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- hi, I’m Abby I've lived 18 years on a spectrum of active, repressed, or hidden grief, and I know all too well the impact that all forms of grief have on every part of a person’s body, mind, and soul. I'm also a Certified Integrative Health Coach, with degrees in exercise science and psychology, and experience working in cardiac rehabilitation and the medical field. Living with such a fiery passion for science, traditional wellness, and being in my highest vibe, I quickly honed in on the unseen but very real dis-ease that was happening in my mind and body from the stress of my losses, and I harnessed the power of my education and connection to my intuition to learn the life-changing habits that healed and continue to heal me on a full-scale spectrum of true well-being.. Now I teach that grief itself should be redefined into a compassionate experience that is to be embraced and explored, not buried or ignored and allowed to bubble and create long-term consequences. Using the holy triad of mind, body, and soul care, I invite myself and those I encounter into a walk of awareness, immense self-love, and graceful healing. My hope and prayer is that whatever stage you are at in your grieving journey, that you would not choose to walk alone or in darkness. But that you would boldly walk alongside me into your role of healer, embracing the life-changing wisdom, personal growth, and renewal that will come when you truly… grieve well https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1604518925748-9H3D2IH8QE9PKGTFC9KG/MisoRamen.jpeg About Grief Creamy Miso Ramen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1604431249244-NU9OCZKRFO6151X021JM/currychickpeas.jpeg About Grief https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1604430806799-R8TYFWM9OLQLL7Q7U9F3/beginnersmoothie.jpeg About Grief https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1604433344178-STYQ9R9OX41CN2N5KP3B/espressocookie.jpeg About Grief https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1604431713551-CAUG0APBB0EF4CC0ZLQH/purplepotato.jpeg About Grief https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1604519918166-FXGZFLG9OMQOCBCLDQS7/almondmilk.jpg About Grief https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1604514103081-OLJMRXV63J1BNQ8ILVVL/PPP.jpeg About Grief https://abbygaskill.com/about-us daily 0.75 2022-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/c220223d-a46d-4bd0-8a60-4698625c2f51/IMG_0519.jpeg About Us - Welcome, I’m Abby Gaskill. I’ve created this space just for you, love. This wellness-centered grief healing hub is dedicated to empowering, educating, + equipping health-conscious humans who are ready to embrace their unique journey and find healing. I aim to provide the highest quality science, employ effective behavior change practices, host enriching events, and offer self-guided wellness tools; all to help you be your best health advocate. Together, let’s map out your personal blueprint to grieving well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1637355101419-S7P1B770HCXTKXU8UZU5/jordan-wozniak-xP_AGmeEa6s-unsplash.jpg About Us - Because YOU, your health, your joy, your mind, body, and soul, and who you are for your loved ones are the biggest, most valuable investments you could ever make in your whole life. https://abbygaskill.com/pillarsofhealth daily 0.75 2021-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1603657911911-L5PFCIWY3NVE4N4C7DOM/yoga3.jpg Pillars of Health - Invigorating Exercise Defined: Any inspired movement that raises the heart rate and supports the structures of the body for optimal posture, joint stability, strength, blood flow, brain health, heart health, and cardiovascular endurance. During the grief journey, staying active through enjoyable exercise gives us a release. It gets us out of our head and into the present moment. And the physiological benefits are more than you could ever count, but infinitely helpful in your healing on all levels. Achieve: Explore various forms of physical movement to find what brings you joy and vibrance during and/or after the activity. It doesn’t always have to fit into one big chunk of time, sometimes the most effective body-supporting movements come in waves of 5-10 minutes throughout your day. Find what suits your interests and time; try any combination of enjoyable exercise for any length such as: pilates, swimming, kickboxing, HIIT, dancing, yoga, running, biking, etc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1603658859124-FL27X0SNWSSFF3UIQAYV/greenbowl.jpg Pillars of Health - Fueling Nutrition Defined: Food Fuel is highly personal to the individual and how your body reacts and functions best with or without certain types of food; this is referred to as bioindividuality. Food should create energy within your body, not lethargy. During grief, our appetite may range from nonexistent to ravenous for our cravings. Choosing to pass life-giving energy from our food into our healing bodies is such a gift. Achieve: To find your best bioindividual diet, experiment! Try different styles of cooking, varying cultural foods, and let the infinite web of creative food ideas inspire you! If you care to, you can briefly and simply track physical and mental changes over a couple of weeks. Always choose the highest quality fuel sources: living, fresh, organic food. Avoid chemicals and what I call “food-grade” depressants like overly processed unhealthy fats and too much added sugars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1603659107093-O7K35UG7LCLAZJO8VKMD/cozybed.jpg Pillars of Health - Rejuvenating Sleep Defined: Uninterrupted or mostly uninterrupted sleep that allows the body and mind a full reset and time to heal on a cellular level. Rejuvenating sleep restores/keeps balance to the nervous system, digestion, mood, metabolism, organ health, and hormone regulation. Achieve: Create a peaceful bedtime routine, practice great sleep hygiene, consume sleep-hormone-supporting foods, eliminate distractions at bedtime, and/or journal before bedtime to quiet a racing mind. In grief, bedtime may be one of the most dreaded times of your day. Put extra thought and effort into creating a comforting, peaceful bedroom environment free of any potential triggers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1603659364561-7LAHP33QN1I23CXWVJTN/friends.jpg Pillars of Health - Enriching Relationships Defined: We are the sum of those closest to us, being spurred on in support and inspiration or hindered with toxic mindsets, conversation, and/or habits. 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Connecting with our spirituality feeds our soul, fills our empty spaces, and puts our trust and hope in more than circumstance. Achieve: Practice any combination of the following: prayer, daily interaction with the divine, yoga, meditation, connecting with nature, and gratitude. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1603813115836-ED9E06TG7HHQD00IJXVA/processing.jpg Pillars of Health - Controlled Thinking + Mindful Processing Defined: Negative self-talk, pessimism, intrusive thoughts, PTSD, and any spectrum of anxiety can put our bodies into a state of chronic stress and constant engagement of the fight-or-flight response. Frequent cycles of adrenaline and cortisol deplete our system and increase whole body inflammation overtime, causing disruption to our sleep cycle, hormone balance, brain chemicals, and the immune response. Achieve: When it seems near impossible to stop your mind from replaying the same unwanted loop, give it something better to play with. Practice mastering your thoughts with any combination of: a specific mantra or affirmation; gratitude; prayer; journaling; meditation, counseling. Additionally, getting physically active helps cycle through the increased stress hormones, helping you to find homeostasis in your mind and body, and helps regulate emotions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f946db4bd4ed37069d2a115/1604521839591-VU66IKASO3XV7WD96VON/plant%2Bstool.jpg Pillars of Health - Intentional Living Defined: There’s a way of life called Ikigai that originates in Japan where Okinawa has some of the longest living, healthy people. Roughly translated, Ikigai is holding the philosophy of “a life worth living.” Those who are aware of their greater purpose + intentionally build their daily lives around that could increase not only their daily joy-filled living, but their longevity. Exploring Ikigai can support a healthy mindset and anxiety management by keeping our thoughts in a positive cycle of cultivating life and joy. Achieve: Allow yourself time to reflect on your day-to-day and greater life’s purposes. 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As Dr. Gabor Matê puts it, “Grief is not hopeless sadness; grief is coming to terms with a loss.” And truly coming to terms with a loss can take many of us years. This is a truth I knew as a teen, forever changed by the death of my brother. But, what I would further discover years later, after the death of my mother, is that grief is misunderstood and mistreated in so many more ways than a time-stamped expectation of healing and returning to “normal”, and a grief that I thought had been in my past had very much been alive and active in the form of survival habits and stress-related diseases for the whole fifteen years since my brother’s passing. Often viewed as solely an emotional experience, what’s overlooked in the grief process and not commonly talked about is the chronic stress response that we live in; whether aware of it or not. That stress response is called fight or flight. What’s not being largely addressed is the fact that emotional stress always causes physical symptoms; a process called somatization. Sleep disturbances, chest flutters or pain, shortness of breath, headaches, digestive upset, loss of appetite, high blood pressure, high blood lipids, interrupted/irregular menstrual cycles, skin conditions, and the list goes on. 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Equally important, I hope to make ripples that turn into waves of positive cultural change surrounding the grief journey, which is deeply fraught with cultural norms of fear, repression, and isolation that fail so many. I host the Grieve Well events and hub in hope that you are inspired to act on your innate desire to pursue pleasure over pain, or in this case, pleasure alongside pain; creating spaces where the body is able to down-regulate the unavoidable stress responses accompanying grief, and simultaneously give the mind, body, and soul a rest and reboot. 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