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141: Good Grief Parenting With Michele Benyo

141: Good Grief Parenting With Michele Benyo

Michele Benyo is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, early childhood educator and parent coach, and

the founder of Good Grief Parenting. After her 6-year-old son died of cancer, her 3-year-old daughter

said, “Mommy, half of me is gone.” This heartbreaking statement defined Michele’s life purpose. Her

mission is twofold: to help parents through the unimaginable challenges of parenting while grieving the

death of a child, and to equip parents to meet the unique needs of a child who has lost a sibling in the

early childhood years. The desire of Michele’s heart is to see families live forward after loss toward a

future bright with possibilities and even joy.

140: 3 Types of Business

140: 3 Types of Business

I recently heard this description that goes something like this. There are 3 lanes, or business. There’s God’s business, there’s your business, and there’s other people's business.
Suffering happens in your life when you are in God’s business, or other people’s business.
So often we want to change things that are not our business. No matter how hard we try, we cannot change them. We cannot change our spouse, our kids, what happened in our life, what’s happening to someone we love.

139: Conflict and Connection in Marriage With Brett Nikula

139: Conflict and Connection in Marriage With Brett Nikula

These are the questions we discussed in today’s episode! I’m so happy to introduce you to my good friend Brett, who is a Marriage and Family Therapist, and also a Life Coach.

-Can you introduce yourself, and share with my audience how you came to do the work you are doing?

-Conflict with your spouse after your child dies is a huge stressor for many grieving mothers. Can you share a little bit about the conflict cycle that you teach about, and how couples can use it to connect.

-We also think that there’s something wrong with our marriage when we have conflict. Is this true?

-What happens if only one person is wanting to change or work on their marriage?

-How would a couple know if they need help in their marriage or not?

If you want to connect with Brett and learn more from him, or schedule a appointment with him you can find him through these links!

Facebook- www.facebook.com/pivotalapproachmn

Instagram- www.instagram.com/pivotalapproachmn

Www.pivotalapproach.com

If you like this podcast, and found it helpful, I want to invite you come check out Grieving Moms Haven, my monthly community for Grieving moms, where you can learn positive coping mechanisms, find a safe space with others who understand, and learn life long skills that support you as you learn how to carry this weight of grief in your life.

There are group coaching calls where we do guided meditations, tapping meditations, breathwork, and just talk, knowing that everyone in the group is also walking the path of child loss

You can come check out Grieving Moms Haven at www.grievingmomshaven.com

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138: A Peek Inside of Grieving Moms Haven

138: A Peek Inside of Grieving Moms Haven

I can promise you, that if you come inside of Grieving Moms Haven, and do the work, go through the program with us, you can’t help but change. There is just no way you can do this work and not see a bit differently than you did before.

Thiswork inside of Grieving Moms Haven is both physical, emotional, and mental. We dive into your thoughts, and help get clear on what you want to think on purpose, but also how your emotions feel, help you experience and connect with your body and all of the emotions of grief so that you can experience life to it’s fullest.

137: 5 Reasons You Might Not Try Something That Would Help

137: 5 Reasons You Might Not Try Something That Would Help

A question I ask often is why would you not try to make your life better? Why would you not try something when it feels like your life is just a struggle every day, a slog. Maybe you’re in the point of your grief kinda just waiting for your life to end so you can be done with this suffering.


Why would you want to live that way the rest of your life? You don’t have to. There are things that can help you, and yet, maybe you haven’t taken any actual steps to getting help, doing the work, learning the skills, investing in the coaching or practices that can help you.



136: Spiritual Bypassing

136: Spiritual Bypassing

While I do believe that the things that happen in my life are in God’s hands, I also believe that it’s our job to feel, experience, and move through the hard things we feel.


If we have a broken arm, we don’t pray to God that he will fix your arm solely. Maybe you pray for complete healing, but you go and get your arm in a cast, or surgery or whatever you need to do.

For some reason with emotional things or life circumstances it’s so easy to not do anything else, but to say things like trust God, or God will take care of you.

135: Creating a Life of Struggle

135: Creating a Life of Struggle

I’ve learned that if I don’t feel chaos inside of me, I create it, because maybe I couldn’t handle being alone with myself, or I couldn’t handle the feeling of calm or peace because I didn’t know how to be with it. I have not completely let go of this struggle, I’m still working through it now energetically and with a coach. Maybe it’s something I will deal with my whole life, maybe not.

I hope by sharing, that you can learn and know that there are many layers to each of us in our lives, and we are all continually learning. Sometimes you need to step back and take a break, but when you are doing the work, it’s lifelong. We never get to a place of perfection. And that’s okay, it’s part of the journey.

So- I’ll do the best I can to share with you how I realized that I was living from a place of suffering or struggle.

134: Snapshots of Life After Loss with Gracelyn Bateman

134: Snapshots of Life After Loss with Gracelyn Bateman

After her father’s death Gracelyn and her aunt Melody began working on a couple year project that they called Snapshots of Life After Loss. The goal of the project was to capture a variety and many different peoples grief at different moments in their lives.

She shares how each person’s story that she heard really helped her grieve her own loss, and showed her that everyone truly does grieve differently.