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The Mindfulness & Grief PodcastAuthor: Heather Stang, MA, C-IAYT
When you're grieving, you don't need quick fixes. You need compassionate tools that help you live with what's been lost. Hosted by author, yoga therapist, and thanatologist Heather Stang, recipient of the 2025 ADEC Clinical Practice Award, the Mindfulness & Grief Podcast offers gentle conversations and practical tools to help you care for your heart after loss. Each episode explores how mindfulness, movement, journaling, and community can ease suffering, strengthen resilience, and help you honour your love in new ways. Whether you're newly bereaved or supporting others in grief, you'll find grounded wisdom, honest stories, and space to breathe here. Visit https://heatherstang.com for free resources, guided practices, and support. Language: en Genres: Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Missing Your Loved One During the Holidays: A Meditation to Feel Close
Episode 57
Monday, 15 December, 2025
The holiday season can be especially tender when you are grieving. Familiar traditions, gatherings, and quiet moments can intensify the ache of missing someone you love. Even well meaning silence from others can make the loss feel heavier and more isolating. In this episode of the Mindfulness and Grief Podcast, thanatologist, yoga therapist, and author Heather Stang talks honestly about why the holidays can be so painful, the social awkwardness many grieving people experience, and how meditation can offer a quiet place of connection when your heart feels full. Heather introduces the concept of continuing bonds and shares the Life Imprint practice, originally developed by C. J. Vickio and taught by Robert Neimeyer, as a way to honor love without forcing cheer or closure. This episode points you to a gentle guided meditation that can be practiced during the holidays or anytime you are missing your person. The reflection can also be used as a journaling practice and is suitable for both simple and complicated relationships. 🎁 Download your free Grief Sensitive Holiday Planner: HeatherStang.com/holiday-planner Includes mindful prompts and reflection exercises to help you plan the holiday season with care and compassion. You will learn: • Why missing your loved one can feel sharper during the holidays • How silence and avoidance from others can add to grief, even when intentions are good • What continuing bonds means and why many people find it comforting • How the Life Imprint practice supports connection, even in complicated relationships • Why meditation can help you sit with longing without becoming overwhelmed • How this practice fits into the Mindfulness and Grief System, Step Six, Continuing Bonds • Ways to use this reflection as a meditation or journaling practice If you find this episode helpful, please follow the podcast and consider leaving a review so others can find support when they need it most.
