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Expanding Through Grief: Finding Joy After Loss with Flo Mina | Ep 277
“Sometimes you have to let go of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are living.” ~ Flo Mina
I met Flo Mina through my late friend Bob Donnell. Bob had been elated to introduce us because after a life filled with tremendous loss, he’d finally met the love of his life and had rediscovered the joy of happiness.
Bob and Flo’s happiness together was somewhat ironically bound by their separate experiences with grief. Flo’s high school sweetheart had died just shy of her sixteenth birthday, a week before he had planned to take her to prom. Bob had been following a car carrying his three year old daughter, when it ran a red light and hit a pole, he administered CPR and she passed in the hospital a few days later.
It wasn’t easy but Bob ultimately found a way to use his grief for good. As an author, speaker and coach, he helped so many people through the hardest periods of their lives. He was also Flo's mentor and sounding board.
When Bob fell unexpectedly ill and was hospitalized in November of 2024, she was by his side. When he passed six weeks later on Christmas Eve, Flo knew she’d have to depend on the powerful tools he’d given her over the years in order to navigate the unknown landscape of grief ahead.
Since then, Flo has been on a powerful and often miraculous journey of healing. Part of her healing has been found helping others discover pathways through their own grief without getting stuck in it. Grief, whether over the death of a loved one, a pet, a lost dream, divorce or anything else, is a powerful force that can consume our whole lives, if we don’t learn to deal with it. People like Flo, and Bob before her, are so important because they can provide roadmaps, tools and some essential supplies for others who find themselves facing, or perhaps lost along, grief's treacherous journey.
Join us for a most healing conversation.
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**Video broadcast available** on YouTube @imperfectbest
**Learn more about Jason Freeman** at AwkwardlyAwesome.com
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By Jason Freeman“Sometimes you have to let go of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are living.” ~ Flo Mina
I met Flo Mina through my late friend Bob Donnell. Bob had been elated to introduce us because after a life filled with tremendous loss, he’d finally met the love of his life and had rediscovered the joy of happiness.
Bob and Flo’s happiness together was somewhat ironically bound by their separate experiences with grief. Flo’s high school sweetheart had died just shy of her sixteenth birthday, a week before he had planned to take her to prom. Bob had been following a car carrying his three year old daughter, when it ran a red light and hit a pole, he administered CPR and she passed in the hospital a few days later.
It wasn’t easy but Bob ultimately found a way to use his grief for good. As an author, speaker and coach, he helped so many people through the hardest periods of their lives. He was also Flo's mentor and sounding board.
When Bob fell unexpectedly ill and was hospitalized in November of 2024, she was by his side. When he passed six weeks later on Christmas Eve, Flo knew she’d have to depend on the powerful tools he’d given her over the years in order to navigate the unknown landscape of grief ahead.
Since then, Flo has been on a powerful and often miraculous journey of healing. Part of her healing has been found helping others discover pathways through their own grief without getting stuck in it. Grief, whether over the death of a loved one, a pet, a lost dream, divorce or anything else, is a powerful force that can consume our whole lives, if we don’t learn to deal with it. People like Flo, and Bob before her, are so important because they can provide roadmaps, tools and some essential supplies for others who find themselves facing, or perhaps lost along, grief's treacherous journey.
Join us for a most healing conversation.
_______________________________________________
**Video broadcast available** on YouTube @imperfectbest
**Learn more about Jason Freeman** at AwkwardlyAwesome.com