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Join ‘A House of Pain: Coping and Support after Catastrophic Loss’ with Joanne Cacciatore, PhD.
Grief, especially when the death is traumatic, has an emotional, spiritual, and psychobiological trajectory. This presentation will explore the nature of grief on the entire self, adaptive and biological responses to severe stress (psychological and biological), including posttraumatic stress, acute stress, and other social and systemic factors that impact grieving individuals sense of loneliness . We will also examine evidence-based strategies to mitigate the long-lasting effects of traumatic grief experiences and good sources of social support for those in mourning.
I'm Dr. Jo, founder of the international NGO the MISS Foundation, author of the award winning best seller, "Bearing the Unbearable: Love, loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief", Professor at Arizona State University and director of the Graduate Certificate in Trauma and Bereavement Program there, and a bereaved mom since the death of my daughter in 1994. Our work at the Selah Carefarm was featured on Oprah and Prince Harry's docuseries, "The Me You Can't See" in 2021. The Associated Press ran a feature story about our work in 2022 here.
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Donations will go towards supporting our activities and towards Dr Jo's non-profit, the Selah Carefarm - a compassionate community where grief and love, pain and beauty intersect.
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Joanne Cacciatore, Teacher
I’m Dr. Jo, founder of the international NGO the MISS Foundation, author of the award winning best seller, “Bearing the Unbearable: Love, loss, and the heartbreaking path of grief”, Professor at Arizona State University and director of the Graduate Certificate in Trauma and Bereavement Program there, and a bereaved mom since the death of my daughter in 1994. Our work at the Selah Carefarm was featured on Oprah and Prince Harry’s docuseries, “The Me You Can’t See” in 2021. The Associated Press ran a feature story about our work in 2022 here.
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