I recently heard a metaphor that I want to share: Life is like ascending a spiral staircase and because of this, we keep revisiting the same core problems and issues time and again. They may not always look the same, but they often hold the same roots. Consequently, when we see ourselves faced with the same type of issues over and over, it's often easy to miss how much we have grown, and it's also very important not to.

The grief of losing a child becomes our deepest wound and one we will never, or never even ever want to, walk away from. As we face this trauma over and over again, there are going to be times that we feel like we have not moved forward at all.

This episode is about keeping faith in the process because as long as we are taking the correct actions, we are moving forward, even during the times we don't feel it.💕

When I started this podcast, my intention was to talk more about Sam's addiction and death than I have, but that was before I realized how important my focus is as I move forward with grief. If I zero in on the tragedy that I cannot change or undo, I am surrendering the valuable time I have left here, whereas If I focus on healing, knowing that I will ALWAYS carry this grief, I am developing the tools I need to make the burden of losing Sam lighter.

What we focus on is crucial to the future we create for ourselves. If we want to feel better and become stronger, we need to focus on what we can control, which is how we choose to live the rest of our lives.

Our grief of losing a son or daughter takes up tremendous amounts of energy in our lives, whether we are looking directly at it our not. When we shift our gaze forward, we are not escaping our grief, we are arming ourselves to live with it.💕

Losing a child is such a torturous journey that If we wait until we feel like moving forward into healing, some of us may never get there. This is why I believe that instead of waiting until we feel like it, we should wait only until we are capable, whether we feel like it or not.

In this episode, I talk about why we need to push ourselves into the process when we can and three specific reasons why this will benefit us in the long run.💕