Stefanie Cabaniss - Christian Grief Support Coach

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Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief226.0 Thank You Listeners! 3 Years of Grief 2 Great Day. SHOW NOTES As Grief 2 Great Day begins to shift from being a public podcast to moving to a private community, I’ve had questions about what that means, when that will happen and how it will affect you. So today, I want to share what’s happened over the past three years, share the vision of Grief 2 Great Day again and invite you to be a part of this exciting shift! If you have questions that haven’t been addressed in this episode, please head to the Grief Group for Christian Women (private Facebo...2025-02-0916 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief212.0 Grief Milestones. How to Cope with the Happiness of the Holidays. ReplaySHOW NOTES The holidays are a real grief milestone – much like your loved one’s birthday, day of death and anniversaries. You know they are coming and yet there is no good way to prepare for how you will feel and how to make it through. I felt a lot of anxiety, sadness and guilt as the holidays neared. The guilt came from knowing that as a Christian, I should be so focused and thankful for the reason we celebrate Christmas. But all I wanted was to crawl in a hole until December 26th. In tod...2024-12-0113 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief206.0 Holiday Grief Relief Summit: How to Find Hope & Inspiration to Not Quit! (R)SHOW NOTES We read the Bible verse that God will make all things come together for our good. Well, how in the world is what you are going through good? How can it ever be good? This is where I struggled in the beginning. I read about a Christian singer who lost her husband in a diving accident. I could so relate with the pain and confusion and then she shared how she had to trust in God and was given hope. She, like Monica while she was sick, had a hope I couldn’t rely o...2024-11-1017 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief198.0 Funnel & The Vessel: How to Overcome the Need to Say Yes.SHOW NOTES Let me start by saying that if you have healthy boundaries around your life, this episode won’t be as useful. BUT, if you are like most people and dare, I say Christian women mostly and you are one ‘yes’ away from complete exhaustion, then this episode is for you. The title of Funnel and Vessel is from a counselor that Jeff and I were seeing, and it hit home so much that even years later, it continued to resonate. When he first shared this idea, I was like, ‘Yeah – that’s what I’m talking ab...2024-10-1316 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief194.0 An Update on the Holiday Grief Relief Summit by Grief 2 Great Day.SHOW NOTES If you are new to the podcast, let me share a quick overview of the summit I am talking about. The Holiday Grief Relief Summit is a way to ‘escape’ the normal holiday season. See when the holidays come, and they are coming – there’s a whole ‘nother level of feeling your loss. You can’t escape the happy holiday marketing that is everywhere – even in the big box stores now (what in the world, Hobby Lobby) – and the true meaning of Christmas is not only lost on our culture but it’s hard to grasp in grief. It...2024-09-2915 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief187.0 Coffee & Kathy - A Weekly Quiet Time with God to Build Trust. 'Microwaves & Crockpot'SHOW NOTES Well, Hey Framily! Welcome to Coffee & Kathy, this is Stef from the Grief 2 Great Day Podcast. You are listening to our weekly devotional episode. Grief is the hardest thing you’ll ever face, don’t ever let anyone diminish that – but let’s also not diminish the power of God’s Word and the transformational healing He will do in your life. I am a living testimony of going from pitiful (heartbroken, years of tears, angry at God & the world, overwhelmed and confused) to powerful (at peace, joyful and strong in my trust, hope and fa...2024-09-0510 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief166.0 Stories of Hope: How God is Healing My Broken Heart After the Death of My Husband. Cheri Eilers.SHOW NOTES Today is a great day because I get to introduce Cheri Eilers to you. Now, if you are in the Grief Group for Christian Women (private FB group), you have been blessed by her warm and caring welcomes. But today everyone gets to hear Cheri’s story. Cheri’s husband of over 40 years died and soon after, her mother did also. She will share with you how these losses took her to a ‘crisis of faith,’ and what happened next. I believe you will be able to relate to the emotional pain and s...2024-06-1638 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief122.0 Grief Milestones. How to Cope with the Happiness of the Holidays. (R)SHOW NOTES The holidays are a real grief milestone – much like your loved one’s birthday, day of death and anniversaries. You know they are coming and yet there is no good way to prepare for how you will feel and how to make it through. I felt a lot of anxiety, sadness and guilt as the holidays neared. The guilt came from knowing that as a Christian, I should be so focused and thankful for the reason we celebrate Christmas. But all I wanted was to crawl in a hole until December 26th. ...2023-12-1713 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief115.0 Find Hope and Inspiration at the Holiday Grief Relief Summit!SHOW NOTES We read the Bible verse that God will make all things come together for our good. Well, how in the world is what you are going through good? How can it ever be good? This is where I struggled in the beginning. I read about a Christian singer who lost her husband in a diving accident. I could so relate with the pain and confusion and then she shared how she had to trust in God and was given hope. She, like Monica while she was sick, had a hope I couldn’t rely...2023-10-2915 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief110.0 From Cousin Jesus to Abba Father. How to Nurture a Genuine Connection with God.SHOW NOTES I grew up in church, I was baptized, and I called my self a Christian. But what does 'being a Christian' mean to you? I was saved – I did begin a relationship with God at a young age, but I never grew my relationship with God. I read devotions, sometimes the Bible and I did pray though not regularly. My Christianity was more religion than relationship and I’m not sure I recognized that until Monica died. In grief, I couldn’t see a future or any kind of life beyond my sorro...2023-09-2417 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief109.0 From Cousin Jesus to Abba Father. How to Move from Religion to Relationship with God.SHOW NOTES I grew up in church, I was baptized, and I called my self a Christian. But what does that mean to you? I was saved – I did begin a relationship with God at a young age, but I never grew my relationship with God. I read devotions, sometimes the Bible and I did pray though not regularly. My Christianity was more religion than relationship and I’m not sure I recognized that until Monica died. In grief, I couldn’t see a future or any kind of life beyond my sorrow. That came...2023-09-1717 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief107.0 Empower Yourself! How to Overcome Past Dependency and Build Confidence in Grief.SHOW NOTES Dependency can add to the loss and confusion you feel in grief. At 43 years of age, I had to figure out just who I was. I could tell you that I liked Christian or country music or that my favorite color was blue, but beyond that, I had been more like a chameleon as I adapted to whatever everyone expected of me. I’ll share the flip side of such dependency too. If the relationship with your loved one was more negatively dependent, you may not realize that beyond healing from the...2023-09-0317 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief102.0 Grief & Mindset. How to Get Free of 3 Thought Prisons.Last week we talked about how to make your grief journey harder and this week we go a little deeper into your mindset in terms of what rules your thoughts, your hopes and your actions. There are things you may be doing that will keep you stuck in your grief and stagnant in your life. These are thought prisons. Today, I’ll be sharing one of the three thought prisons that might have ruled your life before but now, in grief, it's keeping you from moving forward. This episode comes with a truth-in-love alert...2023-07-3015 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief101.0 Stuck in Grief? These 3 Things Make It Harder to Move Forward.One of the scariest things for me when I was going through grief was getting stuck. Initially I didn’t know what to do to get through in a healthy way, so I did a lot of the wrong things. I knew that life would never be the same, but I feared that I would never have a life again. I can tell you there are helpful and healing things you can do – a lot of which I’ve talked about in previous episodes. But there are also things that can help keep you stuck. Today, I’...2023-07-2314 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief100.0 Turtle to Athlete! How to Get Physically Strong After the Grieving Process.Over the last month or so we’ve talked about faith and feelings over faith and that can get heavy. So, for a second week, we’re switching gears to give the emotional and spiritual parts of us a break and we’ll focus on the physical. Now, we are spiritual beings living in a physical body, so there is a great connection. Please note the ‘turtle’ in the title…that is a big reminder that nothing we do in grief will come quickly, so when we talk about getting stronger physically, it is also at a turtle’s...2023-07-1613 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief99.0 Turtle to Athlete! How to Get Physically Strong During the Grieving Process.For the last month or so we’ve talked about faith and feelings over faith and that can get heavy if we are willing to put time and effort into reflecting on where we are currently and where we'd like to be. Remember, we’ll never reach perfection, but the desire of getting closer to God to live by faith (instead of feelings) is always important. Today, we’ll switch gears to give the emotional and spiritual parts of us a break and we’ll focus on the physical. Now, we are spiritual beings living in a physi...2023-07-0918 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief98.0 What Does Faith in God Mean? 5 Ways it Can Transform Your Life.Last week I shared what God says faith is. This week, I’ll share what I learned about faith in a current day example – it transformed my life forever. As Christians, we believe in a God whom we have never seen, and as long as our faith fits what we are able to comprehend and see with our eyes, we consider ourselves faith filled. Should faith be so small as to fit in our back pockets, to be pulled out only during crises? Faith must be experienced, and after you do, mere words cannot contain its d...2023-07-0222 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief97.0 What does Faith in God Mean? Why It Provides Hope in Grief.For the last four weeks we’ve talked about faith and feelings. My assumption has been that we are all on the same page about what faith in God even means and what it looks like in daily life. You have already shown great faith by believing in God. However, in grief that belief can turn to questioning and anger. When I experienced those things, it made me think that I had no faith and that I was doing the opposite of pleasing God and felt great guilt. I don’t want you to feel guilt...2023-06-2519 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief96.0 Mustard Seed Bootcamp. How to Grow Your Faith when Daily Life Overwhelms You.Regardless of the length of time in grief – all the ‘work’ is like a constant bootcamp. You are in unfamiliar territory; you are being pushed to perform while you’re exhausted and doubting everything. Regular bootcamps focus on the physical but your bootcamp – the grief bootcamp is physical too, but it is more so, spiritual. Remember, we do not war with flesh and blood but against principalities, powers, the ruler of the darkness of this world and against spiritual wickedness in high places. Do you not think the devil won’t use this time of vulnerability a...2023-06-1815 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief95.0 Faith Yo-Yo! Why We Need to Stop Treating God Like a Fad Diet.What is Faith Yo-Yo? In the last 2 episodes we talked about faith and feelings. How our feelings, our emotions are a part of us, but they aren’t always truth. So, to live above your feelings and circumstances, you must allow faith to guide your steps. Faith – that hope or confidence of what is not yet seen – is based on the Word of God and that’s truth. This week, I want to stay on the topic of faith but look at it from a different perspective. WORD of the week Look to the ...2023-06-1116 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief94.0 Faith and Feelings. How to Trust God More than What You Feel. Part 2The 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 Him, it isn’t because He has changed, or harmed us. Our questions, our anger with God come because our view of Him changes. We question because we don’t understand, and we hurt but we cannot forget His character and love toward us. God is not just our...2023-06-0416 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief93.0 Faith and Feelings. How to Trust God More than What You Feel.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 Him, it isn’t because He has changed, or harmed us. Our questions, our anger with God come because our view of Him changes. We question because we don’t understand, because we hurt but we cannot forget His character and love toward us. God is not just our...2023-05-2815 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief92.0 Can’t Keep it Together? How to Make it Through Today and Trust God for Tomorrow.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 weeks - of how God changed my life…from darkness into light. You can’t be passive on your journey, so I’m sharing 2 things to help you 'hold on' during those days while taking the next best step. ...2023-05-2114 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief91.0 Finding Comfort and Peace on Mother’s Day: 10 Ways to Honor Her Memory.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 friend – your go-to person, your cheerleader and advocate for life. I’ll also share ways for you to get through the day with comfort and peace. The goal is getting through the day, but these ideas will help you heal, so please breathe, listen, and act on...2023-05-1415 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief90.0 Best Laid Plans Gone Awry. 2 Important Reminders to Deal with Grief.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 downer, but in this world, perfect is unattainable. Because God has called me to do this grief work, I tend to relate most things to going through grief. And, to the hope God gives even in the worst moments of life. As I share our trip, I’m...2023-05-0722 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief89.0 How I Planned My End but God Gave Me a New Beginning. Guest Stephanie Flohr.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 are sick of hurting. If you are looking for something to help you hold on, listen to this episode for hope because Stephanie was where you may be. There is a way out – there is a different life – there is still a plan and a purpose for your life...2023-04-3039 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief88.0 Permission to Grieve! 5 Reasons Why Grief Makes You Feel Like You’re Going Crazy.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 uncomfortable and almost taboo. And, to jump in and sit with someone who is grieving is more uncomfortable because instead of just being with them, we want to fix the sadness, fix the situation and if we can’t fix it then we feel like we are failin...2023-04-2313 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief87.0 Grief 2 Great Day. A New, Free Resource - Loss, Grief and Healing Seminar.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 purpose and hope in seeing our loved ones again. As you are grieving, how do you get to the point of feeling ‘blessed’ and being able to say that your hope is more like a confidence in the plans of God for your life? Today you may just b...2023-04-1614 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief86.0 How to Cope and Honor Loved Ones on the Anniversary of their Death.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 loved one’s death is coming up, listen to this episode for some practical ways to honor your loved one while not forgetting what a significant day this is in your life and your healing. WORD of the week Because of the Lord’s grea...2023-04-0915 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief85.0 God Uses Broken People! How Grief Can Position You for Great Purpose.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 produces the blessing of life." I listened to Joyce Meyer remind me that God would replace beauty where there was once ashes. I needed to hear these things but, in the beginning, I didn’t believe them. I thought it was true for other people but not for...2023-04-0212 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief84.0 Functioning with Deep Sorrow. How to Keep Unhelpful People at Arms Length.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 look at your phone, see their name and cringe? You have value, you are allowed to have boundaries and not let everyone 'in' your circle. Let’s talk about how today! WORD of the week Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? An...2023-03-2613 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief83.0 Mind Won’t Stop Racing? How to Quiet Your Thoughts in Grief.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 times to turn it off – to shut the loop down but nothing seems to work. You might have even tried meditating on the scripture and still nothing. Today, I’ll share why what you’re wanting (the racing thoughts to stop and for sleep to come or gettin...2023-03-2312 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief82.0 How Grief Affects Your Brain and Why it Takes Time to Heal.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 faith should do in our journey. Grief is really not a topic people want to talk about, so there are so many things that aren't shared as we travel this difficult road. What about your brain? Remember that commercial about – this is your brain and then...2023-03-1914 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief81.0 Finding the Best Part of the Day. Why This Act is Powerful in Life After Loss.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 be thankful for can be a challenge to say the least. Gratitude in grief is not just hard, it is necessary! If you want to feed hope for a better tomorrow, you have to find the good in today. Gratitude for the blessings you still ha...2023-03-1610 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief80.0 Finding the Best Part of the Day. Why This Act is Powerful in Grief.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 be thankful for can be a challenge to say the least. Gratitude in grief is not just hard, it is necessary! If you want to feed hope for a better tomorrow, you have to find the good in today. Gratitude for the blessings you still ha...2023-03-1212 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief79.0 A Hot Mess! How to Set Healthy Expectations to Heal after Loss.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 debilitating grief would be over in a couple of months? And when it wasn’t, I felt weak and pitiful and like I was failing at everything including grief. I knew the stages of grief, but they didn’t hel...2023-03-0912 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief78.0 A Hot Mess! How to Set Healthy Expectations to Heal after Loss.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 debilitating grief would be over in a couple of months? And when it wasn’t, I felt weak and pitiful and like I was failing at everything including grief. I knew the stages of grief, but they didn’t hel...2023-03-0513 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief77.0 Purpose after Grief. How to Make Peace and Create a Meaningful Life.If you listened to the last episode of Grief to Great day you have an idea about where you stand in terms of accepting this new life you’ve been handed. Notice I didn’t say, this new life you’re excited about. If you are close to or are experiencing acceptance (not agreement or approval) and the questioning no longer takes you over, then you may be looking for the next step of this new life. In today’s episode we’ll talk about what is at the foundation of a meaningful life and how to start...2023-03-0212 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief76.0 It’s Their Fault! How to Make Peace and Create a Meaningful Life.In grief everything is amplified especially confusion and frustration. If you are struggling with blame toward someone who has hurt you or your loved one, if there is anguish because you can’t stop thinking about an injustice, today will be important for you to hear. If the ‘someone’ you have the most anger toward is God or you have regrets when it comes to your loved one’s death, then what we talk about could set you free from that. You know grief is hard enough but if you stay in anger, you will stay stuc...2023-02-2615 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief75.0 Healing Requires Action! 3 Important Truths to Rebuild Your Life After Loss.When the sickening, can’t catch-your-breath grief is in your rear mirror (you know, where there’s a little distance between you and those feelings), you will still have hard days, you will still think that it’ll never end, but you will also have new thoughts and feelings. When the new thoughts and feelings come, you have made a lot of progress on your journey. Today, I want to share three things to help you understand where you are and what is ahead. A couple things you won’t want to hear, but transition is hope-fi...2023-02-2312 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief74.0 Grief Just Takes Time! And 3 other Grief Lies Not to Believe.When you are going through grief, it’s important to know what true and what is NOT true. What is not true will keep you in pain and stuck because we all know that confusion and lies are from the devil and he only comes to steal, kill and destroy and grief is the perfect time for Satan to get a stronghold in your life. Today we are going to talk about 4 of the lies around grief. It is important that you know the truth so you can walk in the direction of healing. 2023-02-1912 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief73.0 Your Thought Life is Powerful! 3 Practical Ways to Improve Your Thinking after Loss.Continuing the discussion from the last episode, we’re talking about the importance of your thoughts. In grief, it’s so easy to allow the pain and exhaustion to take over your thought life and you should sit in the pain as you need to, you don’t want to get stuck in it. Today I’m going to share how to improve your thinking (and in doing so, improve your outlook and your life) while still grieving. Let’s jump in and start changing that automatic loop. WORD of the week T...2023-02-1614 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief72.0 Can’t Stop Thinking about Certain Moments? Do THIS to Quiet Painful Memories.When you read the title of this episode, did certain memories pop in your head and bring back pain – again? These, my friend, are the memories we are going to talk about and change. I don’t want to just talk about the hard stuff, I want to help you work through it and if there is anything you can do to change or improve the hard stuff – I’m here to share that too! Your painful memories seem to be the ones that get played in your head more than anything else and it will take...2023-02-1212 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief71.0 Good in Grief. How to Allow God to Use Pain to Birth Purpose.Good in Grief? Yeah, right! If the title irritated you, it tells me you are either just starting your difficult journey of grief or you are struggling right now. Grief is the hardest thing you will ever walk out, but there is something about what can be grown in you that is incredible. Now, this takes time and effort and trust, but it is worth every question you can ask and every tear you will cry. I know that’s a big statement, but the God who created the universe created you. He...2023-02-0917 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief70.0 Learning to Breathe Again! How to Survive the First Year of Grief. Replay.Hey Framily! The beginning of grief – aka when the world flipped 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 th...2023-02-0518 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief69.0 Willing or Wishing for Things to Get Better? This is the Work of Grief. Replay.Hey Framily! 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, eve...2023-02-0223 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief68.0 How Long Before the Pain Ends? A Realistic Grief Timeline. Replay.Hey Framily! 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 wi...2023-01-2913 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief67.0 How Do I Trust God During Grief? Finding Hope Using the Bible. (Replay)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. Ya’ll need to listen to this series. If you never listen to another one – this is the one you need! These contents will...2023-01-2615 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief66.0 Three Actions to Take Right Now to Keep You Close to God During Grief. Replay.REPLAY from Top 5 of 2022 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 less 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 too. Get something to take notes on as I share 3 Actions to...2023-01-2219 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief65.0 If Only I Would Have...How to Deal with the What If’s and Guilt of Grief.Grief is hard enough but add guilt – you know all the what if’s, the shoulda, coulda, woulda’s - to the list and it’s too much! The loop that plays in your head will either help you or keep you stuck and if your loop is saying that you played a role in your loved one’s death, it’s gonna make for harder days. This is something that you have to want to be rid of and there is a way to do that. So, join me today as I share what...2023-01-1514 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief64.0 Sick of Working Hard to Get Better in Grief? Do This Instead.Every day just feels like so much work. Trying not to cry and wanting not to hurt. Day after day the same thing. It’s bad enough that you lost the most important person in your life, but now you struggle to breathe and fit into a world that looks completely different. It’s no wonder we work hard to get better. If I had to list how I worked hard to get better, it was through my questioning, my investigating how long it would take, it was through fighting with God. That was my entire fi...2023-01-0814 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief63.0 New Year, Same Pain! Expect These 3 Things in Your 2nd Year of Grief.A new year with the same pain is another frustrating fact of grief. It reinforces the feeling of "it’ll NEVER be over." But I’m here to tell you that while the second year isn’t the end of grief (and that tidbit may help free you), there are changes to expect. If this is the second year for you or if it’s the second month, it’s important for you to listen today to know what to expect in your second year of grief. This is not all flowers and rainbows, but it should give...2023-01-0118 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief62.0 Feeling Hopeless at Christmas? 5 Bible Verses to Grieve with Hope.Thanks for hanging out with me today, on Christmas. I know you're probably struggling today, so I want to walk through the lyrics of our ‘Song of the Week’ and share 5 Bible verses to remind you why there is still hope. Had I not gone through the kind of pain that took my breath away, and made me doubt I’d EVER stop crying, I wouldn’t be telling you how possible it is. I used to read the successful journeys from grief 2 great days of others, and I thought, yeah, that’s them...2022-12-2510 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief61.0 Grief Sucks! How to Show Love to those Grieving this Holiday Season.Let’s say it like it is - Grief sucks! And it’s confusing and overwhelming to navigate most days. If you know someone going through grief especially at this time of year – during the holidays - it’s not always easy to know how help, so people will avoid trying. If you have lost a loved one or if you are a friend to someone who has, you need to listen to this episode! WORD of the Week Isaiah 26:3-4 People with their minds set on you, you keep completel...2022-12-2215 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief60.0 Grieving at Christmas? 3 Ways to Take Care of Yourself Today.So, how many people have asked, “Are you ready for Christmas?” Lawd, I hated that question especially my first Christmas in grief. In my head, I was sharing every detail of how my life had 'flipped' 3 months earlier and why I was in no way “ready” to participate in this holiday season. But, out of my mouth came, “I guess” so I could keep it moving and not have to talk about it. Like it or not, Christmas is coming and with it are beautiful and painful memories – with it are traditions lost and others created. And, for...2022-12-1816 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief59.0 Returning to Bad Habits to Stop the Pain? 3 Healthy Ways to Deal with Grief.In life before grief, you probably dealt with self-limiting thoughts that kept you ‘in your head’ and overthinking things. In grief, you’re gonna deal with any self-limiting thought and all doubts that have ever crossed your mind. You will struggle with those thoughts more than usual which will tempt you to find comfort quickly in unhealthy behaviors. Let me go ahead and tell you that finding comfort in unhealthy habits (be they old or new) will complicate your life and prolong your grief. Yes, there will be days where you feel extremely weak and comfort in...2022-12-1118 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief58.0 Stories of Hope. How to Trust God after Losing My Husband. Guest Jane Toor. Part 2This is a Story of Hope Episode. These episodes are meant to share the real-life journeys of other women who are walking out the loss of their loved one. The movies we see on TV do a real good job of highlighting before to after but the truth of how things turn out lies in the middle. I’m so thankful for the women who are willing to share their stories because their losses may be more similar to yours than mine and a word from them will give you a revelation that could change your perspective. ...2022-12-0448 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief57.0 Stories of Hope. How to Trust God after Losing My Husband. Guest Jane Toor.This is a Story of Hope episode. These episodes are meant to share the real-life journeys of others who have or are walking out their loss of a loved one. The movies we see on TV do a real good job of highlighting before to after but the truth of how things turn out lies in the middle – after the before and before the after. I’m so thankful for the women who are willing to share their stories because their losses may be more like yours than mine and a word from them could give you a revelation to cha...2022-12-0139 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief56.0 Grief to Great Day. Can You be Happy Before the Pain Stops?Think about life before grief. Weren’t there days or even seasons that you can remember not being happy? Well, in the beginning of grief, it’s even hard to find the ‘good much less the great in any given day. The loss and pain of grief overwhelm you and all you see, and feel are your loss. You still feel gratitude for your loved one’s presence in your life though – what they meant to you and how they lived their lives, but the overwhelming picture of life changes to what you ‘don’t have.’ There may be days...2022-11-2716 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief55.0 Holidays and Grief. 25 Bible Verses that Bring Peace & Comfort at Thanksgiving.Today is Thanksgiving and it may be a day you just want over with, so giving thanks isn’t so easy. And, when you are getting lost in your feelings, it’s hard to do the thing that will change all things. I’m talking about being in God’s word. Today, I want you to know that you aren’t alone, that you are loved. Just sit back and listen as I read God’s word and a few quotes to help you through this day. God is still good, and He still has a purpose for you...2022-11-2411 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief54.0 Grief Milestones. How to Cope with the Happiness of the Holidays.The holidays are a real grief milestone – much like your loved one’s birthday, day of death and anniversaries. You know they are coming and yet there is no good way to prepare for how you will feel and how to make it through. I felt a lot of anxiety, sadness and guilt as the holidays neared. The guilt came from knowing that as a Christian, I should be so focused and thankful for the reason we celebrate Christmas. But all I wanted was to crawl in a hole until December 26th. In today...2022-11-2013 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief53.0 Grief and Holidays. 10 Ways to Honor Your Loved One on Thanksgiving.When I heard people talking about Thanksgiving or Christmas, the anxiety would rise, and the dread would increase. I wanted to escape all the happy holiday things. But, short of escaping (which is fine if you need to), I want to share how to include your loved one into your Thanksgiving. I’m going to share 10 ways, but then we’ll discuss the importance of how these ideas are also used to build your loved one’s legacy. Bring pen and paper, because I’m talking a little faster than usual and I don’t w...2022-11-1711 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief52.0 Holidays and Grief. Why the First Holidays are the Worst.Has it been shocking to you that grief has been harder than you thought? That it’s taking SO much longer than you imagined and that it seems like it will never end? Well, the first holidays (and possibly the second) will be as shocking and make you feel the same way. In preparation for your first holidays, I’m going to share: 3 things to prepare for 3 things to help you get through and, 3 things to consider doing differently this year WORD of the Week And the p...2022-11-1317 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief51.0 Stories of Hope. How to Grieve with Godly Hope. Guest Kathy Brasby.When my guest today was finishing the writing of her book, “Cutting Through Despair: Dare to Hope” – something very unexpected happened. Her husband became ill and died. In today’s episode, Kathy shares the story of her grief journey thus far and what a Godly hope has meant. No longer mere words on pages meant to encourage others, this ‘hope’ she wrote of became essential in her life. It’s important for you to hear from others who have or are currently walking out this difficult season of life. Kath...2022-11-0636 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief50.0 Does Grief Get Better? My Testimony of Creating a Life after Loss.If you look back over your life, are there times that you felt lost or without hope of a better tomorrow? Are there times when God didn’t answer your prayer the way you wanted? This, on steroids is what grief is. And, if this is your first major loss, it will take you longer to be able to look back and see that God never left you, that He heard your cries and was still working for your good. In today’s episode, I’ll share how God was there during many...2022-11-0313 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief49.0 Better than Prozac. Why it’s Important to Exercise after Loss for Your Mental Health.You may be thinking – “Exercise…now? I can’t get out of the bed some days.” My biggest goal was to take a shower and some days it took ALL day to accomplish that. So, who cared about walking around the block? In this episode, I’ll share how to go about adding physical activity into your daily routine to help your mood, your sleep, your emotions and increase your hope while you are going through grief. This is a powerful tool to help you feel better right now! The question i...2022-10-3016 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief48.0 Need Gods Presence? How to Feel a Tangible Touch in your Darkest Moments.There are times in life when you need to ‘feel’ God’s presence in the middle of tough circumstances. In grief, you have a million emotions and maybe some anger and resentment toward God, so ‘feeling’ His presence is harder. As we begin – think about what ‘feeling’ God’s presence means to you – what does it look like when all you are experiencing is pain? Today we are going to talk about what the Bible says about God’s presence and how you can feel it like a tangible hug, keeping you safe from the constan...2022-10-2314 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief47.0 How to Find Satisfaction in Surrender when the Weight of Grief is too Great.What does satisfaction mean in grief? And what does surrender have to do with it? In today’s episode, we talk about why surrender is important in grief and how it is the beginning of healing. Satisfaction is not contentment, it is deeper, and it is dependent on you surrendering your pain, tears, your current life to the one who created it. A simple process it is not, but it is incredibly important. WORD of the Week Then Job replied to the Lord: “I know that you can...2022-10-2013 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief46.0 What Do I Do with Personal Possessions after the Death of a Loved One?How and when is it time to let go of your loved one’s stuff? And, what is the best way to do it? There are many opinions on this one from never letting go to let everything go to ‘you have to do it right away.’ Let this serve as a reminder that this grief is yours – it is your journey and making the decision as to what and when is something you get to decide, no one else. In today’s episode, I share my experience with a friend who pushed for me...2022-10-1617 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief45.0 What Does Push Look Like When You Have Nothing Left in Grief?Some days, you will have nothing left and jumping in the bed seems like the solution – some days, it is the solution but today we’re going to talk about how to know you truly have nothing left and what you can do about it. Grief steals our energy so most days you will feel exhausted, and, in the beginning, rest is so important. But over time, don’t allow yourself to live in the exhaustion of yesterday. In this episode, we’ll talk about how to push (what does that look like...2022-10-0913 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief44.0 Manna for the Day. How to Be Satisfied in the Hard Moments of Grief.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. And as you walk through grief and then become ready to build another life and discover new purpose, how do go about figuring out what that looks like? How do you put your hands to the work you are created to do? These first Purpose After Loss Episodes are going to be about build...2022-10-0714 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief43.0 Stuck in Grief after Loss? 3 Practical Tips to Cope and Conquer.How many times do we get stuck (or thrown in the pit) when we are grieving? The number for me was too many to keep up with. Sometimes being stuck was my excuse to do nothing and then getting out of it was hard. The times I took action, the times I pushed beyond my emotions, they were the times I was less stuck, and the pit was less deep. There will be times, that you don’t care about healing, you don’t care about anything else that’s going on because you just can’t act…t...2022-10-0218 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief42.0 3 Important Ways to Help a Loved One through Loss when You are Grieving TooWhen you have a friend or family member who is grieving, it’s not always easy to know how to best help them through the worst moments of their life. However, when you are also grieving the same loss, how do you help them while honoring the process you too are going through? You hurt because of the loss but then you are hurting because someone you love hurts. Sometimes you put your grief on the backburner to comfort and care for your loved one. Sometimes that’s ok, but what if you are just as confu...2022-09-2519 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief41.0 The Faith Resume. How to Build Trust in God’s Character.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. And as you walk through grief and then become ready to build another life and discover new purpose, how do go about figuring out what that looks like? How do you put your hands to the work you are created to do? The first few 'Purpose After Loss' episodes are going to be about...2022-09-2212 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief40.0 Fearful to Move Forward? How to Gain Traction in Your Life after Loss.The future ahead of you looks like a mountain that you are too weary to climb. The past is where your memories are, it’s where your loved one is and as much as you’d like to go back there, it is not possible. This major change in your life is not what you wanted, and you have no idea what the future will hold. It becomes overwhelming and the fear starts to set in about what you need to do. In this episode, we’ll talk about how not to ‘opt out...2022-09-1817 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief39.0 What’s the point? Why the Daily Grind is Important after Loss.You wake up and it’s like Groundhog Day. I hated that movie. The reality of loss sets in again and again. The first weeks and months and yes, even in the first year, the daily grind of grief is where the battles are fought. Yes, day by day by day by day by painful day by sad day by hard day by day, by tear-filled, by angry by exhausted day. That was a little annoying, huh? That’s the daily grind – it is annoying, it is never ending, and you feel like you are getting nowh...2022-09-1118 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief38.0 Purpose After Loss. How to Replace Grief with Great Day.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 –...2022-09-0812 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief37.0 Forgetting Your Loved One? How to Move Forward without Worry or Guilt.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! ...2022-09-0419 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief36.0 Shattered Dreams? How to Rebuild Life after the Loss of a Loved One.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...2022-08-2819 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief35.0 No Tears? How to Handle Death of an Estranged Family Member.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 rela...2022-08-2120 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief34.0 Willing or Wishing for Things to Get Better? This is the Work of Grief.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 ha...2022-08-1421 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief33.0 How Could a Loving God Allow This? The Struggle of Faith in Grief.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 m...2022-08-0718 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief32.0 An Update on Grief 2 Great Day – Grief Support for Christian WomenHey 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 Leave a Review for Grief 2 Great Day o...2022-08-0309 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief31.0 How to Have Hope When All You Feel is Pain after LossThere 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 ashe...2022-07-3117 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief30.0 What does Acceptance Mean after the Loss of a Loved One?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 conti...2022-07-2419 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief29.0 When is it Okay to Move on After the Death of a Loved One?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 par...2022-07-1715 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief28.0 Why the Microwave Mentality of Grief is Harmful! How to Resist Secondhand Stress.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...2022-07-1015 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief27.0 Stuck at the Beginning Again! How to Know You Are Making Progress in Grief.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? ...2022-07-0315 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief26.0 Grieving and a People Pleaser? How to Set Boundaries to Deal with Loss.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...2022-06-2614 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief25.0 What Do I Do Now After the Loss of a Loved One? Your Grief Survival Roadmap. Part 2The 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 wo...2022-06-1917 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief24.0 What Do I Do Now After the Loss of a Loved One? Your Grief Survival Roadmap. Part 1.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 wo...2022-06-1216 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief23.0 Sick of Crying after a Death? How to Deal with the Endless Tears.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 u...2022-06-0514 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief22.0 What is Wrong with Me? Making Sense of the Feelings of Grief. Guest Veleria HollowayGUEST INTERVIEW When you go through grief everything seems upside down and trying to make sense of the feelings of grief is no easy task. On today’s episode, Veleria Holloway, Chaplain at an Inpatient Hospice House and Christian Counselor shares so much wisdom! She wants to make sure that you: Feel what you feel without apology Don’t put yourself on a timeline for healing Seek connection & support always and counseling/coaching when needed Understand the types of people (Avoiders, Advisers, Advocates) that will come across your path while grieving Understand what a trigge...2022-05-2929 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief21.0 The Good in Grief. 3 Truths to Give Hope of Life after Loss.Is there such a thing as 'good' in grief? The answer is yes though it’s not something you will see or feel for a while. Grief is an incredible priority-setter; a perspective-changer and a purpose-builder. These may feel meaningless to you now because you’re walking through such pain and that’s to be expected but later you’ll see how this has changed you. And, there are still things you can do now in preparation for your future. This is a longer episode with lots of important stuff for you to know and all...2022-05-2214 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief20.0 The ’Good’ in Grief. 5 Lessons About Loss to Build a New Life.Is there such a thing as "good" when you are going through grief? We know that death is a part of life – you understand that when you see others go through it. But, when it affects your life, then you feel it in ways you never could have imagined. The grief process itself is unexpectedly hard and can change your identity, make you question your reality and shake your faith. Today we’re talking about you in the future - when you can look back and see pieces of the puzzle (that were once strewn in every...2022-05-1516 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief19.0 After a Loss - How to Find Comfort and Honor Your Loved OneThe honoring of your loved one is something that is very individual because honoring means different things to different people, and it can change over time. As you honor them, it brings comfort to you as it is a way of continuing the relationship. In the beginning of your grief journey, the pain and confusion can be so overwhelming that you don't have the energy for anything, so honor may look like clearing off a table to arrange photos and items of your loved one. Today we’ll talk about honoring your loved one, I’ll als...2022-05-0814 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief18.0 How to Cope with Feeling Jealousy After the Death of a Loved OneThe emotions of grief are accentuated and sometimes can even surprise us when we feel things that we didn’t experience before. The one moment in time that takes us from normal life to the grief life is short but the emotions we are left with last a lifetime. It’s important to know what is normal, what to do with those emotions and how to use them to build gratitude later. In this episode, we’ll talk about being envious or jealous of those who aren’t going through hard times and what you can do abou...2022-05-0112 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief17.0 What’s the Best Thing to Say to Someone Who is Grieving?SHOW NOTES - What's the Best Thing to Say to Someone Who is Grieving? Other people play a crucial role in your healing - either as a help or a hindrance. As a society, we don't talk about grief and who wants to really - until it touches your life. So, when you are going through the hardest moments, those around you don't exactly know what to say or do unless they have been there. Because of this, things are said that can come across as hurtful. In this week's podcast, we...2022-04-2415 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief16.0 Does Feeling Like a Burden Keep You from Getting Help with Grief?Why is it that we don't reach out for help when we clearly need it? In previous episodes, we talked about where you can get help and support as you walk through the difficult journey of grief. But, knowing what to do is far different than doing what you know. The power of change occurs in the action not the intention. What can happen if you are feeling stuck or hopeless and don’t reach out for help, your journey will harder and slower and the possibility of staying stuck and hopeless is very real. Seve...2022-04-1715 min

Grief 2 Great Day - Christian Grief Support for Women, Questioning God in Grief, Life after Loss, Hope in Grief15.0 How a New Season Feels When Going Through the Season of Grief.In your grief journey, you will find that there are a lot of things that remind you of your loss again and again. And, not in a “oh yeah, I remember’ kind of way. These reminders are gut punches that have the potential to throw you back into a pit of despair once again. Seasons and holidays are two milestones you will encounter in your journey and after. And before we go further – I feel like someone needs to hear this. You may be hurting right now, you might even be in that pit and all you want is a...2022-04-1013 min