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Open Your Eyes with Dr. Kerry GelbEp 162 - "Holistic Health" Mary WuerdemanMary is a nutrition and wellness coach, podcaster, foodie and healthy-lifestyle enthusiast.
2025-05-1946 min
Living With GraceHow Liminal Spaces Shape Us
Ever feel like you're in between two worlds, no longer who you were but not yet who you are becoming? This in-between--called the liminal space--is where true transformation takes root. While it can feel uncomfortable, it's also a powerful time to reflect, release, and reimagine who you're meant to be. Embrace the unknown; It's where growth happens.
2024-11-1142 minLiving With GraceHabits of You: How Daily Choices Shape Your Identity
Who do you want to be? How do your daily choices stack up against who you say you want to be?
Join Ana and Mary as they discuss daily habits and how we can use them to become the best version of ourselves and who we want to be.
2024-11-0847 minLiving With GraceThe Realistic Challenges of AgingIn this episode of Living with Grace, we explore the real and often overlooked challenges of aging. From physical changes to emotional and societal pressures, we cover it all. You’ll hear practical advice on how to manage these transitions with grace, tips for staying proactive about your health, and how to embrace aging as an opportunity for growth. Whether you’re dealing with changes in your body, navigating shifting relationships, or battling societal expectations, this episode offers a compassionate and empowering perspective.Key Takeaways: • Physical Changes: Learn about common...
2024-10-091h 02Living With GraceCelebrating Your Wins: Why Self Acknowledgement MattersIn this episode of Living with Grace, we explore the transformative power of celebrating your wins and practicing self-acknowledgement. So often, we rush past our achievements, big or small, without giving ourselves the credit we deserve. Today, we’ll uncover why it’s essential to pause and celebrate, how self-acknowledgement boosts your confidence, combats negative self-talk, and builds the momentum you need to achieve even greater goals. Learn how recognizing your progress is a powerful tool for fostering motivation, self-compassion, and lasting success.Takeaways: 1. The Science Behi...
2024-10-0254 minLiving With GraceWalking: A Simple Habit with Big BenefitsIn this episode of Living with Grace, we take a deep dive into the transformative power of walking. It’s one of the simplest, most accessible ways to improve your physical and mental well-being, yet so many of us overlook its benefits. We’ll explore how daily walking can help you boost your mood, improve heart health, reduce stress, and even contribute to a longer, healthier life. Whether you’re looking to start a new fitness habit or enhance your current routine, this episode will inspire you to lace up your sneakers and get moving!...
2024-09-2556 minLiving With GraceBreaking the Silence: Suicide AwarenessIn honor of Suicide Prevention Month, we’re dedicating this episode to a crucial and sensitive topic: suicide. Today, we’ll explore the complexities surrounding suicide, discuss risk factors and warning signs, and provide actionable strategies for prevention and support. We’ll also share personal stories, offer expert insights, and share resources to help those who are struggling or want to support others. Join us as we break the silence and work together to prevent suicide and promote mental health awareness.Trigger Warning:This episod...
2024-09-181h 02Living With GraceNavigating Grief: Understanding, Coping & Healing
In this episode, we dive deep into the complex and often misunderstood journey of grief. Whether it’s the loss of a loved one, the end of a significant relationship, or other life-altering changes, grief affects everyone differently. Join us as we explore the various stages of grief, share personal stories, offer practical coping strategies, and discuss how to support yourself or others through this difficult process. Remember, you are not alone in your grief.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Understanding Grief
• What grief is and the different emotional, physical, and psychological responses.
• The five stages of grief and why they may no...
2024-09-111h 11Living With GraceThe Power of Yet: Turning Setbacks into SuccessEpisode Title: The Power of Yet: Turning Setbacks into SuccessDescription:In this episode, we explore the transformative power of a tiny word: “Yet.” Join us as we dive into how adding “yet” to your mindset can shift you from feeling stuck to feeling unstoppable. We’ll share inspiring stories of famous figures who embraced the “yet” mentality, from Michael Jordan to J.K. Rowling, and reveal how you can harness this mindset to achieve your own goals. If you’re ready to turn obstacles into opportunities an...
2024-09-0439 minLiving With GraceConnecting to Yourself and Feeling WholeDo you ever wonder what you're doing here? Do you sometimes feel disconnected from your purpose? Do you sometimes feel out of sync with your life?
In this episode Ana and Mary discuss how to feel more engaged with your life and how to feel more aligned with who you are and what you came here to do!
So Buckle up and fasten your seat belt for a whirlwind episode.
Caution: This episode may leave you feeling uplifted and empowered!
2024-08-0753 minLiving With GraceNavigating Change with Self Compassion
The one thing we can say for sure is that life is a series of constant changes! Change can be wonderful and exciting! It can also be challenging even when we are excited it and about our future; Change can also be daunting, unsettling and scary when the change is unexpected.
Change is always happening in one way or another.
In this episode, Ana and Mary talk about life changes and helpful tools for navigating them. They also dive deep into how helpful self compassion can be as a foundational tool.
Did you...
2024-07-3152 minLiving With GraceEveryday Mindfulness: Simple Steps to Inner PeaceUnlock the Power of the Present: Join us as we dive into the transformative practice of mindfulness, exploring techniques to cultivate awareness, reduce stress, and live a more intentional life. Tune in for practical tips, expert insights, and inspiring stories that will help you find peace in every moment.
2024-07-2457 minLiving With GraceFour Life Changing AgreementsHave you ever read a book and knew immediately that it would deeply impact your life? In this episode Ana and Mary discuss the book, “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz and do a deep dive into each agreement. Listen in for an uplifting and powerful conversation.
2024-07-171h 04Living With GracePracticing Thought WorkIn this episode Ana and Mary talk about specific techniques to identify your thoughts and how to deconstruct them. They discuss methods that can help you detach from negative thoughts. These thoughts become stories that left unchecked, can create a negative narrative that can keep us stuck. Listen along and please share this episode with someone you care about.
2024-07-1144 minLiving With GraceShaping ThoughtsIn this episode Ana and Mary discus the concept of thought work and how thoughts create our daily experiences. We invite you to listen in. It just might make you curious about your own thoughts!
2024-07-0929 minLiving With GraceCreating a Gratitude PracticeIn this episode Ana and Mary discuss how to create a practice of gratitude that feels right for you and they share their own experiences and practices. If you're curious about what a gratitude practice looks and feels like and how to best establish one...this episode is for you! And if want to help someone you love experience the many benefits of gratitude, please share this episode with them. I'm pretty sure they're going to appreciate it and feel grateful!
If you missed part one of the gratitude discussion, here is the direct link to that...
2024-07-0430 minLiving With GraceThe Incredible and Proven Benefits of GratitudeCome along with us for a fun and uplifting discussion about Gratitude! Ana and Mary share the how feeling grateful improves your physical, psychological and social wellness and how you can begin to bring more gratitude into your life.
2024-07-0226 minLiving With GraceHow to Reduce Inflammation and Chronic Disease
Listen in for easy to incorporate lifestyle choices that are great for reducing inflammation, reversing visceral fat and improving your health.
Ana and Mary share tips and tricks that make it easy adopt and stack habits for even more benefits!
This episode dove tails with the previous episode which you can find right here:
https://youtu.be/V6Wkn4y7juw?si=YCwIl2AXqdcMyOO_
2024-06-2726 minLiving With GraceThe Real Impact of InflammationWe've all probably heard or have been told that chronic inflammation is detrimental to our health. You also hear a lot about the need to reduce inflammation.
In this episode Ana and Mary discuss inflammation, exactly what it means and why we need to pay attention to it. Dr. Rosa also explains medically why unchecked inflammation is so dangerous and how we need to address it.
2024-06-2535 minLiving With GraceIntro to Living with Grace and your new friends Ana and MaryWelcome to the Living with Grace Podcast! In this episode We give you an introductory overview of the podcast and our intentions behind it.
We also introduce you to your new friends and cohosts Ana Rosa and Mary Wuerdeman.
We invite to subscribe to the podcast so that you never miss an episode and we’d love to connect with you on social media as well.
We would absolutely love to hear from you!!
Connect with Mary on Instagram @with lots of love Mary or on Facebook as Mary King Wuerdeman.
Connect with Ana on Instagram @Ana Rosa Gratitude and on...
2024-06-2018 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeMeet me there!Grief is not a forever place…so where do I go from here? In this episode Invite you to that place and I’m beyond grateful to meet you there…
2022-03-0516 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeI just want to live while I'm alive (Lopping)Would you rather be a brilliant meteor, with every atom of your being ablaze or is hanging around as a sleepy lump of a planet good enough?
Life brings with it opportunities to wake up and make that choice. But how? Listen in and I'll give you the scoop.
2022-02-2527 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeYou are not your storyWhat you tell yourself about your story can create peace and healing or it can be painful and keep you stuck. Listen in as I share how to keep from getting stuck in your story and how to find more peace.
2022-02-1128 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeAre you your feelings?Are the thought that you're telling yourself about your story really true? Is what you are telling yourself about how you feel today creating your tomorrow and dictating your healing?
2021-06-1418 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeMischel's Beautiful HeartMischel and I chat about her riveting story of hope, empowerment and love. After years of struggling for answers and nearly dying, her determination to advocate for herself led her to the answers that ultimately saved her life. She shares her story to give hope and empowerment to others.
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2021-02-2226 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeEpisode 43: Becoming Radiant: Chapter 3: Is Healing PossibleIs Healing Possible?
2020-08-2023 min
2020-08-1015 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeBecoming Radiant Chapter 1: The InvitationIn order to become who you have never been, you must do what you have never done...
2020-08-0316 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeBecoming Radiant by Tom Zuba- IntroDiving into "Becoming Radiant" Tom Zuba's second book I did not come to the planet to suffer. I came to be radiant. And so did you.
2020-07-2723 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeTom Zuba Stops by to chat about his book, Becoming RadiantTom and Mary get together to chat about Tom's second book, Becoming Radiant and to kick off my reading of the book on the podcast.
2020-07-2347 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 22: The HorseDo you want o get back up on the horse of life again? Say yes to life. Say yes to love. Say yes to you!!
2020-07-1717 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 21 The Relationship ContinuesThe relationship that we have with our loved continues. Always. It is eternal...love is eternal.
2020-07-1216 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 20: Gifts Given and ReceivedAre there gifts in grief? Are you willing to look for them?
2020-07-0614 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 19: Creating A Space For HopeFourth of July 2020...Can happiness and sorrow coexist on holidays and other festive occasions? Can you open the door just a bit to create a little hope?
2020-07-0414 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 18 Dying on TimeDo you believe that your beloved was taken too soon? And is that a painful belief? Is there any other way to look at it that might bring peace instead of pain?
2020-07-0212 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 17 Signs Symbols and MessagesDo you receive signs and messages from your beloved?
2020-06-2918 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 16: You Are Stronger Than You ThinkYou are stronger than you think. You may be walking through the fire of grief now, but you will step out of the fire as radiant light. You are healing!
2020-06-2712 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 15 Keeping BusyIs keeping busy the path to healing? Does Keeping busy fix the hole in your heart? No, but there is a path to healing.
2020-06-2613 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 14: Words Have PowerWords have power. The story you tell yourself is the story you live. The beliefs that you hold onto become your words. Your words become your story. The story you tell yourself either brings you pain or gives you peace. What story are you telling yourself?
2020-06-2416 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 13 HeavenDo you believe in Heaven? Do you believe that you will be reunited with your loved one when you get there? Do you need to wait until you get there to have a relationship with your beloved?
2020-06-2216 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 12 Miracles Have you ever wanted God to do life your way? Have you ever prayed for a miracle? How do you define a miracle? Have you ever considered that a shift in perception might bring you peace? Let's unpack these big questions and find an answer that might bring peace.
2020-06-1917 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeTom Zuba Answers life's Fundamental QuestionsTom answers life's fundamental questions. Asking and answering these question until you find the answers that bring you peace instead of pain is a path to healing.
2020-06-171h 15
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 11: I Am No Stronger Than YouHealing is not a matter of strength. In order to heal you must give yourself permission to mourn. You must give yourself permission to feel the feelings and to ask the questions.
2020-06-1516 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 10: Sit DownSit down and breathe. Your heart wants to tell the story of your beloved over and over and over again until it no longer needs to. That is how you take in what has happened. That is a path to healing. Come sit down. I will listen.
2020-06-1314 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 9: Question Everything AlwaysWhen someone we dearly, dearly, dearly love leaves this world it cracks us wide open. It leaves us with questions that we need to answer. Those answers allow us to put the pieces of our life together in a way that brings us peace.
2020-06-1118 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 8: I Thought She Was LostWhen someone you dearly, dearly , dearly love vanishes from this world, it feels as we've lost him or her. But did you? Are they really lost?
2020-06-0915 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 7: Choosing to HealHealing is possible. With intention, commitment and concrete action. Listen to hear tangible tools that are the path to healing.
2020-06-0717 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 6: The unpredictability of GriefIf you are grieving, you have entered the wilderness of grief. This is not an orderly place. It's wild and it's messy. But it is not a forever place. To get out of the wilderness of grief, you must go through it. You must give yourself permission to mourn.
2020-06-0610 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 5: Choose LifeEven in the darkest of moments you are not alone. Can you hear the whisper? Life is not done with you! Choose life!
2020-06-0412 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 4: The Secret is OutWe can turn this ship around! How can I help? By healing your broken heart. We stuff our emotions, act "normal" and tell others "we're fine". But what is that doing to us? and how much of what is happening today is about stuffed down grief that just cannot be contained any longer? Be what you wish to receive.
2020-06-0212 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 3: Hold OnIn the beginning, when someone you dearly love has died, your only job is to breathe and hold on. Many have walked this path and have risen from the ashes...You can too. But for now just hold on. And remember that you are not alone.
2020-06-0112 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 2- If You Are New to GriefChapter 2- If you are new to grief I would transport you to the most comfortable, lovely room where your every need would be attended to....Join me for this beautiful chapter....
2020-06-0107 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeChapter 1 Permission To MournJoin me as I read and reflect on Chapter 1 of Permission to Mourn by Tom Zuba. The death of someone we love cracks us open big time. It is supposed to. Then what? Then the Dance begins....
2020-05-3015 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeTom Zuba is here!!Author Tom Zuba joins me to discuss his incredible book, Permission to Mourn and our upcoming collaboration here on GRiTT! There's a new way to do grief...
2020-05-2843 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeMother's Day 2020Join me as I unpack Mother's Day 2020. There's much to take in, grieve and also appreciate as we continue to find our way through this unsettling time.
2020-05-0826 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeThe Corona Virus and Our Grieving NationGrief is the normal and natural reaction to loss. We are all grieving the loss of something right now, but we are not victims and there is much we can do for ourselves and others! Join me as I give tips that can help during this unpredictable time.
2020-03-1919 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeThe Many Spaces of GriefPlease join me as I discuss the many spaces of grief and offer some guidance on how to move through those spaces and into a better space where we can feel better and maybe even find recovery!
2020-02-2829 min
Bloom Where You Are Planted Podcast with Christine KrahlingA Mother's JourneyIn this episode, Christine welcomes Mary Wuerdeman back to the podcast. In Episode 17, Mary talked about grief, and losing both of her parents and 24-year-old son, Brian, in the same year. Today Mary joins us to talk more about Brian and his struggles with opioid addiction. Listen to one mother's journey down this unpredictable and complicated path. Listen to Mary’s podcast: Grief Relief, It Takes Time (GRITT), on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play and Web Player. Find her on social @ Mary King Wuerdeman.
2020-02-2649 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeWhat Are You Choosing?Grief relief, or recovery, takes time, but time alone will not bring relief. Busting through this and other myths on how to cope with loss and making a conscious choice to simply feel better sets the stage for real relief and recovery.
2020-01-2717 minBloom Where You Are Planted Podcast with Christine KrahlingGrief Doesn’t Take a HolidayIt’s likely that you know someone who is grieving during this holiday season. But how do you know the “right” things to say and do when someone close to you has experienced a loss? Listen as Christine talks to writer and podcast host Mary Wuerdeman, who shares her grief journey and offers tips as well as hope for those grieving through the season, and every day. Listen to Mary’s podcast: Grief Relief, It Takes Time (GRITT), on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play and Web Player. Find her on social @ Mary King Wuerdeman.
2019-12-1839 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeHoliday Help Part 2So, Thanksgiving is behind us and Christmas is about a week away. In Holiday Help Part One we talked about awareness, anticipation and how to prepare for unexpected feelings. But how do we cope with those feelings once they're there? Join me for Holiday Help Part 2 as we explore the answer.
2019-12-1715 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeHoliday HelpPlease join me as share ideas and thoughts around how we can anticipate and cope with the challenges that the holidays can present when we're feeling the weight of grief. Awareness, anticipation and preparation can make a huge difference and just might even bring a bit of piece, and even some smiles as we think of our loved ones during the holidays. This episode is for you if you are feeling a little anxious or sad about the upcoming holidays. You don't have to go it alone. I'm right there with you. I...
2019-11-1430 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeWhere To Find What You Need The MostGRiTT 8: Where to Find What You Need The Most We've never really been taught how to cope with loss in our culture. Most of us just try to let time fix it for us. We hope that time alone will dull the pain and we really don't know where to look for long term relief and recovery. We put a smile on our faces to mask the tears that we're trying to hold back...Please join me for this latest episode of GRiTT where I share insights into grief that just might provide a little direction and...
2019-10-2621 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeTidal Waves and A TributeOn the 3rd Angelversary of the loss of my son, Brian I am sharing my thoughts on how to approach tidal wave sized grief and the conflict of emotions that grief evokes. I also pay tribute to my son, Brian Patrick.
2019-09-1814 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeThe Fullness of ForgivenessThis episode explores the complexity of forgiveness; How the very nature of forgiveness ties into Grief/loss and how to take steps toward the release of feelings that keep us in pain.
2019-08-2826 min
Grief Relief: It Takes TimeGetting Unstuck And Moving ForwardWe tell ourselves stories and play the same tapes over and over which keep us tossed helplessly on waves of intense emotion! In this episode I discuss tools that help us to get unstuck and move forward toward healing and even joy.
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