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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...