The Grief Mentor | Life After Child Loss, Hope and Healing For Grieving Moms, Bereavement, Christian Grief Support

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

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, writ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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 episode...

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...

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 —...

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...

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...

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 ex...

 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...

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 wron...

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...

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...