The Grief Series with Bonnie Myah Wallace: Miscarriages, Grief, Hospice, and Healing - #009

Today’s podcast interview is with Bonnie Myah Wallace, the owner of JOYasanAH, LLC. She is an ERYT – 200 and Yoga Alliance Certified Education Provider, with over 500 hours of combined yoga/fitness training as well as 13 years experience teaching group fitness and yoga. Bonnie uses her experience as a music therapist to carefully craft her class playlists for a healing environment.

Bonnie is a Reiki Master and she is the creator of Renew Body Sequence, a healing pattern of movement for students of all ability levels to safely advance their practice and feel completely alive in their bodies. Bonnie offers multiple yoga and aerial yoga classes per week as well as workshops, trainings, reiki sessions, numerology readings, and private yoga classes on-site.

Bonnie’s classes are a balance of physical body alignment and spiritual awareness. She is also a Hospice Music Therapist and mom to four growing boys.

Why the Grief Series Podcast? Why talk about grief?

Why the Grief Series Podcast? Why talk about grief? As early as March a lot of people lost someone they held dear to them, it wasn’t until October that I too was personally and permanently affected by a death. My life changed the day I found out my dad died. Like everything else I do, I decided I wanted to find out more and share my perspective and to hear from others. That’s how the grief series started, with one podcast episode as the goal, but as I spoke with people to find that one person to interview I quickly came to understand that GRIEF was very deep.

Bonnie Myah Wallace, she had gone through 2 miscarriages before she finally became a mom of 4 and 2 regular births and twin birth. I had Bonnie shared her experience and how she was able to heal herself. Apart from being a music therapist with Hospice experience which we dig into a bit, she is also a Yoga Educator, Reiki Master and as a Hospice Music Therapist, we discuss firsthand how Covid-19 has affected the patients in Hospice.

Who is today’s Podcast for, it really is for everyone who wants to find the tools to become better in all they do, to get to that higher version of themselves they were created to be? And this doesn’t mean that there is something wrong with those of us that aspire to be better, what we do know is that to do our highest work and to show up as our highest self we need to be self-aware.

A few of what we talked about?

How do we sit with the dying and hold space for them.
How should we process grief?
I know what losing someone to death feels like, I know what a broken heart feels like … can you describe what a miscarriage feels like? Does miscarriage hurt, emotionally, physically, mentally?
3 things you’ve learnt about grief while working in the hospice setting.
How did you discover your calling?

Referenced Media on This Podcast Episode

To visit Bonnie’s website – click the link below https://www.bonniemyahwallace.com/

To visit the website I mentioned to find your Ace score – click the link below https://www.acesconnection.com/blog/got-your-ace-resilience-scores

Book mentioned – Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You Hardcover – by John Ortberg (Author)

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Gloria