Ep 236 Sameet Kumar
Episode Description
For episode 236, Sharon is in conversation with Sameet Kumar, Ph.D. Sameet is the clinical psychologist for the Memorial Cancer Institute. He specializes in working with cancer patients and their caregivers, and is the author of Grieving Mindfully, and The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination. He is also part of a new anthology, coming out in May of 2024 from New Harbinger Publications, How to Grieve What We've Lost.
In this conversation, Sharon and Sameet discuss:
• How Sameet came to grief counseling
• The denial of the first noble truth in American culture
• The human experience of pain/pleasure
• Grief is whatever it is to you
• The non-existent timeline for grief
• Widening the scope of what losses affect us
• The tools of ACT, CBT and Mindfulness for grief
• Sameet’s new anthology book
• Dampening the grief stress response
• Sameet’s support of COVID front-line workers
• Working with add-ons
• The role of Ram Dass in Sameet’s life
Additional Resources
Sameet closes the conversation with a guided meditation on the refuge tree. You can learn more about Sameet’s work right here.
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