Ep. 170 Lessons In Grief as an Opportunity for Expansion, Magic, and Joy with Debra Driscoll
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I’m so excited to share the next episode in our series, “Lessons In” with Debra Driscoll. Through conversations focusing on life’s biggest lessons, this series will explore the joy(s) we can find through these experiences, and the connection and community we can create through sharing our reflections. It’s an open and honest look at the moments in our lives that impact us.
Every episode features a conversation that will leave you feeling inspired, motivated, and get you thinking - and we can’t wait to grow with you.
Lessons In The Relationship Between Grief and Joy with Debra Driscoll
Debra Driscoll joins us to share a lesson she’s learned about the relationship between grief and joy, and how we can strengthen our energetic heart. Debra shares how our big life loss opens the pathway to big life magic, how we can be with our loss and the different chapters in our grief journey, and the promise she made to herself to not deny her experience of grief and. Plus, we dive into why every lesson and challenge that stems from grief strengthens the energetic heart and expands our capacity for love, joy, and magic, why death comes bearing gifts, and grief and joy as soulmates. Debra’s reflections, honesty, and vulnerability will leave you feeling inspired, and remind you that we can’t choose what emotions we want to experience, but learning to be in relationship with your grief brings tremendous gifts, even if they’re tricky to unwrap.
Debra believes we all have magic within us and by accessing our magic we activate our ability to be the best healers and teachers for ourselves and others. Using intuitive guidance, spiritual practice, and storytelling she helps people tap into their magic so they can heal, transform, and expand.
Debra invites people into their own Big Life MAGIC. It is her belief that our big life losses are the pathway to our big life magic, every loss or challenge offers a lesson and each lesson offers the opportunity to strengthen our energetic hearts and invite more love and in turn more magic into our lives.
This belief was developed and strengthened in her journey from single mother to grieving mother. In 2013 her son Sage, aged 11, unexpectedly died. The question Debra asked herself in the days following was; “Will my spiritual practice and all I know about healing be enough to keep my head above the waves of grief?” The answer she found was many layered and a resounding yes!
Debra has practiced and taught spiritual development and healing practices for over twenty five years and takes great delight in activating magic in others. Her expertise; Reiki Master, TCM Practitioner, Meditation and Intuition Teacher, Grief Guide, Oracle and Energy Reader, and Master Storyteller.
Debra is the author of A Series of Surrender ~ A Memoir of Grief. In 2022, Debra will be writing and crafting her second book, Surrendering to Magic.
“I believe that we are here to expand our experience of love, and expand our experience of understanding the world through our heart. When grief comes it shatters that energetic heart, and that is on purpose. For when we take care and tend to and mend all of the pieces of that energetic heart and put it back together, which is the healing process of being with our grief, being with the loss, sitting with the feelings, and allowing them to be. When we take care to put those pieces back together, what we find in turn is that our energetic heart strengthens.”
To connect with Debra and learn more visit her website www.biglifemagic.com and on Instagram @biglifemagic Facebook @biglifemagic and the Facebook group Big Life Magic Makers
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