Dealing With My Grief

I wouldn't be who I am today without going through the pain that was losing my father. Starting this podcast only make me wish I had started capturing how I felt a lot earlier in life.

This week's call to action: Start chronicling your grief journey. Start a diary, blog or even your own podcast. Make a point to rered it later and discover if and how different you may be know.

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I wasn't able to get to my Aunt Wanda's funeral... I simply spent too much money getting back and forth to St. Louis spending time with family before/after my uncle passed away, I'm just financially drained.

The focus of this week's show in dealing with the death of celebrities, more specifically the lives of 3 individuals - (Click their name for information about them):

1. Darwyn Cooke
2. Prince
3. Muhammad Ali

In some way, big or small, the lives of each of these individuals touched me in some way. Somehow they were able to resonate with something I was going through at some part of my life.

This week's call to action: We all have some type of struggle. Find a way to help someone through theirs. We are all in this together.

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After spending some time away and getting emotionally recharged, I received news that my aunt passed away. While her health had been back and forth for some time, I really didn't think that she would be gone so soon as she passed one day shy of her 74th birthday.

This episode is dedicated to my Aunt Wanda. I love you dearly!

This week's call to action: spend more time with the elderly.

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Sometimes making it through the day is difficult. There's only one thing that gets me through. Some days when I think about my father and most recently my uncle who passed away I think about and the many memories we shared and it's hard to imagine life without them. Sometimes I wonder how I'm going to make it through the day, who is going to be there to give me guidance concerning whatever issues might come my way. I'm then reminded of something my grandfather used to say to me... Any day you wake up and the sun is shining on your face is a good day!

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Recently I had the opportunity to watch the 'Peanuts Movioe' and reflect on the character of Charlie Brown - a guy who never seems to give up regardless of how many times things just don't work out.

• He never seems to be able to muster up the courage to talk to the red haired girl. In the Peanuts Movie, he does in fact talk to her, but in his efforts to impress her, things just don't seem to work out - book report he writes for her.
• He is the captain of a baseball team that never wins a game. Yet he never misses a game himself.
• Every time he flies a kite, it ends up in a tree.
• Every time he tries to kick that football that Lucy is holding, she pulls it away from him at the last minute. Why doesn't he just quit?

Two reasons... he has hope, and a friend named Linus!

This week's call to action - Be someone's Linus. If you know someone who needs a word of encouragement or a helping hand, give it to them without them asking

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There was no episode last week as I'm just returning from being with family after losing an uncle a couple of weeks ago.

Rest In Peace, Uncle Luther.

In remembering the live's of my father and my uncle, I sometimes realize that I shy away from things that we used to do together, because... well we can no longer do them together!

I've changed my attitude, however. I will embrace the things we did together. My uncle like going to the race track, my father like taking long drives. I am going to attempt to do both of these things more ofteen.

This week's call to action - Do something to honor your loved one's memory. Plant a tree, start a foundation, donate to a charity. go camping... but do something!

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This episode is dedicated to my Uncle Luther who passed away on July 17, 2016.

After learning my uncle had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, I had the opportunity to spend a few days with him a couple of weeks ago. We took a trip down memory lane and I'll share a few memories in this episode.

Even though I knew the time would come, I wasn't mentally prepared deal with his death. It's only been 3 days, and I miss him already. His funereal will be the first time I've seen many family members in several years - too many years

This week's call to action - find someone that you haven seen or spoken to in a while and catch up. Don't make your loved one's funeral your next family reunion.

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This episode is inspired by 3 events that have occurred in the since last week's show: - The shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, LA - The shooting of Philandro Castile in Falcon Heights, MN - The subsequent shooting of 11 police officers in Dallas

I was reluctant to talk about my story of grief because I didn't want to listen to others talk about theirs. I would compare the two and not give any credibility to your grief if your loved one didn't meet some violent end. Simply put, your narrative wasn't the same as mine, so it couldn't be real.

I believer the same holds true for the events of the past week. There is a divide in the U.S. between people who believe police are doing their job and those who feel the police are racist or unfairly treating the very citizens they are supposed to protect.

We need to listen to each other and UNDERSTAND what the other side is saying. Only then will we begin the healing process.

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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. - Molière The whole reason behind this podcast is the tell my story of how I deal with death, loss, grief and bereavement; specifically the loss of my father when I was still a young child. It is my way of letting go of the things that I had bottled up for so long. But why did I wait so long to get this burden of of my chest? 1. I felt that I would be a burden to others who were also dealing with my fathers' loss. 2. Real men don't cry! 3. I was following the lead of others 4. I didn't want professional help 5. No one would listen to me. I encourage everyone to find someone to talk to about their grief. A priest, rabbi, or whoever the leader of your faith based community might be. A grief counselor or support group. Whatever you do, don't keep it bottled up. It only makes it worse over time.

More on the life of Molière

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When people talk about the "new normal"during the grieving process, they talk about the the person that you become after the loss of someone special in your life. But it this "new" you really ever going to be normal?

This episode is inspired by Dave Jackson of the "School of Podcasting." Dave's podcast helped me get my podcaast. One of the segment of his show is called 'Because of my Podcast', where different podcast producers share stories of how podcasting has changed their lives. This week, Dave featured my podcast on his show. Here is a link to his blog post discussing my show.

During an email conversation with Dave, he discusses getting to the "new normal" in his life.

for me, I think the new normal comes in stages:

- The old normal - That which was normal before my grief - The fractured normal - Some of the things in my life remained normal, but they start to feel strange . - The new normal - The strange and weirdness are no longer strange and weird

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