I’m so excited about this week’s podcast because I’m bringing you another male perspective to the conversation around grief. As the mother of sons and grandmother to grandsons, I happen to love and adore men. And from my research, conversations, and experience, men are taught even less about grief, and expressing their feelings in general, than women are. Today, we’re going to talk with a bereaved father, Jim Mueller, who channeled his grief into a beautiful book called “Lyrics Of A Broken Heart.”
- Luke’s moments of joy
- Why what matters isn’t about what you accomplish in the world - and what is important
- How opening ourselves up to love opens us up to loss
- How he’s extended Luke’s Spirit as a way to not get lost in the grief, but rather to use it to give to others
- What he doubted about his writing
- The message Luke’s godfather received for Jim after Luke’s passing - and Jim’s initial reaction to it
- The thing we can’t force ourselves to do
- What he believes is the most important thing for us to do in grief
- How he fell into the abyss of God
- What happens when we shine a light on the thoughts and emotions of our grief
- The question he asks himself when he meets someone who’s grieving
- The gift we can find in grief - if we choose to
- What he learned from a patient with disabilities when he was a chaplain in a hospital
- His experience with Lawrence Welk’s daughter, and her near-death experience
- What happened when he used mantras and energy healing on Luke in the NICU
- The concept of emotional wholeness - and the journey to attain it after grief
- The hard choices we often have to make with loved ones who are seriously ill
- What he did with Luke’s pictures after Luke’s passing
- The importance of surrender and not pushing against what is
- When his grief began to melt away
- When he was able to finish the book
- Why his book is very uncomfortable for men
Be sure to pick up a copy of Jim's book on Amazon or your local bookstore.
And please come over and give my Facebook page, Grief With Grace Podcast, a Like! I do weekly card readings on Mondays and will be sharing other things on that page.
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