Catholic Grief Coach

Watching your loved one slowly fade away over time is it's own sort of torture. This is true with cancer. This is especially true with diseases such as Alzheimers, Parkinson's, ALS, and Huntington's disease. This episode I specifically talk about Alzheimers because of the way the disease progresses. Your loved one can forget who you are years before they die. You want their suffering to stop. You...

Sometimes the loneliest part of grief is that we don't understand that what we are feeling or experiencing. Something feels off, but it doesn't have a name. It just feels like a hovering, looming, broken feeling. This episode I talk with Erin Whalen. She founded the company, Compassionate Coaching, where they use improv theater to help others through their grief. Erin lived with anticipatory grief...

After a loved one dies a lot of people reach out to offer prayers and well wishes. Then it seems like over night, people disappear. You are left alone. You want support but you don't know how to ask for it. Or you think people should just know what you need. This episode I help you though the days when people stop showing up. You get easy, tangible steps to know what you need, when you need it.  I...

Death makes people uncomfortable. You have a friend who just had a loved one die and you don't know what to say to them.  You don't want to make them feel worse, so you say the clique things. This can leave the griever feeling like a burden, overwhelmed, isolated, and lonely. You want to help but don't know how.  This episode I walk you through what to say at a funeral. I give you a list of things...

Grief doesn't always mean someone has died. Grief is a normal response to a major loss. Marriage betrayal or divorce is a major loss. The end of a relationship is a major loss. You can experience the normal grief stages and not even realizes this is happening. This episode I talk about how to handle this kind of grief. This grief can cut as deep but not receive the support from others around you....

When people are dying/die, there a lot of people that come out of the woodwork. This may feel comforting or it can make you feel selfish. You don't want to share your loved one with people that hardly knew them.  We can let this selfishness affect us mentally. It can also affect others around us who are trying to support us and care for us. This episode I talk about how feeling selfish is normal....

After a loved one dies most people go through a stage where you feel numb. You feel like you can't grieve. Like the death is not real, or that it hasn't hit you yet. This episode I talk about why that happens and how to handle that. Are you struggling and don't know if your grief is normal. Book a free consult here.

When your loved on dies, you feel alone. You try to talk about your pain and people say things like "they are in a better place," or "they wouldn't want you to be sad." This does not help. You feel pushed away, isolated, and lonely. You try not to cry in front of people or you wait until you are in the shower to cry.  This episode I teach you how to allow those emotions. How to know exactly what t...

This episode I talk about my grief journey and why I wanted to help people who are struggling with grief. Grief is hard, but you don't have to go it alone. Book a free consult call. I will help you get through the hard days. https://www.nursegriefcoaching.com

Celebrate episode #100 with me! I have been reflecting on how far I have come since my first podcast. This summer I have been discerning the gifts and talents that God has given me and what he is calling me to. This episode I talk about the first time I remember feeling grief as a nurse. How heavy that felt and how I just kept going and didn't process that. I cover the upcoming changes to my podca...

You rush through most days. You are busy taking care of others. At the end of the day you look back and realize that you didn't make good healthy choices. So you tell yourself that you will start tomorrow. Then tomorrow comes and the same thing happens. This can turn into months or years of unhealthy, often neglectful habits. This episode I talk with Janna Kerr, she is an intagretive nutrition hea...

We have all thought this at one time or another. When the nursing profession is so short staffed, we start to think that our employer needs us, more than we need them. That may be statistically true. However, the way we show up when we start to think this way, is usually not very kind or nice. This episode I talk through a bridge thought. How to get from the thought you are currently having to one...

Your husband is going through a difficult time. Maybe it's his health and he seems depressed. Maybe his job is really at a difficult time right now and he is super stressed. You want to help but you don't really know what to do. He is on edge all the time and everything you say seems to make it worse. This episode I go through 4 steps that you can take to help make the situation better. You are no...

We hear about self-care all the time. What does it really mean? The world tells us that it should be a bubble bath and shopping. What if you don't like those things?  This episode I talk about what self care truly is. It's not as hard as you think. It doesn't take as much time as you think.  Feel like there has to be more to life than this? Book a free consult call . 

You are very invested in your faith. Your Catholic faith is very important to you. It is so frustrating when you hear other Catholics say things that are really not what the Church believes. They base how they feel as the truth, instead of Church teachings as truth. This episode I talk about when I encountered this recently and what I did. Here are some practical things you can do in those moments...

There are four temperaments; sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic. We often have 2 that are more prominant than the other two. This can lead to conflicts amongst siblings, amongst spouses, and amongst co-workers. It's not that they are doing it wrong or that you are doing it wrong. It's that you honestly just can't see the other side of it.  This episode I interview Kyle Hein, a fellow...

I have to do everything myself. No one helps me. If I want something done, it is up to me. This is what I tell myself a lot. It leaves me feeling angry and frustrated. Some of it is true, but most of it is just me getting stuck on a thought.  This episode I lead you through the 4 steps to take to get others to help you. I help you get out of those panic, overwhelm, anger, and frustrated feelings....

There is a cost to everything. Especially when it comes to weight loss we want to quit. We don't like the cost that it comes with. We want it to be easy and simple. It can be easy and simple but it also comes at a cost. The cost might be not eating gummy worms and ice cream at 10 pm. The cost might be saying no to dessert when you go out with your friends.  Our brain likes to tell us that this is...

You consume so much. More than you are even aware of. You consume knowledge. You consume products. You consume sports, TV, social media events, and vacations. You consume physical things like food and drink.  This episode I talk about how consuming so much often leads us to feeling stuck, jealous, or trapped. You are made to create. We get dopamine from consuming but it is a dopamine that doesn't...

When Brianna was 26 weeks pregnant, her daugher, Reagan Valeria, was diagnosed with Congenital Diaphratic Hernia (CDH) in utero. Their life changed in that moment and she focused on finding the best possible care for their daughter. They moved to a different state to find a doctor that was experience with this diagnosis.  This episode Brianna talks about the challenge of advocating for her daughte...

We all want over night success. We want to believe that the commercials that talk about losing 14 pounds in 14 days work. We think that there is a secret thing that some people have and that's why they have overnight success.  This episode I talk about slow success. Slow success is success that lasts. We can all have quick success, but in order for something to last it needs to be permanent change...

You are going through life carrying around a secret pain. You know what I'm talking about. The one that keeps you from fully engaging in conversations. That keeps you in a fog and thinking about it all day long. The one that you are afraid if anyone finds out about it they won't like you.  This episode I talk about the secret pain that a lot of us are carrying. I give you the steps on how to start...

This episode I talk with Rose Folsom. Rose runs Virtue Connection. She helps Catholic professional easily find the time to connect with God in prayer and discover how to deal with distraction or obstacles. She provides some great tips for busy working moms. Her program helps you build your prayer life to find peace and confidence in every situation.  Work with me Want to work with Rose- click here...

Usually this time of year means a shift in the schedules. Kids might be at home more. There are different activities this time of year. Or it's just Sunday night and you are stressed from all the things that need to get done this week. When you work in healthcare those tasks and to do lists can mean the difference between life and death. It can mean the difference between a happy patient or an ang...

How do you handle the unexpected? What about when it involves a mess that you have to clean up and spending money? Do you get angry? Do you tell yourself how you should have seen this coming and beat yourself up (mentally)? This episode I talk about what happened when our sump pump stopped working. How I still managed to fit in everything I had planned for the day. I was able to see the blessings...