In this episode, I am going to share with you some thoughts about journaling.

Here are the things I talked about: 

• My thoughts when people ask me, “what do you write about?”

• How writing helps you bring the unconscious to the conscious thinking.

• How huge a thing with writing, is when you keep your writing, you can go back through and see how much things have changed for you. Maybe even noticing how much suffering you’ve had in the past and how far you’ve come. 

• The 4 weeks of going through different practices of writing, as part of the Journaling Your Grief.

• In the first week, we will go through honoring and remembering your child.

• In the second week, we will be focusing on what is true for you right now.

• In the third week, we will be focusing on rewriting your story.

• And the fourth week, we will rewrite your story again with some compassion and love.

SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is the sudden and unexplained death of a baby younger than 1-year-old. In this episode, we get to talk with Jenna Rogers - Faith’s Lodge’s VP for Development - as she shares her story and experience with grief and having to lose his son at 11 months old during his nap. How she and her husband dealt with the pain and how she found meaning in helping other parents cope with their own grief through working with Faith’s Lodge. 

How Jenna grabbed an opportunity to work in Faith’s Lodge to share her passion for the organization and its vision for the community. Once started as a passion project and memorial for her son - Noah, to organize a fundraising golf tournament, and the proceeds were donated to Faith’s Lodge to help and serve more grieving parents. 

We have reached 200 podcast episodes! From being terrified in starting a podcast to being nervous to ask people to come listen, and NOW I’m two and a half years in and this is one of my favorite parts of my work I get to do.

Today is just kind of an encouragement day, to help remind you to be patient with your grief process. One of the biggest things I hear from grieving mothers is impatience that they don’t want to be feeling this way anymore. This is taking too long. This is too painful. It’s too much.

You do not have to be in a hurry to get rid of your grief, or to be better. Let them go. Your expectations of how your grief is supposed to look like is nothing but that, an expectation.

In today’s episode, I will share a few ways I’ve found that have helped me let people be wrong about me, let people judge me wrong, and let people misunderstand me. And I’m also telling you, it’s not easy. It’s given me a lot of anxiety over the years, but I’m learning to let go.