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EPISODE · Jul 30, 2025 · 10 MIN

Healing Isn’t a Race: When Grief Feels Slow

from Faith & Focus: A Moment for Your Mind

Episode 13 – Healing Isn’t a Race: When Grief Feels SlowIn a world that celebrates speed and strength, what happens when your healing feels like it’s dragging behind?When everyone else seems to be bouncing back, posting smiles, making moves, and starting over, but you’re still trying to breathe through the ache?In this honest and soul-settling episode, Gigi addresses the quiet guilt that creeps in during grief. The pressure to “be okay by now.” The fear that you’re doing it wrong. The shame that whispers, “Shouldn’t I be further along?”Through biblical insight and gentle truth, you’ll be reminded that: • Grief has no stopwatch • Comparison is not compassion • Healing is holy—even when it’s slowThis isn’t just encouragement. It’s permission.To feel.To pause.To heal at your own God-led pace.📖 “The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces…”(Isaiah 25:8, NIV)⸻🎧 Background Music:“In His Presence” by Brock Hewitt – Stories in Sound📚 Books by Gigi: • Jesus, Lover of My Soul: Helping Women Worship Through Grief – Paperback • Kindle • Audiobook📆 Book a coaching session with Gigi:Christian Care Connect (search Geleta Parker)

Episode 13 – Healing Isn’t a Race: When Grief Feels SlowIn a world that celebrates speed and strength, what happens when your healing feels like it’s dragging behind?When everyone else seems to be bouncing back, posting smiles, making moves, and starting over, but you’re still trying to breathe through the ache?In this honest and soul-settling episode, Gigi addresses the quiet guilt that creeps in during grief. The pressure to “be okay by now.” The fear that you’re doing it wrong. The shame that whispers, “Shouldn’t I be further along?”Through biblical insight and gentle truth, you’ll be reminded that: • Grief has no stopwatch • Comparison is not compassion • Healing is holy—even when it’s slowThis isn’t just encouragement. It’s permission.To feel.To pause.To heal at your own God-led pace.📖 “The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces…”(Isaiah 25:8, NIV)⸻🎧 Background Music:“In His Presence” by Brock Hewitt – Stories in Sound📚 Books by Gigi: • Jesus, Lover of My Soul: Helping Women Worship Through Grief – Paperback • Kindle • Audiobook📆 Book a coaching session with Gigi:Christian Care Connect (search Geleta Parker)

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