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Life Reconstructed: a widowed way forward — 182 episodes
176. When Motivation is MIA
175. Worried You'll Forget Your Person? Here's Why You Won’t
174. The Purpose Series (part 5 of 5)
173. The Purpose Series (part 4 of 5)
172. The Purpose Series (part 3 of 5)
171. The Purpose Series (part 2 of 5)
170. The Purpose Series (part 1 of 5)
169. When summer nights are long and lonely- this will help
168. What to do about guilt and regret
167. Guilt and regret are different (and why that matters)
166. Finding YOUR people after loss
165. 5 Things That Feel “Wrong” After Loss—But Are Completely Normal
164. The Quiet Weight of Memorial Day
163. Why the “Year of Firsts” Is a Myth
162. Navigating Mother’s Day Without Your Person
161. The Myths and Truths of Year 2
160. The Quiet Support of Nature in Grief
159. A Guided Path Forward: The Time Doesn’t Heal Course
158. The first ingredient for healing (that's often missing)
157. The physical toll of grief
156. When Grief Hits Differently: here's what to do
155. Finding Purpose (Without Forcing It)
154. It’s Okay to Opt Out of the News (For Now)
153. The habits that can go unnoticed
152. A birthday wish
151. When spiritual ground shifts
150. Newly widowed: foundations for moving forward
149. Why High Achieving Widowed People Feel Stuck & How to Rebuild a Meaningful Life
148. What is healing?
147. Gritty Grief: The Messy Truth About the Widowed Journey
146. The Wedding Ring Question, Answered
145. Why January Feels Heavy and Tips to Help
144. The Myths We Shouldn't Carry into the New Year
143. When Christmas Feels Heavy— A Way Forward
142. Strategic Holiday Planning: Christmas Parties & Traditions
141. Four December Truths Every Widowed Person Needs to Hear
140. Guest episode: Minnie O'Grady
139. How to Handle Thanksgiving Dread
138. Don't Use Gratitude Against Yourself
137. When the People You Love Don’t Understand You
136. Permission to Choose Anew
135. When Halloween Feels Heavy: Simple Tricks to Help
134. When Autumn Feels Extra Tough
133. How to Get Clear About Your Future
132. How to Bloom Again (when you're ready)
131. You can DIY grief, but you don’t have to
130. When you feel like you're failing
129. The Second Year After Loss: Myths, Truths, and Practical Ways Forward
128. What to do with the pictures: finding your way
127. When does it get better?
126. A conversation with Linda Smith
125. The overachiever's guide to grief (webinar replay)
124. From Stuck to Strong: This Could be the Missing Piece in Your Healing
123. A conversation with Dr. Nancy Saltzman
122. Relearning Joy: How to Feel Comfortable Feelings Again After Loss
121. Unlearning what isn’t true in life after loss
120. What It Means When You’re Not Thinking About Them Constantly
119. Lightening the heavy load of loss
118. Calming the fear: tools that actually help
117. From exhausted to recharged: restoring your energy after loss
116. The overachiever’s guide to grief
115: “When will I be back to ‘normal?’"
114. What to do with your wandering mind
113. "I should be doing better by now."
112. How to manage third wheel awkwardness
111. Your brain on grief
110. It's okay to be happy
109. You're not doing it wrong
108. Plugging the energy drains
107. Living the life you have
106. Conversation stoppers
105. How to respond to "You're so strong."
104. Finding Peace, One Piece at a Time with Rachel Kodanaz
103. How to get unstuck
102. Why coming home is hard
101. How to overcome overwhelm
100. When relationships are challenging
99. "Who am I?"
98. Confessions of a jealous widow
97. People pleasing
96. Bonus: A conversation with Caryn Isaacs
95. Wedding anniversaries
94. What to do when something breaks
93. There's nothing wrong with you
92. It's just another day
91. A message for you
90. Help for the holidays: six simple tips
89. Opting out of holiday drama
88. Why you shouldn’t be “further along by now.”
87. Death anniversaries: how to plan & navigate tough days
86. How to deal with painful evenings
85. When and how to deal with possessions
84. Reconsidering your holiday season
83. Ten truths about grieving your spouse
82. How to support a widowed person
81. When life keeps throwing curveballs
80. Your number 1 relationship
79. "How long before I get back to normal?"
78. “Love is a strong force not connected to breath.” An interview with Gladys Jean Ullstam
77. Boundaries
76. How to deal with difficult people
75. Why we don't ask for help
74. How to deal with question after question
73. When you feel so lost
72. Why time doesn't heal and what to do instead
71. How time can stall healing
70. Loneliness: what to do about it
69. Chronological age is irrelevant
68. It won’t always hurt like this
67. Your story about you
66. How to know where life is going
65. Living, on purpose
64. When you feel so alone
63. How to tackle the "have-to's"
Bonus: An interview with Carole Hustead
62. Other people's opinions
61. Thought loops and how to break free
60. Self-compassion: four simple strategies
59. Why it's hard to leave the house & what to do about it
58. How to boost your energy part 3
Healing, hope and helping others - Rachel Kodanaz
57. How to boost your energy part 2
56. How to boost your energy part 1
55. When "strong" looks different
54. Navigating awkward conversations
53. Courage, widowed style
52. Acceptance: what it does and doesn’t mean
51. Confirmation bias: how it can stall healing
50. Three forms of suffering and what to do about them
49. How to be a beginner
48. Find your people
47. Secondary losses: 4 steps to help
46. Loving yourself through grief
45. Witnessing the wins
44. The brain is like a juke box
43. There is no finish line, but there is this...
42. Find your people
Bonus: An interview with Daniel Kopp
41. Self-care redefined: 10 tips for widowed people
40. Grief myths and truths
39. Time doesn't heal
38. It's okay to be okay
37. How coaching is different
Bonus: Grieving families during the December holidays
36. Six lessons that took me 6 years to learn
35. Simplify the holidays
Bonus: An interview with Darryl Taylor
34. Grieving is learning
33. Practical tips to navigate a Thanksgiving gathering
Bonus: Grieving families during the holidays
32. Thanksgiving prep for your grief
31. How gratitude can stall healing
30. Extreme exhaustion: 6 tips to help
29. Three steps to finding you
28. When you feel stuck
27. An interview with Indu Chatham
26. Who am I, now?
25. Bridges and ladders to new thinking
24. Emotional courage
23. Decision fatigue
22. Overcoming overwhelm
21. Why negative is natural
20. Scarcity or abundance?
19. Is familiar discomfort keeping you stuck?
18. The fear factor
17. Beliefs, on purpose
16. Finding freedom in forgiveness
15. Why you don't have to "move on"
14. Why you don't have to let him go
13. Wrestling with reality
12. Got guilt?
11. Power over the past
10. Pain is different than suffering
9. Actions create results
8. Feelings drive action
7. Thoughts create feelings
6. Don't believe everything you think
5. The brain's response to pain
4. Activating the superpower of processing emotions
3. Your brain on grief
2. The "right" way to grieve
1. Grief lesson #1: the measuring stick