Living Alongside Grief: Boundaries, Love and What Doesn't Resolve with Samantha Montemayor
About this episode
The episode discusses living alongside unresolved grief and its impact on relationships, featuring insights from guest Samantha Montemayor.
How do therapists and survivors live alongside grief that never fully ends? Some grief doesn't resolve. It doesn't end when a relationship does, when someone gets sober, or when you finally set the boundary you'd been avoiding. Instead, we can learn to live alongside grief in ways that lead to healthier relationships and genuine intimacy. On this episode of Transforming Trauma , host Emily Ruth welcomes Samantha Montemayor to discuss the effects of grief on our relationships, emotional resources, and boundary-setting abilities. Samantha also recalls her professional journey and the deeper relational approach that the NeuroAffective Relational Model® encourages in healing from grief. The pair also explore Samantha's personal experiences with grief, her cultural relationship to grief as a Latina, and how NARM® has supported her through its ongoing ebbs and flows. Finally, Samantha guides our audience through a poignant meditation on grief and closes the conversation with a poem. Transforming Trauma thanks Samantha for reminding the NARM® community that grief is a lifelong companion. Our healing isn't about becoming finished or perfectly regulated but developing the capacity to hold…
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