Grief Dialogues: Out of Grief Comes Art Podcast Series

PART 2: oops! Technology wreaked havoc! Continue Part 2 of Tara Lynn Marta’s interview. “If you have a dream, this is the only moment we have. We don’t know if we have tomorrow. Make that dream come true… it’s much better than regret.” - Tara Lynn Marta | Tara Lynn Marta joins Halle and Elizabeth to discuss the grief that has inspired her books Look Back To Yesterday and Dreaming Through The Eyes Of God. Follow Tara on Facebook (Tara Lynn Marta, Author) and on Twitter (@TaraLynnMarta)

“If you have a dream, this is the only moment we have. We don’t know if we have tomorrow. Make that dream come true… it’s much better than regret.” - Tara Lynn Marta | Tara Lynn Marta joins Halle and Elizabeth to discuss the grief that has inspired her books Look Back To Yesterday and Dreaming Through The Eyes Of God. Follow Tara on Facebook (Tara Lynn Marta, Author) and on Twitter (@TaraLynnMarta)

“Anchor to yourself.” - Laura Thoma Award winning playwright and writer, Laura Thoma, shares her personal and unexpected grief story that led her to the theater and launched her career in the arts. The complicated layers and components of her grief have provided her inspiration to create powerful (and wildly successful) scripts that have resonated with audiences all over the world. Laura, we are honored to have you! LauraThomaPlaywright.com @laurathoma (Facebook) @laurathomacoaching (Instagram) @laurathoma (LinkedIn)

Elizabeth and Halle talk about the upcoming holiday, stories of their fathers, and the new Grief Dialogues film, Honoring Choices.

Meet Halle Williams and Elizabeth Coplan, co-hosts of Out of Grief Comes Art. Hear about our series and all the great artists who will be on our show over the next few months!

Interview with poet Paul Taylor-McCartney

Read his poem The Choosing  and Unfinished on stories.griefdialogues.com

Paul Taylor-McCartney is a doctoral researcher with Leicester University, following a part-time PhD in Creative Writing. His interests include dystopian studies, children’s literature and initial teacher education. His poetry, short fiction and academic articles have appeared in a range of notable UK and international publications including Aesthetica, The Birmingham Journal of Language and Literature, Education in Practice (National Association of Writers in Education), Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Dyst: A literary Journal, and most recently in Bandit Fiction. He lives and works in Cornwall, (UK).

You can find out more about him by visiting: paultm.org

I met Vena Wilson through another Las Vegas therapist when I brought our play, Grief Dialogues, to the Cockroach Theatre in Las Vegas.  The show, in honor of the first responders of the Las Vegas Strip Shooting a year prior, required a therapist for our talk back.  When the original therapist was unable to attend and moderate the post-show discussion, she recommended Vena, and a new professional friendship was born. 

Since that day in late September 2018, I’ve had the pleasure to work with Vena on other projects including a reading of Grief Dialogues: The Book for the Nevada Hospice Care. 

Vena is a licensed clinical social worker in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a small private practice Honeybee Behavioral Health. Here Vena works with teenagers and their families on building skillful, healthy, joyful relationships and helping the teenager with taking self-harm or suicide off the table as an option.

She finds that the teenage stage of life tends to be a very difficult one, especially so for those with a very sensitive emotion regulation center.  It is only exacerbated by COVID.  Vena teaches her clients about strategies to tolerate painful emotions, handle stress skillfully, and have a better happier relationship with their parents.

 

Listen in and/or watch as Vena discusses her practice and the techniques that help alleviate tension.

 

An update from mental health counselor and coach Peggie Dickens on what’s happening in our medical community. What has changed for healthcare providers in the last month?

How funerals have changed in time of COVID

Elizabeth Coplan interviews mental health counselor and coach Peggie Dickens, M.A., LHMC in this inaugural podcast for health care professionals. Peggie Dickens shares her experience with health care providers navigating their way through the current unknowns they're facing during the unprecedented global COVID-19 pandemic, covering her thoughts on the place the mind/body connection will play in healing moving forward.