pregnancies including a traumatic abortion, and two pregnancies on birth control
3:05 Procedure in a Catholic hospital
3:21 “Was really suffering in silence for quite some time…”
3:52 “I knew that I had to dig in”
4:30 Stumbled across grief recovery after brother passed
5:17 Color and light releasing energy blocks in the womb
7:07 “Typically traditional colors use black in grieving… the color violet is a great color to use in transition”
8:00 “we can use color to support”
9:34 “I knew I had to unpack it all because I couldn’t talk about it; I was really angry”
10:08 “we will try to recreate to heal”
10:31 “trauma was getting repressed ; there was nobody to discuss these things with”
11:18 “the grief recovery was the thing that moved the needle”
11:35 John James- Grief Recovery Method “everybody was trying to intellectualize his grief”
14:04 “The idea that I could learn a process and then teach that process”
14:39 “If you want to move through it…” you have the tool
16:11 “What we know about grief is that grief is cumulative, and it’s cumulatively bad” (when unprocessed)
“We are meant to be a processing plan not a holding tank” “We are taught how to acquire things, but not how to let them go”
19:42 Loss history graph
23:05 Women who go into a voluntary termination with unprocessed grief are more likely to have a subsequent abortion
Lots of opportunity to do the work
24:40 “I want to change the narrative… this could be the thing that’s breaking you open”
Abortion is fertile ground for life’s work
Birthing a New You
What got broken open?
Danielle Cohen episode
32:28 “When we take the stigma out of it”
33:13 When you are purging your body, ask what’s being purged
34:41 “She went to quit smoking and she healed both of her abortions”
35:05 “At the end of the day it doesn’t matter how you get to the process”
Cumulative healing
36:34 A little of my story
Feel. Adapt.Grow.
You’re listening for a reason. This is your sign.
41:24 “When you heal, you heal the collective… allow the collective to rise…”
42:02 “There’s purpose in your pain”
