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New Podcast: Grief Hurts, But It’s Not the End of the Story

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In this episode of Journey from Grief to Healing, we face one of life’s hardest truths: grief hits—and it hits hard. But buried beneath the pain is something quietly waiting: your resilience. Using poetry, personal reflection, and hard-won insight, this episode explores why tough moments aren’t the final answer… unless we surrender to them. Whether you’re deep in the ache or just trying to understand it better, this is a reminder: you’re alive, and that alone is powerful.✨

5 Salient Points from the Episode:

  • Tough moments of grief are inescapable—but they aren’t permanent.
  • Surrender can take many forms (drugs, alcohol, denial), but healing begins by facing pain, not fleeing it.
  • Grief operates outside the timelines we’re used to—it’s more like waiting on a stopped train in Rilke’s meadow.
  • Aging can make us more risk-averse, stifling resilience—but that life force never truly disappears.
  • **The awakening of resilience is slow and uneven, but every moment of strength proves: You are alive.”

O Living Always – Always Dying ~ A Poem by Walt Whitman

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O Living Always – Always Dying

Walt Whitman

O LIVING always—always dying!
O the burials of me, past and present!
O me, while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever!
O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not—I am content

O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look
        at, where I cast them!
To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind!

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It’s Never Too Late To Begin Again

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I meet lots of folks who exist day to day. I used the word “exist” and not the word “live” because that’s what they’re doing. Their lives evolve into a monotonous routine. Those who live experience the moment and what the moment brings whether it’s joyful, sorrowful, or an opportunity to express heart-filled gratitude. Fully experiencing the moment helps them to more fully grasp what it means to be human. They will dance at wedding, cry at funerals, and creatively explore how to build and heal relationships. It’s never too late to start living.

“The Road Goes Ever On” Read J.R.R.Tolkien’s Poem

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The Road Goes Ever On

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Road goes ever on and on

Down from the door where it began.

Now far ahead the Road has gone,

And I must follow, if I can,

Until it joins some larger way

Where many paths and errands meet

And whither then? I cannot say.

Source: The Road Goes Ever On

Today’s Inspiring Quote ~ What Are You Capable of Doing?

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There is no passion to be found playing small

– in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela

Poem for Today ~ Oh Me! Oh Life!

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Oh Me! Oh Life!

Walt Whitman

O Me! O life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

Answer.

That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

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Daily Inspirational Quotes ~ Today is Your Day

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“Make each day your masterpiece.”

John Wooden

Positive Thought of the Day ~ Finding One’s Destiny

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“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOTE: What are you living for? What is so important to you that you want to wake up each morning and give yourself to it? Haven’t found it yet? Begin your search. When you find it, you will find your destiny. 

Inspiring Quote of the Day ~ It’s Time to Start Living

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“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”

~ Leo Buscaglia

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Today’s Positive Thought ~ It’s Time to Start Living

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“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” Nhat Hanh

The day one accepts him or herself as he or she is and loves what he or she is becoming is the day one starts living.

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