Grief Magic: Rituals, Tarot & Gentle Conversations about Loss

In this episode of the Grief Magic podcast, I reflect on what it means to live with limited capacity in a culture that constantly demands more.
Looking at historical shifts in work patterns, the rise of the 24 hour information cycle, and the impact of recent UK policies around disability and employment, this episode explores how feelings of exhaustion and overwhelm are often structural rather than personal.
I also reflect on how industrialisation shaped modern ideas of productivity and worth, and how these ideas continue to influence how we judge ourselves today. As always my hope is that listening makes you feel less alone and that you know you are beautiful and worthy regardless of what you produce. 
You are welcome to join the spring season of Soft Monday sessions over here: https://griefmagic.com/blessings/
Love,
Yarrow

In this episode, I’m exploring journaling, narrative psychology, and the idea of romanticising everyday life.
This winter I returned to journaling in a more visual way and began noticing how colour, collage and imagery can reveal emotional patterns that text alone sometimes hides.
From there I became curious about narrative psychology, the idea that we understand our lives through the stories we tell about our experiences. Research suggests that consciously revisiting and reshaping these narratives can support healing, especially for trauma survivors and neurodivergent people.
I also reflect on a recent conversation about romance and how I realised that I want to be romantic with everyone I love, not only in the context of partnership.
You can join our free monthly sessions here: https://griefmagic.com/free-monthly-spark-sessions/
Love,
Yarrow

In this episode, I’m sharing more practical reflections on making friends as an adult after a more waffly episode last week. Friendships or the lack of feeling really known can bring up grief, awkwardness, hope, and so much longing. I wanted to offer a few grounded ideas for building connection in ways that feel sustainable, especially if you’re neurodivergent, sensitive, queer, living with disability, or simply navigating a changing season of life.
We explore:
Doing an honest assessment of what actually makes you feel connected

Creating space to be yourself and to unmask gently

Joining spaces where you feel welcomed and where your way of relating is understood

Spending time in nature as a relational practice, noticing who is there, watching the seasons, and becoming intimate with the landscape

Hosting the spaces you wish existed, online or offline

If friendship has felt hard lately, I hope this episode leaves you feeling less alone, and more resourced to take one small step toward the kind of companionship you want.
You are also welcome to join our weekly sessions, the self-study Grief Glimmers course or my free monthly Spark sessions over at https://griefmagic.com/
Love,
Yarrow

In this episode, I’m talking about loneliness, the lingering impact of lockdown, and what it can feel like to make friends as an adult.
So many of us experience loneliness at least sometimes, especially in a world shaped by social media, remote work, changing friendships, and the long imprint of the pandemic.
I reflect on how disability, chronic illness, and neurodivergence can make conventional social scripts harder to follow, and how our nervous systems can hold both a need for connection and a need for solititude.
I also share a little about moving to Scotland without an established social network, and what helped me slowly rebuild connection in ways that actually felt good.
Here is the sign up for the decluttering fundraiser workshop I mentioned: https://griefmagic.com/spring-cocoon/

Love,
Yarrow

In this episode, I’m in conversation with trauma-informed somatic practitioner and educator Darshana Avila about the relationship between grief, pleasure, and aliveness.
We explore how pain and joy are not opposites, but part of the same spectrum of being human. Darshana shares how her work has evolved from sacred sexuality and body-based healing into a broader exploration of what she calls “erotic wholeness” — not limited to sex, but rooted in life force, creativity, grief, connection and presence.
We talk about:
How grief and pleasure can coexist

The idea of eros as aliveness rather than performance

The role of community and ritual in grief

Moving beyond binary ideas of “good” and “bad” emotions

Trauma-informed ways of relating to ourselves

Darshana Avila is a trauma-informed somatic educator, practitioner and international speaker who helps people reconnect with the most essential aspects of themselves — their truth, their desires, and their capacity for profound pleasure and power. 
Known for her grounded, candid, and relational approach, she bridges the worlds of erotic embodiment, trauma healing and self actualization.
Darshana’s work has been featured on Netflix’s Sex, Love & goop, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and numerous leading podcasts.
darshanaavila.com 
instagram.com/darshana_avila
youtube.com/@darshana-avila
linkedin.com/in/darshana-avila
You can join monthly Spark sessions with Yarrow over here: https://griefmagic.com/free-monthly-spark-sessions/
Thank you for listening!
Love,
Yarrow