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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 never get better? • Have you cried so much there can’t be any tears left? • Are you angry with God? Or question your own faith? • Do you need faith-based help through the toughest season of your life? In this podcast, you will find faith-based grief support to navigate the overwhelming and confusing journey of grief, to continue seeking God and most importantly, to breathe, laugh, and live again. My mission is to walk with you through the healing, experience the milestones and the minefields to arrive on the other side with a gratitude and peace you never thought possible. If you’re ready to take a brave step toward healing, understand your grief and find hope, this is the place to be. Hey, I’m Stef. Southern by choice, turtle triathlete, wife and Jesus follower. I’ve experienced life-changing grief and struggled for years with the physical changes, the emotional roller-coaster and the spiritual questioning. I asked ‘why’ more times than I can count, went ‘boldly’ (and disrespectfully) to the throne, and was confused by a pain I had never felt before. I believed I would never be happy again and had all but given up on fulfilling my purpose. But God! Through my trials, I discovered a path to true healing, deeper relationship with God and gratitude that continues to fill my heart. This is a story of faith, FRamily support and redemption that only God can author. And, I want to share this with you. If you are heart sick, tired of being stuck and ready for real change with Christ at the center …. Practical steps to make your hard days less hard…Understanding of what to expect physically, emotionally and spiritually…Solutions to those ‘gut-punch’ moments…And, Results that build your faith and allow you to enjoy your own ‘great day’ this is the place to be. It is possible, I promise! Join me today – take that first step of faith right now!! website: www.grief2greatday.com
Episodes
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
The reason the podcast is called grief to great day is because even though getting from the depths of grief to having a great day isn’t quick or easy or anything like you thought, it is POSSIBLE.
Let me say it again – you can get from where you are right now (hardly able to breathe, or finally laughing without guilt) to this point – the place where you feel less sad, where some color has returned to the world and there is an actual desire to rebuild your life.
When you get here – then what? How do you make sure that the rest of your life is lived out with meaning and purpose and that your loved one’s legacy remains with you as you take these steps.
Today we’re going to talk about one of the foundational pillars of rebuilding your life.
WORD of the Week And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. I Peter 5:10 NIV
Song for the Year (for Purpose After Loss episodes)- Overcomer by Mandisa https://youtu.be/b8VoUYtx0kw
Connect with Me
Learn More - “What to Do After the Loss of a Loved One” Workshop
Schedule Individual Online Grief Coaching
Join The Grief Group for Christian Women on Facebook
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
Visit my Church –Opendoor Church | Home
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
Oh, to be able to move forward – to not hurt so bad you can’t function, to not have the tears that won’t stop coming….to feel normal again would be soo great.
It’s the goal, the hope, it’s the thing you pray for and it’s starting to happen, but wait, does moving forward mean you forget your loved one?
If it does, then you’re not sure you want to move forward!! Not only is the idea of forgetting them sickening, it’s also a great way to feel guilty! What kind of person would you be if you move on without them and what feels like forgetting the impact they made in your life?
What you are going through – where you are it’s a sign of progress but you will have to come to terms with it so you won’t feel guilt and so you don’t forget your loved one. That’s what we’ll talk about today!
WORD of the Week And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. I Peter 5:10 NIV
Song of the Week - Moving Forward by Hezekiah Walker https://youtu.be/JO4ISkFGrEs
Connect with Me
Learn More - “What to Do After the Loss of a Loved One” Workshop
Schedule Individual Online Grief Coaching
Join The Grief Group for Christian Women on Facebook
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
Visit my Church –Opendoor Church | Home
Sunday Aug 28, 2022
Sunday Aug 28, 2022
We’ve all have had hopes and dreams that ‘didn’t work out’ or even ones that we ourselves didn’t take steps to accomplish. But, when you lose someone, you love, someone you had plans with or someone you had a long history and family with – well, that’s a whole different loss of dreams.
The future you always saw, the steady picture of tomorrow with your loved one is no longer a possibility and that is jarring to put it mildly. Many times, people believe they’ll never be happy again. This is normal, but I’m here to tell you that’s not true.
When the tears fall down your cheeks and you feel like your dreams, heck your life has been shattered and you can’t imagine having dreams come true ever again, well you are in a good place for God to put those pieces together in creating something you couldn’t have imagined.
There is a part you play in all this, and it begins now – not years down the road. In today’s episode we’ll talk about how to allow God to use you today in preparation for your future. If you are cringing at the word future and you’re thinking, I don’t even want a future if it can’t be with (you fill in the blank), you are in the right place.
WORD of the Week “He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3:30
Song of the Week - Wait on You – Elevation Worship and Maverick City https://youtu.be/sAHnUUGMIcs
Connect with Me
Learn More - “What to Do After the Loss of a Loved One” Workshop
Schedule Individual Online Grief Coaching
Join The Grief Group for Christian Women on Facebook
Blog & Current Podcasts - Blog - Grief2GreatDay
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
Visit my Church –Opendoor Church | Home
Sunday Aug 21, 2022
Sunday Aug 21, 2022
Grief is hard enough, but if your relationship was ‘less than’ a good relationship it can add confusion to an already confusing time. When you lose someone, you had a tough, tortured or tragic relationship with, you must decide not to allow the troubles of the past define your future. Not an easy task.
When you are ready to rebuild your life, you do not want to build it on the faulty foundation of the past.
In this week’s episode, I’ll share important actions to take to allow you to move forward from those relationships that are hard to live through and harder to explain to others and harder yet after they have died.
WORD of the Week
Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:31-32 The Message
Song of the Week - You Say by Lauren Daigle https://youtu.be/sIaT8Jl2zpI
Connect with Me
Learn More - “What to Do After the Loss of a Loved One” Workshop
Schedule Individual Online Grief Coaching
Join The Grief Group for Christian Women on Facebook
Blog & Current Podcasts - Blog - Grief2GreatDay
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
Visit my Church –Opendoor Church | Home
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
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 think it’s too soon for you to be here…I say, no! Because even if you aren’t ready to hear some of the things I’ll share, even if you can’t imagine having a different life, these episodes will plant seeds and give you a different perspective on what ‘can be’.
This is not to rush your process, it’s to shine light on hope as you walk through the days you don’t want to get out of the bed.
Don’t worry, the regular grief 2 great day episode will continue to be released each Sunday.
Ready? Let’s Go!
WORD of the Week I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13.
Song of the Week Overcomer by Mandisa https://youtu.be/b8VoUYtx0kw
Connect with Me
Available NOW! Workshop “What to Do After the Loss of a Loved One”
Schedule Individual Online Grief Coaching
Join The Grief Group for Christian Women on Facebook
Blog & Current Podcasts - Blog - Grief2GreatDay
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
Visit my Church –Opendoor Church | Home
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
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 loved one to die? Why would He allow you to have to experience such pain and loss?
Faith is the thing that pleases God and faith seems to confuse the grief journey. If you had more faith, would it hurt as bad? And does that confusion make you feel like you have less faith.
Today we’ll talk about where God is in your struggle and what your faith does and does not do in your Christian life while grieving.
WORD of the Week He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11
Song of the Week (2 versions)
Indescribable by Chris Tomlin https://youtu.be/5IlVfkY5q54
Indescribable by Kierra Sheard-Kelly https://youtu.be/q_NQEGBu0ZU
Connect with Me
Available NOW! Workshop “What to Do After the Loss of a Loved One”
Schedule Individual Online Grief Coaching
Join The Grief Group for Christian Women on Facebook
Blog & Current Podcasts - Blog - Grief2GreatDay
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
Visit my Church –Opendoor Church | Home
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
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 update on Grief 2 Great Day including
- the workshop being available (yay!)
- a second podcast episode coming
- prayers for Veleria – our guest from a few months back
- asking for your help in growing the podcast
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Workshop - What to Do After the Loss of a Loved One
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Join The Grief Group for Christian Women on Facebook
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
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 ‘get’ hope when everything looks hopeless?
Today we’ll talk about some tangible actions to take to build your hope and create a firm foundation for your healing.
WORD of the Week To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.” Isaiah 61:3
Song of the Week Surrounded (This is How I fight my battles) by Upperroom
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Schedule Individual Online Grief Coaching
Join The Grief Group for Christian Women on Facebook
Blog & Current Podcasts - Blog - Grief2GreatDay
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
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