Welcome back to today’s episode. I missed posting an episode last week and I’m deeply sorry for that. My world got a little shaken up and I just couldn’t but I’m back. We’ve been undergoing a series. Today’s episode is on how adopting a growth mindset can help you on your healing Journey through grief. Typically this podcast is about grief from the loss of a loved one to death but I’m going through my own grief journey right now of losing the love of my life to himself and his choice to walk away. Due to that and the real feelings I’m experiencing right now, I hope to be able to speak to you all in a more personal way without making it about me and wallowing in the grief—more of the understanding I’m currently having. Let’s get to it.

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For the past few weeks we’ve been in a series, following the episode I released in May called “Beyond the Shell: Rebuilding Identity in grief.” If you haven’t listened to it, I encourage you to go back and do so. We seek to understand how we can rebuild our lives and identities when everything we know feels lost. That episode covered several tools that can help with that process. Since then, we’ve been breaking that apart and going into more detail of each tool. Today, we cover mindfulness and how that can help us rebuild our identity and heal from our loss.

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Today is the third episode breaking down a previous episode on aspects of grief healing. The topic of this episode is on how rituals and traditions play a crucial role in grief healing.

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Welcome back to this week’s episode of Sacred Sunsets. About three weeks ago, I posted an episode on tools that can be used to rebuild identity in grief. The following week, I expounded further on one of those tools. This week and the weeks to come, I want to continue expounding on those tools one by one. This week, we will build further on how holding on tight to your faith and values can help you rebuild your identity in grief. In that episode three weeks ago that I’m referring to, on this portion, what was said was as follows:

"Hold on tight to your faith and values. Your faith can play a significant role in the grief healing journey. Through your faith, you can find hope, comfort, and gain the benefits of being a part of a community that shares your faith. Regular and heartfelt participation in scripture, prayer, and meditation, as well as hope in eternal life also provides comfort. Further, engaging in acts of service provides a sense of purpose, fulfillment, and connection. And by reflecting on Christ’s resurrection, we can find hope for new beginnings while enduring the pain. Leaning into the belief that God’s love and grace are ever present can also provide strength and comfort."

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Welcome back to Sacred Sunsets. We're gonna take a break from delving into a couple episodes ago and picking it apart-explaining a little bit further.

Today I have the pleasure of interviewing DeJoly LaBrier. I met her in the online space. She's a coach, runs retreats, and has a history of trauma and grief in her life, and I think she'll bring a lot to the table in regards to grief and trauma recovery

DeJoly's information:

My website is https://www.dejoly.com. My business related Facebook group is https://www.facebook.com/groups/writenrise. My personal Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/dejoly.labrier/ Please feel free to dm me for a chat and to see if we are a fit for this kind of coaching. The sky's the limit and I want you to know you can have a beautiful life! You matter... and your story matters for those coming behind you!

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Welcome back to sacred sunsets! Last week, we went into many tools and ways to process grief. I feel like there was so much packed into that episode that over the next few episodes, we’re going to break those things down into separate episodes. The first thing we talked about last week was allowing yourself to feel all the feelings that come up in the loss you’ve had. Specifically, what I said was:

• it’s super important to acknowledge Your Feelings: Allow yourself to fully experience and acknowledge the range of emotions you're feeling. It's okay and totally normal to feel lost, sad, or even angry. Recognizing these emotions is the first step toward healing. Ignoring or stuffing these feelings inside can cause prolonged suffering in your grief. We have to go through the feelings. We can’t skip over or around them or they will plague us long term.

This is what we’re going to expound on today!

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Welcome back to Sacred Sunsets. Today, we delve into the profound and often isolating experience of losing a loved one. Sometimes the loss can be so deep that it leaves us feeling unanchored, like a shell of the person we once were.

Imagine standing on the shore of a vast ocean, the waves of grief crashing over you, pulling you into an unfamiliar current. The person who once provided you with a sense of stability and belonging is no longer there, and you're left to navigate the turbulent waters of loss alone.

In this episode, we will explore the raw emotions and challenges of feeling unmoored, as well as the journey to rediscovering ourselves amidst the wreckage.

Join us as we seek to understand how we can rebuild our lives and identities when everything we know feels lost.

Kristy's Contact Information:

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Welcome back to the show. Today's episode may not be comforting to the newly grieving, but in our death and grief illiterate culture, I feel that this topic needs to be ignited within each of our lives. I hope that through the things shared today, you'll be able to feel and understand the vision I have and the importance of exploring what death teaches us about life.

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