You may not agree with the title of this podcast episode, but it really is true. You can have hope in your life again after child loss. And the Christmas season, as difficult as it can be, is a great time to have that hope infused into your heart and soul. Each week during the [...]
Dec 1, 2020
16 min
This is the final episode in a 3-part series called Rebuilding Your Life After Child Loss. First, we hear from two bereaved parents (Sara Nelson and Melanie Delorme) about their journey coming out of the darkness and back to a place of living a life of meaning and purpose again. Then I share how I [...]
Nov 24, 2020
22 min
When our child dies, we find ourselves in a place of darkness we didn t even know existed. There are often many struggles within that place of darkness. Today we will touch on three of these: Prayer Those around us who don t understand and aren t supporting us How our thoughts can keep us in our place [...]
Nov 17, 2020
13 min
In this podcast episode, I talk about the mental breakdown that we struggle with after the death of our child. If you are like me, the mental break downs are so very frustrating; the confusion, the fogginess, not being able to concentrate, and major forgetfulness (as in forgetting how to do a simple task you [...]
Nov 10, 2020
22 min
When our child dies, we start out in such a place of darkness and eventually have moments we see light or hope, and then fall back into that darkness. Along with that, many of us have a hard time seeing or finding God in all of the pain and confusion. No one has all the [...]
Nov 3, 2020
21 min
At GPS Hope, we get emails from those of you who are struggling in your marriage after the death of your child, or who have questions about how your spouse is grieving. So, I decided it was time to do a podcast episode on this topic. Of course, this means I got to bring in [...]
Oct 27, 2020
40 min
So often I hear the frustration of bereaved parents who are hurt and angry because people around them think they should be doing better than they are, even as early as 3 or 4 months, on up to the first few years. This episode addresses this difficult issue, with some ideas of things that can [...]
Oct 20, 2020
27 min
This week is a continuation of last week s episode as I talked with Erica Mitchell. Erica had a pregnancy loss and had to deliver her stillborn son, which was pretty traumatic. Last week we ended in the middle of Erica s story of God allowing her to see her son, Sheldon, in heaven. She was so [...]
Oct 13, 2020
40 min
This is the beginning of a chat I had in the Hope Mobile with a Wisconsin friend, Erica Mitchell. Today s talk is quite a bit of the details (and I do mean details as in possible trigger warning, which are important to her story) of Erica s story of the traumatic pregnancy loss of her [...]
Oct 6, 2020
27 min
When our child dies, most of us have an immediate support system. But as the weeks and months go by, those people usually go back to their lives and we are left still shattered. We feel like we are going crazy. People around us say that we should be over this by now and make [...]
Sep 29, 2020
46 min