About this episode

Steve Cieciuch shares his journey of overcoming grief and depression after surviving a tragic avalanche and experiencing multiple miscarriages, ultimately finding healing through the Hoffman Process.

“T he relationship I have with my girls now is just remarkable. It’s remarkable. I’m so blessed.” – Steve Cieciuch Husband, father, avid skier, and fly-fisher, Steve Cieciuch is living, in his words, a remarkable life . Steve begins his story recounting the 2004 horrific avalanche in British Columbia that he survived, but which took the life of his skiing partner and friend. Steve has lost five friends. Concurrently, Steve and his wife were trying to start a family. Over the years, they experienced five miscarriages. Eventually, they gave birth to two beautiful daughters. In 2019, fifteen years after the avalanche and years of grief and depression, Steve came to the Hoffman Process . His children were under ten. Steve shares how clearly he saw how he was passing down these patterns of depression, worry, and stress to his daughters. Upon his return home from the Process , his daughters greeted him and told him that he’d “ lost his stress face .” One of the deeper threads that runs through this conversation is that of spirit, the afterlife, and other planes of existence. Steve recounts an experience of the ‘other side&#8217…

People in this episode

Guest: Steve Cieciuch

Topics covered

• grief
• family
• personal growth
• spirituality
• mental health

Keywords

• avalanche
• miscarriages
• Hoffman Process
• mental health
• fatherhood
• spiritual experience

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hoffman Institute Foundation

Places: British Columbia

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