— “Honor your grief. It is a reflection of the depth of your love and caring.”
Valeria Teles interviews Lusijah Darrow and Janet Childs — the authors of “Experiential Action Methods and Tools for Healing Grief and Loss-Related Trauma.”About Lusijah: Among the important shaping influences in Lusijah’s life are being a life-long member of the spiritual practice of Subud, serving in leadership roles in public benefit non-profit organizations, and the being the main founder of Seven Circles Retreat Center in the Sierra foothills of California. Most of her professional career was in biomedical research related to Immunology at Stanford University. She is principal author of original peer reviewed journal articles (under the names Lusijah Rott and Lusijah Sutherland.)
Lusijah switched her life focus to working with others as a therapist. Her experience with losing a very beloved partner and walking her own grief journey is the platform on which she has stood to support others. She used psychodrama methods to develop the experiential action tools to work specifically with grief. It is her sincere hope that Experiential Action Methods and Tools to Heal Grief and Loss-related Trauma will be helpful to grieving people after the death of a loved one.
Lusijah is now happily married to fellow therapist, Marc Darrow, living in Santa Cruz county. Lusijah Darrow is currently a psychotherapist and nationally certified psychodramatist in private practice in Soquel, California. She has facilitated grief groups, intensive outpatient groups, and psychodrama groups and has done educational presentations to people who work with grief. She is a certified by CAMFT as a continuing education provider.
About Janet: Since 1970, Janet Childs has been actively providing crisis intervention counseling and education focusing on the dynamics of loss, illness, crisis and grief. As a founding member of the Centre for Living with Dying, Janet has worked with thousands of individuals, groups and professionals on the front lines. Janet provides education and intervention to public safety personnel and healthcare responders, as well as the community. She has personally facilitated response to many major critical incidents such as 9-11, and more recently, the Gilroy Festival Shootings, as well as the COVID 19 pandemic. Combining her love of music with her personal and professional experience with loss, she creates a safe and healing environment to gently examine these difficult life issues.
To learn more about Lusijah Darrow and Janet Childs and their work please visit: billwilsoncenter.org & lusijahmft.com
https://www.billwilsoncenter.org/ & https://www.lusijahmft.com
— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.
