Journey From Grief to Healing

Episode 7: M Encourages Me to Journal as Way to Deal with Grieving and Suffering.

M tells me how journaling helped her deal with her emotions and suffering while she grieved Peter's death. As I thought about journaling I realized I'd been stuffing my anger. I wondered if stuffing my anger added to my suffering and grief.

Episode 6: I Learned Not to Judge - We All Grieve Differently

Those who attended the grieving group with me became my teachers. I learned that we all grieve differently. For each of us who grieve, the suffering hurts like hell. M encourages me to start making new friends.

Episode 5: My Grieving Group Experience

I sucked it up and took M's advice and attended a grieving group meeting. The women at the meeting taught me a powerful lesson that has remained with me.

Episode 4. Grieving Stayed Closer than My Shadow: Everywhere I Look Memories of Babe Washed Over Me

Episode 4. I can't shake the suffering. Grieving is an open wound. I walk into my study and see Babe's desk and unopened computer. She is everywhere and nowhere close to me. Pain rips through me at every turn. I meet M at Starbucks. M has advice for me.

Episode 3. Sleepwalking Through the Funeral With the Help of Daughters

Episode 3. My five daughter arrive and helped with the funeral arrangements. I was grateful for them. I felt as if I were sleepwalking and would wake up any moment to discover it was all a bad dream. God sent me an angel in the form of a woman I'd never seen before and she had a special message for me.

Episode 2: Grieving and Suffering are Two Sides to the Same Coin

Episode 2. In this episode, I describe how I felt when Babe died. I felt I was hit with a sledgehammer. A friend, M., stopped by. She told me my suffering was both a mystery with no answers and unavoidable. All humans will experience it. She assured me, I'd get through. She got through her grieving with the help and love of friends when she lost her husband. 

Episode 1: Grieving is an Uncharted Road Through a Parallel Universe

Episode 1 - I describe the raw emotions that hit when my wife and best friend, Barb died. Hosted by Dr. Ray Calabrese