Handbook for the Heartbroken: Navigating heartbreak, uncertainty & the gradual path to healing

with Internal Family Systems practitioner and author Sara Avant Stover 

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We all know loss, grief, heartbreak.

But how many of us know how to tend it in ourselves or in those we love?

Once we've made it into adulthood, many of us have experienced heartbreak -- a total shattering -- at least once, if not multiple times. 

And as we move onward into midlife and beyond, the heartbreaks just compound, don't they? 

We begin to identify, for years, sometimes decades, with parts of ourselves that have to dissolve in the wake of heartbreak. 

It's no quick or easy task, especially when we truly give our presence to it and allow it to transform us. 

Today's guest - author Sara Avant Stover - speaks about how one immense heartbreak (relationship) led to a cascade of others (abortion, fertility journey, health, finances, community, career), and shares about her gradual journey to healing.

We discuss big and small heartbreaks we often don't talk about. 

  
Along her healing journey, she found Internal Family Systems (IFS) and it changed everything for her, and she shares all about that too.  

It's a beautiful and wise conversation. I hope you love it.

Listen to learn:

• how cervical dysplasia sparked self-reflection and healing for Sara
• what immense heartbreak led Sara to write her book
• why it's important to allow ourselves to feel the emotions as they come
• how alone Sara felt after her abortion loss
• the difference between slow healing and spiritual bypassing
• what Internal Family Systems is and how it can support us to heal at a deep level

Resources:

• Episode 16: Healing from narcissistic abuse with herbs + flower essences
• Episode 34:  What if your womb was an altar?
• Episode 49: How to create a sacred window for times of change 
• Episode 65: Grief and pleasure (postpartum and beyond)
• Episode 98: Reclaim your cervix
• Episode 112: How to tend your grief with earth connection
• Free guided visualization: Womb embodiment and clearing practice

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Connect with Sara Avant Stover: 

• Buy her new book: Handbook for the Heartbroken 
   

• Check our her podcast: Her Self
  
  

• Connect on IG: 
  @saraavantstover
  
  

   

DISCLAIMER: This podcast and blog is for educational purposes only, I am not providing any medical advice, I am not a medical practitioner, I’m an herbalist and in the US, there is no path to licensure for herbalists, so my role is as an herbal educator. Please do your own research and consult your healthcare provider for any personal health concerns.

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