Living Forward: a Spark of Life Podcast: Recent Episodes
David Mathews: Grief Recovery Expert, Spark of Life Foundation
When you have experienced a loss, many people don't know what to say or what to do. We do. As grief experts, we have years of experience in walking alongside those who have experienced devastating loss & given them hope. It's not about "moving forward" or "existing forward" but about LIVING FORWARD. With grief, it's common for people to stay stuck. We teach tools to help climb out of the pit and live forward, shedding the truth about grief and teaching how to have self-compassion along the way. This podcast teaches you REAL and RELEVANT tools that you can start using now to live forward.
In this episode, we further our discussion of getting trapped in your brain box and how the negatives we allow to block us in our grief process can hinder our ability to live forward.
In this episode, we are joined by Rusty Meadows, partner and Spark of Life retreat leader since 2010. Together we discuss the process of grief, the emotional effects of how giving up creeps into our daily life, and how we can deal with the feelings of giving up.
Tired of being stuck in the pit of grief. In this 7 part series, we discuss the first steps to the mindset changes that we must overcome to move through the grief stuck seasons and live forward.
Grievers have broken hearts, not broken brains. They do not need to be fixed; they need to grieve. Those grieving need to give themselves 2 ‘permissions’ - permission to grieve, to feel bad; and in almost the same breath, permission to recover, to live forward with hope and purpose. In this episode, we discuss the need to understand that as grievers we are not "broken".
In this episode, Spark of Life Co-Founder David Mathews shares the insight that all losses one experiences are in the context of other losses of one’s life. When we discover this, a healthy recovery becomes not only possible but also probable.
In this episode, we discuss the foundational key points that help one have a healthy recovery after devastating loss. With understanding the Context, giving yourself Permission, and Re-starting and Re-Framing, we can work through the journey of grief recovery.
Those who are grieving often feel overwhelmed, and as a result, feel hopeless that they can ever be happy again after a devastating loss. Spark of Life Co-Founder David Mathews shares an amazingly simple concept that can help a griever understand there is hope, a hope to living forward in life after loss.