Therapist Discuss Grief in Disney Movies |Episode 7

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Show Notes

Question of the Day – What death or Grief in a Disney movie has impacted you the most?

In this episode, Tyler & Alan talk about Grief and loss found in Disney Movies. We explore how death in Disney movies and look at the lesson they can teach us. This episode The Disney Therapist discusses how to respond to people who are experiencing loss, even if you have never experienced the loss of a loved one. We explore how Disney shows Grief in several different ways. We explore how Grief is shown in the following movies:

What Finding Nemo Teach us about Grief
- Greif can create anxiousness
- Avoiding loss builds resentment
- How Grief can change you forever

Who framed Roger Rabbit
- Grief can make you stuck
- How people don’t know how to handle Grief

Lion King
- Grief is trauma
- How Siba tries to escape his trauma
- Siba is numbing his pain

Bambi
- Death is sudden

Grief in Marvel Movies
- Look at shocking death in Infinity War
- Endgame is full of Grief
- Spidermans must deal with the reality of death

Top Takeaways From This Episode

2:25 – Why we are talking about Grief and how Disney shows Grief
3:31 – Study of deaths in Disney movies
8:00 – Death and Grief in Finding Nemo
9:20 – Avoiding loss builds resentment
10:40 – How Grief can change you
14:40 – Grief in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
16:10 – The worst thing to say to someone who has experienced a loss
17:50 – How to show up for someone experiencing Grief
23:00 – Lion King and Grief
24:00 – Grief is trauma
28:35 – Understand that trauma is your wounds
31:00 – Numbing your pain
36:15 – Bambi, death can be sudden
40:00 – Meaning behind villains death in Disney movies
42:00 – Does Disney have an issue with Grief
46:23 – Avengers & Grief
49:10 – Why we need justified deaths
50:50 – Why we love time travel
56:50 – Getting through Grief means facing reality

Movies Referenced During The Podcast

Resources

This clip was taken from Brene Browns audio program The Power of Vulnerability audiobook.

Study about how Disney show death

Clips from Podcast

Death and Grief in Finding Nemo | Therapist Discuss Grief

In this clip Alan & Tyler look at how Marlin in Finding Nemo has been affected by the death of his wife and kids at the start of the movie. Finding Nemo teaches us that we need to address our grief and work throughout emotions because if we don’t they will create problems for us in our lives or the lives of our loved ones.

Lion King and Grief | Therapist Discuss Grief

In this clip Alan & Tyler look at how Siba in the Lion King runs away from his grief. Yet it will always come back into your life.

How to talk to someone who is grieving | Therapist Discuss Grief

In this clip Alan & Tyler use the conversation about Roger Rabbit to help explain how to talk to someone who is grieving. That you can share your thoughts and feeling with someone who is grieving, and you can also not know what to say.

How Grief can change you | Therapist Discuss Grief

In this clip Alan & Tyler look back at finding Nemo and how Grief changed Marlin and kept him stuck. But once he faced his grief he started to change, just like all of us. The more we embrace our grief the more we can see how it changes us.

Does Disney have an issue with Grief | Therapist Discuss Grief

In this clip Alan ask the questions “does Disney have an issue with grief?” That in a lot of disney movies they don’t really explain grief and they look to solve those feelings of loss within the context of the movie. Tyler does his best to answer the question about why we all struggle to deal with grief.