All Episodes

366: When Grief Hits Without Warning

365: Lost, Gone, or Passed Away: How We Talk About Our Child’s Death

364: God’s Love Story in a World at War

363: Spiritual Mayhem Part 2 (with Becky Russell)

362: Spiritual Mayhem After Child Loss (with Becky Russell)

361: Our Children Know Something We Don’t

360: The Life I Didn’t Choose

359: Your Changed Identity After Child Loss

358: Where Do You Go From Here?

357: How to Begin Rebuilding Your Life After Child Loss

356: What Freedom Looks Like After Child Loss

355: God Never Meant the Pit to Be Your Home After Child Loss

354: When Child Loss Changes How You See God’s Favor

353: Will I Recognize My Child in Heaven?

352: When You Don’t Know How to Pray After Child Loss

351. When No One Understands Your Pain After Child Loss

350: Finding Jesus in the Storm After Child Loss

349: Living Beyond Fear After Child Loss

348: How to Handle Milestones After Child Loss

347: How to Handle Mother’s Day After Child Loss

346: Trying to Trust God After the Death of Your Child (Part Two: How God Rebuilds You Through the Pain)

345: Trying to Trust God After the Death of Your Child (Part One: When Your Faith Feels Shaken)

344: How to Cope with Your Child’s Birthday After Child Loss

343: Foggy Brain After Child Loss: Why Grief Affects Your Mind and Memory

342: Turning Pain into Peace (with Angela Alexander)

341: Heaven Feels Closer When Your Child Is There

340: When God’s Ways Don’t Make Sense After the Death of a Child

339: Your Grief Does Not Have to Define You (with Jody Hudson)

338: When Jesus is Holding Your Baby (with Ashley Opliger)

337: Renewing Your Mind after Child Loss

336: Clinging to God After the Death of a Child (8 Heart Skills – Part 2 with Linda Dillow)

335: Hope for My Hurting Heart (with Linda Dillow)

334: When God Feels Silent After the Death of a Child

333: How Your Thoughts Affect Grief After the Death of a Child

332: Sibling Loss: Understanding the Unique Grief of Your Surviving Children (with Bobby and Gabby Bisterfeldt)

331: Three Keys to Unlock Your Heart After Child Loss

330: Is Joy Even Possible… Ever Again?

329: Entering a New Year Without Our Child

328: A Christmas Prayer for Bereaved Parents

327: Surviving the Holidays After Child Loss

326: Finding God’s Peace After Child Loss at Christmastime

325: Who Am I Now After Losing a Child? Finding Identity and Hope as a Pareavor

324: Life After Losing a Child: How One Dad Found Meaning, Purpose, and God Again (with Tracy Brinkmann)

323: Honoring Our Children Who Died by Suicide (with Carol Krawiec)

322:Holding Onto Hope Through the Holidays

321: Watering the Seed of Hope After Child Loss

320: Can Writing Really Help with My Grief? (with John DeDakis)

319: No Rainbow Baby after Pregnancy Loss (with Shelley Hitz)

318: One Step at a Time Through Our Grief

317: Facing the One-Year Anniversary After Child Loss

316: Finding Jesus After the Death of His Child (with Mick Wienholt)

315: Grieving Parents in the Bible

314: Sacred Reminders

313: Rebuilding Your Life After Child Loss

312: Can God Really Heal My Hurting Heart? (with Rachel Wojo)

311: Bringing Our Pain to God After Child Loss

310: When “Why?” Can Become the Wrong Question After Child Loss

309: Losing a Disabled Child: Finding Hope After a Lifetime of Care

308: Our Relationship With God After Child Loss

307: I Am So Mad at God for Taking My Child

306: When Life Stands Still After the Death of Your Child

305: Waiting for Answers After Child Loss

304: Getting Through the Grief of Child Loss, One Step at a Time (with Lisa Espinoza)

303: A Different Kind of Freedom for Grieving Parents

302: Rediscovering Purpose After Child Loss (with Kim Harms)

301: Is God Punishing Me?

300: Two Dads Talk about Child Loss and Father’s Day (with Matt Poelman)

299: Can I Trust God Leading Me?

298: Psalm 23:1 Through the Eyes of Child Loss

297: The Lord is My Shepherd

296: Getting Past the Trauma of Child Loss (with Jacke Rose)

295: What is Hope?

294: Child Loss by Suicide Part 2 (with Greg and Cathy Buffkin)

293: Child Loss by Suicide (with Greg and Cathy Buffkin)

292: Helping You Navigate Through the Darkness of Child Loss

291: When We Don’t Think God is There

290: The Gift of the Holy Spirit in Our Grief

289: When God Doesn’t Make Sense

288: The Difference Between Guilt and Regret (with Nancy Weil)

287: Digging Ourselves Out of the Darkness After Child Loss

286: How Can I Trust God Again?

285: Do You Feel Like You’re on Sinking Sand?

284: Thinking About Heaven After Child Loss

283: Does God Have a Word for You?

282: Grief Is a Journey (with Glen Lord)

281: A Glimpse of Hope After Child Loss (with Greg Buffkin)

280: I Lost My Joy When My Child Died

279: Climbing the Mountain of Grief

278: Is There a Difference Between Thankful and Grateful?

277: Navigating the Holidays After Child Loss (with Kim Peacock and Sara Nelson)

276: You Are Seen

275: The Enemy’s Objective

274: Grace and Grief After Child Loss (with Kim Avery)

273: I Feel Like God Betrayed Me

272: Getting Pulled Back into Our Grief (with Sara Nelson)

271: Going Through Different Seasons of Grief

270: Feeling Broken After Child Loss

269: Becoming a Prisoner of Hope

268: Things People Say That are Not Helpful after Child Loss (with Sara Faith Nelson and BJ Jensen)

267: God, Why Can’t I Hear You?

266: So Many Tears

265: God, I Can’t Forgive You for This (with Joycelynn Harrell)

264: Our Journey of Faith Versus Fear and Doubt

263: Thinking of My Child with Joy

262: Waiting to Be with My Child Again

261: When Will It Stop Hurting So Much?

260: I Can’t See Anything Even Remotely Good

259: Our Promised Miracle

258: Mother’s Day After Child Loss

257: Do Not Allow the Pressure of Comparing

256: God’s Future Plans for You

255: Where Did My Friends Go? (with June K. Collins)

254: Taking Communion After the Turmoil of Child Loss

253: The Hope of Resurrection Power

252: Our Future Prize

251: Can Life Ever be Good Again?

250: There Is No Such Thing As the Five Stages of Grief with Child Loss

249: It All Started When She Was Only Three…

248: We Can Be Both Broken and Beautiful

247: Expecting the Unexpected in Our Grief

246: My World Stopped When My Child Died

245: A Needed Anchor for the Year

244: Hope for the Hopeless After Child Loss

243: The Forever Love For Our Child

242: Is It Possible to Have Joy Again?

241: The Prince of Peace Within the Pain of Child Loss

240: Waiting with Hope

239: The Wilderness of Child Loss

238: It’s So Hard to be Thankful

237: Preparing for Advent as a Bereaved Parent

236: My View of God’s Word after Child Loss

235: What About My Child’s Things?

234: Why Do We Hold Onto Our Guilt When Our Child Dies?

233: Letting Go of Guilt After Child Loss

232: The Dreaded Anniversary Death Date

231: You Can’t Compare When It Comes to Child Loss

230: Is God Really in Control?

229: I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore After My Child Died

228: When God is Silent After Child Loss (Part Two)

227: When God is Silent After Child Loss

226: Does God Love Me?

225: The Issue of Grandchildren after Child Loss (Part Two)

224: The Issue of Grandchildren after Child Loss (Part One)

223: A Key to Your Future Self’s Identity

222: The Many Years Following Child Loss (with Debra Hayes)

221: Is God Punishing Me? (with Debra Hayes)

220: When You Believed God for a Healing (with Rhyl Venning)

219: Our Dark Thoughts in Grief

218: Our Many Triggers and Tears After Child Loss

217: I Don’t Want to Be Here Without My Child

216: What Do You Call Someone Who Has Lost a Child?

215: It Hurts When They Don’t Understand (continued with Melanie DeSimone)

214: It Hurts When They Don’t Understand (with Melanie DeSimone)

213: The Gift of the Holy Spirit Within Child Loss

212: Grief and Laughter (with Nancy Weil)

211: When the Rest of the World Moves On (with Kim Peacock)

210: I Feel Like I Am Dying In the Wilderness

209: Being Okay with Being Broken

208: Our Dark Thoughts After Child Loss

207: Reflections of Hope After Child Loss (with Sara Nelson and Vickie Hickox)

206: Their Birthday is So Hard!

205: Removing the Sting of Death

204: What Season of Grief are You In?

203: Our Grief is Like…

202: Sexual Intimacy after Child Loss (with Linda Dillow)

201: God’s Gift of Sexual Intimacy (with Linda Dillow)

200: Six Pitfalls of Grief

199: To Know and Be Known

198. Why Couldn’t I Save My Child?

197: Learning How to Live Again After Child Loss (with Clint Hatton)

196: A Declaration of Hope After Child Loss (with Linda Dillow)

195: Trusting God When It Doesn’t Make Sense (with Linda Dillow)

194: Why We Will Never Get Over It

193: My Goal for This Year Is To Survive!

192: Hope is Our Anchor

191: ‘Twas the Night After Christmas

190: Can Our Children Still Communicate with Us? (with Nancy Weil)

189: Can We Have Signs From Our Children?

188: Five Gifts to Give Yourself while Grieving During the Holidays

187: How to Survive the Christmas Season (with Lynda Cheldelin Fell, Melanie Delorme)

186: Grief and Coping with the Holidays

185: Our Struggles with Thanksgiving and Child Loss

184: Strength and Stability After Child Loss

183: The Heavy Weight of Grief after Child Loss (with Angelique Marketon)

182: God Does Not Say He Will Give Us Joy for our Grief

181: Healing Under God’s Sovereignty (with Carol Keefer and Pat Wentworth)

180: Can We Ever Have Beauty in our Lives Again after Child Loss? (with Lin Findlay)

179: Health and Self-Care After Child Loss

178: Looking for the Extraordinary Moments (with Teresa McCloy)

177: Heroes of Hope After Child Loss (with Shirley Thiessen)

176: Five Things I Wish I Had Known About Grief (with Shirley Thiessen)

175: The Grandparents (Our Parents) in Child Loss

174: Our Dreams About Our Children after Child Loss (with Dr. Joshua Black)

173: I Can’t Get Rid of My Child’s Things

172: Was My Child’s Death My Fault?

171: How Can the Holy Spirit Help Me in My Grief?

170: Finding God in the Darkness

169. Why Does God Seem Silent?

168: Where Is God in My Grief?

167: Finding a Place of Rest in God After Child Loss

166: Resting in God Within the Struggle of Deep Grief

165: Pets After Child Loss

164: A Father’s View of Child Loss – Part 2 (with Steve Martindale and Dave Diehl)

163: A Father’s View of Child Loss (with Steve Martindale and Dave Diehl)

162: The Five Seasons of Grief after Child Loss, Part 2 (with Mitch Carmody)

161: The Five Seasons of Grief after Child Loss, Part 1 (with Mitch Carmody)

160: Gold Star Moms (with Bev Shoemaker, Lorie Southerland and Amy Drake)

159: My Spouse Tried to Numb The Pain of Child Loss in Harmful Ways (with Jeff Snider and Curtis Stovall)

158: The Hope of Glory

157: Our Crown as a Pareavor

156: A Special Day for Bereaved Mothers

155: “At Least You…” Which Child Loss is the Worst? (With Sara Nelson)

154: I Tried to Numb My Pain with Prescription Drugs & Alcohol When My Child Died (with Stacie Snider and Courtney Stovall)

153: Why I Don’t Need Support from Other Bereaved Parents (with Dave Diehl)

152: Putting Words to Our Unwanted Journey of Child Loss

151: How to Help Us After Child Loss

150: Why Didn’t I Do More to Keep My Child From Dying? (With Sara Nelson)

149: I Struggle with Going to Church after Child Loss

148: Why Can’t I Hear from God?

147: Helping Our Children with Sibling Loss (Part 2)

146: Helping Our Children with Sibling Loss

145: “If I Was God…”

144: God Can Recycle Your Pain after Child Loss (with Shirley Thiessen)

143: It Doesn’t Feel Okay to Be Happy

142: “Cruising” With Our Grief (with Lin Findlay)

141: The Gift of Being with Others Who Get It

140: Hope and Help for the New Year after Child Loss

139: A New Year Does Not Mean You are Leaving Your Child Behind!

138: Struggling in the Darkness of our Loss (with Anne Moss Rogers)

137: Finding Meaning and Purpose Again (with Bev Shoemaker)

136: Passing it On (with Bev Shoemaker)

135: Road Signs On Our Grief Journey (with Jill Theriault)

134: The Unplanned Road Trip of Grief (with Jill Theriault)

133: Preparing for the Holiday Season

132: Don’t Tell Me to Be Thankful

131: I Don’t Understand Why

130: To Live or Die

129: The Roller Coaster Ride of Grief

128: Ten Things I Have Learned After Ten Years of Grieving the Death of My Child

127: Does God Choose When We Die? (Discussion)

126: Does God Choose When We Die?

125: Five Things to Remember

124: Getting Out of the Pit of Darkness

123: The Painful Domino Effects

122: Together Forever

121: Climbing the Mountain of Grief

120: A Perspective that Brings Hope

119: Trading Places with Our Children

118: Tips for Dealing with Guilt After Child Loss

117: In the Wilderness with Jesus (Part Two)

116: In the Wilderness with Jesus (Part One)

115: Healing Through Rest

114: Time Alone With God

113: When Someone Asks, “How are you?”

112: How Should I Respond?

111: Why Bother Praying Anymore?

110: Our Broken Hearts After Child Loss

109: There’s A Party in the Pit and You’re Invited (with Joy Ware Miller)

108: From Surviving to Thriving with Joy Ware Miller

107: God Must Not Love Me

106: International Bereaved Mother’s Day

105: I Just Want to Die and Be with My Child

104: My Child’s Birthday, Now that They are Gone…

103: Child Loss was Not in My Plan (Part 2)

102: Child Loss was Not in My Plan

101: I Lost My Friends When My Child Died

100: Here Comes Hope! (with Dave Diehl)

99. Grief and Music (with Hannah Linton and Kathi Wilson)

98: Grief and Music (with Angelique Marketon)

97: Grief and Music after Child Loss (with Yolanda Blade-Rory)

96: Grief and Music After Child Loss

95: When Our Children’s Organs Were Donated (With Melanie Delorme and Rita Jackson)

94: Names Have Meaning

93: Empowering Your Healing Process after Child Loss (with Pam Vredevelt)

92: What is “Normal” for a Newly Bereaved Parent?

91: To the Newly Bereaved after Child Loss

90: Verses that Helped Me Through

89: Tips for Bereaved Parents, Heading into the New Year

88: Love Came Just for You in Your Place of Darkness

87: Joy that Goes Beyond Our Grief

86: It is Possible to Have Peace with Your Pain

85: You Can Have Hope During the Christmas Season

84: Looking Toward My Future After Child Loss

83: Working Through the Darkness of Child Loss

82: Our Mental Breakdown After Child Loss

81: Seven Shifts in How You See God

80: Spouses and Grief (with Dave Diehl)

79: Five Suggestions for When You are Told, “You Should be Over This by Now”

78. The Dance with Grief (with Erica Mitchell)

77: God is Always With Us (with Erica Mitchell)

76: Finding Others Who “Get It” as Bereaved Parents

75: You Are in His Hands

74: Why Doesn’t God Seem to Care About Me and My Pain?

73: My Child Seemed to Know

72: Losing an Only Child (with Sara Nelson)

71: I Can Breathe Again (with Ashley Pittman)

70: Happiness Versus Joy

69: Our Children are Our Life

68: Joy is Part of God’s Kingdom

67: Getting out of “Whyville” (With Joe and Shaunda Knight)

66: Choosing to Find Joy Again (with Joe and Shaunda Knight)

65: Untangling Tough Scriptures About Joy

64: Six Stepping Stones to Finding Joy Again

63: Things That Keep Us from Finding Joy

62: You Are Loved

61: Planting the Seed of Joy

60: Four Keys to Unlock the Door to the Prison of Grief

59: This Was NOT in My Plan!

58: I Am So Angry With God (With Wayne Jacobson)

57: Our Grief is the Same, Yet Different

56. Reunited with our Children

55. From Fullness to Bitterness to Fullness Again

54: Why Did God Allow Me to Suffer Like This?

53: Trying to Find God in the Midst of Our Deepest Pain

52: The Difference a Year Can Make

51: Three Things We Can Learn from Jesus’ Mother After the Death of Our Own Child

50: The Rainbow Baby in the Bible

49: The First Death in the Bible was a Son Who Was Murdered (with Angela Alexander)

48: Does God Contradict Himself? (With Dave Diehl)

Episode 47: Getting Started Raising Funds for Your Cause (with Mary Valloni)

46: Six Rookie Mistakes in Raising Money for Your Cause (with Mary Valloni)

45: The Comfort Cub (with Marcella Johnson)

44: The Bond of a Mother to Her Child (with Marcella Johnson)

43: Footsteps of Hope (with Sara Nelson)

Episode 42: When the Unthinkable Happens (with Rick Kauffman)

Episode 41: Paying it Forward (With Crystal Webster)

Episode 40: Texting and Driving (with Patti Small)

Episode 39: Helping Your Child Leave a Legacy

Episode 38: The Top Podcast Episodes of 2019

Episode 37: How Can I Go Into the New Year Without My Child?

Episode 36: Does God Really Love Me? Finding His Love During the Holiday Season

Episode 35: Is It Possible to Have Joy Again?

Episode 34: Finding Peace During the Holidays

Episode 33: Finding Hope During the Holidays

Episode 32: Why Should I Go to a Retreat for Bereaved Parents?

Episode 31: What to Do When Others Think “You Should be Over This by Now”

Episode 30: Help for the Holiday Season (Part 2)

Episode 29: Help for the Holiday Season

Episode 28: We Are Here for You

Episode 27: Three Ways to Get Back on Track Spiritually

Episode 26: Dealing With Our Spiritual Breakdown

Episode 25: The Physical Breakdown and Sleep (with Denee Martindale)

Episode 24: The Physical Breakdown – Four Ways to Become Healthier (with Denee Martindale)

Episode 23: The Mental Breakdown

Episode 22: The Emotional Breakdown

Episode 21: Grieving an Adopted Child

Episode 20: Finding Your Direction Again (with Glen Lord)

Episode 19: Having Hope (with Glen Lord)

Episode 18: I Am Afraid My Child Might Not Be in Heaven

Episode 17: I Am Afraid I am Losing My Mind

Episode 16: The Fear of Grief Triggers

Episode 15: I Am Afraid of Losing Another Child

Episode 14: I Am Afraid to Enjoy Life Without My Child

Episode 13: I Am Afraid No One Will Remember My Child

Episode 12: Facing Our Fears after the Death of Our Child

Episode 11: Pregnancy and Infancy Loss (with Kelly Gerken)

Episode 10: Where is Your God Now? (with Kelly Gerken)

Episode 9: Grief and the Workplace (with Ron Kelly)

Episode 8: Forgiving God for Allowing Our Child to Die (Part 2)

Episode 7: Forgiving God for Letting Your Child Die (Part 1)

Episode 6: Forgiving Those Who Are Not Grieving the Same Way

Episode 5: Forgiving the Person Responsible

Episode 4: Forgiving Your Child for Leaving You

Episode 3: Forgiving Those Who Have Hurt You

Episode 2: Forgiving Yourself

Episode 1: Is Forgiveness Really Necessary?