Grief House - Portals

Apr 03 2025 87 ep. 43 mins 3
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An ongoing exploration of the complexity of being human, through monthly conversations about trust, loss, feelings and perspective.

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Rise Up Regulated

Apr 03 2025 51 mins  
On this episode of the podcast, Sascha talks with Kate Drummond of The Energetic Heart and About Play in Atlanta to learn more about her journey and discuss reality as it relates to regulation. They agree that emotional regulation does not equal submission, doesn't mean entering a non feeling place and doesn't require us to forfeit anger but, rather, offers stable access to deep fe

I Am Making You Inside My Head

Mar 21 2025 33 mins  
In this episode of the podcast Sascha and I discuss the nature of reality. We consider the practical appeal of living inside a consensus reality, the value of remembering that real doesn't mean absolute and what it's like when truth we've relied on cracks apart to reveal who-knows-what swirling underneath. We look at examples from our lives of ways grief offered glimpses into layer

The Reality of Grief - Community Stories from The Portland House

Mar 10 2025 33 mins  
We are thrilled to share our first community stories episode. We look forward to weaving and sharing the experiences of our grief house community members. Our theme this month is perspective and reality - the conversations on this episode explore how grief can change our experience of the world around us. Today’s stories are shared by Jamie, Alex, Edith and Morgan. They were reco

Violet Is Not Waking Up, What Happens Next?

Feb 23 2025 45 mins  
In this special episode I talk with Serena Trexler about her experiences as a death care worker, death rights advocate and green death/human composting engineer. We Discuss Serena's personal relationship with the dead and their bodies (curious, honored to know them, not afraid) in contrast to many people's relationship with the dead (closed off, hopeful they won't be near, quite af

Webs

Feb 10 2025 42 mins  
In this episode Sascha and I talk about webs. We ponder the way they are spun from hunger and instinct. How hope weaves a web, how death works in the weaving. We consider the web from a spider's perspective - how they never see the full scope of their work. We wonder about how we might weave well, where we are. We talk about our mothers and our fathers - the webs they wove for us,

(No True) Beginnings

Jan 20 2025 54 mins  
In this episode, Sascha and I try to put our fingers on the ache inside beginnings. We wonder about the way life grows out of death, how joy grows alongside sorrow, and whether anything ever really starts for the first time. In an act of cunning metaphor, we take a while to get rolling with this episode. Eventually, inside our large meandering, we make a circle that comes round in

We'll Die Soon (therefore) Look For Miracles

Dec 31 2024 49 mins  
In this episode Sascha and I contemplate miracles, reality and how the two things intersect. We discuss: my father's death and the dog miracles that came in its wake, the delusion/magic weaving Sascha's mother practiced in her life, what sky diving might teach us about the nature of reality, how one might work at miracles, whether a tendency toward miracles can me spread, caught or

Prayer For Relief with Krystle May Statler

Dec 20 2024 47 mins  
In this episode Sascha and I talk with Poet (And Grief House board member and collaborator) Krystle May Statler about her brother BJ and her life with and without him since his murder in 2019 by the Inglewood police. We consider what it means to suffer deep injury that can't be explained or relieved, how complicated grief can lead to isolation and the way poetry might help weave a

I Trust Us

Nov 24 2024 55 mins  
In this special episode Sascha sits down and talks with Jojo Donovan about trust and invitations. Jojo is good and wise and kind and perfect, as we find her always. Sascha (who is also good and kind and wise and perfect) feels lucky to be in a circle with jojo and the magic she pulls. You can follow Jojo's work online at sevenstonestarot.com; on Substack at sevenstonestarot.substac

Open Invitation

Nov 10 2024 48 mins  
In this episode Sascha and I talk about how it feels to extend and be offered open invitations. We agree that, from both directions, it is simply the best. We try to figure out what makes it possible to do this glorious, simple thing; consider examples from our lives, discuss our siblings, our recent trip to see my family in Mexico, my remarkable Aunt Pipis, and the difficult polit