{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Quick N' Nerdy","title":"On Grief Featuring Dorrie Beckley (LPC)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2791,"description":"Join Click and Clack (aka Cody and Dan) as they explore the difficult topic of grief to open up 2024.  This episode has special guest Dorrie Beckley, LPC, join Click and Clack to provide clinical examples and expertise.  The history of stages of grief, ideas about meaning making, and strategies for coping with grief are introduced.  Lastly, don't tune out too quickly as Dorrie concludes this episode with a poem entitled \"December, Good Company\"\nDecember\nOn the days when it all feels heavy\nWhen the inner swirl matches the December bleak\nI feel adrift \nMy gaze, \nuntethered.\nAlthough not alone, \nAnd often in good company,\ngratitude will not bring back the things that have disappeared.\nWhen grief and loss are real, too\nWhat then?\nI walk along the forested path\nof tall straight Ponderosa Pines.\nI come upon a slanted one\nmaybe 15° off a direct line to the sky. \nI approach this slanted tree\nLike an old friend\nWith a smile and a longing.\nI lay my weary bones to it.\nAs my belly softened to the butterscotch bark\nI turn my cheek to rest,\n and my ears to listen. \nOf course this tree here does not speak,\nbut we understood each other.\nMaybe words fail anyway, \nwhen it comes to grief.\nAnd perhaps being simply held\nhere\ntoday\nOn this gray, breathless morning\nis the language of love and loss.\nI smile again.\nI hear the birds and squirrels scuffling about\nMore good company.\nThe mourning dove takes flight \nagain.\nDorrie Beckley,  2023","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/y1qIMgPVNHtY3kPANVZ0CKjTleIIwT72XgluvigAyxw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM3MzI1LzE2NzUx/NDQ1MDQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}