The courage to change the things I can

Does grief ever go away? That is a question just about every grieving person wants to know, that's because it's one of the most googled questions about grief out there. When you have lost someone you love, you can be in so much pain, you just want it to end. And yet so many people will tell you that it lasts the rest of your life. Hearing that can be devastating. So in this episode, I talk about what I believed at first, when I lost my son Brandon. And what I believe now and how I have come to my current belief. I hope you will find it inspiring and hope-filled as you journey through your grief to hope and healing. ## Sherrie Dunlevy- #Inspirationista, is a best selling author, speaker, podcast host. She is also the founder of the "Graduating Grief Academy” and online support community. Sherrie is on a mission to help grieving people step out of pain and step into living with purpose, passion and joy. Learn about the Graduating Grief Academy here: https://graduatinggrief.com To join the Graduating Grief positive support community Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gradgrief To find out if you are ready to graduate from the pain of your grief, take the free quiz: https://graduatinggrief.com/quiz To order a copy of her best selling book “How Can I Help?” go to https://sherriedunlevy.com/shop/ To invite Sherrie to speak at your next event, conference or to book a "How Can I Help?"- Workshop at your business, hospital or school, contact Sherrie at [email protected] **I sometimes use affiliate links in my content. This costs the listener nothing and helps offset the cost of producing this podcast and blog

Each year millions of children are dealing with the grief of losing a parent. In fact, by the time a child reaches the age of 18 it is estimated that 1 in 14 kids have had a parent who died. And when it comes to helping children through that grief journey, most of us simply don't know what to do. Grief Illiteracy is the topic of this episode; because when you know better, you can do better in your own grief and to help offer comfort and support to others in theirs.  ** Sherrie Dunlevy- #Inspirationista, is a best selling author, speaker, podcast host. She is also the founder of the "Graduating Grief Academy” and online support community. Sherrie is on a mission to help grieving people step out of pain and step into living with purpose, passion and joy. Learn about the Graduating Grief Academy here: https://graduatinggrief.com To join the Graduating Grief positive support community Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gradgrief To find out if you are ready to graduate from the pain of your grief, take the free quiz: https://graduatinggrief.com/quiz To order a copy of her best selling book “How Can I Help?” go to https://sherriedunlevy.com/shop/ To invite Sherrie to speak at your next event, conference or to book a "How Can I Help?"- Workshop at your business, hospital or school, contact Sherrie at [email protected] **I sometimes use affiliate links in my content. This costs the listener nothing and helps offset the cost of producing this podcast and blog

A short meditation that helps you connect to your loved one this holiday season. Return to it as often as you need when you feel the need to connect to the gift that was your person. ****** Sherrie Dunlevy- #Inspirationista, is a best selling author, speaker, podcast host. She is also the founder of the "Graduating Grief Academy” and online support community. Sherrie is on a mission to help grieving people step out of pain and step into living with purpose, passion and joy. Learn about the Graduating Grief Academy here: https://graduatinggrief.com To join the Graduating Grief positive support community Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gradgrief To find out if you are ready to graduate from the pain of your grief, take the free quiz: https://graduatinggrief.com/quiz To order a copy of her best selling book “How Can I Help?” go to https://sherriedunlevy.com/shop/ To invite Sherrie to speak at your next event, conference or to book a "How Can I Help?"- Workshop at your business, hospital or school, contact Sherrie at [email protected] **I sometimes use affiliate links in my content. This costs the listener nothing and helps offset the cost of producing this podcast and blog

If only there were rules to how to get through this pain and suffering. If only there was someone that could tell me how to do it the right way. If only.... (you fill in the blank).  There are a lot thoughts and questions that come to mind in the midst of your grief journey.  So here are some guidelines, that might help you understand what is happening, if you are doing it right, how long will it all last and if healing is possible. ******* Sherrie Dunlevy- #Inspirationista, is a best selling author, speaker, podcast host. She is also the founder of the "Graduating Grief Academy” and online support community. Sherrie is on a mission to help grieving people step out of pain and step into living with purpose, passion and joy. Learn about the Graduating Grief Academy here: https://graduatinggrief.com To join the Graduating Grief positive support community Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gradgrief To find out if you are ready to graduate from the pain of your grief, take the free quiz: https://graduatinggrief.com/quiz To order a copy of her best selling book “How Can I Help?” go to https://sherriedunlevy.com/shop/ To invite Sherrie to speak at your next event, conference or to book a "How Can I Help?"- Workshop at your business, hospital or school, contact Sherrie at [email protected] **I sometimes use affiliate links in my content. This costs the listener nothing and helps offset the cost of producing this podcast and blog

Host Sherrie Dunlevy talks about her recent personal journey with grief, as she concludes the year of "firsts". Some of the things she has learned are new, others are lessons she is relearning. All of the things are transforming her life, because as she says, grief can be your greatest teacher. *** Sherrie Dunlevy- #Inspirationista, is a best selling author, speaker, podcast host. She is also the founder of the "Graduating Grief Academy” and online support community. Sherrie is on a mission to help grieving people step out of pain and step into living with purpose, passion and joy. Learn about the Graduating Grief Academy here: https://graduatinggrief.com To join the Graduating Grief positive support community Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gradgrief To find out if you are ready to graduate from the pain of your grief, take the free quiz: https://graduatinggrief.com/quiz To order a copy of her best selling book “How Can I Help?” go to https://sherriedunlevy.com/shop/ To invite Sherrie to speak at your next event, conference or to book a "How Can I Help?"- Workshop at your business, hospital or school, contact Sherrie at [email protected] **I sometimes use affiliate links in my content. This costs the listener nothing and helps offset the cost of producing this podcast and blog

Now that we know what we can't control, (episode 3 season 3) let's dive into what we can.  That way, we at least have a way to start working on things that will truly make a difference in our life. If you want to graduate from the pain, suffering and grief you are feeling, try incorporating a few of these things into a daily practice. Why do I say practice? Because although these things are simple, they are not always easy to do. We need to practice and not expect perfection. But one thing you should find if you start practicing, you will feel a whole lot better and have a better outlook on your life. And that's a great thing. ### Sherrie Dunlevy- #Inspirationista, is a best selling author, speaker, podcast host. She is also the founder of the "Graduating Grief Academy” and online support community. Sherrie is on a mission to help grieving people step out of pain and step into living with purpose, passion and joy. Learn about the Graduating Grief Academy here: https://graduatinggrief.com To join the Graduating Grief positive support community Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gradgrief To find out if you are ready to graduate from the pain of your grief, take the free quiz: https://graduatinggrief.com/quiz To order a copy of her best selling book “How Can I Help?” go to https://sherriedunlevy.com/shop/ To invite Sherrie to speak at your next event, conference or to book a "How Can I Help?"- Workshop at your business, hospital or school, contact Sherrie at [email protected]

The  first line in the Serenity Prayer: God Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Maybe we need to pray for accept those things for which we can't control as well. Too often we find ourselves stuck in pain, suffering and grief, because we are always wanting people and things to be different from what they are. We try to control the uncontrollable. And because we put our efforts into that, we feel miserable. That's the topic of this episode. It's a quick listen with a lot of good takeaway tidbits for you. ##### Sherrie Dunlevy- #Inspirationista, is a best selling author, speaker, podcast host. She is also the founder of the "Graduating Grief Academy” and online support community. Sherrie is on a mission to help grieving people step out of pain and step into living with purpose, passion and joy. Learn about the Graduating Grief Academy here: https://graduatinggrief.com To join the Graduating Grief positive support community Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gradgrief To find out if you are ready to graduate from the pain of your grief, take the free quiz: https://graduatinggrief.com/quiz To order a copy of her best selling book “How Can I Help?” go to https://sherriedunlevy.com/shop/ To invite Sherrie to speak at your next event, conference or to book a "How Can I Help?"- Workshop at your business, hospital or school, contact Sherrie at [email protected]

While healing your grief is your own journey and personal responsibility, feeling loved and supported as you travel this path can make such a difference. Problem is, many people are afraid of intruding and so therefore, many grieving people feel isolated and lonely. That's why this episode is so interesting. It allows people to feel supported while at the same time, does not come across as intruding or smothering. It's a texting subscription called Grief Coach and it's founder and CEO Emma Payne talks about how this service is providing affordable, accessible and personal grief support to people around the world. To find out more about the Grief Coach Texting service find out more here:https://grief.coach/sherriedunlevy Here's how you can follow Emma and the work Grief Coach does on social media: https://www.instagram.com/grief.coach/ https://twitter.com/mygriefcoach https://www.facebook.com/mygriefcoach https://www.linkedin.com/company/griefcoach https://vimeo.com/griefcoach https://www.tiktok.com/@grief.coach https://www.pinterest.com/mygriefcoach #### Sherrie Dunlevy- #Inspirationista, is a best selling author, speaker, podcast host. She is also the founder of the "Graduating Grief Academy” and online support community. Sherrie is on a mission to help grieving people step out of pain and step into living with purpose, passion and joy. Learn about the Graduating Grief Academy here: https://graduatinggrief.com To join the Graduating Grief positive support community Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gradgrief To find out if you are ready to graduate from the pain of your grief, take the free quiz: https://graduatinggrief.com/quiz To order a copy of her best selling book “How Can I Help?” -click here: goo.gl/rgqzr9 To invite Sherrie to speak at your next event, conference or to book a "How Can I Help?"- Workshop at your business, hospital or school, contact Sherrie at [email protected] **I sometimes use affiliate links in my content. This costs the listener nothing and helps offset the cost of producing this podcast.

This is for all the moms out there who find themselves overwhelmed, exhausted, AND grieving. The way you live your life in normal times is exhausting. Add to it what it took to live through a pandemic and then throw grief in the mix and you are literally running on fumes. Something's gotta give. And you don't want that something to be your health or your mental health. Self care is NOT selfish, and that's what we are focusing on in this episode with licensed therapist Onnie Michalsky.   *** Onnie Michalsky is a mom of six, a licensed therapist, and a life and wellness coach for Super-Moms who have lost themselves under their cape. She empowers moms to escape the do-it-all mentality and break through the limiting beliefs that are keeping them from becoming their best self. Her mission, as the founder of the Moms Without Capes movement, is to help women discover and fall in love with who they are in and out of their mom hat so that they can design the life they want to be living! Onnie Michalsky, MA, LCPC Licensed Counselor, Wellness Coach Moms Without Capes www.momswithoutcapes.com Check out the Moms Without Capes Podcast! www.momswithoutcapes.com/podcasts/moms-without-capes-podcast To join the Moms Without Capes Facebook Community for moms who want o learn to hang up their cape and love the woman hiding underneath! www.facebook.com/groups/momswithoutcapes ### Sherrie Dunlevy- #Inspirationista, is a best selling author, speaker, podcast host. She is also the founder of the "Graduating Grief Academy” and online support community. Sherrie is on a mission to help grieving people step out of pain and step into living with purpose, passion and joy. Learn about the Graduating Grief Academy here: https://graduatinggrief.com To join the Graduating Grief positive support community Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gradgrief To find out if you are ready to graduate from the pain of your grief, take the free quiz: https://graduatinggrief.com/quiz To order a copy of her best selling book “How Can I Help?” go to https://sherriedunlevy.com/shop/ To invite Sherrie to speak at your next event, conference or to book a "How Can I Help?"- Workshop at your business, hospital or school, contact Sherrie at [email protected]

Grief can be so complicated and layered and that is what we are going to address in this episode. When my friend Kelly Cook recently lost her father she asked me if it was possible to also be grieving the relationship she wished she could have had with her dad. That grief is very real and complex and is something we really needed to talk about and so we did. ## Kelly Townsend Cook is a sales professional with nearly 2 decades of experience in the vacation ownership industry. Before that she was a news anchor and reporter at KOLR and Fox27 in Springfield, Missouri  and WTOV in Steubenville, Ohio  She studied journalism and political science at Syracuse. She has two daughters Daryn and Alayna and a son, Sam. She is married to her best friend, Kenny.  They owners of KC Squared Real Estate, a short term vacation rental investment company *** Sherrie Dunlevy- #Inspirationista, is a best selling author, speaker, podcast host. She is also the founder of the "Graduating Grief Academy” and online support community. Sherrie is on a mission to help grieving people step out of pain and step into living with purpose, passion and joy. Learn about the Graduating Grief Academy here: https://graduatinggrief.com To join the Graduating Grief positive support community Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gradgrief To find out if you are ready to graduate from the pain of your grief, take the free quiz: https://graduatinggrief.com/quiz To order a copy of her best selling book “How Can I Help?” go to https://sherriedunlevy.com/shop/ To invite Sherrie to speak at your next event, conference or to book a "How Can I Help?"- Workshop at your business, hospital or school, contact Sherrie at [email protected] **I sometimes use affiliate links in my content. This costs the listener nothing and helps offset the cost of producing this podcast and blog