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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
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Oh man, why am I doing this? It cannot be normal - am I going crazy?
The physical effects of grief (which we covered in the last episode) are overwhelming your system and on top of that, there are things that make you feel like you are going crazy while grieving.
Today we’ll talk what some of those things are and what will help.
Verse for the Day - "You have kept count of my tossing; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? This I know, that God is for me. In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid." Psalm 56: 8-11
Song – Even When it Hurts – Hillsong https://youtu.be/hrSJwO5dJXg
Visit my Church Online – Opendoor Church | Home
GriefShare - Grief Recovery Support Groups - GriefShare
Connect with Me
Email - grief2greatday@gmail.com
Website & Resources - www.grief2greatday.com
Blog - Blog - Grief2GreatDay
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
6-week Faith-Based Grief Support Program - https://resources.grief2greatday.com/
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve. – Rabbi Earl Grollman
Today we’re going to talk about the physical effects of grief on the body. In a 2014 study in Journal of the American Medical Association showed that within 30 days of their partner’s death, people ages 60 and old had more than twice the risk of a stroke or heart attack compared to people who hadn’t suffered such a loss. Grief affects your physically. Join me today to see if you are experiencing any of these effects as you walk out the grief process.
Song of the Week – “Stronger” by Mandisa https://youtu.be/emgv-VRtMEU
Verses for the Day I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out - plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. Jeremiah 29:11 (Message)
Visit my Church Online – Opendoor Church | Home
GriefShare - Grief Recovery Support Groups - GriefShare
Connect with Me
Email - grief2greatday@gmail.com
Website & Resources (including Monica’s CD, “Road of Life”) - www.grief2greatday.com
Blog - Blog - Grief2GreatDay
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
6-week Faith-Based Grief Support Program - https://resources.grief2greatday.com/
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Last week we talked about HOW LONG will this pain last and this week it’s time to get you prepared to start walking out this thing called grief. If you are just starting on the journey (and completely overwhelmed) or you’ve been struggling to get a handle on what ‘working through grief’ means, you are in the right place. The work is hard, but the work is necessary, and it is worth it!
To help you determine the destination, there are things you must do and know – there is work that is required, so let’s get you as ready as possible…
Memorable Quote – My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith. – Elie Wiesel
Song of the Week – “How Long O Lord” by the Prayers of Saints https://youtu.be/9mFRMcolr6s
Verses for the Day
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9
“Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.” Romans 8:26
Connect with Me
Email - grief2greatday@gmail.com
Website & Resources (including Monica’s CD, “Road of Life”) - www.grief2greatday.com
Blog - Blog - Grief2GreatDay
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
6-week Faith-Based Grief Support Program - https://resources.grief2greatday.com/
Visit my Church Online – Opendoor Church | Home
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
SHOW NOTES
So many questions race through your mind after a death and you want answers to them because you want the pain to stop and to stop NOW. Actually, what you really want is for this to never have happened! But you’re here, so what do you do now?
In this episode, we’ll address one of those questions and you’ll get the answer (you may not want) to the question of ‘when will this stop?’
Memorable Quote – My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith. - Elie Wiesel
Song of the Week – “How Long O Lord” by the Prayers of Saints https://youtu.be/9mFRMcolr6s
Verse for the Day – “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” - Isaiah 55:8-9
Visit my Church Online – Opendoor Church | Home
Connect with Me
Email - grief2greatday@gmail.com
Website & Resources (including Monica’s CD, “Road of Life”) - www.grief2greatday.com
Blog - Blog - Grief2GreatDay
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
6-week Faith-Based Grief Support Program - https://resources.grief2greatday.com/
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
How Do You Trust God During Grief? How do you stay strong in your faith when you’re confused about what just happened and question why it happened?
Today is the third and final episode in the series and we’re talking about Fears, Failures and Forks in the Road (aka Decisions). Grief can make you feel fearful of what’s coming next, of your future and it can make you feel like you are failing in everything – not knowing how to feel less pain, completing daily tasks and not knowing how to move forward. This episode will help you understand what is normal; how to equip yourself to feel stronger; how to change how to view yourself and how to make good decisions as you encounter many forks in the road.
For more details to Monica’s story of faith over circumstances, read “Dying to Be Healed” – available for purchase on the website.
Memorable Quote – All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. —Oswald Chambers
Song of the Week – “Carry On” by Tauren Wells https://youtu.be/s53ULavaPp4
Verse for the Day – Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. —Hebrews 12:1
Connect with Me
Email - grief2greatday@gmail.com
Website & Resources (including Monica’s CD, “Road of Life”) - www.grief2greatday.com
Blog - Blog - Grief2GreatDay
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
6-week Faith-Based Grief Support Program - https://resources.grief2greatday.com/
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Life is clarified during affliction. When worldly pursuits become as meaningless as they should be and the presence of God, along with a passion for His Word, becomes most important, that’s life as God intends it for us. Though Monica spent most of her last five and a half months physically miserable, she lived in—and introduced me to—the peace of the Lord. Such gifts are eternal.
Today we’re talking about the book, “Dying to Be Healed” and going after God while grieving. The contents of this podcast can change your life!
For more details to Monica’s story of faith over circumstances, read “Dying to Be Healed” – available for purchase on the website.
Memorable Quote – We have to pray with our eyes on God—not on our difficulties. – Oswald Chambers
Song of the Week – “Remember” by Laurel Daigle https://youtu.be/nThnLyjQgbA
Verse for the Day – But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Corinthians 12:9
Connect with Me
Email - grief2greatday@gmail.com
Website & Resources (including Monica’s CD, “Road of Life”) - www.grief2greatday.com
Blog - Blog - Grief2GreatDay
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
6-week Faith-Based Grief Support Program - https://resources.grief2greatday.com/
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
You know there are some people in life that just change you. Think about who has impacted your life so much that you were forever different. I bet a few faces came to your mind and I’ll hope it was because they changed you for the better. It may be your loved one who came to mind. Today we’re talking about Monica - the subject of the book, “Dying to Be Healed” and the person who impacted me by her example of living and then more so, by her example of faith as she was dying.
Monica was great at living, and her support and example allowed me to grow toward the person I was to become. I share how I went from friend to caretaker overnight, anticipatory grief, and some thoughts about what may help if you or someone you know is in the position of being a caretaker to a terminally ill loved one.
For more details to Monica’s story of faith over circumstances, read “Dying to Be Healed” – available for purchase on the website.
Memorable Quote – C.S. Lewis said - God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
Verse for the Week: – I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. —Psalm 69:30
Connect with Me
Email - grief2greatday@gmail.com
Website & Resources - www.grief2greatday.com
Blog - Blog - Grief2GreatDay
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
6-week Faith-Based Grief Support Program- https://resources.grief2greatday.com/
Sunday Dec 26, 2021
Sunday Dec 26, 2021
A new year is upon us, and the idea of resolutions may pale in comparison to praying that 2022 will be better - that life will be less hard, there will be fewer tears and hope will be restored. What role do you play in your healing process anyway?
In today’s episode, I’ll share how a middle school Christmas play reminded me of how far I’ve come and how you can make progress in your grief journey. Get something to take notes on as I share 3 Actions to Take Now to Keep You Close to God During grief.
The Grief 2 Great Day Podcast will help you understand the grief journey, activate your faith, and show you ways of processing daily life to make the journey easier. So, if you're ready to understand how grief affects you, rebuild your faith and take just one step towards healing, then get into a comfortable place - even if that's your bed right now, turn off all distractions and let's get started.
You will never get over your Grief, but you can get to a Great Day. Girl, there’s hope for your future!!
Please share this episode with a friend or family member who needs to know there is hope and life after grief. Also, help us grow by leaving a written review on Apple Podcasts, I would appreciate it!
Verse of the Week – Keep Meditating on Jeremiah 29:11.
Song of the Day - Tin Roof - Chris Tomlin featuring Blessing Offor - https://youtu.be/sKM0aIqFzes
Open Door Church, Greenville, NC – December 5, 2021 sermon series “Joy and Lament” https://subspla.sh/h8k9cxg
Connect with Me
Email - grief2greatday@gmail.com
Website & Resources - www.grief2greatday.com
Blog - Blog - Grief2GreatDay
Book - Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay
6-week Faith-Based Grief Support Program - https://resources.grief2greatday.com/