Life After Child Loss

In this episode, host Liene talks about closure and the misconceptions surrounding it. She explores why we believe we need closure to move on and why that's not necessarily true. Liene discusses the importance of understanding that closure doesn't always bring peace and that it's okay not to have all the answers. She offers guidance on how to create your own peace by choosing to be okay with not knowing, and how to move forward with your life while still honoring your grief. Ultimately, she reminds listeners that grief is a part of life and that it's okay to allow it to be a part of our emotional spectrum.

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In this podcast episode, Liene addresses the question of how grieving can eventually stop. She explains that while grief never completely goes away, it eventually becomes less dominant in our lives. In the early stages of grief, our brains have to update our mental maps to match our new reality, which takes time and experiences. 

Liene also shares her personal experience, saying that while she still experiences grief waves, she almost misses the early grief and encourages listeners to pay attention to and experience their own grief journey.

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Join me this week as I speak with Colin, a remarkable individual who has shown incredible resilience in the face of unimaginable loss. Despite the heart-wrenching experience of losing his two teenage children, Colin remains unwavering in his belief that there is still a life worth living after such tragedy.

As he shares his story, you'll discover that this life is different from the one you might have envisioned, but it is no less meaningful. With acceptance comes the growth of a bigger heart and strength that is born of the deepest sorrow.

Don't miss this inspiring conversation with Colin, a true testament to the power of the human spirit.

Colin Campbell is a writer and director for theatre and film. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Seraglio, a short film he wrote and directed with his lovely and talented wife, Gail Lerner. He has taught Theater and/or Filmmaking at Chapman University, Loyola Marymount University, Cal Poly Pomona University, and to incarcerated youth through The Unusual Suspects. His one-person show titled "Grief: A One Man Shit Show " premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, where it won a Best of Broadwater Award. He lives in Los Angeles and sometimes Joshua Tree.  

Please check out Colin Campbell's new book: "Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose."

You can get in touch with Colin and find out more about him on IG @colincampbellwriter and his website https://colincampbellauthor.com/. 

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What do you think about yourself? Do you think of yourself as being capable and strong? Do you think of yourself as capable of creating the life you want? Or do you think of yourself as something less? 

Where are you limiting how you experience yourself based on the thoughts in your mind? 
What if you change them? 

You are not your thoughts. 

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Becoming the boss of your mind is magical. 

Learning to feel your emotions is life-changing. 

But there are days when you need to pause and meet yourself where you are with all the love, self-compassion, and zero judgment. 

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In the same way, as we fuel our bodies with food, we fuel our lives with the thoughts we are thinking. 

A glucose monitor helps to see how certain foods affect you.  

How do we create similar awareness about how our thoughts impact us? 

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Looking back at the death of our child, we often feel guilt and regret. 

We think we could have done better.

We could have done something else. 

Blaming ourselves seems the right thing to do. 

But how is punishing you for what you seemingly did, is helping anyone? 

Letting go of the guilt might seem scary, but accepting "what is" is freeing, and focusing on the future you is the most loving and impactful thing you can do today. 

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Experience of loss comes with the loss of our identity or the sense of who we are. 

But the place never stays empty for long. So you replace it with a new identity. 

Does this new identity is something you want?

I'll give you three steps to create the identity you want.

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Today I want to talk about retraumatization. 

I'll talk about what it is and how to deal with it. 

We can't necessarily control when and if we will experience retraumatization events, but if we learn to recognize what is happening, we'll have an easier time processing it and not becoming overconsumed by it. 

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In my last episode, I said:
- it's time to thrive this year and 
- grief and thriving are not mutually exclusive. 

I stand by what I said, and today I'll show you how to take your first three steps towards thriving. 

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We can't control what this year will bring us, but we can control the reality we create without thinking. 

Today I want to share with you a story my son told. I love how unique and adaptable children are. So much to learn from them. 

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This week I'm talking to my husband, Eriks.  

Talking about losing our son is not easy, but talking helps. 
Talking helps to process emotions. 

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Is it ok to want more from your life, or should you settle with what you have now and count your blessings? 

Wanting more doesn't mean you didn't love your child. 

Wanting more doesn't mean you don't love the things you currently have.

Wanting more is about believing in yourself, your worth and your potential. 

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Holidays bring up a lot of emotion.
We do feel more fragile and more vulnerable. We feel more of everything. Everything is heightened, and we have to deal not only with ourselves but also with other people.

I’ve talked in previous episodes about how to manage yourself – how to lean into you to create the experience you want, and how to disrupt your patterns by asking you powerful questions, so this week I want to talk about other people – how to handle them.

Ep"47 - Better Holidays After Loss
Ep: 49 - The Right Questions For Better Life

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You know what you want, but keep doing the same as always. Sounds familiar? What keeps happening is - we slide back into autopilot and disconnect from ourselves and the things we truly want. 

How to disrupt the autopilot?

Asking yourself powerful questions will wake you up from autopilot and make conscious what was unconscious before so that you can choose from your power.

Here are five questions from Debbie Ford that might help you:

-       Will this choice propel me forward, or will it keep me stuck in the past? 

-       Am I looking for what's right, or am I looking for what's wrong

-       Am I standing in my own power, or am I trying to please another? 

-       Is this act of self-love, or is this act of self-sabotage?  

-       Will this choice add to my life force, or will it rob me of my energy? 

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My oldest living son turned 7 - the age at which my son died. So naturally, reaching this milestone brought up a lot of worries and anxiety.  

Listen to the episode to find out how to live with it. 

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As we are approaching another holiday season, I wanted to share my thoughts on handling holidays better. 

Listen to the episode and find out the two most important questions to ask yourself to decide how to handle the holidays. 

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Last week I talked about not wanting to feel it anymore, and I introduced two things you can do to help with your feelings - meditation and journaling. 

Today I'm sharing what I have learned from this practice. 

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How often do you find yourself thinking - I just can't feel it anymore. 

It being, pain, sadness, stress. 

Unfortunately, there is no shortcut to escaping your feelings,  but there is a way to deal with them in a way you don't feel powerless. 

Listen to the episode and join me one week in doing two steps to learn to handle your emotions better. 

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If you ever wonder what's the point of getting better, listen to this episode where I talk about what's involved in getting better and the price of choosing to do the opposite. 

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