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348: How to Handle Milestones After Child Loss

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

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

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

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

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

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342: Turning Pain into Peace (with Angela Alexander)

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341: Heaven Feels Closer When Your Child Is There

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

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

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

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337: Renewing Your Mind after Child Loss

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

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

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

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

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

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331: Three Keys to Unlock Your Heart After Child Loss

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330: Is Joy Even Possible… Ever Again?

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329: Entering a New Year Without Our Child

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328: A Christmas Prayer for Bereaved Parents

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327: Surviving the Holidays After Child Loss

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

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

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

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

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322:Holding Onto Hope Through the Holidays

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321: Watering the Seed of Hope After Child Loss

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

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

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318: One Step at a Time Through Our Grief

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317: Facing the One-Year Anniversary After Child Loss

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

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315: Grieving Parents in the Bible

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314: Sacred Reminders

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313: Rebuilding Your Life After Child Loss

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

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311: Bringing Our Pain to God After Child Loss

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

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

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308: Our Relationship With God After Child Loss

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

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

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305: Waiting for Answers After Child Loss

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

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303: A Different Kind of Freedom for Grieving Parents

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

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301: Is God Punishing Me?

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

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299: Can I Trust God Leading Me?

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

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297: The Lord is My Shepherd

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

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295: What is Hope?

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

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

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292: Helping You Navigate Through the Darkness of Child Loss

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291: When We Don’t Think God is There

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290: The Gift of the Holy Spirit in Our Grief

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289: When God Doesn’t Make Sense

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

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287: Digging Ourselves Out of the Darkness After Child Loss

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286: How Can I Trust God Again?

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

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284: Thinking About Heaven After Child Loss

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283: Does God Have a Word for You?

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282: Grief Is a Journey (with Glen Lord)

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

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280: I Lost My Joy When My Child Died

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279: Climbing the Mountain of Grief

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278: Is There a Difference Between Thankful and Grateful?

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

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276: You Are Seen

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275: The Enemy’s Objective

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

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273: I Feel Like God Betrayed Me

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

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271: Going Through Different Seasons of Grief

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270: Feeling Broken After Child Loss

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269: Becoming a Prisoner of Hope

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

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267: God, Why Can’t I Hear You?

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266: So Many Tears

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

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264: Our Journey of Faith Versus Fear and Doubt

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263: Thinking of My Child with Joy

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262: Waiting to Be with My Child Again

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261: When Will It Stop Hurting So Much?

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260: I Can’t See Anything Even Remotely Good

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259: Our Promised Miracle

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258: Mother’s Day After Child Loss

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257: Do Not Allow the Pressure of Comparing

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256: God’s Future Plans for You

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

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254: Taking Communion After the Turmoil of Child Loss

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253: The Hope of Resurrection Power

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252: Our Future Prize

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251: Can Life Ever be Good Again?

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

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249: It All Started When She Was Only Three…

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248: We Can Be Both Broken and Beautiful

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247: Expecting the Unexpected in Our Grief

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246: My World Stopped When My Child Died

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245: A Needed Anchor for the Year

105

244: Hope for the Hopeless After Child Loss

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243: The Forever Love For Our Child

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242: Is It Possible to Have Joy Again?

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

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240: Waiting with Hope

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239: The Wilderness of Child Loss

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238: It’s So Hard to be Thankful

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237: Preparing for Advent as a Bereaved Parent

113

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

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235: What About My Child’s Things?

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

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233: Letting Go of Guilt After Child Loss

117

232: The Dreaded Anniversary Death Date

118

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

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230: Is God Really in Control?

120

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

121

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

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227: When God is Silent After Child Loss

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226: Does God Love Me?

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

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

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223: A Key to Your Future Self’s Identity

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

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

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

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219: Our Dark Thoughts in Grief

131

218: Our Many Triggers and Tears After Child Loss

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

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

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

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

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213: The Gift of the Holy Spirit Within Child Loss

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212: Grief and Laughter (with Nancy Weil)

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

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210: I Feel Like I Am Dying In the Wilderness

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209: Being Okay with Being Broken

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208: Our Dark Thoughts After Child Loss

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

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206: Their Birthday is So Hard!

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205: Removing the Sting of Death

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204: What Season of Grief are You In?

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203: Our Grief is Like…

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

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

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200: Six Pitfalls of Grief

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199: To Know and Be Known

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198. Why Couldn’t I Save My Child?

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

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

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

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194: Why We Will Never Get Over It

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193: My Goal for This Year Is To Survive!

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192: Hope is Our Anchor

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191: ‘Twas the Night After Christmas

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

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189: Can We Have Signs From Our Children?

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

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

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186: Grief and Coping with the Holidays

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185: Our Struggles with Thanksgiving and Child Loss

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184: Strength and Stability After Child Loss

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

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

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

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

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179: Health and Self-Care After Child Loss

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

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

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

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175: The Grandparents (Our Parents) in Child Loss

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

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

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172: Was My Child’s Death My Fault?

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

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170: Finding God in the Darkness

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169. Why Does God Seem Silent?

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168: Where Is God in My Grief?

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

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166: Resting in God Within the Struggle of Deep Grief

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165: Pets After Child Loss

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

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

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

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

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

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

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158: The Hope of Glory

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157: Our Crown as a Pareavor

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156: A Special Day for Bereaved Mothers

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

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

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

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152: Putting Words to Our Unwanted Journey of Child Loss

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151: How to Help Us After Child Loss

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

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149: I Struggle with Going to Church after Child Loss

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148: Why Can’t I Hear from God?

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

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146: Helping Our Children with Sibling Loss

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145: “If I Was God…”

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

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143: It Doesn’t Feel Okay to Be Happy

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

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141: The Gift of Being with Others Who Get It

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

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

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

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

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136: Passing it On (with Bev Shoemaker)

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

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

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133: Preparing for the Holiday Season

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132: Don’t Tell Me to Be Thankful

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131: I Don’t Understand Why

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130: To Live or Die

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129: The Roller Coaster Ride of Grief

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

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

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126: Does God Choose When We Die?

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125: Five Things to Remember

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124: Getting Out of the Pit of Darkness

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123: The Painful Domino Effects

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122: Together Forever

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121: Climbing the Mountain of Grief

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120: A Perspective that Brings Hope

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119: Trading Places with Our Children

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118: Tips for Dealing with Guilt After Child Loss

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117: In the Wilderness with Jesus (Part Two)

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116: In the Wilderness with Jesus (Part One)

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115: Healing Through Rest

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114: Time Alone With God

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

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112: How Should I Respond?

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111: Why Bother Praying Anymore?

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110: Our Broken Hearts After Child Loss

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

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108: From Surviving to Thriving with Joy Ware Miller

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107: God Must Not Love Me

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106: International Bereaved Mother’s Day

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

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

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

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102: Child Loss was Not in My Plan

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101: I Lost My Friends When My Child Died

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100: Here Comes Hope! (with Dave Diehl)

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

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98: Grief and Music (with Angelique Marketon)

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

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96: Grief and Music After Child Loss

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

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94: Names Have Meaning

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

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

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91: To the Newly Bereaved after Child Loss

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90: Verses that Helped Me Through

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

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

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87: Joy that Goes Beyond Our Grief

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86: It is Possible to Have Peace with Your Pain

264

85: You Can Have Hope During the Christmas Season

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84: Looking Toward My Future After Child Loss

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83: Working Through the Darkness of Child Loss

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82: Our Mental Breakdown After Child Loss

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81: Seven Shifts in How You See God

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80: Spouses and Grief (with Dave Diehl)

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

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78. The Dance with Grief (with Erica Mitchell)

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

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

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75: You Are in His Hands

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

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73: My Child Seemed to Know

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72: Losing an Only Child (with Sara Nelson)

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71: I Can Breathe Again (with Ashley Pittman)

279

70: Happiness Versus Joy

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69: Our Children are Our Life

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68: Joy is Part of God’s Kingdom

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

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

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65: Untangling Tough Scriptures About Joy

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64: Six Stepping Stones to Finding Joy Again

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63: Things That Keep Us from Finding Joy

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62: You Are Loved

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61: Planting the Seed of Joy

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

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59: This Was NOT in My Plan!

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

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57: Our Grief is the Same, Yet Different

293

56. Reunited with our Children

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55. From Fullness to Bitterness to Fullness Again

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

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

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52: The Difference a Year Can Make

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

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50: The Rainbow Baby in the Bible

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

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

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

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

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45: The Comfort Cub (with Marcella Johnson)

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

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43: Footsteps of Hope (with Sara Nelson)

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

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Episode 41: Paying it Forward (With Crystal Webster)

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Episode 40: Texting and Driving (with Patti Small)

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Episode 39: Helping Your Child Leave a Legacy

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Episode 38: The Top Podcast Episodes of 2019

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

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

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Episode 35: Is It Possible to Have Joy Again?

315

Episode 34: Finding Peace During the Holidays

316

Episode 33: Finding Hope During the Holidays

317

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

318

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

319

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

320

Episode 29: Help for the Holiday Season

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Episode 28: We Are Here for You

322

Episode 27: Three Ways to Get Back on Track Spiritually

323

Episode 26: Dealing With Our Spiritual Breakdown

324

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

325

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

326

Episode 23: The Mental Breakdown

327

Episode 22: The Emotional Breakdown

328

Episode 21: Grieving an Adopted Child

329

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

330

Episode 19: Having Hope (with Glen Lord)

331

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

332

Episode 17: I Am Afraid I am Losing My Mind

333

Episode 16: The Fear of Grief Triggers

334

Episode 15: I Am Afraid of Losing Another Child

335

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

336

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

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

338

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

339

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

340

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

341

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

342

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

343

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

344

Episode 5: Forgiving the Person Responsible

345

Episode 4: Forgiving Your Child for Leaving You

346

Episode 3: Forgiving Those Who Have Hurt You

347

Episode 2: Forgiving Yourself

348

Episode 1: Is Forgiveness Really Necessary?