Debbie Rosenfelt on Grieving The World We Knew
What happens when the world we recognize starts to feel unfamiliar?
Advanced Certified Grief Recovery Specialist Debbie Rosenfelt joins me to explore personal loss, collective grief, and the feelings that surface when we don’t know what comes next. Through her experiences of motherhood, chaplaincy, and Human Design, we consider how to make room for feeling — and how to be present for one another through something we cannot fix.
About this conversation
We can grieve someone we love, a relationship, or a familiar way of life. Sometimes, we begin grieving a loss we anticipate before it has happened. Speaking from opposite sides of the Canada–US border, Debbie Rosenfelt and I explore the uncertainty of a changing world and the balance between staying informed and becoming overwhelmed.
After 27 years in corporate finance, Debbie’s life changed profoundly following the death of her son, Kenny. Her path eventually led her into chaplaincy with Support Seven, supporting people in the immediate aftermath of traumatic events. Today, she works as a grief companion and hosts the Elevated Embodiment podcast.
In this InSight, we enter the world of someone whose work has brought her close to loss. Debbie shares her experience of growing up being told not to feel, learning to make room for emotion, and recognizing when she needed to step away from emergency calls.
We also explore her experience as a 3/5 Emotional Manifestor through the language of Human Design Variables: Low Sound Determination, Feeling Cognition, and Mountains Environment. Our conversation considers sensitivity, changing daily rhythms, the need for breathing room, and what Manifestor peace feels like to her.
Throughout, we return to the human acts of care that help someone through the next moment. Listening. Offering water or food. Asking who we can call. How might our relationship with grief change the way we show up for each other?
Inside this conversation
Explore collective grief and the experience of grieving a changing world.
Consider anticipatory grief and the feelings surrounding a loss that has not yet happened.
Reflect on staying informed while recognizing when the body needs breathing room.
Hear Debbie’s experience of losing her son and finding her way into grief work and chaplaincy.
Explore learning to feel after being taught to suppress emotion.
Consider Feeling Cognition, Low Sound Determination, and Mountains Environment through Debbie’s lived experience.
Hear how Debbie describes Emotional Manifestor peace and her changing capacity for supporting others.
Explore practical ways to be present with someone through loss.
Connect with Debbie Rosenfelt:
Website → debbierosenfelt.com
Elevated Embodiment Podcast → Listen on Apple Podcasts
Linkedin → / debbierosenfelt
INSIGHTS is a conversation series on the Vaness Henry Channel exploring the art of healing, Human Design, and the evolution of consciousness.
