Jacki talks about facing hard in your life. She shares an experience she had recently and how she handled it and the emotions she felt. Jacki will encourage you to possibly face something that has been lingering and know you are never alone. God is by your side always! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jacki-has-a-voice/message

Jacki shares a message she received this morning of a sweet soul just beginning her grief journey. She talks about the beginning and how difficult it is. Jacki then talks about “The Walk” and how she has taken it a thousand times. She encourages you to stay true to yourself and know that when you take your walk you may be giving someone from a distance the strength they need that day. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jacki-has-a-voice/message

In this episode Jacki shares a blog she wrote 20 months after Doug had passed away. She explains how her heart was still shattered and laying in pieces. Jacki talks about how a sweet soul had reached out to her and they spoke about where Jacki was in her grief and how this soul thought she needed to be farther along in her grief journey. This is why Jacki wanted to share just one moment about 2 years after her loss where she was. It is making sure we are moving forward even if it is a slow movement forward. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jacki-has-a-voice/message

Jacki talks about the triggers that can happen during our grief journey. What they may look like and feel like. She explains how she believes it is God’s way of saying I need you to remember. Listen to the podcast as she goes into detail on that. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jacki-has-a-voice/message

Jacki’s Grief Series continues with her talking about things she was not told about losing a spouse. In this episode she speaks directly to the widow and widower. She brings insight on the things she learned about grief that no one told her about. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jacki-has-a-voice/message

E17 recorded as a segment to E16. Jacki explains how Dave Ramsey comment about being an expert because he lived it. She explains how it resonated with her and her grief journey. Jacki kicks off her grief series that will run for the next few weeks. She is going to talk about the grief she experienced and still experiences. **Disclaimer** This is her story, her experiences, what she has learned through her grief. This is not a seven step process learned in a masters program. This is real life... Jacki’s life. She hopes through her grief journey it may touch that one soul that needs the strength put back in them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jacki-has-a-voice/message

Jacki talks about why she has been MIA for the last couple of months. How imposter syndrome took over and she got in her head. She talks about the feeling of no one listening, she wasn’t touching lives, her messages didn’t really mean anything. She shares a conversation she had with a girlfriend and how that conversation was so eye opening for her. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jacki-has-a-voice/message

Jacki speaks about working in her yard this week and digging up some of her chicken and hen plants and moving them in the flower bed. She shares with us how we can uproot ourselves or sometimes others will uproot us and we will be transplanted somewhere else. How we then allow our “roots” to grab hold of where we are moved to. The soil does not need to be prepped or a hole dug, like the chicken and hens you just have to placed there and your roots will find their way to be rooted. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jacki-has-a-voice/message

Jacki talks about how when life experiences happen (loss of job, break up, death of a loved one, a move) we are ripped out of Plan A and instantly thrown into Plan B of our life. She talks about how this did not settle well with her after losing Doug, that she wanted to go back to Plan A. She shares that 10 months after losing Doug she had blogged “Plan B will blossom into something extraordinary”. Now 5 1/2 years later she can see how Plan B is becoming extraordinary in her life. She explains that where we think we need to be is NOT where God wants us. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jacki-has-a-voice/message

Jacki talks about a conversation she had with a dear friend facing some struggles. The friend shared about feeling like a sailboat tied to a dock, knowing she is meant to be sailing in the ocean. Jacki encourages us as we face struggle or feel stuck to not be the sailboat tied to the dock, but to find the tools to get yourself out in the ocean. Knowing there will be storms and big waves that you will face, but you keep pushing forward. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jacki-has-a-voice/message