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God created us as three-part beings; body, soul and spirit. Too often we don’t think about how these three parts operate separately, or how they are intertwined, with one part affecting the other two parts.

We started out this series by looking at how our soul is affected, which is our mind/thoughts, our will and emotions.

This episode is a continuation of last week with special guest, Denee Martindale, where we started looking at how our bodies are affected. Denee lost her daughter, Naomi, by suicide while battling postpartum depression. Naomi and my daughter, Becca, knew each other here on earth, but it wasn’t until our two daughters were together in heaven that our friendship started. I consider Denee a special friend, and someone I can turn to for health advice.

Last week we talked about four things we can do to strengthen ourselves physically, after the death of our child, and this week we will specifically address the issue of sleep.

Note: This is a recording from our 2017 Virtual Summit (a series of 18 session topics with over 20 guests that could be watched online), which is available in the GPS Hope online store.

Denee Martindale is a mom and grandmother who started her own business in the quest for health after the death of her daughter. Her passion is to help as many people as possible see the connection between physical health and mental health (especially those who have faced trauma and tragedy), guiding them to a place of wholeness, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Joshua Nicholson was born on October 9 and is forever 29.

Mitchell Ang was born on October 12 and is forever 17.

Isaac Cojocarescu  was born on Oct. 14 and is forever 10.

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here. (It is the song that plays in the background of the birthday segment.)

Virtual Summit: Information and how to purchase it.

Find out more about how to have your child added to the Hope Mobile with an “In Loving Memory” heart.

www.gpshope.org

I want to partner with GPS Hope financially to help give support to grieving parents.

You are safe here. No masks needed…

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgement in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

To have Laura come and speak or sing at your event, contact us at [email protected].

God created us as three-part beings; body, soul and spirit. Too often we don’t think about how these three parts operate separately, or how they are intertwined, with one part affecting the other two parts.

We started out this series by looking at how our soul is affected, which is our mind/thoughts, our will and emotions.

This episode is with a special guest, Denee Martindale. Denee lost her daughter, Naomi, by suicide while battling postpartum depression. Naomi and my daughter, Becca, knew each other here on earth, but it wasn’t until our two daughters were together in heaven that our friendship started. I consider Denee a special friend, and someone I can turn to for health advice.

In this episode, we talk about four things we can do to strengthen ourselves physically, after the death of our child, leaving the fifth one for next week’s podcast.

I am sure you will enjoy Denee, with her sweet personality, along with her desire and passion to see pareavors walking in health.

Note: This is a recording from our 2017 Virtual Summit (a series of 18 session topics with over 20 guests that can be watched online). Since the original session was almost an hour, it has been cut down and shared in two separate podcasts.

Denee Martindale is a mom and grandmother who started her own business in the quest for health after the death of her daughter. Her passion is to help as many people as possible see the connection between physical health and mental health (especially those who have faced trauma and tragedy), guiding them to a place of wholeness, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Aaliyah Henderson was born on October 1 and is forever 4 years old.

Corey Ryan Woodrich was also born on October 1 and is forever 31.

Joshua Konaszewski was born on October 2 and is forever 24.

James Gross was born on October 3 and is forever 30 years old.

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here. (It is the song that plays in the background of the birthday segment.)

When Tragedy Strikes course: Find out more or to sign up as a student.

Virtual Summit: Information and how to purchase it.

Please remember to share in the comments something you are going to do, based on what you heard in today’s podcast.

www.gpshope.org

I want to partner with GPS Hope financially to help give support to grieving parents.

You are safe here. No masks needed…

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgement in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

To have Laura come and speak or sing at your event, contact us at [email protected].

God created us as three-part beings; body, soul and spirit. Too often we don’t think about how these three parts operate separately, or how they are intertwined, with one part affecting the other two parts.

We are starting out this series by looking at how our soul is affected, which is our mind/thoughts, our will and emotions.  Last week we tackled the emotional breakdown. This week we will take a look at our minds, or the mental breakdown, that makes us all think we are going crazy.

We can often be frustrated with ourselves for what a mess and how unpredictable we are, months and years down the road. We don’t like being that way. But the fact is, that is now a part of who we are, and even as we “grow” out of that, we will always be capable at any moment of returning to being that fragile broken person.

Join host, Laura Diehl, as she shares some helpful suggestions on how to strengthen our souls within our grief, after the death of our child.

Note: Many parents are angry at God for allowing their child to die. Laura understands this, and does not lay guilt on anyone for these raw and real feelings. With acknowledgement of this, she delicately shares insight into how the following scriptures can help us, even in our hurt and anger.

Psalm 91:9 “You have made the Lord, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place.”

Psalm 71:3 “Be to me a rock of habitation to which I may continually come.”

Romans 8:18 “Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory He will reveal to us later.”

Eph. 3:20 “With God’s power working in us, he can do much, much more than anything we can ask or think of.”

1 Peter 5:10 “But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect (mature, restore), establish, strengthen, and settle you.”

1 Peter 1:3 “In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,”

Psalm 143:8 “Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.”

Rev 22:13 “I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ““For our … troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

Alistair James Fleming was born on September 19 and is forever 26

Brittany Evans was born on September 25 and is forever 26

Cherie Martinez was born on September 28 and is forever 31

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here.

Story behind the word “pareavor”

When Tragedy Strikes Hope & Healing Course for Bereaved Parents (A Blueprint for Learning How to Live Again, After the Death of Your Child)

36 Scriptures of Hope

Go to GPS Hope free library to access PDF of Corrie Ten Boom’s poem The Weaving

www.gpshope.org

I want to partner with GPS Hope financially to help give support to grieving parents.

You are safe here. No masks needed…

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgement in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

To have Laura come and speak or sing at your event, contact us at [email protected].

God created us as three-part beings; body, soul and spirit. Too often we don’t think about how these three parts operate separately, or how they are intertwined, with one part affecting the other two parts.

In this episode, we will tackle the emotional breakdown, which would be the soul (our mind/thoughts, our will and emotions).

Join host, Laura Diehl, as she shares some helpful suggestions on how to strengthen our souls within our grief, after the death of our child.

There are no birthdays to announce this week.

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here.

My Grief Journey: Coloring Book and Journal for Bereaved Parents

Request the list of Ten Ways to Honor Our Child

Current GPS Hope retreats

www.gpshope.org

I want to partner with GPS Hope financially to help give support to grieving parents.

You are safe here. No masks needed…

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgement in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

To have Laura come and speak or sing at your event, contact us at [email protected].

This subject directly affects podcast host, Laura Diehl. Laura got pregnant her summer out of high school and her boyfriend walked out on her. Shortly after Becca was born, Laura struck up a friendship with a co-worker, which turned into love and a marriage proposal. Little Becca was two years old when Dave and Laura were married, and he adopted Becca as soon as he could legally do so.

All of us have extra layers of grief, based on our individual situations, and losing an adopted child definitely has them as well. Dave and Laura discuss some of these added issues that biological parents don’t deal with.

Please note: While it is impossible to compare our losses and grief, it can be helpful to hear from those who have a different loss than ours, such as a different age, a different way of death, or a parent who loses a child who was adopted.

Although this subject may not directly affect most bereaved parents, it is an important one to look at for those who are affected by it, whether directly or indirectly in the grief of losing a child.

Dave Diehl is retired from a career of over thirty years in IT. He is the co-founder of GPS Hope, doing all of the unseen technical support for the ministry. He also manages the itinerary and the finances. Dave wrote a chapter in Laura’s book When Tragedy Strikes, and ministers directly to grieving fathers around the nation as Dave and Laura travel in their home on wheels; a 38-foot motor home they lovingly call The Hope Mobile.

Justin Seehafer was born on Sept. 16 and is forever 28.

If you would like your child mentioned on the podcast the week of his or her birthday, click here to fill out the short form with the needed information.

The special song written for our children’s birthdays I Remember Well can be heard here. (It is the song that plays in the background of the birthday segment.)

Click here if you want to know more about the book Come Grieve, including how to get a couple of free chapters.

If you want to know more about any upcoming GPS Hope & Healing retreats, click here.

Please remember to give this podcast a rating and a review on iTunes or where ever you listen to it. 

www.gpshope.org

I want to partner with GPS Hope financially to help give support to grieving parents.

You are safe here. No masks needed…

Grieving Parents Sharing Hope (GPS Hope) is here to walk with parents through the darkness of child-loss, guiding them to a place of hope, light and purpose.

It is a safe place for anyone who has lost a child from this earth. There is no shame or judgement in where you are in this journey, including if you are struggling in your relationship with God or your faith has been completely shattered.

To have Laura come and speak or sing at your event, contact us at [email protected].