Has someone else's story ever encouraged you? Maybe the hard thing you walked through is similar to what you have walked through, and their story of God's faithfulness has ignited hope in you. Hope that God can do the same thing in your story. This is such an important part of the grief journey.

And the last letter of my STRENGTH acrostic from my book, *Depth: Growing Through Heartbreak to Strength is the letter H: Honestly share your story and help another hurting heart. I love that God never wastes any of our pain. He doesn't waste one tear or one hurt and instead He uses it. And this is how I think He uses it as we come alongside and help another hurting heart. I really believe it makes our healing come full circle as well. This is what my life verse is all about: 2 Cor 1:3-4. "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God."

I am so excited to have Clarissa Paz on the podcast this week. This is so exciting because Clarissa is in my book. I am actually sharing a story where I honestly shared my personal story and helped another hurting heart and that was Clarissa. This is in the "Me Too" Chapter and the last part of the book and we are going to talk about our story. I walked through a miscarriage and a year or two later, she walked through a miscarriage and how I can alongside and helped her. We are going to show you practically how it looks, and we both get a little choked up at times because it is amazing how it brought us together. It connected us in such a beautiful way, and it did bring my healing full circle as well as help her in the middle of her unexpected storm. We are also going to talk about how she has gone on since then and helped others. It is a really heartfelt episode!

Recommended Depth Podcast Episodes:

• Episode 53 with Kathe Wunnenberg- Grieving the Child I Never Knew & Hopelifter
• Episode 5 with Yvonne Buck- Loss of Pregnancy
• Episode 6 with Dr. Shari Bridgman- In Heavenly Arms
• Episode 145 with Kathe Wunnenberg- God's Connections are Powerful, His Timing Perfect

Book Recommendations:

• *Purpose Drive Life by Pastor Rick Warren
• *Grieving the Child I Never Knew by Kathe Wunnenberg
• *Depth by Jodi Rosser

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