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The Grief Mentor | Life After Child Loss, Hope and Healing For Grieving Moms, Bereavement, Christian Grief Support
The Grief Mentor is a Christian grief support podcast for mothers who have lost a child. Host Teresa Davis shares her personal journey of loss and offers tools, faith-based insights, and encouragement to help grieving moms find hope and peace. The podcast covers topics such as processing grief, maintaining faith through pain, and taking small steps forward without forgetting your child. It aims to provide a supportive community for those feeling stuck in their grief.
Episodes
325. Why Do I Feel So Alone in My Marriage After Child Loss?
Episode 325: Why Do I Feel So Alone in My Marriage After Child Loss? You're sleeping in the same bed, grieving the same child, and somehow you've never felt more alone. You'll hear: Why grieving the same child can leave you feeling miles apart The real story behind divorce statistics after child loss What may surprise you about your spouse's grief If you've been feeling disconnected from y
324. I Can't Do This Without My Child: How Do I Keep Going? Child Loss
Episode 324: I Can't Do This Without My Child: How Do I Keep Going? Child Loss Your feet are on the floor, and that's as far as you've gotten today. This conversation is about what comes next. You'll hear: Why you keep replaying the last moments over and over, and why that cycle doesn't have to be the rest of your story Why pushing through in your own strength may be leaving you more exhausted
323. Why Did My Friends Pull Away? Relationships After Child Loss
Episode 323: Why Did My Friends Pull Away? Relationships After Child Loss When your child went to heaven, your relationships changed too. Some people came closer, and some people you were sure would stay are simply not there anymore. You'll hear: Why the people you expected to stay aren't always the ones who do The question underneath the distance that changes how you see every relationship
322. Why Am I So Angry Since My Child Died?
Episode 322: Why Am I So Angry Since My Child Died? Someone you love asked you something simple, and the way you answered was sharper than you intended. You'll hear: Why the anger so often shows up with the people you love most How to recognize what's underneath the anger before it spills out on those around you Where to take the hurt, frustration, exhaustion, and even anger toward God when
321. What Do I Do With All the Love I Still Have? Hope After Child Loss
Episode 321: What Do I Do With All the Love I Still Have? Hope After Child Loss You still love your child exactly as much as you did the day before they died. But all the ordinary ways you used to give that love are no longer possible. So where does it go? You'll hear: 👉 What death actually changed — and the one thing it had no power to touch 👉 Why loving your child fully and learning to live agai
320. Why Do I Feel So Numb After Child Loss?
Episode 320: Why Do I Feel So Numb After Child Loss? You braced yourself for grief to mean feeling everything — the crying, the falling apart, the days you couldn't stand up under it. Then came the day someone said your child's name and the tears didn't come. And you started to wonder what is wrong with you. You'll hear: Numbness does not measure the depth of your love for your child The absen
319. Can I Live Again Without Leaving My Child Behind?
Episode 319: Can I Live Again Without Leaving My Child Behind? Learning to function after child loss is one thing. Learning to live again can feel like something entirely different. In this episode, we're talking about the tension that can surface when you begin looking toward the life in front of you while still deeply grieving the child who is no longer walking beside you. You'll hear: Why fun
318. Why Is My Anxiety So Bad Now? Finding Peace After Child Loss
318. Why Is My Anxiety So Bad Now? Finding Peace After Child Loss When someone you love doesn't answer, your mind can go somewhere it never used to go. The pounding heart. The waiting. The certainty that something has happened. Anxiety after child loss is common, and this episode will help you see it from a different lens: what that anxiety is rooted in, and what you can do when it rises up in yo
317. Grieving Mom: Lesson's Learned In The Hard Places:Child Loss Support
Grieving Mom, Where Do You Go From Here? Child Loss Support You've been listening for a while now. Maybe you've cried through an episode in your car. Maybe you've thought, she gets it — but you're still wondering, Where do I go from here? After four years of The Grief Mentor Podcast, Teresa is taking you behind the scenes to share who The Grief Mentor is today, how the way she serves grieving moms
316. How Do I Face the Dates I Dread? Grief After Child Loss
The date is still weeks away, but you can already feel it. Your child's birthday. Their Heaven Day. Thanksgiving. Christmas. Why does the weight of a difficult date begin long before it arrives? In this episode, you'll discover... 👉 Why your body remembers 👉 What may be stirring beneath the surface 👉 How to come back to today 👉 The promise waiting for you in Deuteronomy 31:8 You don't have to carr
315. Why Doesn't the Bible Feel True Anymore After Child Loss?
You can quote the verses. You've underlined them. You've heard them your whole life. So why, when the house is quiet and it's just you and your thoughts, does it feel like none of it is true? You believe it. You do. But somewhere between your head and your heart, something isn't connecting — and you've started to wonder what that means. This episode is about that gap. And by the end of it, the spa
314. Why Can't I Stop Crying? What Your Tears Mean After Child Loss
Why Can't I Stop Crying? What Your Tears Mean After Child Loss You cry in the shower. In the car. At two in the morning when the whole house is quiet. And somewhere along the way, you've started to wonder if all this crying means something is wrong with you. In this episode, Teresa shares one truth about your tears that will change the way you see every single one of them — including an ancient di
313. I'll See You Soon: How to Live in the Waiting After Child Loss
I'll See You Soon: How to Live in the Waiting After Child Loss You've said it. Maybe leaving the cemetery. Maybe walking past a picture in the hallway on an ordinary afternoon. I'll see you soon. And you mean it. But then tomorrow comes. And another birthday. And another Christmas. And somewhere in there you start to wonder what soon is even supposed to mean. This episode is about that distance —
312. Why Can't I Stop Blaming Myself? Guilt After Child Loss
Why Can't I Stop Blaming Myself? Guilt After Child Loss The thought arrives without warning. If I had done something different, my child would still be here. You go back over it again and again, searching for the one moment you missed — the detail that would explain everything, the missing link that would change everything. In this episode, Teresa sits with the thought that makes you the villain o
311. I Don't Know Who God Is Anymore: Faith After Child Loss
I Don't Know Who God Is Anymore: Faith After Child Loss I don't know who God is anymore. This is something Teresa hears frequently. Some mothers are able to verbalize it. Others are afraid to, because they aren't sure it's the right thing to say. You may still believe in Him. You may still love Him. You just don't know what to believe about Him anymore. His goodness. His protection. Whether prayer
310. Will the Future Always Look This Empty? Hope After Child Loss
Will the Future Always Look This Empty? Hope After Child Loss Will the future always look this empty? Everyone around you is planning something. Talking about next year like it's worth looking forward to. And you can't picture any of it. Not because you haven't tried. Every year ahead of you is a year your child won't be here — and looking at all of it at once is more than anyone could carry. So y
309. How Do I Know My Child Is in Heaven? Assurance for a Grieving Mom
How Do I Know My Child Is in Heaven? Assurance for a Grieving Mom How do I know my child is really in the arms of Jesus? You've asked it in the quiet. In the dark. In the middle of an ordinary afternoon when it rises up out of nowhere. And if your child went to heaven through suicide or addiction, that question doesn't just visit you — it lives with you. Today's episode was recorded for you. Ther
308. When You Can't Pray Anymore: Grief After Child Loss
When You Can't Pray Anymore: Grief After Child Loss You used to be able to pray. The words used to come easily. Now you sit down in the quiet, and there's nothing — just tears, just a heaviness in your chest with no words to attach to it. And underneath that silence is a fear you can barely name: that maybe God has gone quiet too. That maybe He stopped listening the moment you stopped knowing what
307. Why Is Forgiveness So Hard After Child Loss? Freedom From the Weight
307. Why Is Forgiveness So Hard After Child Loss? Freedom From the Weight Somewhere in your grief, there is a name. A name that still makes your chest tighten the moment you hear it. Maybe it belongs to someone who caused what happened. Maybe it's someone who never showed up. And maybe... the hardest name to sit with is your own. In this episode, Teresa names the weight you carry when forgiveness
306. Why Is Morning the Hardest Part? Finding Hope After Child Loss
Why Is Morning the Hardest Part? Finding Hope After Child Loss There's a moment every morning — right before your eyes open — when the day hasn't reached you yet. And then it does. If the first waking moment is the hardest part of your day, this episode was made for you. In this episode, Teresa shares the sleepless nights and restless mornings after her son Andrew went to heaven — walking the floo
305. Is This My Life Now? The Real Truth About Year Three in Child Loss
Is This My Life Now? The Real Truth About Year Three in Child Loss If you've laid awake at night and asked yourself that question — you're not alone. Three years in your grief journey, something begins to shift. You've found some new rhythms. And year three holds something you might not expect. In this episode, you'll discover: 👉 How year three teaches you to hold love and grief in the same ha
304. Does Anyone Still Remember? Grief When the World Moves On
Does Anyone Still Remember? Grief When the World Moves On It's been months now. Maybe longer. And somewhere along the way, the calls slowed. The check-ins stopped. Everyone went back to their normal — while you were left in a world that will never be normal again. This episode is for the mother who feels forgotten. Who has stopped saying her child's name out loud because no one else does anymore.
303. Why Is Year Two Harder? Surviving Child Loss Grief
Why Is Year Two Harder? Surviving Child Loss Grief Everyone told you the first year would be the hardest. So why does the second year hurt the way it does? You made it through all the firsts. You survived the days you don't fully remember. And somehow, right when the world decided you should be doing better, the ache is still here — and some days it's heavier than it was. There are reasons th
302. Why Won't My Mind Stop Racing? Peace After Child Loss
Why Won't My Mind Stop Racing? Peace After Child Loss It's the middle of the night again, and your mind won't stop. One thought hands off to the next before you can catch your breath. The what-ifs. The replays. The worry about everyone still here. You're exhausted. But your mind won't let you rest. This episode is for the mother whose thoughts race in circles she can't shut off — the one who can h
301. Is This Normal? Surviving the First Year of Child Loss
Is This Normal? Surviving the First Year of Child Loss You keep asking yourself if what you're feeling is even normal. And on the days the tears won't come at all — the numb, flat days — the question gets louder. Is something wrong with me? Am I losing my mind? You're not. And you are not doing this wrong. This one is for the mom living through the first year after her child went to heaven — the w
300. Will I Ever Smile Again? Life After Child Loss
Will I Ever Smile Again? Life After Child Loss Will I ever smile again? Not the one you put on so people stop worrying. Not the one you wear at the store so nobody asks. The real one — the kind that reaches your eyes. Some of you can't remember the last time it happened. And underneath that question is one you can barely say: if you ever do smile again, are you leaving your child behind? This is o
299. Haven't I Already Paid Enough? When the Cost Feels Too Great
Haven't I already paid enough? If you're a grieving mom or dad, you know that question. You understand the cost of walking this earth without your child beside you — a cost most people around you will never truly understand. And in the exhaustion of your grief, that question can rise up quietly: how much is one heart supposed to hold? This week, Teresa sits with you right there. She takes you back
298. I'm So Tired and Nothing Helps: Why Child Loss Exhausts You
I'm So Tired and Nothing Helps: Why Child Loss Exhausts You You've slept — and woke up just as exhausted. You've pushed through, rested when you could, done everything they told you to do. And you're still tired all the way down to your bones. This is the exhaustion no one warns you about after child loss. It doesn't come from your body, so sleep never touches it. It settles into your chest and fo
297. When Others Judge How Your Child Died: What Does God Say?
There's a particular kind of grief that comes with a particular kind of silence. It's the pause after someone asks how your child died — the moment you hesitate, or don't answer at all, because you can feel the way the room shifts. If you've ever carried the fear that someone is quietly judging your child, or judging you, because of the way they left this earth — this episode is for you. Today we
296. My Child Died -The Missing Never Stops: One Truth To Ease The Pain
My Child Died and the Missing Never Stops: One Truth To Ease The Pain My child died — and the missing never stops. Nobody warns you about that kind of missing. It doesn't soften with a good night's sleep, and it doesn't wait for a good time. It rises up in the cereal aisle, in the quiet of the house, in the middle of the night — and some days "I miss my child so much" is the only sentence you've g
295. Why Did My Child Die? What Helps When There's No Answer
You've asked it a thousand times: "Why did this happen? Why my child? Why. And the answers people keep offering you — they're in a better place, everything happens for a reason, at least you have other children — never reach the place that actually hurts. If anything, they make you feel more alone. This episode is for the mom who is exhausted from carrying everyone else's explanations. There is
294. Why Can't I Sleep? Fear's Grip After Child Loss
There's a fear that doesn't show up until after your child goes to heaven. It's not the grief everyone warned you about. It's the quiet dread that something is going to happen to someone else you love — and it has a way of finding you at 2 a.m. If you've been waking in a panic, reaching for your phone just to make sure everyone is okay, this Saturday episode is for you. You're not doing grief wron
293. Does The Pain of Child Loss Ever Go Away?
If you are a grieving mom asking, "Does the pain of child loss ever go away?", this episode is for you. You've been doing everything you can just to get through the day. And when the weight becomes too much to carry, you reach for something — anything — to take the edge off. But the comfort never seems to last. And the ache always finds its way back. In this episode, Teresa sits with you in that
292. How Long Do I Have to Wait? Child Loss Grief-Hope & Peace
You've been praying the same prayer for so long now. Please help me, Lord. Take this pain away. And this morning, nothing about your life looks any different than it did last week — or the week before that. If you've started to wonder whether there's any hope left in the waiting — whether God is even still in your story — this episode was made for you. Today we go to the book of Lamentations, w
291. Child Loss & Grief Brain: You're Not Losing Your Mind
Your mind will not stop. The replay. The what-ifs. The guilt that says it was somehow your fault, the fear of what might happen next, the doubt that slips in when you least expect it. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, you have started to wonder if grief has done something to your mind that you will never get back. In this episode, Teresa opens up about her own experience with the chaos — t
290. Why Do I Always Put Everyone Else First? The Hidden Weight Every Grieving Mom Carries
You keep showing up for everyone else. Your surviving children, your spouse, your job, the people who never see what you carry. You hand out grace, patience, room to not be okay — to everyone but yourself. In her first episode back, Teresa sits down for an honest, tender conversation about the grace grieving moms give away so freely and almost never keep for themselves. Because here is the truth s
289. Who Am I Now? Finding Yourself After Child Loss
There is a question every grieving mother eventually asks herself. Who am I — because I don't recognize myself anymore. If that question has been living with you — quietly, in the spaces between the hard days — this episode is for you. Today Teresa walks with you through one of the most tender and misunderstood parts of grief. The part where you begin to catch glimpses of someone forming inside of
288. Why Am I Still Here When My Child Is Not — It's Not What You Think
When you don't know why you are still here — when your child is not — that is one of the heaviest places a grieving mom can stand. And if you have already said out loud what so many moms say — I don't have a purpose anymore. I don't even know why I am still here — I want you to know that question deserves to be honored. And that is exactly what this episode does. This episode is the next step in a
287. How Do I Live the Rest of My Life After Child Loss — There Is an Answer
There is a moment that comes for every grieving mom that no one prepares you for. It doesn't arrive in the early days. It comes later — when the fog starts to lift and the numbness begins to fade — and what you see in front of you takes your breath away. If you have been there — or if you are there right now — this episode is for you. Teresa shares the exact day she brought two impossible question
286. Surviving Child loss: When the Only Answer Is the One You Cannot Have
Grief has a way of locking you onto the hardest parts of your story. The circumstances that feel so wrong. The reality you wake up to every single morning that you never asked for and cannot change. And if you are really honest — the only answer that would ever feel like enough is the one you cannot have. Your child back. Your life back. The way things were before all of this. In this episode, Ter
285. When Summer Hurts: Practical Help for Grieving Moms
Summer is almost here. And if you are already dreading it — if you can feel it coming before it even arrives — you are not alone. For a mother after child loss, summer is not just a season. It is a calendar full of rhythms that used to mean something. Rhythms that were built around your child. And now that season arrives and everything that used to give it meaning has changed. This episode is for
284. You Are Going to Make It And This is How: Child Loss Grief
If you have just found yourself in the most disorienting place you have ever been — unable to think straight, unable to explain what you are living through, unable to recognize yourself or your life — this episode is for you. This is for the mom who is in the earliest and most vulnerable steps of her grief journey. The mom who is searching for something, anything, to hold onto. The mom who needs s
283. Why Do I Feel So Lonely? Child Loss Grief, Isolation, and Finding Your Way Back
There is a kind of loneliness after child loss that no one warned you about. It is not the absence of people. It is the presence of everyone — and still feeling completely alone. Because the one person you want in the room is not there. And that absence has a weight to it that settles into your body, follows you everywhere, and whispers something in the dark that is hard to unhear. This episo
282. Grief Exhaustion: Permission to Rest When You Have Nothing Left
You are tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix. And somewhere in the back of your mind you already know that — but you keep going anyway. Because stopping feels wrong. Because everyone around you still needs something. And summer is coming and you can already feel the weight of what it used to look like pressing up against what it looks like now. This episode is for the mom who has been holding eve
281. Mother's Day Reflections: Grief, Love, and Loss
Mother's Day can look so many different ways when you are a mom who is grieving the loss of your child. Maybe it was harder than you expected. Maybe grief showed up in a moment you weren't prepared for. Maybe you sat in a room full of people and felt completely alone. Whatever this past weekend looked like for you — you are not alone, and you are seen. In this episode, Teresa sits down with you —
280. Mother's Day When Your Heart is Breaking: A Prayer for Grieving Moms
Mother's Day is tomorrow. And if you are a grieving mom, you already feel the weight of it pressing in. This episode is not a list of steps or strategies. It is simply a place to land before the day arrives — a word, a truth, and a prayer spoken over you before you face tomorrow. You don't have to thrive tomorrow. You don't have to perform okayness or smile it away. You just have to take it one mo
279. When Mother's Day Hurts: What Every Grieving Mom Needs to Hear
Mother's Day is coming — and you already feel it. Maybe it started in the grocery store when you saw the flowers. Maybe it was a commercial. Maybe it was someone asking if you had anything special planned. And something inside of you just stopped. This episode is for you — the grieving mom who is dreading the day that the rest of the world is getting ready to celebrate. You are still a mother. Tha
278. The Hunger You Can't Name: Grief, Food & Finding Your Way Back
You didn't plan for this. The midnight trips to the kitchen. The plate of food you don't remember finishing. Or the smell of dinner that sends you straight to another room because you can't bear it. After loss, something shifts in your relationship with food — and most grieving moms have no idea it's even happening. This episode brings language to something you've been living but couldn't quite
276. Am I Always Going to Feel This Much Pain After Child Loss?
You've asked it in the car. In the middle of the night. Standing in a grocery store aisle when something on the shelf reminded you of them and the weight of it nearly took you out. Am I always going to feel this much pain ? It's one of the most honest questions a grieving mom asks — and it deserves an honest answer. This episode doesn't offer you a timeline or a promise that it gets easier by a
277. Why Do I Feel Guilty for Having a Good Day? What Grief Guilt Really Means
There is a moment that almost every grieving mom knows. You had a good day — maybe even just a good hour — and before you could fully exhale, the guilt came rushing in. How dare I feel okay. How dare I laugh. How dare I have a good day when my child is no longer physically here with me. If that is where you are, I want you to know that what you are experiencing is not a sign that something is wr
275. Why Fear Keeps Grieving Moms Stuck and What To Do About It
Fear after child loss doesn't always show up loud. It shows up as hesitation. As not making the plan, not making the call, not letting yourself want something — because wanting feels dangerous now. And if that's where you are today — this episode is for you. In this episode we are going to talk about what fear is actually doing in your grief — and why, when fear leads, it will only take you to one
274. Why Didn't God Heal My Child? A Grieving Mom's Hardest Question
You prayed. You believed. You begged God to heal your child. And He didn't. That question has probably lived in the quiet corners of your heart for a long time — too sacred to say out loud, too heavy to keep carrying alone. This episode gives you permission to ask it. There is a difference between a faith that falls apart under the weight of hard questions and a faith that gets forged in them. Tod
273. When Spring Feels Heavy After Child Loss: Why Do I Feel So Stuck?
You believed spring would feel different this year. But instead, you're standing in a checkout line, sitting at a stoplight, scrolling through your feed — and there it is. A graduation picture. A cap and gown. A family celebrating what's next. And the thought shows up before you can stop it: My child should be here for this. If spring has felt heavier than you expected, this episode is for you. In
272. Why Doesn't Grief Support Last? What Grieving Moms Need to Know
You finally feel like you can breathe again… like maybe, just maybe, something inside you is shifting. And then you come home from the grief retreat, back into the quiet, back into your life. And that sense of peace you felt just days ago doesn't stay the way you hoped it would. If you've ever wondered why those moments don't seem to last… you're not alone. In this episode, we're going to uncover
271. I Believe in Heaven… So Why Am I Still Struggling So Much?
You believe with everything in you that your child is in heaven, yet you still wake up with a heaviness on your chest that won't go away. It's the question so many grieving moms carry in the quiet: "If I really believe they are with Jesus, why does it still hurt this much?"This internal tug-of-war can leave you feeling like your faith isn't strong enough or that you're failing at a journey you ne
270. Will I See My Child Again? What the Resurrection Really Means After Child Loss
You wake up, and it's still real. The house is quiet, the weight is still there, and your child is still not walking beside you. And in that space, it can feel like nothing has changed… like death had the final word. But what if that's not actually true? In this episode, we come to the turning point of the Easter story—the resurrection—and what it means for you right now, not just someday. Not jus
269. Child Loss & the Silent Saturday: When God Feels Absent (Part 4 of 5: Easter Series)
There is a heavy, hollow space in the Easter story that we often rush past, but for a grieving mom, it's the place where we live every day. It's the "messy middle" between the cross and the resurrection—the silent Saturday where what you hoped for didn't happen, and what you're left holding feels impossibly heavy. If you've ever felt like heaven has gone quiet since the death of your ch
268. Death Doesn't Get the Last Word: Jesus' Choice and Your Child's Story(PT 3 of 5)
It can feel like death made a decision for you… like a line was drawn and someone you love is now on the other side of it. When your child is no longer walking beside you, it doesn't just feel painful—it feels final. Like no one stopped it. Like death had the last word. But what if that's not the full story? In this episode, we step into what Jesus actually did when He faced death—and why that cha
267. When God Doesn't Intervene: Trusting a Silent God in Child Loss (Pt 2 0f 5)
There is a moment seared into the memory of every grieving mom—the phone call, the diagnosis, or the knock on the door that shattered your world forever. In that moment, death isn't just a concept; it enters your story and brings with it a flood of agonizing questions about why the God you love didn't step in to protect your child. If you feel like your faith has been shaken to the core, you
266. Why Did My Child Die? Understanding Death and God's Goodness (Part 1 of 5: Easter Series)
If you're a grieving mom, there is a question that eventually rises up in your heart, whether you say it out loud or not: Why did death come to my door? You prayed, you trusted God, and you believed He could protect your child, yet the unthinkable still happened. When death enters your story, it's easy to wonder if God is truly as good as you once thought. This episode is the beginnin
265. How Do I Find Hope Again? Moving Past the Guilt of Child Loss (Part 4 of 4)
Does it ever feel like "hoping" is a betrayal? Like if you start to look forward to tomorrow, or even just a simple vacation, you're somehow leaving your child behind in yesterday? Friend, that is the guilt of grief, and it is a lie that can keep you paralyzed in the dark. But today, we are breaking that chain and giving you permission to hope again—not because the pain is gone, but because your
264. How Do I Quiet My Mind in Grief? Finding God in the Noise (Part 3 of 4)
Does it ever feel like there is a literal roar inside your head? The "should-haves," the "what-ifs," and that crushing mental anguish that fills the silence your child left behind—that is grief noise. It's loud, it's heavy, and it's exhausting to carry the weight of a mind trying to make sense of something that will never fully make sense this side of heaven. In this episode, we step into the n
263. How Do I Stop Feeling Guilty for Saying No? Child Loss and Boundaries (Part 2 of 4)
💛 Feeling Soul-Tired? Friend, if your heart feels weary and you need someone to walk beside you for a little while, you don't have to carry this alone. Book a one-on-one Grief Mentor Session here. Have you ever felt that heavy pressure to show up even when your heart didn't have the strength? The pressure to answer the text, return the call, attend the gathering, or reassure people that you're
262. How Do I Stop Fighting My Grief? | Finding Rest After Child Loss (Part 1 of 4)
Feeling soul-tired and need someone to walk with you? Book a one-on-one Grief Mentor Session here. Have you ever felt like your grief is a battle you have to fight every single day, and if you stop to rest for even a moment, you're somehow betraying your child? You are carrying a weight that is physically and soul-exhausting, waking up each morning to an ache that feels impossible to outrun. But
261. Grief and Surrender: How to Trust God When the Cost Feels Too High
he word surrender is one of the hardest words for a grieving mom to even consider. To your heart, surrender feels heavy—weighted with the fear of what else might be taken and the exhaustion of a cost you never agreed to pay. You've been trained by loss to protect, to pull back, and to brace for the next storm, making the idea of letting go feel more like a threat than a relief. This episode explor
260. The Hidden Cost of Staying Stuck in Child Loss + How to Move Toward Hope
"Maybe I'll just give it more time. I'm not ready. I'll see how I feel in a few months." It sounds responsible. It sounds patient. It even sounds spiritual. But what if "wait and see" isn't neutral? What if staying stuck is costing you more than you realize? In today's episode, we are having an honest conversation about the real price of staying stuck after child loss. Time alone does not re
259. Grief Brain and Decision Fatigue in Child Loss: Too Exhausted to Function
You used to handle a full day without thinking twice. Now even simple choices feel overwhelming. What to wear. What to cook. Whether to answer the phone. And somewhere in the middle of it all, you've started wondering, What is wrong with me? If you feel mentally drained, foggy, and worn thin in ways sleep can't fix, this episode will help you understand why. In this conversation, we pull back the
258. Am I Healing or Just Waiting? The Truth About Betrayal After Child Loss
"Am I betraying my child if I start to feel better?" It's a question most grieving moms never say out loud. Not because you love your child any less. But because pain has started to feel like the only bridge between you and them. Somewhere along the way, suffering begins to feel like loyalty — and the thought of healing feels like forgetting. In this episode, we step into that tension. The guilt t
257. Why I Feel So Alone After Child Loss: Hidden Layers No One Talks About
When the house gets quiet and the weight of missing your child feels heavier than you can possibly bear, it's natural to look for a place to retreat. Whether you are leaning on your family to carry the weight or retreating inward to manage it all alone, you might be surprised to find that your "hiding place" is actually a response to the hidden layers of grief that no one warned you about. This ep
256. Why Grief Pulls You Back: The Hidden Cost of Peace and the Risk of Trusting Again
Why does it feel like every time you start to feel a bit of peace, you get pulled right back into the pain? You aren't choosing to stay stuck, and you certainly aren't trying to live in this dark place, yet it keeps happening. You take one step forward, something shifts, and suddenly you are pulling inward again, feeling like your thoughts are spiraling out of control. In this episode, we're goi
255.Why Am I Still Just Surviving? Moving from Pain to Peace After Child Loss
Have you ever felt like all you are doing is coping? One day turns into the next, and suddenly you find yourself six months down the road—or even a year—yet you feel like you are still standing in the exact same place you were on day one. You are living your life entirely inside the circumstances of your child's death, exhausted from the constant "push" to just get through the hour, and you've b
254. What to Do When You Feel Faith Slipping and God Feels Absent After Child Loss
If you believe in God but can't feel Him anywhere right now, you're not alone. When your child is no longer walking beside you, faith can feel fragile, confusing, and even unsafe to hold. You still pray. You still believe. But God feels distant, quiet, and harder to find than ever before. In this episode, we sit inside that ache without rushing past it. This is an honest conversation for grieving
253. I Don't Recognize Myself Anymore — Understanding Identity After Child Loss
You don't wake up one day and decide you're a different person. It happens slowly — as the life you expected is taken away and survival becomes your focus. And then one day, you realize the woman looking back at you doesn't feel familiar anymore. If you've found yourself thinking, "I don't know who I am now," — you're not alone. In this episode, we talk about the disorienting identity shift that
252. I Don't Need More Grief Tips — I Need Something That Actually Works
You've listened. You've prayed. You've read the books and tried the suggestions. And yet… you still feel stuck. If you're a grieving mom who keeps searching for relief but can't seem to find it, this episode names what's really happening beneath the surface — and why trying harder isn't the answer. Many grieving moms stay caught in survival mode, absorbing more and more information, hoping the nex
251. Why I'm Afraid to Surrender After Loss—and What is God Really Asking?
If the word surrender makes your chest tighten instead of bringing peace, you're not alone. After loss—especially child loss—surrender can feel dangerous. It can sound like vulnerability, exposure, or risk. And when you've already lost what mattered most, even the idea of opening your hands again can feel terrifying. In this episode, we're gently unpacking why surrender feels so unsafe after grief
250. Why Can't I Stop Thinking About My Grief—and How to Find Relief
Your mind won't turn off. Every thought seems to loop back to your loss—what you should be feeling, what you shouldn't, what this means about you, why you're still here, and why nothing seems to change. You're not falling apart… but you're not really living either. And the more you think about your grief, the more trapped you feel inside your own head. In this episode, I want to help you name what
249. Why Me? Why My Family? What God Says About You
There are questions grief makes you ask that you never planned to ask. Questions you don't always say out loud. Questions that feel too heavy, too raw, or too dangerous to voice—especially when they're aimed at God. If you've ever whispered, Why me? Why my family? and then wondered what that even says about you… this episode is for you. In this conversation, we talk about how grief doesn't just br
248. Why Do Bad Grief Days Feel Like Starting Over? What Am I Missing
Some days, grief doesn't feel like a wave—it feels like your starting over. You wake up and everything is there again: the ache, the weight, the questions. And you start wondering… Why does this undo me so easily? Why does it always feel like I'm back at the beginning? In this episode, I want to sit with that question— to look at it more honestly. Because what if those "starting over" days aren't
247. I Don't Know What I Need Anymore-Why Grief Feels Unsustainable
"I don't know what I need anymore… I just know I can't keep doing this." If that sentence has been living quietly in your heart, you're not alone — and you're not failing. You're showing up, functioning, and doing what needs to be done, yet something inside you knows the way you've been surviving is starting to wear thin. In this episode, Teresa gently names why that feeling shows up after child l
#246// I'm Doing Everything I'm Supposed To — So Why Do I Still Feel Stuck?
You're showing up. You're praying. You're holding it together the best you know how. And yet, something inside of you still feels heavy, unsettled, and stuck. This episode is for the grieving mom who isn't falling apart—but also isn't finding relief. The one who's doing "all the right things" and quietly wondering why it still feels so hard. In this conversation, we gently explore why grief doesn'
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