『The Silent Pandemic of Grief: The Real Reason Healing Hurts with Doug Lawrence』のカバーアート

The Silent Pandemic of Grief: The Real Reason Healing Hurts with Doug Lawrence

The Silent Pandemic of Grief: The Real Reason Healing Hurts with Doug Lawrence

無料で聴く

ポッドキャストの詳細を見る
"Somebody will be there to help you with your healing journey, but it only starts when you actually come out of that closet and actually ask for help." — Doug Lawrence Grief after losing a spouse doesn't follow a script, and this episode makes that clear from the first minute. Host Dr. Kimberly Hubenette sits down with Doug Lawrence — author, certified grief mentor, and widower — for an unfiltered conversation about what actually happens after the person you built your life with is gone. Doug lost his wife Deborah to cancer after 43 years of marriage. He's since become the only person in the world to hold the Certificate of Practice Journey Mentor from the International Mentoring Community, and he's channeled his own grief into three books, including Grief: The Silent Pandemic. This episode is for anyone rebuilding after loss, supporting someone who is, or quietly wondering whether it's normal to still be struggling months or years later. Doug and Kimberly talk candidly about the practical chaos of loss — relearning bills, chores, and routines a partner used to handle — and the emotional weight of grieving in public. Doug also opens up about remarriage, the moment a medium delivered a message he says was from Deborah, and the line he now lives by: grief exists because love existed first. Key takeaways: • Doug rebuilt his daily life from scratch after 43 years of shared responsibilities, learning to pay bills and manage a household for the first time in his sixties. • He describes reaching out for help as "coming out of the closet" — a phrase he uses deliberately to push men in particular past the stigma of asking for support. • Seven out of eight people in Doug's mentoring practice are women, a pattern he attributes to men being less willing to seek grief support in the first place. • His guiding belief, "grief exists because love existed first," reframes grief not as something broken but as proof of a relationship that mattered. • Doug doesn't rule out remarrying and encourages others not to see moving forward as a betrayal of the person they lost. • Small, consistent self-care — including saying no when he's carrying too much of other people's pain — is what allows him to keep mentoring others through their own grief. If this conversation resonated with you, listen to the full episode for Doug's complete story and subscribe to Live, Love, Survive, Thrive for new episodes every week. Connect with Dr. Kimberly: Website LinkedIn Instagram Facebook YouTube Pinterest Apple Podcast Spotify Episode Highlights: 05:16 Meet Doug Lawrence: Certified Grief and Journey Mentor 05:56 The Diagnosis That Changed Everything 06:55 Family, Grief, and Holding It Together 09:43 Relearning Life After 43 Years of Marriage 11:18 How Loss Reshaped Doug's Purpose and Identity 13:10 Advice for Anyone Starting Their Grief Journey 16:21 Inside His Rare Journey Mentor Certification 18:47 On Remarrying and Moving Forward After Loss 26:08 Lessons From Grief: The Silent Pandemic 30:20 Final Takeaway: It's Okay to Ask for Help Resources: Get Doug's Books 📖 Gift of Mentoring 📖You Are Not Alone: Mental Health Mentors Take the Journey with You 📖 Grief: The Silent Pandemic Get Kim's Books 📖Grid: Once in a Lifetime You Get to Start Over 📖Live, Love, Survive, Thrive! Thank you for listening. To keep my podcast alive, Wanna buy my dog Dakota a bone? ☕️https://buymeacoffee.com/livelovesurvivethrive
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
まだレビューはありません