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...
Why do bad things happen to good people? You’ve heard this question before, you may have even asked it yourself when hearing of other’s struggles. But now, in your life and with your loss the question is so much more personal. Why would a loving God allow your...
Hey Framily! I’m Stef and this is Grief 2 Great Day. Thank you for being here for a different kind of episode. If this is your first time listening, this is not the norm, so please come back. 😊 I just wanted to share a few things on my heart – basically, an...
There is an incredible difference between hopeless and hopeful. Having hope will get you through the hardest moments of your life, but how do you have hope in the hardest moments of your life? You can’t ‘will’ yourself to have hope when you feel despair, so how do...
You’re familiar with the stages of grief – you know the Acceptance stage, but what does that even mean? Because it’s the last stage of grief, it seems to be the place everyone wants (like a finish line) to get to and be rid of this painful grief. But is that what...
You want real healing, you want to see the world in color again, to walk outside and not feel like the weight of the world is sitting on top of your shoulders…you want all that but then that desire is confronted by guilt in the idea of moving on. After all, how can...
We are given 3-7 days of bereavement leave and, in the US, it is not required to be paid leave. And, after the first month, most of the extra help and support is dwindling because people get back to their lives with the expectations that you are as well. The problem...
When your loved one died, you lived through some of the worse moments of your life, you did ‘all the things’ you had to do including what I call the ‘business of death’ such as the funeral or service, the legal stuff and decision-making on some of your loved one’s...
Are you a yes person? Do you overschedule your life because others need your help? God uses us to help others, He gives us opportunities to minister to others, but that is different than not being able to say no. If you feel frazzled more than peaceful or...
The beginning of grief – aka when the world flip 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...
