Personal Journey Through Grief and Healing

When grief crashes into your life, faith-centered ways to cope can feel like they are your only lifeline. You might wake up some mornings not knowing how you'll make it through the day. The pain feels unbearable. Your mind refuses to accept what happened. Yet somewhere deep inside, you know your faith can hold you steady through this storm. Losing someone you love shakes your entire world. Grief doesn't care if you have faith-centered coping with loss strategies already in pl

Photo by Aaron Burden When things are complex and have been hard for a long time, finding sources of being and remaining hopeful is tough. Everyone has moments when they feel entirely hopeless. Traumatic experiences or repeated failures often bring on these feelings. It can sometimes get so bad because the stuff that once brought you joy no longer interests you. Day after day, you go through the motions of existence, barely appearing in your life. The world turns around you