Reimagining Grief: Turning Unimaginable Loss Into a Movement with Kate Doerge

At some point in all of our lives, we will experience Grief. Thanks to my next guest, we will now have the tools to manage it when it arrives.  Kate Doerge — certified grief coach, founder of Penny's Flight Foundation, and author of Reimagining Grief (out June 16th) — has lost her father, her mother, and her daughter Penny at sixteen to neurofibromatosis-related glioblastoma. And in every case, she chose light over dark, faith over fear. She reached for signs, she moved her body, she turned her pain into a foundation that has raised over $6 million for neurofibromatosis research. This episode is about what grief can look like when you refuse to let it define you — and the five actions that can help you get there.

00:00:03 Introduction

00:04:20 Kate's Losses and Her Father's Advice

00:08:55 Losing Her Mother Five Days Before Christmas

00:11:14 Rejecting the Five Stages of Grief

00:13:34 Penny, Neurofibromatosis, and the Love Cocoon

00:27:29 The Five Actions for Moving Through Grief

00:29:50 Movement and the Neuroscience of Grief

00:34:18 Signs, Faith, and Sunshine People

00:45:38 Changing the Language Around Grief

00:48:02 Penny and the Prom

00:52:37 The Book Tour and Penny's Flight Fam Jam