- Suicide Hotline (available 24 hours a day) - SMS 988, or online at 988lifeline.org
- CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) Therapy (Minneapolis/St. Paul) - cbttwincities.com
- Free Therapy Walk-in Counseling Center - walkin.org
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Beyond Goodbye is a podcast that explores dying, death, and grief, and therefore may contain sensitive or distressing material that could be triggering for some individuals and is not suitable for all listeners.
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Therefore, listener discretion is advised.
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Hello and welcome to my podcast, Beyond Goodbye. I am your host, Angela Sturm.
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This podcast has been my passion project for the past six months, and I am so pleased to be able to offer this to my community.
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The podcast is all about how do we navigate losing someone we love.
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Is what we feel normal? Why are people so uncomfortable talking about death?
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And why is it so hard to support those who have lost loved ones?
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I wanted to provide a platform where we can come together and engage in robust conversations around death, grief, and how through the transformative power of loss we can find a life worth living again.
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I'd like to take a moment and tell you a little bit about myself.
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In July of 2021, my mom passed away from a horrible disease. Then two months later, two of my three children were murdered.
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As expected, I found myself in a very dark place, a situation that in a million years I would never have thought I'd find myself in.
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This experience brought to my front steps so many foreign emotions that I couldn't even put words to them.
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I felt lost and alone, even though I had an army of friends and family supporting me.
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As part of my healing journey, I began to think about how could I, one, honor my mom and my children, two, give back to the community who gave us so much,
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and three, help those who want to support us understand what we need.
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And as I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, it hit me, why not create a podcast? Thus, Beyond Goodbye was birthed.
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Now, I am not a licensed psychologist nor an expert on the brain or how loss and grief affect our minds and bodies,
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but I do know intimately what loss feels like and how it affected my body and mind.
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And I've spent a lot of time learning how to manage it all and still find peace.
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I want to share what I've learned and I want others to share what they've learned.
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We will have weekly podcasts with real stories of loss and survival, as well as expert interviews and information on what the trauma of loss does to us.
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I am really honored to walk this path with you all, and my hope is that together we find life after loss.
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Our first episode will drop Tuesday, September 21st, and in that episode, my son and I will tell our story, and we will talk about grief versus grieving.
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So go down right now and hit subscribe and like, and I look forward to next week's discussion.