Introduction. Hope, healing, and a way forward after heartbreak. Episode 1

Welcome to From Heartbreak to Healing Podcast.

Have you felt broken after divorce or other heartbreak? Are you looking for hope, inspiration, and tools to help you heal? Then you have come to the right place. Welcome to From Heartbreak to Healing Podcast.  I’m Sandy Falter, a certified grief coach, mom, and grandma. My own journey of loss once left my heart shattered—but God met me in the brokenness, and step by step I learned how to rebuild a beautiful, joy-filled life. Now, I’m here to walk with you. Each week, you’ll hear encouragement, practical tools, and hope to remind you that even in the hardest seasons, healing is possible—and your best days are still ahead.

Sandy shares her grief and heartbreak and healing journey.

For free resources, go to coach.sandyfalter.com

Sand to Glass - a poem by Sandy Falter

I used to be a rock. I was a solid foundation for others to crumble on, to rest on, to build on, to push off from, to feel, and I just stood solid.

Rock can build foundations, but it can also build barriers.

Because of some horrible experiences beginning in my childhood, I started to build walls of protection from further pain. I didn’t allow myself to be vulnerable - which also meant I couldn’t truly grow. I was stuck. It’s not easy to change rock. The process is brutal, painful.

Then the worst storm of my life hit. Far more tragic than anything I had ever experienced and it pulverized the rock. Broken in pieces.

But the rock became sand. Now I am sand.

Sand is vulnerable and changes. Sand is pleasant and comforting. Sand cannot hold everyone up but has to rely on others to be strong.

Sand can be transformed. Sand can become glass!

Transparent and reflective. Vulnerable. Refined. Glass reflects light. Glass protects and provides safety from the elements.

Glass is needed and desired. Glass is versatile and useful.

Glass is exquisitely beautiful!

I was a rock. Now I am sand.

I am being transformed into beautiful glass.

For more information and free resources and grief coaching after heartbreak, go to sandyfalter.com