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This episode is for those of you with people in your life who don’t understand why you are still struggling with the death of your child. Laura understands what that is like, because she had someone tell her that she needed to just move on. Let’s face it, the people around us are not going to understand and, how could they? But it still hurts when family or friends are so insensitive and say thing...

The holidays can be brutal, especially those first few years. In part two of this subject, Laura starts out by answering a couple of specific questions asked by pareavors about how deal with the holidays. She then goes on to share several ideas on how to help you face those gatherings, by opening the door to bring your child with you in a way that honors him or her and helps you.   Birthdays...

In October, many stores already have fall items on clearance and are filling the shelves with Christmas items. This can make it feel like the holiday season is the entire last 3 months of the year instead of only the last 6 weeks. Many of us would love it if we could just sleep through it all and wake up in January! The end-of-the-year holidays can leave one frazzled, but they can be outright brut...

This is a bit of a different podcast, as host, Laura Diehl, invites her husband, Dave, to join her. Dave and Laura Diehl are the co-founders of the national ministry Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope), and in this podcast episode, they share their story, including: How their oldest daughter, Becca, died How what started as a church life group began to unexpectedly turn into other things, as...

The Road to Repair Series This series has been addressing how we are three-part beings (body, soul and spirit), that all three parts break down after the death of our child, and how we can work on repairing those three parts. In the final episode for this series, host, Laura Diehl, shares three specific areas that need to be dealt with when it comes to our shattered spiritual walk. Birthdays Matth...

The Road to Repair Series This episode was taped the day before the eighth anniversary of Becca’s death, (Laura’s daughter) so you will hear some emotion in her voice occasionally. We have been talking about how we are three-part beings (body, soul and spirit), that all three parts break down after the death of our child, and how we can work on repairing those three parts. The first two week...

The Road to Repair Series   God created us as three-part beings; body, soul and spirit. Too often we don’t think about how these three parts operate separately, or how they are intertwined, with one part affecting the other two parts. We started out this series by looking at how our soul is affected, which is our mind/thoughts, our will and emotions. This episode is a continuation of last wee...

The Road to Repair Series God created us as three-part beings; body, soul and spirit. Too often we don’t think about how these three parts operate separately, or how they are intertwined, with one part affecting the other two parts. We started out this series by looking at how our soul is affected, which is our mind/thoughts, our will and emotions. This episode is with a special guest, Denee Marti...

The Road to Repair Series God created us as three-part beings; body, soul and spirit. Too often we don’t think about how these three parts operate separately, or how they are intertwined, with one part affecting the other two parts. We are starting out this series by looking at how our soul is affected, which is our mind/thoughts, our will and emotions.  Last week we tackled the emotional breakdow...

The Road To Repair Series   God created us as three-part beings; body, soul and spirit. Too often we don’t think about how these three parts operate separately, or how they are intertwined, with one part affecting the other two parts. In this episode, we will tackle the emotional breakdown, which would be the soul (our mind/thoughts, our will and emotions). Join host, Laura Diehl, as she shar...

This subject directly affects podcast host, Laura Diehl. Laura got pregnant her summer out of high school and her boyfriend walked out on her. Shortly after Becca was born, Laura struck up a friendship with a co-worker, which turned into love and a marriage proposal. Little Becca was two years old when Dave and Laura were married, and he adopted Becca as soon as he could legally do so. All of us h...

When our child dies, most of us don’t believe we can find our way out of the darkness, much less have a life with meaning or purpose again. Or if we believe it is possible, we don’t know how to get there. That is one of the purposes of Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) . We are here to walk with parents through the suffocating darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light a...

No matter how dark it is after the death of our child, as a follower of Christ, we all have a seed of hope inside of us. Host, Laura Diehl, and her guest, Glen Lord, talk about how to nurture that seed of hope so that it can grow, allowing you to live a life worth living once again. Yes, it will look very different and we will remain broken, but we can get to the point where we choose to remain cl...

Season Topic: Facing Our Fears After the Death of Our Child Laura and her guest, Pastor Lynn Breeden, talk passionately to those parents who live in fear, not knowing if their child who died is in heaven. They share things we know about God such as: • His desire that no one perish without Him • That nothing can separate us from His love • How Jesus opened the door for the thief on the cross as tha...

Season Topic: Facing Our Fears After the Death of Our Child   “Grief fog” or “grief brain” is a very real thing. There are chemical changes in our brain with deep grief, and it can affect us for a very long time, as in years. Some of us feel like we have permanently lost our sharp minds and the ability to think quickly. You are not getting early Alzheimer’s – what a relief! It is just part of...

Season Topic: Facing Our Fears After the Death of Our Child   Grief triggers can happen any time, any place and with no warning. And when it happens in public, it can be very unnerving. Laura is once again joined by Pastor Lynn Breeden, who has been dealing with grief triggers for over 30 years, after the death of her five-year-old son, Joel. This is now a normal part of life for those of us...

Season Topic: Facing Our Fears After the Death of Our Child   Losing another child is one of podcast host, Laura Diehl’s, biggest fears that she has to fight. It is also one of the most common fears bereaved parents have, because once we know it can happen to us, we know it can happen again. Laura tackles this big issue with friend and bereaved parent of over 30 years, Lynn Breeden. Discussin...

Season Topic: Facing Our Fears After the Death of Our Child This is the second episode with Laura’s guest, Pastor Lynn Breeden. The first conference event Laura attended after Becca’s death, was the only one Lynn has ever hosted for grieving moms (even though Lynn’s son died over 30 years ago, and she has had her own ministry to grieving moms for many years). This was when Laura first realized wha...

Season Topic: Facing Our Fears After the Death of Our Child Pastor Lynn Breeden joins Laura for the next six episodes, talking about different fears we may have after the death of our child. This episode begins with Lynn sharing her son Joel with the listeners. He was only five when he died, and it has been over 30 years since he left this earth. Lynn then shares what she has done to keep his memo...

This is the first episode in a series of seven, discussing our fears after the death of our child. Fear brings torment, and as parents grieving the earthly loss of our child, it is easy to feel the full weight of that torment. But there is something much more powerful than our deepest fears; God’s love for us! If we live in fear, it is because we doubt His perfect love, which is understandable bec...

Last week on episode 10, Laura and Kelly talked about the struggles we can have as believers in Christ, wondering where God is in the tragedy of the death of our children. This week the discussion turns to pregnancy and infant loss. Kelly starts out by sharing why she doesn’t like to use the term “miscarriage,” and how important it is for these precious moms to have their loss of a child validated...

This talk with Kelly Gerken was so full of good stuff that instead of editing things out, it was turned into two separate episodes. In this first half, Kelly shares her story about losing her twins, Faith and Grace, before they were born, along with her son Thomas six hours after his birth. Then Laura and Kelly turn a corner as Kelly shares her struggle with the internal question, “Where is your G...

This week Laura talks to Ron Kelly about a subject many of us are forced to deal with way too soon; going back to work when we are in such deep grief. This was a very packed discussion and longer than the normal podcast, but well worth it. Some of the things covered on this subject are: How do we deal with our colleagues that are ignorant or insensitive, or who ignore us? How can bosses/managers a...

Season Topic: The Many Facets of  Forgiveness This is part two of the discussion on forgiving God for allowing our child to die. If you missed part one, you will want to go back and listen to episode 7. We start out by picking up where we left off in talking about the big question of “WHY?” and I share how you can turn a corner so that “why” doesn’t continue to plague you. God’s favor In this epis...

Season Topic: The Many Facets of  Forgiveness   I cannot offer an easy fix or solution to this issue of needing to forgive God. The best thing I can do isn’t to try and convince you why forgiving God is the right thing to do (or why you should stop being angry at Him), but to tell you what I have learned about God in my journey here on this earth, why I still trust Him, love Him and fol...