When A Dream Shuts Down: Grieving A Business Closure After COVID-19

About this episode

The episode discusses the emotional impact of losing a business due to COVID-19 and the process of grieving that loss.

(00:00:00) Introducing Christina Vidovich (00:01:40) Dance Studio As Family (00:02:22) COVID Closes The Doors for Good (00:08:28) Creating a Goodbye Without Ritual (00:15:55) Releasing Blame and Reclaiming Worth (00:21:21) Turning Grief into a New Voice (00:26:18) Women Getting Visible and Brave Stories A studio can be more than a business. It can be your calendar, your friendships, your creative outlet, your sense of worth, and the place where you watch other people become themselves. When that disappears overnight, the grief is real, even if no one brings flowers or holds a service. We sit down with Christina Vitovich, international speaker, producer, and founder of Women Getting Visible, to name a loss that often goes unseen: grieving the end of a livelihood and the identity wrapped around it. After spending more than 20 years building a thriving ballroom dance community, COVID forced a permanent closure, and the shock hit her nervous system hard. Christina talks honestly about insomnia, the hollow quiet of an empty room, and the strange pain of losing something that is not a person but still feels like family. We also dig into what helps healing actually begin. Christina…

People in this episode

Host: Anna Jaworski

Guest: Christina Vidovich

Topics covered

• grief
• business closure
• COVID-19
• identity
• healing
• dance

Keywords

• grief
• business closure
• COVID-19
• dance studio
• identity
• healing
• Women Getting Visible

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Women Getting Visible

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