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episode 02

shock

season 2

season 2 - episode 2
shock

In season two’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown delve into the “shock” stage of grief, sharing personal stories of their fathers’ deaths, and the waves of numbness and overwhelm that continue to ebb and flow throughout the grieving process. They demonstrate how songs and songwriting create a safe space to hold our disorientation and disbelief.

Features original songs, Got To Be and We Gotta Stop Meeting Like This (Funeral Reunion) in relation to creative recovery.

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Episode Resources

Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram
Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram
The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp
live song performances
17:17-Karen’s song, Got to Be
30:20-Katie’s song, We Gotta Stop Meeting Like This
Creative prompt

Think of an experience or a time when the rug was pulled out from under you, this could be a death, a break up, a job loss, a natural disaster, etc. Let your current self time travel to that moment and try to practice just being a loving witness to the part of you that had to deal with that shock, and just notice. What do you feel in your body, what thoughts come to the surface. Write, talk, dance, scream, do whatever feels right to let this past experience give you some inspiration or information.