Best Josea Tamira Crossley Podcasts (2025)

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Queer Grief Circles, Conscious Parenting & Building the World We Want to Live In 1:03:18

1M ago1:03:18

1:03:18

In this episode, we welcome Aiden, graduate of the 2023 Dark Woods Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitator Training. Aiden shares how grief work weaves through his life in Edmonton, where he lives as a trans man with his wife Jana, their baby, and their dog. From hosting small grief support groups in their home for the Edmonton queer community, to incor…

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Tribe of the Broken Hearted 1:08:52

2M ago1:08:52

1:08:52

In this podcast we have a heartfelt conversation with Dr. Jane Spielman on tending both personal and collective grief in these troubled times. We explore grief as sacred activism, and the many forms resistance can take beyond the front lines. With reflections on embodied self-care, communal healing, and the wisdom of Martín Prechtel, this episode o…

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Sanaz Hosseini - Grief, Growth, and Gathering: Reclaiming Our Wholeness 1:16:11

2M ago1:16:11

1:16:11

Having navigated her own path through grief many times, Sanaz is passionate about helping others find their way. As an Iranian woman and an immigrant, she has faced multiple forms of loss, and what is coined as disenfranchised grief, often without access to resources or community support. This journey taught her how isolating grief can feel and the…

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Natasha Edmunds - Grief Tending for Conflict Resolution 1:04:17

2M ago1:04:17

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Natasha Edmunds is a conflict resolution consultant, coach, mediator, facilitator and community organizer. She helps businesses, organizations and individuals transform conflict into solutions, strengthen relationships, build cohesive teams, communicate effectively, and find common ground to overcome polarization. She is also a graduate of the 2024…

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Sabrina Simon - Motherwork & Grief Tending 57:39

3M ago57:39

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Sabrina Simon is a graduating student of the 2024 Dark Woods Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitation Training. She is actively co-creating grief-tending spaces in Eugene, Oregon as well as online, including in our Dark Woods Grief Support Group. She is holding the budding vision of what she calls, 'Motherwork,' the powerful tending of the natural rites…

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Office Hours w/Josea & Dr. Jane - Conversations on Grief, Love, Life and Moving Forward with Purpose, Despite Everything. 58:07

4M ago58:07

58:07

The process of making space for grief is what gives us access to a healthy, full range of emotions. This includes; healthy fear, anger, sorrow and it even begins to make room for JOY to enter our lives again. It keeps our eyes open to the love and beauty of the world. In this live session we aim to acknowledge and make space for real conversations …

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Supporting Your Healing with the Well Ancestors with Jane Spielman, PhD & Madison Steadwell 36:57

8M ago36:57

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So many of us long for the feeling of village, for tradition, for connection, for guidance from elders - especially in times of deep personal grief and/or collective societal upheaval. Yet where do we turn in the wake of a culture so broken? Sankofa is a Twi word from the Akan tribe in Ghana which means “go back and get it”. The symbol is a mythica…

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A Sense of Place - A Refugee Perspective on Connection with the Land and the Grief of Leaving 1:00:13

1y ago1:00:13

1:00:13

I invited Silvia to do this episode with me because I wanted to explore the grief of the loss of place - our sense of home and ancestral connection with the land. I think you will find our conversation both mind & heart opening. Silvia was born and raised in Argentina. She was forced to leave Argentina as a teenager due to the violent political cli…

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Uplifting Palestinian Voices with Daniela & Caroline Abedrabbo 1:18:21

1y ago1:18:21

1:18:21

In this episode, I interview 3 of the women from our Dark Woods of Grief Team - Jane Spielman (Jewish), Amber Keith (Irish-Canadian who lived in Egypt & travelled through Israel & Palestine) & Daniela Abedrabbo (Palestinian-Lebanese). We also welcome Caroline Abedrabbo, Daniela's sister. They share their family's story of loss and incredible resili…

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Grieving our Beloved Animal Companions with Rachel Augusta 1:12:49

1+ y ago1:12:49

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Rachel has spent more than 5,000 hours in private sessions helping animals who are sick from diseases, old age, injuries, or suffering from trauma. In addition to the private sessions she offers, I have pre-recorded healings that have healed thousands of animals. She created the EmPAWer App that helps PAWrents go from doom to bloom, offers free cla…

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Grieving Through the Holidays 46:42

1+ y ago46:42

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In this episode I talk about the factors that may make our experience of grief is extra heavy during the holiday season. Here are links & references I mentioned:Link to register for Winter Solstice Grief & Praise Releasing Ritual December 21st 5-7pm https://cart.darkwoodsofgrief.com/win...Join my newsletter community here: https://darkwoodsofgrief.…

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Dawn Dancing Otter - Grief, Healing, Ceremony & Sacred Time 1:23:39

1+ y ago1:23:39

1:23:39

In this episode Dawn and I have a witchy kitchen table conversation about ceremony, rites of passage, sacred time keeping, grief, healing etc...Dawn Dancing Otter (DDO) is a mother, scholar, writer, poet, storyteller, sacred rites and psychedelic ceremonialist, healer, crone, and activist. She is an internationally recognized teacher of ceremonial …

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Ning Tendo - Use the Healing Power of Dreams to Reunite with Your Dead Loved One and Rewrite Your Grief Story. 51:01

1+ y ago51:01

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Ning is a published poet, grief guide, spiritual healer and dream yogi specializing in the intersection of the healing power of dreams, rituals, and spiritual constellations as potent tools for helping the bereaved evolve and continue their relationship with their dead loved one, learn how to grieve in a new way, and launch into a new and more expa…

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Helping Your Kids Get Calm and Regulated with Colleen Adrian, MN 40:02

2+ y ago40:02

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Colleen Adrian, MN, helps parents of sensitive spirited kids learn connected parenting skills so they can build a strong connected relationship with them, and leave behind authoritarian methods that break their bond. She’s also the author of Freeing Your Child from Self-Criticism and Perfectionism, a mom and a stepmom. Colleen offers 1:1 coaching a…

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Spirit Work While the Crisis Reigns with Stephen Jenkinson 49:05

3y ago49:05

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Correction: Through the Dark Woods - Real Life Skills for Navigating Grief & Trauma begins again September 26th, 2022. For more details and to register go to www.throughthedarkwoods.ca Culture activist, worker, author ~ Jenkinson teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded the school w…

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Day Schildkret - Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Loss, Celebration & Change 53:01

3+ y ago53:01

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Day Schildkret is internationally renowned as the author, artist and teacher behind the Morning Altars movement, inspiring tens of thousands of people to make life more beautiful and meaningful through ritual, nature and art. BuzzFeed calls his work, “a celebration of nature and life.” We discuss his newly published book, "Hello, Goodbye: 75 Ritual…

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Nervous System Healing & Building Resilience 54:44

3+ y ago54:44

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Irene Lyon, MSC, is a trauma healing and nervous system expert, somatic practitioner, and founder of the Smartbody, Smartmind online nervous system healing program. She has taught thousands of people how to "become their own medicine," through the simple yet profound nervous system repair/rewiring practices taught in her programs. If you want more,…

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The Myth of Self Care & Strengthening Community Through Conflict with Tad Hargrave 1:12:46

3+ y ago1:12:46

1:12:46

In this episode we discuss the fallacy of "self" care, and the potential for powerful healing when we get really vulnerable and ask for care from our community rather than trying to do it all alone. We discussed how our need and the vulnerability attached to it contains the gift of bringing people together as a community when we're having a hard ti…

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Grief, Trauma & Adult Rites of Passage with John Wolfstone - Unedited 1:05:02

3+ y ago1:05:02

1:05:02

Note: I chose to leave this episode unedited even though I had a moment of going completely blank in the beginning :) Truth: I'm a perfectionist, and so leaving this unedited is an act of allowing that part of me to take a vacation :) I also wanted to give you, listener, the opportunity to see me in a moment of vulnerability and how our "mis-takes"…

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From Numb to Awake ~ Grief & Emergency Medical Professional Life 1:05:46

3+ y ago1:05:46

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Chris has been in the fast-paced field of emergency medicine for over 17 years. He's a frontline worker, and a dad, and was kind of a normal guy - scientific-minded and skeptical of grief work, but willing to give it a try. He took a deep dive with us this past spring in Through the Dark Woods - Real Life Skills for Navigating Grief & Trauma. He sh…

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Polly Orr ~ Permaculture, Community Living and Grief Work 46:29

4y ago46:29

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Polly Orr is the community coordinator for Moss Rock Farm on Salt Spring Island, a radical permaculture project specializing in living soil food production with the intention of both living and demonstrating how we can, as humans, live in deep harmony with the land and each other in a carbon neutral lifestyle. Polly also participated in the last Th…

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Josea Tamira Crossley Podcasts

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Through the Dark Woods of Grief

Josea Tamira Crossley

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Queer Grief Circles, Conscious Parenting & Building the World We Want to Live In 1:03:18

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Tribe of the Broken Hearted 1:08:52

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Sanaz Hosseini - Grief, Growth, and Gathering: Reclaiming Our Wholeness 1:16:11

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Natasha Edmunds - Grief Tending for Conflict Resolution 1:04:17

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Sabrina Simon - Motherwork & Grief Tending 57:39

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Office Hours w/Josea & Dr. Jane - Conversations on Grief, Love, Life and Moving Forward with Purpose, Despite Everything. 58:07

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Supporting Your Healing with the Well Ancestors with Jane Spielman, PhD & Madison Steadwell 36:57

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A Sense of Place - A Refugee Perspective on Connection with the Land and the Grief of Leaving 1:00:13

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Uplifting Palestinian Voices with Daniela & Caroline Abedrabbo 1:18:21

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Grieving our Beloved Animal Companions with Rachel Augusta 1:12:49

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Grieving Through the Holidays 46:42

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Dawn Dancing Otter - Grief, Healing, Ceremony & Sacred Time 1:23:39

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Ning Tendo - Use the Healing Power of Dreams to Reunite with Your Dead Loved One and Rewrite Your Grief Story. 51:01

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Helping Your Kids Get Calm and Regulated with Colleen Adrian, MN 40:02

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Spirit Work While the Crisis Reigns with Stephen Jenkinson 49:05

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Day Schildkret - Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Loss, Celebration & Change 53:01

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Nervous System Healing & Building Resilience 54:44

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The Myth of Self Care & Strengthening Community Through Conflict with Tad Hargrave 1:12:46

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Grief, Trauma & Adult Rites of Passage with John Wolfstone - Unedited 1:05:02

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From Numb to Awake ~ Grief & Emergency Medical Professional Life 1:05:46

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Polly Orr ~ Permaculture, Community Living and Grief Work 46:29