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The Grieving Project
The Grieving Project is an inventive, unique spoken-word audiobook from award-winning artist, author, playwright Aoede (Lisa A. Sniderman) that sets the stages of grief to music to help us move from surviving to thriving.... The entire audiobook - all 22 tracks - is spoken over original musical compositions.
Four different people. Four different chronic illness experiences. Plunging through 14 stages of grieving and thriving, through a melding of spoken words and an emotional orchestra. Taking us on a moving journey from surviving...to thriving.
What can you do when you struggle with an illness or disability that doesn’t go away? You can deny it. You can suffer from and live in fear of it. You can scream at it and demand to know why it’s there. You can come to terms with it. You can feel sorry for yourself. You can make friends with it. You can learn to live your life with it. You can grieve. And perhaps if you grieve, you can awaken, express, rejuvenate, activate, connect, shine, and thrive, not only despite, but because of it.
During the 12 years I’ve lived with my rare progressive muscle weakness disease, dermatomyositis, I forgot to grieve. In The Grieving Project, I’ve invited myself to grieve and thrive; to express and feel in ways I’ve intentionally avoided; and from my own experiences, created seven new stages of thriving that pick up after grieving.
Though presented as separate stages, grieving and thriving do not follow linear timelines; they are a roller coaster with myriad twists and turns; an intense jumble of simultaneous physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual feelings and reactions.
The Grieving Project is a road map to our hearts, an invitation for you to grieve your loss, your change, your unexpected and unwanted transformation, and the inspiration and encouragement you need to awaken, express, rejuvenate, activate, connect, shine, and truly thrive.
Cover: Jasmine Raskas
Produced by Angelo "Scrote" Bundini
Four different people. Four different chronic illness experiences. Plunging through 14 stages of grieving and thriving, through a melding of spoken words and an emotional orchestra. Taking us on a moving journey from surviving...to thriving.
What can you do when you struggle with an illness or disability that doesn’t go away? You can deny it. You can suffer from and live in fear of it. You can scream at it and demand to know why it’s there. You can come to terms with it. You can feel sorry for yourself. You can make friends with it. You can learn to live your life with it. You can grieve. And perhaps if you grieve, you can awaken, express, rejuvenate, activate, connect, shine, and thrive, not only despite, but because of it.
During the 12 years I’ve lived with my rare progressive muscle weakness disease, dermatomyositis, I forgot to grieve. In The Grieving Project, I’ve invited myself to grieve and thrive; to express and feel in ways I’ve intentionally avoided; and from my own experiences, created seven new stages of thriving that pick up after grieving.
Though presented as separate stages, grieving and thriving do not follow linear timelines; they are a roller coaster with myriad twists and turns; an intense jumble of simultaneous physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual feelings and reactions.
The Grieving Project is a road map to our hearts, an invitation for you to grieve your loss, your change, your unexpected and unwanted transformation, and the inspiration and encouragement you need to awaken, express, rejuvenate, activate, connect, shine, and truly thrive.
Cover: Jasmine Raskas
Produced by Angelo "Scrote" Bundini
Audiobook
Published August 14, 2020
About the author
Lisa A. Sniderman
6 books56 followersLisa Sniderman, aka Aoede, is an award-winning, quirky, folk-pop artist, playwright, filmmaker, and author from San Francisco who creates to heal. She creates and records unique, original full-length fantasy musicals on audiobooks that she adapts to musical theater stage plays. She’s been honored with more than 85 awards for songwriting, audiobooks, films, stage plays and books since 2012 all while suffering from a rare autoimmune disease for more than 13 years: dermatomyositis, a progressive muscle weakness disease. She fosters healing by “giving your creative spirit wings and inspiring you to share your story.”
Lisa’s memoir, A Light in the Darkness: Transcending Chronic Illness through the Power of Art and Attitude, chronicles 10 years living with chronic illness while creating to heal. Through confessions and life lessons, Lisa offers support, compassion, strength, connection, encouragement, motivation, and hope-a light in the darkness-to those battling chronic illness, disability and unexpected life challenges (2019).
In July 2020, she held a free two-week online summit to help others living with chronic illness thrive, attended by 1,800 participants. She released her ninth studio album, The Grieving Project, August 2020.
Lisa’s memoir, A Light in the Darkness: Transcending Chronic Illness through the Power of Art and Attitude, chronicles 10 years living with chronic illness while creating to heal. Through confessions and life lessons, Lisa offers support, compassion, strength, connection, encouragement, motivation, and hope-a light in the darkness-to those battling chronic illness, disability and unexpected life challenges (2019).
In July 2020, she held a free two-week online summit to help others living with chronic illness thrive, attended by 1,800 participants. She released her ninth studio album, The Grieving Project, August 2020.
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March 1, 2022
Highly recommend for anyone who was diagnosed with a life-altering illness.
Award-winning artist, Lisa Sniderman, was diagnosed with a rare muscle-wasting disease, Dermatomyositis, as was I. We spend so much of our physical and mental energy in an attempt to cope with the daily struggles of our disease, we forget to grieve our former selves.
In this audiobook, Lisa joins other artists who have life altering diseases. We spend so much of our time with doctors and therapists trying not to let our bodies and muscles to continually deteriorate that we forget….
“Where was the rehab for my soul.”
Award-winning artist, Lisa Sniderman, was diagnosed with a rare muscle-wasting disease, Dermatomyositis, as was I. We spend so much of our physical and mental energy in an attempt to cope with the daily struggles of our disease, we forget to grieve our former selves.
In this audiobook, Lisa joins other artists who have life altering diseases. We spend so much of our time with doctors and therapists trying not to let our bodies and muscles to continually deteriorate that we forget….
“Where was the rehab for my soul.”
Displaying 1 of 1 review