All Episodes
All Episodes — 348 episodes
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?