The Heart of Grief
If you’re reading this, chances are that you’ve experienced at least one painful loss that continues to limit your life and leave an ache in your soul. The Heart of Grief exposes why the normal ways we respond to loss typically fail to help. Lorri Penner RSW, and Brian Magee are recovering grievers and active Certified Grief Recovery Specialists® You’ll hear bits of their personal grief journeys, but more, you’ll learn about practical actions you can take to move toward healing. Contact us: -email: feedback@theheartofgrief.com. -Mail: Martin Brothers Funeral Chapels Ltd. 610 4 St S Lethbridge AB Canada T1J 4P3 -www.mbfunerals.com-The Grief Recovery Institute: www.griefrecoverymethod.com
Episodes
49 episodes
Songs of Sorrow - QOF Holidays 2024
What might the Babylonian exile of the ancient Jewish people around 2600 years ago have to do with carrying the pain of grief during the holidays?Christmas is a holiday rooted in the Christian faith. How might the spiritual Christmas mes...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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16:06
Holiday Grief 2024
It can be hard to know how to do things at the holidays when walking through difficult loss. Do you keep it as much the same as possible or do you decide to do things very differently? What will you personally take part in? What will you bow ou...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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14:18
QOF 12 With Clarissa Moll - Helping Teens with Loss Part 2
This is part 2 of my conversation with Clarissa Moll. Clarissa is an award-winning writer and podcaster who helps bereaved people find flourishing after loss. Clarissa’s writing appears in Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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31:27
The F Words 5 - Feelings, Signals to Tune in On
Grief is about emotions, a very difficult and complex combination of feelings. In order to work through our losses well, we need to be able to acknowledge and address those feelings. But most of us have trouble dealing with even the more regula...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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16:12
QOF 11. With Clarissa Moll - Helping Teens with Loss
Clarissa Moll (MA, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is an award-winning writer and podcaster who helps bereaved people find flourishing after loss. Clarissa’s writing appears in Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, RELEVAN...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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30:11
Help a Child Grieve; Help the World Heal
The goal of the Grief Recovery Institute is to reach as many people as possible with life changing help for the struggles of loss. This is about help that makes a difference not just in a current loss but provides tools that equip people ...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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15:38
QOF 10 Honest to God: An Invitation to Lament
Is it OK to tell God how we really feel about a loss or other tragedy that rocks our lives? Many Christians feel they need to focus on thoughts of future comfort and messages of God's good promises. Genuine feelings of sorrow and anger can be o...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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16:54
The F Words-4 Familiarity. "Habit or Helpful? Choose One"
Familiarity can be beneficial, providing safety, comfort and enjoyment. It can also become detrimental. In this episode Brian explains how a familiarity bias regarding response to loss can lead to narrow thinking that keeps us stuck in our grie...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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15:25
QOF 9 What's the Use in Saying Sorry?
What do apologies have to do with healthy grieving? In our Grief Recovery Method® programs we recognize that recovery from loss involves identifying and bringing completion to unfinished pieces of emotional business in a relationship that has e...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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18:03
The F Word - 3 Overcoming Our Fears Following Loss
CS Lewis commented at the beginning of his popular book A Grief Observed “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid.” Well not only can grief feel like fear, grief can in...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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13:48
QOF 8: How Does Faith Affect Forgiveness?
We’ve looked at forgiveness from various angles in two of our recent episodes. This Questions Of Faith episode is going to consider that powerful emotional action step with the addition of a faith perspective. The question is, how does biblical...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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17:16
The F Word - 2: Find Healing Through Compassionate Forgiveness
When a loss experience leaves us with a deep hurt caused by someone, it can be hard to let go of the pain. In this episode Brian shares the idea of Compassionate Reappraisal; a way of considering the circumstances of the offending party ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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14:59
Finding God's Purpose in Pain: Part 2 Interview with Andy Reeves
A Questions of Faith episode, this is the second part of Brian's interview with colleague, Andy Reeves. We’re going to continue our conversation about finding God in the midst of suffering, with a particular focus on mental and emotional ...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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29:15
The F Word: How to find freedom and peace through forgiveness
The Grief Recovery Handbook calls it one of the most misunderstood ideas in the world. Forgiveness is a concept widely recognized for its power and importance. Unfortunately it is frequently missed out on due to wrong ideas about what it is and...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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15:03
Finding God's Purpose in Pain: Part 1 Interview with Andy Reeves
In this edition of our Questions of Faith program, Brian will be sharing part one of two of an interview he had recently with a professional colleague who has been living for years with chronic, debilitating illness. We’re going to ...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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27:29
Become a Healing Agent for Hurting Hearts: Interview with GRM® Specialist, Trudie Slomp
Brian interviews a colleague and fellow Grief Recovery Method Specialist®, Trudie Slomp. Trudie is a retired nurse, and a grandmother who felt a desire to help fellow grievers find genuine healing. The Grief Recovery® Personal Program gave Trud...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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15:37
Faith and Feelings: Should my belief in God make me feel better?
Maybe you've heard something like "Don't feel bad, God is with you," and though you do believe God is with you, you still felt bad, or even worse somehow. If so, you're not alone, and this episode is for you. How should faith in a God who loves...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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16:13
Monkey See, Monkey Do; Modeling Grief for Children
Learning how to lose; how can we help our kids learn well? In Dec. 2020 Lorri and Brian recorded a program introducing the topic of children and grief. They shared 7 points on helping grieving children. You may wish to listen to that. In this e...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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15:10
“Living for Keeps” Why we’re such poor losers
What do children learn about loss? In this episode Brian explains how, for most of us, our early learning has not prepared us well for handling loss. The emphasis of our upbringing is on getting and keeping things. As a result, we a...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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11:59
Grief in Separation and Divorce
After more than two years away, The Heart of Grief is back. As Lorri's new job does not allow her the time needed for the podcast, Brian will be running solo for the foreseeable future. In this first episode of Season 3, Brian will be...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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16:25
Season 2, Episode 4, The G Word. Why "guilty" may not be the best word.
Sometimes circumstances surrounding a loss can leave us feeling guilty. At least that is the word that comes to mind to describe our feelings. Brian and Lorri talk about why guilt is often not an accurate term for describing our feelings and no...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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14:06
Season 2, Episode 3, What do you say when you don't know what to say?
Someone you care about has experienced a difficult loss. You know you’re going to be seeing them at the funeral or work or church and you don’t have a clue what you’re going to say. We’ve all been faced with situations like this. It can be very...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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16:21
Season 2, Episode 2, Nobody died, Why am I feeling so bad?
When someone close to us dies, we grieve. We all understand that. However, we all encounter many other loss events that leave us feeling sad in ways that are like a death. It’s important to acknowledge these losses as bereavement events and to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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14:35
Season 2, Episode 1, STAGES? REALLY?
This is the first episode of our Second Season for the Heart of Grief.Most people have heard something about grief as being experienced in a predictable series of stages. At least there is a theory that this is the case. Anyone wh...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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18:14
Episode 19, Unresolved Grief - Why even good memories may still carry pain.
In this short, solo re-mix episode, Brian revisits the topic of unresolved grief. When all the normal reactions, activities, ceremonies, responsibilities, and adjustments have taken place following a loss, there is sometimes a deep pain that co...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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10:02
