-Who is Nicky, and how did you come to be a sleep coach?

-How do you calm your mind so you can go to sleep?

-Sleep is safety and Satisfaction

-Sleep Hygiene.

-How does one who doesn’t feel safe, and has extreme anxiety and sadness because of grief support their mind to go to sleep?

What in the world does our engagement story have to do with Aria, and grief? Well, it actually has a lot to do with it. It’s funny how we can look back and things are so perfectly connected, even though they are connected in ways we don’t wish they would be.

Our story certainly is a unique one, and a very special one to us. You will have to listen in to find out why!

I want to thank Nicole for sharing her story today, there are so many layers and parts to it, that I felt like we hardly got into it. We could have kept talking for hours it felt like. We didn’t really even get into grief and what it’s like after losing a child, but Nicole’s story is so beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time, that those things can wait for another time

I want to talk about surviving the holidays I remember my first year after Aria died. I looked around and everyone was so excited for the Christmas season. There is such a feeling of joy, excitement and happiness. When you are grieving, it seems like all that excitement is too much to handle. And I longed for my old self who could laugh and not have a care during the holiday season.

Today I’m chatting with Melissa Dgueleocki, a life coach, a bereaved mother, and podcaster, like she says so many other things as well. But Melissa shares the lessons she’s learned from her daughter Leyden so openly, and helps other people find those lessons within themselves as well.

Today’s topic is surrounding grief and the common saying there is no wrong way to grieve. Everyone says that over and over. And I'd like to say that we all get to choose how we want to grieve.

Today’s guest is with Krista St. Germain a grief coach, who works specifically with widows as she is a widow herself, but this conversation seriously fires me up. I love everything Krista shares, and I love the work that she’s doing.

Bring to mind, a thought you think of all the time. We tend to reach for the same thoughts over and over, it’s a habit. It’s easier to think this thought because it’s normal and comfortable to us. I like to imagine someone walking through the snow, and making a trail in a circle. The more they walk on that circle in the snow, the more compact the snow gets, the easier it is to walk there. Then to go start a new path in the snow feels really difficult and not as easy as just staying on the packed down trail. That’s kind of how our thoughts are in our brains. The more and more we think them, the deeper ingrained they get in our brains. Many times, we don’t even know what we are thinking, and how our thoughts are making us feel. So, in this episode, I want to bring awareness to your thoughts, so that you can begin to notice how it’s making you feel.