The Creative Grief Journey

Welcome to the Creative Grief Journey Podcast. Each soul-led podcast offers tools and stories to help you navigating loss through creativity, community, and sacred practice. Hosted by intuitive artist and grief recovery expert Dawn Renee Bova, this podcast explores how creativity, nature, and rituals can gently transform your darkest moments into light. Together, we explore love, life, and loss—with courage, color, and compassion.

The Creative Grief Journey is a education podcast hosted by Dawn Renee Bova, with 113 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dawn Renee Bova hosts The Creative Grief Journey, a education show with 113 episodes published.

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  Episode #14

  Sister Chat: Sarasota Daydreams and Banter

  Jul 8, 202616 minS6

  The host welcomes listeners and chats with her sister Denise about having fun, their day trip to the Ringling Art Museum in Sarasota, and an unplanned Goodwill stop that ran long and led to a hanger dispute. They share laughs as part of grief recovery, talk about watching “Sheep Detectives,” indulging in Blue Bell ice cream, and getting lost in the heat before finding the museum. They discuss a playful “picture war,” how proximity changes communication with friends, and the pros and cons of working from home. The conversation includes side-hustle ideas using Facebook Marketplace, a Belize creativity wellness retreat through Helios Recovery in November, dog-sitting Brisket mishaps, playing euchre with beginners, thrifted art projects, and trying budget recipes and local Greek food. 00:00 Welcome and Sister Chat 00:29 Ringling Museum Day 01:03 Goodwill Haul and Hanger Drama 02:04 Ice Cream and Heat Mishap 03:29 Picture War Shenanigans 04:17 Friends and Working From Home 06:00 Vacation Styles and Florida Walks 07:17 Side Hustle Ideas on Marketplace 10:00 Belize Wellness Retreat Plug 11:33 Brisket Dog Sitting Stories 12:55 Euchre Night and Creative Plans 14:30 Budget Cooking and Vacation Eats 16:01 Wrap Up and Subscribe 🌀 Join the Creative Grief Journey Group for Emotional Empowerment ...and support on Skool 🌟 HERE 🌟 Join my email list and don't miss a thing! HERE 🔆 Transform you grief, Start a 30 days journal habit! Grab your 30 day journal prompts HERE Dawn's Info: Facebook: Dawn Renee Bov a IG: https://www.instagram.com/dawnreneebova/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/HeARTworkbyDawn Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-renee-bova-304049239 Email: dawn@dawnbovaart.com

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  A Childs Raw Take on Grief

  Jun 24, 202612 min

  In this episode of the Creative Grief Journey, the host talks with her guest, Brynnlee, about what grief feels like for a child after her baby brother Willy died when he was one. Brynnlee shares that she felt sad and describes how painting, coloring, and making things together helped her feel happy and gave her no time to be sad. They discuss the different art materials Brynnlee uses, what she likes to paint, and how creativity can help a sad heart feel better over time. Brynnlee also talks about planting and caring for flowers and a special tree, and how she comforts her mom when she cries. The episode emphasizes that grief looks different for everyone, it’s okay to cry, and loved ones can be held in hearts and memories, with an invitation to join a free Skool support community. 00:00 Childhood Grief Intro 00:48 Willys Story 01:30 Coping Through Creativity 02:48 Art Supplies Evolution 04:09 Painting Joyful Details 05:41 Choosing Happiness 06:35 Healing With Nature 07:49 Helping Mom Through Tears 08:19 How Grief Changes 10:05 Closing Support Invite 🔆 Transform you grief, Start a 30 days journal habit! Grab your 30 day journal prompts HERE Dawn's Info: Facebook: Dawn Renee Bov a IG: https://www.instagram.com/dawnreneebova/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/HeARTworkbyDawn Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-renee-bova-304049239 Email: dawn@dawnbovaart.com 🌀 Join the Creative Grief Journey Group for Emotional Empowerment ...and support on Skool 🌟 HERE 🌟 ✅ Join my email list and don't miss a thing! HERE

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  Episode #12

  Why Heartbreak Makes You More Creative

  Jun 4, 202612 minS6

  <p>Discussing how being a multi-creative who once felt pressured to choose one passion, now sees many passions as a gift, a lesson reinforced through grief. While preparing the backyard and cleaning the pool, an unexpected memory of Bradley getting hurt on the pool gate triggers sudden tears, illustrating how grief arrives uninvited in ordinary moments. They emphasize the goal isn’t to stop grief, but to keep living while holding both tears and joy, supported by travel, retreats, self-care, creativity, and community. After realizing they rarely celebrate accomplishments, they recall “ripples” they’ve created, including an act of kindness for Jake...

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  Episode #11

  How Can I Dream Again

  May 28, 202619 minS6

  <p>The speaker explores how grief affects both sleeping dreams and “living dreams,” sharing personal stories of losing her father in an automobile accident and later her son, Brad, and how these losses altered her relationship with dreaming. She recounts a vivid, comforting dream Brad’s friend shared—seeing Brad on a rainy Florida beach saying, “Tell everybody it’s beautiful here, and I’ll see you later”—and explains psychological reasons dreams can change during grief, including disrupted REM sleep, stress hormones, trauma, and emotional processing, while also describing dreams as potentially spiritual and mysterious. Shifting to life dreams, she describes how...

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  Episode #10

  I Stopped Living After Loss; Here's How I Came Back

  May 20, 202621 minS6

  <p>How grief can pull you into survival mode, making you stop dreaming, planning, and caring for yourself, and argues that healing isn’t “moving on” but coming back to yourself without toxic positivity or denying the pain. </p><p>How grief affects the nervous system and brain—fatigue, depression, guilt about joy, memory issues, decision fatigue, increased cortisol, low dopamine—and emphasize that neglecting yourself isn’t laziness but overwhelm. </p><p>This episode offers practical “baby steps” and bigger steps to rebuild identity and safety through movement/strength training, decluttering, creativity, nourishing routines, community, and retreats, and discusses visualization, neu...

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