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Grief Support for Christian Women to Breathe, Laugh and Live again. Loss, Grief and Healing * Coping with Grief * Beginning of Grief * Life after Loss * Stages of Grief * Purpose After Loss * Faith * Surviving Loss * Grief Resources * Holidays and Grief I help Christian women navigate grief through understanding grief, growing faith and processing daily life to find hope. • Do you feel lost, confused, or overwhelmed by grief? • Is the pain so great, you lose your breath and feel it will neve ...
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Does the thought of having to live in a world without your child cripple you? Do you wish you had a way to see beyond this all consuming pain and grief? Are you sick of laying down at night and not being able to sleep because all you can think about is your baby and how much you miss them? Are you tired of people telling you to just ”move on”? Are you tired of wrestling with the question “Why”? Do you just want someone to understand how you feel? In this podcast, you will find someone who un ...
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SHOW NOTES I can give you a list of times in my life that I felt responsible for the outcome of things. When I was young, I felt like I had to keep the peace in the family; growing up, I felt I had to keep those I was in relationships with happy. Or, even getting the jobs I applied for, making the money I needed to keep a roof over my head. The thi…
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After you lose a child, it wears you down emotionally, mentally, and physically. It feels as if we’ve just gone through battle. It’s important to be able to find some kind of rest after the dust of your loss settles. But I know that rest seems impossible while you’re starting to walk this grief journey. So I wanted to share with you 5 different way…
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SHOW NOTES I grew up in church, I was baptized, and I called my self a Christian. But what does 'being a Christian' mean to you? I was saved – I did begin a relationship with God at a young age, but I never grew my relationship with God. I read devotions, sometimes the Bible and I did pray though not regularly. My Christianity was more religion tha…
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SHOW NOTES I grew up in church, I was baptized, and I called my self a Christian. But what does that mean to you? I was saved – I did begin a relationship with God at a young age, but I never grew my relationship with God. I read devotions, sometimes the Bible and I did pray though not regularly. My Christianity was more religion than relationship …
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SHOW NOTES Your journey of grief is confusing enough but if you add in certain emotions, it makes it harder to distinguish what is grief and what isn’t. Two of the emotions – which are related to each other – are guilt and regret. If you feel at all guilty about something that you think you’ve done wrong to your loved one, it’s hard to let get of t…
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SHOW NOTES Dependency can add to the loss and confusion you feel in grief. At 43 years of age, I had to figure out just who I was. I could tell you that I liked Christian or country music or that my favorite color was blue, but beyond that, I had been more like a chameleon as I adapted to whatever everyone expected of me. I’ll share the flip side o…
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Are you struggling with a mental battle? Do you feel overwhelmed by the thoughts that won’t go away? Is this mental battle stealing your peace and your joy? Are you ready to win victory over this battle once and for all?!!! That’s exactly what this episode is about. I’ve recently been struggling with something mentally and the Holy Spirit helped me…
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SHOW NOTES Last week, I shared a little more of my life before grief. When you go through grief, a lot of your past can come to the surface whether it’s positive or negative. My perception of God was skewed as I had religion but not strong relationship with Him. I needed someone to lash out at, so between blaming God and myself, there was a lot of …
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SHOW NOTES Over the last 3 weeks we talked about what rules your thoughts, your hopes, and your actions. There are things you may be doing that will keep you stuck in your grief and stagnant in your life. If you missed any of these, it’ll be worth your time to check them out. This week, I want to share a little more of my journey before grief which…
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A couple weeks ago, we started talking about your mindset in terms of what rules your thoughts, your hopes and your actions. There are things you may be doing that will keep you stuck in your grief and stagnant in your life. These are thought prisons. The first one was living in the past versus learning from the past. The second one was the illusio…
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Last week we started talking about your mindset in terms of what rules your thoughts, your hopes and your actions. There are things you may be doing that will keep you stuck in your grief and stagnant in your life. These are thought prisons. The first one was living in the past versus learning from the past. Today, I’ll be sharing the second of the…
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Welcome to the second part of our Walk With Us series! Today we go into what to DO for someone who has just lost their child. It can be so hard knowing what to do for someone walking through such deep grief and sadness. Can you even do anything that will make a difference? So I went back in my journey to when we lost Sam and thought about all the t…
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Last week we talked about how to make your grief journey harder and this week we go a little deeper into your mindset in terms of what rules your thoughts, your hopes and your actions. There are things you may be doing that will keep you stuck in your grief and stagnant in your life. These are thought prisons. Today, I’ll be sharing one of the thre…
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One of the scariest things for me when I was going through grief was getting stuck. Initially I didn’t know what to do to get through in a healthy way, so I did a lot of the wrong things. I knew that life would never be the same, but I feared that I would never have a life again. I can tell you there are helpful and healing things you can do – a lo…
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Over the last month or so we’ve talked about faith and feelings over faith and that can get heavy. So, for a second week, we’re switching gears to give the emotional and spiritual parts of us a break and we’ll focus on the physical. Now, we are spiritual beings living in a physical body, so there is a great connection. Please note the ‘turtle’ in t…
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Today I’m bringing you the first of a two-part series that I have called Walk With Us. If you have someone in your life who has lost a child, these episodes are for you to help guide you in what to say and what not to say from a mama who has lost her child too. These episodes are dedicated to all my family and friends who weren’t scared to get down…
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For the last month or so we’ve talked about faith and feelings over faith and that can get heavy if we are willing to put time and effort into reflecting on where we are currently and where we'd like to be. Remember, we’ll never reach perfection, but the desire of getting closer to God to live by faith (instead of feelings) is always important. Tod…
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Last week I shared what God says faith is. This week, I’ll share what I learned about faith in a current day example – it transformed my life forever. As Christians, we believe in a God whom we have never seen, and as long as our faith fits what we are able to comprehend and see with our eyes, we consider ourselves faith filled. Should faith be so …
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Your child’s heaven anniversary is the hardest 24 hours of the year. How are you supposed to get through the day that took your baby? It can be so hard making it through that day, but I’m here with 6 things that have helped me get through Sam’s heaven anniversary in the past. I pray that this episode will help give you some ideas on how you can mak…
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For the last four weeks we’ve talked about faith and feelings. My assumption has been that we are all on the same page about what faith in God even means and what it looks like in daily life. You have already shown great faith by believing in God. However, in grief that belief can turn to questioning and anger. When I experienced those things, it m…
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Regardless of the length of time in grief – all the ‘work’ is like a constant bootcamp. You are in unfamiliar territory; you are being pushed to perform while you’re exhausted and doubting everything. Regular bootcamps focus on the physical but your bootcamp – the grief bootcamp is physical too, but it is more so, spiritual. Remember, we do not war…
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What is Faith Yo-Yo? In the last 2 episodes we talked about faith and feelings. How our feelings, our emotions are a part of us, but they aren’t always truth. So, to live above your feelings and circumstances, you must allow faith to guide your steps. Faith – that hope or confidence of what is not yet seen – is based on the Word of God and that’s t…
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The struggle is real, and it never seems to end. Dealing with the pain, confusion and overwhelm of grief is compounded with the fight for your faith. Nothing in life will test your faith like death. God is the same yesterday, today and forever, so when we question Him, it isn’t because He has changed, or harmed us. Our questions, our anger with God…
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The struggle is real, and it never seems to end. Dealing with the pain, confusion and overwhelm of grief is compounded with the fight for your faith. Nothing in life will test your faith like death. God is the same yesterday, today and forever, so when we question Him, it isn’t because He has changed, or harmed us. Our questions, our anger with God…
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I heard a song this week and I thought of you! For those of you who are struggling with how the pain of grief is trying to steal your hope, today’s episode is for you! A song I heard reminded me - took me right back to those ‘bad’ days that seem to grow into bad weeks - of how God changed my life…from darkness into light. You can’t be passive on yo…
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Today is another one of those milestone days – aka, hard, painful, stressful, anxiety-provoking...did I mention painful days? If your mom or someone who was a mother to you has died, this episode is for you. In this episode, I’m going to share ways to honor your best friend – your go-to person, your cheerleader and advocate for life. I’ll also shar…
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A break from the normal episode as I provide a little comic relief today and share our perfectly planned anniversary trip. As you well know – all the planning in the world doesn’t guarantee that things turn perfect or even like you want. I don’t say this as a downer, but in this world, perfect is unattainable. Because God has called me to do this g…
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Today is a ‘Story of Hope’ episode with Stephanie Flohr. Her husband, Dan was diagnosed with cancer in August 2018 and died 21 months later in 2020. I know some of you listening today are in a dark or scary place. You may feel that nothing will ever change, and you are sick of hurting. If you are looking for something to help you hold on, listen to…
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Have you ever felt uncomfortable in your grief? Like you have to be quiet when you want to share, or you get on your own nerves feeling pain and having strange thoughts. If so, today will help you. Our culture doesn’t want to talk about grief because it’s too uncomfortable and almost taboo. And, to jump in and sit with someone who is grieving is mo…
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The Word of the Week is Matthew 5:4 - Blessed are they that mourn, taught Jesus, for they shall be comforted. There is also a verse talking about how we, as believers, don’t grieve as the world does because we grieve with hope – hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a purpose and hope in seeing our loved ones again. As you are grieving, how do you g…
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When you hear happy anniversary, it’s usually a happy thing. But anniversaries in grief are not happy – they are things we begin to feel anxious about a week before, they are hard to walk through and you might be exhausted the week after. If the anniversary of your loved one’s death is coming up, listen to this episode for some practical ways to ho…
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When I was going through grief, I couldn’t see a good (much less great) future. I couldn’t see much beyond my grief. I listened in church to how God heals the wounds of every shattered heart (Proverbs 14:73) and TD Jakes who said, "it is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life." I listened to Joyce Meyer remind me that God would rep…
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Your biggest job, your responsibility right now, is to do all the things that lead to your healing. That, by the way, is a full-time job! So, what do you do when those well-meaning, unhelpful people come along and make the process harder? What do you do when you look at your phone, see their name and cringe? You have value, you are allowed to have …
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Are you feeling angry at God? Are you wondering if that’s okay - to feel anger? Are you supposed to have that feeling on this grief journey? Well I'm here to encourage you today friend. Not only is it okay - God completely understands. I wanted to share my story of how I got angry with God and what He showed me in return (it might surprise you). Pl…
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Nights are the worst when your mind won’t stop racing! Your thoughts, which were once your own, seem to take you over. But, it’s not just thoughts at that point, it’s anxiety and fear and the darkness of night which amplifies those feelings. You’ve tried a million times to turn it off – to shut the loop down but nothing seems to work. You might hav…
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If you think gutting it through grief or falling in a hole during grief will make the pain stop or result in better days, you need to listen to this episode. Our expectations of the grief process are based on emotional expectations or the pressure of what we think our faith should do in our journey. Grief is really not a topic people want to talk a…
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You know it's easy to see the good in the good times – when life is going well. In grief, I realized how I had taken so many of these 'normal' days for granted. But, when life is hard or worse yet, when we are going through a life-changing grief, finding anything to be thankful for can be a challenge to say the least. Gratitude in grief is not just…
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You know it's easy to see the good in the good times – when life is going well. In grief, I realized how I had taken so many of these 'normal' days for granted. But, when life is hard or worse yet, when we are going through a life-changing grief, finding anything to be thankful for can be a challenge to say the least. Gratitude in grief is not just…
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I see you. You just lost your child and you don’t know how you’re going to make it. There’s only one way - Jesus. But I do have a few ways that I wanted to share with you that helped me make it step by step through the valley and to the other side, where the sun is shining, and I could see a glimmer of joy, of hope, of happiness. Show Notes: Find t…
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When I was going through grief, I thought I was going crazy, I struggled to breathe, I felt lost as my life was never going to be the same. In my mind my life was never going to be good again. I wasn’t a mess – I was a hot mess. How then could I think that the debilitating grief would be over in a couple of months? And when it wasn’t, I felt weak a…
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When I was going through grief, I thought I was going crazy, I struggled to breathe, I felt lost as my life was never going to be the same. In my mind my life was never going to be good again. I wasn’t a mess – I was a hot mess. How then could I think that the debilitating grief would be over in a couple of months? And when it wasn’t, I felt weak a…
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If you listened to the last episode of Grief to Great day you have an idea about where you stand in terms of accepting this new life you’ve been handed. Notice I didn’t say, this new life you’re excited about. If you are close to or are experiencing acceptance (not agreement or approval) and the questioning no longer takes you over, then you may be…
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In grief everything is amplified especially confusion and frustration. If you are struggling with blame toward someone who has hurt you or your loved one, if there is anguish because you can’t stop thinking about an injustice, today will be important for you to hear. If the ‘someone’ you have the most anger toward is God or you have regrets when it…
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When the sickening, can’t catch-your-breath grief is in your rear mirror (you know, where there’s a little distance between you and those feelings), you will still have hard days, you will still think that it’ll never end, but you will also have new thoughts and feelings. When the new thoughts and feelings come, you have made a lot of progress on y…
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When you are going through grief, it’s important to know what true and what is NOT true. What is not true will keep you in pain and stuck because we all know that confusion and lies are from the devil and he only comes to steal, kill and destroy and grief is the perfect time for Satan to get a stronghold in your life. Today we are going to talk abo…
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Continuing the discussion from the last episode, we’re talking about the importance of your thoughts. In grief, it’s so easy to allow the pain and exhaustion to take over your thought life and you should sit in the pain as you need to, you don’t want to get stuck in it. Today I’m going to share how to improve your thinking (and in doing so, improve…
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When you read the title of this episode, did certain memories pop in your head and bring back pain – again? These, my friend, are the memories we are going to talk about and change. I don’t want to just talk about the hard stuff, I want to help you work through it and if there is anything you can do to change or improve the hard stuff – I’m here to…
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Good in Grief? Yeah, right! If the title irritated you, it tells me you are either just starting your difficult journey of grief or you are struggling right now. Grief is the hardest thing you will ever walk out, but there is something about what can be grown in you that is incredible. Now, this takes time and effort and trust, but it is worth ever…
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Hey Framily! The beginning of grief – aka when the world flipped on you. You’ve had to see your loved one’s name in the obituary and probably were the one who wrote it. That’s surreal. You’ve dreaded the funeral not knowing how you would make it through. You’ve smiled kindly (and authentically) at all the people who wanted to show their love and su…
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Hey Framily! A little surprise for this episode as it’s the introduction to Purpose After Loss episodes coming in September. In our regular Grief 2 Great Day episodes we talk about the pain, the pit and progress through the hardest season of your life. This second episode will focus on your Purpose After Loss – the rebuilding of your future. Do you…
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