Reflections on Self-Care I Practiced to Cope with Death, Loss & Grief During Pandemic Years of 2020-2024

While I was sitting in the Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas yesterday (which was March 11th), I remembered what happened four years ago.

As you may recall, our lives were disrupted and changed forever on March 11, 2020. That’s when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The pandemic and its impact on our spirit, heart, mind, body, and life continues.

I also began thinking about the how I have struggled during the past four years to cope with death, loss, and grief.

How have you struggled during the past four years to cope with death, loss, and grief?

What have you done to take care of yourself?

Redefining and deepening my self-care practices have helped me cope with and embrace Thriving Mindfully with death, loss, and grief.

Over the past four years, I have developed a self-care practice of tapping into the ancestral medicine of my loving + wise + well ancestors.

I learned ancestral medicine is my birthright. It’s yours too!

Getting help and support from my therapist, ancestral healing coach, life coach, and business coach over the past four years helped me lay a foundation for defining and accessing my ancestral medicine.

I define ancestral medicine as the love, protection, and wisdom I receive from my loving + wise + well ancestors.

This year, I decided to create a series of Thriving Mindfully Podcast episodes that share how I am using self-care practices like ancestral medicine and creativity to cope with and embrace Thriving Mindfully with death loss, and grief.

If you are struggling with death, loss, and grief AND/OR interested in learning how I am using self-care to embrace Thriving Mindfully with death, loss, and grief, listen to the Thriving Mindfully Podcast episodes below.

Here’s a list of the episodes. Clink them to access the episodes on YouTube.


-S7 EP15: Tapping into Ancestral Medicine When A Loved One Dies
S7 EP16: Grief Self-Care – Writing Love Letters to and from Death, Loss & Grief
S7 EP17: Death, Loss & Grief Reflections Four Years After the COVID-19 Pandemic Began

Do you need more support with your death, loss, and grief journey?

Join me for the 2024 Grief + You Retreat Series on March 17, April 13, May 5, June 30, July 28, August 25, September 29, October 27, November 17, and December 15 at 2-3:30 PM ET via Zoom.

Click the sign up button below to register.

I’d love to hear your responses to the March check-in questions below.

I’d also like to know how I can support you better.

Leave a comment below. You can also send an email to ananda@anandaleeke.com or a direct message on Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, or YouTube. Follow @anandaleeke.

May your life, relationships, and career be filled with love, ease, joy, awareness, acceptance, and abundance!

Love, Peace, Joy, Gratitude, and Abundance

Ananda

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