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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
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Sunday Jul 24, 2022
Sunday Jul 24, 2022
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 acceptance means?
In today’s episode, I’ll share what ‘acceptance’ means to a Christian, how to know if you are there and how to get there if you aren’t.
Verse – Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually! I Chronicles 16:11
Songs.
- Praise You in This Storm by Natalie Grant https://youtu.be/4fo0A7jpLsk
- Broken Hallelujah by Mandisa https://youtu.be/G_Fph4Fxz4s
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Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
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 you even think about enjoying a life if your loved one has died? How can you enjoy life now if they won’t be a part of it?
The world without your loved one seems ‘less than’ and because this was never a part of what you had planned or even saw coming, moving on seems wrong and moving on with joy seems ridiculous. And, you live in fear of not being able to move beyond where you are today.
Today, we’re going to talk about what to do with the conflict between moving forward and what feels like disrespecting or dishonoring your loved one.
WORD of the Week – Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. John 16:20-23
Song. Believe For It. CeCe Winans. https://youtu.be/n4ggKHAK_xk
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Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
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 is that you don’t have your life to get back to.
In this episode, I’ll share how to resist the secondhand stress of society and harder still, the first-hand stress you put on yourself to be better quickly. Learn how this microwave mentality of grief is harmful to you and how to give yourself the same grace (in this case, grief grace) that you would effortlessly give to others.
Verse – (Paul speaking) So here’s what I want you to do: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. Romans 12:1-2 (msg)
Song. I Surrender by Hillsong. https://youtu.be/s7jXASBWwwI
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Sunday Jul 03, 2022
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
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 personal items.
You didn’t know it could get worse and then a couple to six months down the road, it gets worse. The pain, the confusion, the “I can’t keep living like this” feelings flood your mind. What has happened to make it worse?
Today we’re going to talk about being at the beginning for what feels like the 100th time. This is where the frustration begins to grow because you thought you had gotten better, and you had some functional days and now you are back to the beginning and what you see as pitiful.
Verse of the week. No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he’ll never let you be pushed past your limit; he’ll always be there to help you come through it. I Cor. 10:13 (msg)
Song of the week. Know You Will by United. https://youtu.be/s17_3LrnQeA
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Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
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 exhausted in the work of helping rather than energized, this may be an area to be addressed in your life.
During grief, you don’t have the luxury of doing all the things you did before without sheer exhaustion if you can even do them at all. In grief, you need your energy for processing what you’ve been through and for healing. So, maybe this is the best time to begin prioritizing your valuable self and allow some quiet moments in your life to ‘be still’ and know God more.
Verse of the Week – The fear of man is a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe. Proverbs 29:25
Song. This Journey is My Own by Sara Groves. https://youtu.be/c8e2SnrQdCk
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Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
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 authentically) at all the people who wanted to show their love and support as they walked through the line. All of that is hard to bear. And, if all this occurred during the most restrictive times of Covid, there is the loss of all those things that making it worse. In either case, life has just flipped!
After the funeral and the busy month of support after, people have to return to their lives. I resented it but knew it was a fact of life. So, now what?? Everything is overwhelming, you can hardly breathe and are expected to go on with life as before. But where do you start?
In today’s episode, I share the 4 Actions to Take Now in the beginning of your grief. These four things are the most helpful and healing of all things so put your time and energy into these and let the rest fall away!
WORD of the Week. In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:37-39.
Song of the Week. While I Wait by Lakewood Music. https://youtu.be/prJCJvGWY9s
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Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
The beginning of grief – aka when the world flips 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 support as they walked through the line. All of that is hard to bear. And, if all this occurred during the most restrictive times of Covid, there is the loss of all those things that making it worse. In either case, life has just flipped!
After the funeral and the busy month of support after, people have to return to their lives. I resented it but knew it was a fact of life. So, now what?? Everything is overwhelming, you can hardly breathe and are expected to go on with life as before. But where do you start?
In today’s episode, I share the 4 Actions to Take Now in the beginning of your grief. These four things are the most helpful and healing of all things so put your time and energy into these and let the rest fall away!
Verse. Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these. things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33
Song. That’s The Power - Hillsong Worship & Benjamin Hastings. https://youtu.be/vTzRlaKELJ0
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Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
How can there be any tears left? You’ve already cried a million of them. During grief you will cry more than you ever have, and it’ll shock you because you didn’t know it was possible to cry what feels like an ocean of tears.
Stopping the tears is not the goal right now and, in the beginning, you probably couldn’t stop them if you tried. But how do deal with them daily? How do you go in public with these unwanted friends?
In today’s episode we’ll talk about the unexpected number of tears, how to work with them and coming to terms with how long they continue. And I’ll share the ‘best tissue eva’ for the tears of grief.
Verse - Record my misery; list my tears on your scroll – are they not in your record? In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise – in God I trust and am not afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:8-11 – God is aware of every tear you cry.
Song – I Will Not Say Goodbye by Danny Gokey – https://youtu.be/FNyk6ema5AM
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