Build A Life After Loss Podcast

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Ep #148 Unexpected Results
I have been reflecting recently on unexpected rewards from tough circumstances. I was reminded of a traumatic event in our life several years ago that resulted in a rather funny response from my daugh
Ep #147 The Miracle is You
Albert Einstein said, “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Living as if everything is a miracle feels like a b
Ep #146 Relaxing into Emotion
Grief is messy!!! Wow! So messy and confusing, lonely and exhausting and all the things. In this episode, we talk about relaxing into all of it to work with our emotion instead of against it. Because
Ep #145 Motivation That Works
Why do we sometimes feel motivated and other times we don’t even when we want to be? This week I learned more about the Expectancy Theory of Motivation and I noticed how that was playing out in my lif
Ep #144 Coping That’s Healing
If you’re like me and most people, there comes a time in your grief and healing that you start to recognize patterns that haven’t been healthy. It’s so normal to depend on unhealthy patterns to take t
Ep #143 Natural Limits
We experience natural limits every day. You can’t pour more milk in the bowl than is in the jug of milk. You can’t withdraw more from the bank than you have deposited in the bank. You can’t work more
Ep # 142 Emotional Intelligence
Remember when emotional intelligence was all the rage? Emotional intelligence is defined as “the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage and handle emotions.” But what does that mean? In this epi
Ep #141 The Pain of Judgment
Judgment is hard. It feels yucky and knocks you off balance. The grief you’re feeling already causes you to feel vulnerable, exposed and raw. The last thing you need is judgment from those that you ho
Ep #140 True Self Empowerment
The most important thing we can do to change our experience is to change the way we think. For years, I thought that my thoughts and feelings just were what they were and there was nothing I could do
Ep #139 Lessons Learned from Illness
We all know what it’s like to be ill and recover. Everyone has had a flu or a bug of some kind in their life and gotten better. The process we go through in recovering from a physical illness is ... R