4: Four strategies for overcoming grief and challenges

Author: Melissa Dlugolecki
Published: Thu 21 Feb 2019
Episode Link: https://scartissue.simplecast.com/episodes/challengeaccepted-75184e08

Each year around Leyden’s anniversary, I speak to my congregation at Arlington Street Church. This message, from the four-year anniversary, explores four strategies for overcoming grief, the importance of knowing your values, and why we should practice courage every day.

Highlights of this episode:

2:04 - Matching your passions & skillsets

4:12 - Pursuing the trophy of grief

5:39 - Strategies for growth and progress for life's challenges

6:02 - Strategy #1

7:16 - Strategy #2

9:20 - Strategy #3

10:39 - Strategy #4

15:16 - The greatest challenge we face

About this podcast:

Grief, Guts & Smoothies. These three things changed my life – they might change yours too. Each episode we abandon our comfort zones to get a little gutsy and hold space to grow into stronger versions of ourselves.

In 2014, the birth of my daughter Leyden changed my entire world. Four months later, grief shattered it. I was broken, scared, lost, angry and hopeless. I didn’t want to live and wasn’t really sure how to.

I sought every mean to “fight” grief: researching, joining parent groups, and I even traveled outside of the country twice, to hear world-renowned grief speaker Dr. Raymond Moody.

Disappointed, I discovered like all adversities in life, there is no way to “beat” grief. But, thankfully, there were effective strategies I could employ when navigating such choppy waters. Whether it was understanding the gut-brain connection, or getting gutsy in my ability to face discomfort, the tools I learned, truly saved my life.

There are not nearly enough resources to support each other through uncomfortable challenges – be it loss of a job, a relationship, a sense of self…or life. Talking about uncomfortable things, well that takes guts. And we are going to get really gutsy here.

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