Hey! Glad you're here!

Join me on a journey through the grief we all face at some point of Losing Home. By this I mean any place of security which is no longer ours. It's a real grief and we must figure out how to navigate it.

Listen in if you:

• Feel sad and don't know why.
• Have wounds from your past you want to work through.
• Know there's more to your story than you've been experiencing.
• Want to remember or learn for the first time about your Dearest Love.

Thanks for coming to this sacred space with me!

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abigail (Abby)
http://www.abigailalleman.com

Hello friend, I am glad you are here. In this episode I share the grief which centered on our sudden departure from Hungary after I was hospitalized in a mental ward for two weeks. I unpack a little of what it has looked like to walk that intense, in some ways fathomless, grief.

Listen in if you:

• are facing a grief and no one has died.
• feel acute pain at a loss and don't know what to do.
• want to know you are not alone in your grief.
• wonder if your story, your darkest times, can be redeemed.
• struggle with mental illness, like I do.

I am so thankful you have chosen to walk this road with me. May the story of your life and its redemption only be beginning as you learn to trust the Great Author and the Greatest Story in new ways. Here's the link to 'To Be Told' which I highly recommend reading.

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abigail (Abby) :-)
http://www.abigailalleman.com

• Feel stuck in processing a certain grief.
• Don't know if you know how to grieve.
• Have ever lost someone or something significant.
• Just cried over an 'old' grief and are wondering why?
• Are feeling bitterness creep into your hurting places of grief.

Welcome to the MLML podcast! Today, I continue my series on grief and talk about how it is a constant part of our lives and what it looks like to know that.

Listen in if you:

• Wonder if you grieve well.
• Tend to stuff your emotions.
• Get angry often and don't know why.
• Want a better answer to dealing with grief.
• Need real hope that your grief means something.

It's not easy to keep talking about grief, but it is important. I hope you continue to join me in this journey.

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend.

Abigail (Abby)
http://www.abigailalleman.com

Welcome to the MLML podcast. Today I begin a series on grief, because there are few things messier than this. We are so inundated with grief, it is hard to imagine a day when we are not somehow impacted by it. 

Listen in if you:

• are experiencing fresh grief,
• if you wonder if you really grieved a loss.
• need the hope that is found in the midst of grief.
• are desperate to know you are not alone in your grief.

I would love to hear your feedback or thoughts on grief. You can email me at [email protected] or dm me on Instagram @abigail.alleman

Until next time, may you receive the love of Jesus and this fellow messy-life journeyer I pray you call friend.

Abigail (Abby)
http://www.abigailalleman.com

It's been a while since I've been in this space and there's good reason for that. There's been moves, book editing, but most, the caring for my father before he went home to Heaven on August 6, 2021.

This episode's main body is the tribute to my father I shared at his memorial service.

Listen in if you:

• Have ever loved someone beautiful and lost them
• Have known the love of an earthly father
• Have struggled to know the love of an earthly father
• Need to remember we do not grieve as those who have no hope
• Are looking for encouragement about the reality of God's love

As my Daddy did, I give you the best I can, my prayers for you in the messiness of your life, from my own messy one. 

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abigail Alleman (Abby :-)
http://www.abigailalleman.com

After a hiatus because of the messy days I am living as I sell and leave the home I have made in this world and make way for a new home I do not yet know, I am back. Instead of launching into the many ideas that have come from this messy time, I thought I would finish what I started and do the second part of the 'Messy Art of Listening' series I began a few weeks ago.

Listen in if you:

• struggle to listen well, being patient with others.
• want to be encouraged you are not alone in the struggle.
• don't do a good job of cluing in on non-verbal communication.
• need to be reminded of the primary place of compassion in listening.
• desire to love and therefore listen like Jesus--loving the whole person.

I got the 10 tips for listening well from this website:

https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ips/listening-skills.html

Trust you will be blessed in these reminders!

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abigail Alleman (Abby)
http://www.abigailalleman.com

In this episode, I begin a two part series on Listening, and listening well. For the next two weeks I will take the top 10 things to do to listen well according to this website, and unpack them to help us all think more, amid the sure mess of listening, on how to love others well by really listening to them.

Listen in if you:

• Struggle with knowing how to listen well
• Need a reminder of what it looks like to listen well
• Are seeking to heal from a relationship where the other didn't really listen to you
• Want some practical tips to help you listen better (and to share with others)

I trust this series will bless you! It has blessed me to prepare it for you.

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abigail Alleman (Abby)
http://www.abigailalleman.com

In this episode, I talk about my journey of learning to surrender, from little girl to present day woman. Sometimes it is all so painful, and bloody kind of messy, but what we gain for the true journey, is worth it.

Listen in if you:

• are holding on tight to something and feeling the call to surrender
• want to remember how God met you in surrender before
• need to know you aren't alone in the struggle to surrender
• want to learn to rest, even in surrender
• struggle to trust the goodness of God in all things

No matter where you are at, I believe there is something here for you today...hope you listen in.

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abby (Abigail Alleman)
http://www.abigailalleman.com

In this episode, I look at my own performing ways and how that radical bent is exactly the mess Jesus came to speak into and embrace with his own mighty love.

Listen in if you:

• have ever struggled at perfectionism.
• want to live life your way.
• need to know you aren't alone in your mess.
• hear the 'try-hard' message playing too often and too loud.

May God grace you with a special measure of His deep, measureless love for you, today!

Your fellow messy-life journeyer and friend,

Abigail Alleman (Abby)
http://www.abigailalleman.com