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Finding Purpose After Child Loss
The author, a grieving mother, shares her journey after losing her son, Trucker, to cancer. Through profound grief, she sought purpose and created Holistic Grief Academy, a supportive space for mourning mothers. Emphasizing healing and remembrance, she reassures others that love transcends loss, encouraging personal growth amidst sorrow and transformation.
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Surviving Parenthood While Grieving
Truly, no one prepares you for this dual reality: grieving the unimaginable while still parenting the living. You’re expected to cook dinner. Answer questions. Show up.At the same time, you’re holding a grief so heavy it makes every breath feel like a battle. You’re not just heartbroken.You’re exhausted. Without a doubt, parenting while grieving is…
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What No One Tells You About Rebuilding Your Identity After Loss
“Who am I now, without them? The identity crisis no one talks about.” Grief doesn’t just break your heart.It breaks your sense of self. No one told me that after loss, I’d look in the mirror and not recognize the woman staring back.That the things I once loved would feel hollow.That the roles I used…
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Common Misconceptions About Grief Coaches
Grief doesn’t need fixing. It needs witnessing. When people hear “grief coach,” their eyebrows often rise just a little.“Do you help people move on?” “Isn’t that what therapists are for?” “Are you just telling people to think positive?” Let’s be clear: grief coaching is none of those things. And yet — I understand the confusion.…
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How We Add Suffering To Our Grief
(And How to Ease the Burden) Grief is already one of the heaviest burdens a heart can carry, yet so often, we unknowingly add even more suffering to our pain. While grief itself is a natural response to loss, suffering often comes from the stories we tell ourselves, the expectations we place on our healing,…
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Finding Moments Of Joy Amongst Grief
Finding Small Moments of Joy Amongst Grief Grief is an overwhelming and all-encompassing experience, especially for mothers who have lost a child. It can feel like the world has lost its color and that joy is no longer within reach. However, even in the midst of pain, small moments of joy can exist. These moments…
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What’s the big deal with INSPIRATION?
Inspiration: The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something. I have been told more times than once that I am inspiring. Although I am very grateful and blessed that some people think that, it does make me think how does that happen? I don’t believe people are necessarily born inspired. Just like…
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What It’s Like To Go Through Cancer Treatment- A Real Analogy
When someone in your family gets cancer, especially when it’s your baby, everyone gets cancer. Your life changes forever, and so does your perspective on life. All of a sudden the fragility of life stares you in the face and you can NOT look away. You just have to face it, and come to terms…
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How to Support A Grieving Friend
Grief. It is such a complicated, delicate issue, and yet many of us wrestle with it, and live with it in this life. In fact, if you’ve not dealt with it yet, statistics say that you will. The one thing that we are 100% sure of in this life is that we will die. The…
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REFLECTIONS OF GRIEF
This spring we passed the 5 year mark that Trucker boy physically left this earth, and we also celebrated what would have been his 9th birthday. I still think of him, and miss him every. single. day. and I thought with passing these milestones it would be appropriate to share with you, what I have…
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Tragic Beauty- Finding Gifts Amongst the Ashes.
What do you do when the worst thing you could have ever imagined happens to you?! Do you let it ruin you and become a miserable shell of a human?! OR can you shift your perspective, find things to still be grateful for, see the gifts that are always there even in the darkest times,…
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Homemade Salad Dressings
Nothing ruins a big, beautiful, healthy salad more than added chemicals, and inflammatory oils. Did you know that conventional store-bought salad dressing often has harmful preservatives, added sugar, artificial flavors, and colors, and often highly inflammatory oils in them?! All of these ingredients push you away from optimal health. Do yourself a HUGE favor and…
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5 Healthy Kitchen Tips
The good news is YOU were made to heal. The human body is SO incredibly complex and amazing! The goal is to strive towards optimal health, so our bodies can function the way they were meant to. This is a lifestyle, a commitment to yourself, a marathon, and will require some discipline, but I promise…
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Gift Perspective Goggles
In an instant—everything changed. This wasn’t an option, it was a calling, and no longer optional. An unshakable feeling down to the very last cell in my body that I had to share my passion on how we can support our families holistically. I had no idea, in that moment, that my life would change…
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Castor Oils Pack made Easy
Castor oil packs have been used for thousands of years, and have many health benefits including reducing inflammation and swelling, increasing lymphatic flow, strengthening the immune system, is supportive of your digestive system, and also improves liver(your main detox organ) activities. They can be super helpful for many ailments that we wrestle with such as…