55 episodes
Forward To Joy Alexandra Wyman
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- Society & Culture
Alexandra Wyman was faced with immense grief when her husband died by suicide in 2020, instantly leaving her a widow and single mom. Since then, she has been finding ways to work through her grief, navigate parenthood and take steps to finding joy again. Join Alexandra on her continued grief journey, find some tips and tricks, hear from others about their grief journey and know you are not alone. Alexandra is an advocate and public speaker for resources in the aftermath of suicide.
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Apathy Vs. Surrender
This week, Alexandra dives into the differences between apathy and surrender. She has been working on surrendering more which led to questions around apathy. Apathy tends to have feelings of helplessness and hopelessness with a “What’s the point?” attitude. Where surrender still has action attached to it. True surrender still requires us to trust ourselves that we can handle whatever comes our way.
Connect with Alexandra on her website, forwardtojoy.com, or send her an email at alexandra@forwardtojoy.com.
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Chat with Erik Petersen
This week, Alexandra chats with Licensed Professional Counselor, Erik Petersen about the importance of emotional and mental wholeness when working through grief. All the thoughts and feelings associated with grief can be very overwhelming and difficult to manage. Erik gives some great guidance on how to start working through the grief process.
Connect with Erik: https://www.lifeafterlosscolorado.com/
Connect with Alexandra on her website, forwardtojoy.com, or send her an email at alexandra@forwardtojoy.com.
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Spirituality Journey to Wholeness
This week, Alexandra continues discussing the area of spirituality and how evaluating the messages we get as children about morality, value systems and spirituality can impact our spirituality as adults. It helps to determine if those messages still align with our current lives. If so, great! And if not, then we can take steps to figure out what does align. Please note that Alexandra does not suggest that others follower her spiritual views. Rather, she encourages all to evaluate their own.
Connect with Alexandra on her website, forwardtojoy.com, or send her an email at alexandra@forwardtojoy.com.
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There Is No Such Thing As Good, Bad and Ugly
This week, Alexandra explains her discomfort with the idea of the good, bad and ugly. We are all good and have parts or pieces of ourselves that others perceive to be negative. Those parts and pieces come from us as kids to protect us and keep us safe. We are all good inside.
Links:
Episode 295: https://momastery.com/blog/we-can-do-hard-things-ep-295/
Episode 296: https://momastery.com/blog/we-can-do-hard-things-ep-296/
Letting Go: The Path of Surrender: https://a.co/d/f0IFKT6
The Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance, and Dreams: https://a.co/d/6K2PiZu
Connect with Alexandra on her website, forwardtojoy.com, or send her an email at alexandra@forwardtojoy.com.
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Scars Are Not Always Visible
This week, Alexandra shares how easy it is to assume what someone else has going on. Not everything we, ourselves, have going on is obvious to others. We are called to be more compassionate with others because we don't know what is going on behind closed doors. Also, we all have something we need to maintain our mental and emotional wholeness. No one is immune to needing support to handle life. It's hard to maintain compassion for others and yet it is necessary.
Connect with Alexandra on her website, forwardtojoy.com, or send her an email at alexandra@forwardtojoy.com.
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FTJ Turns 50!
This week, Alexandra celebrates Forward to Joy turning 50. Such an accomplishment and exciting as the podcast morphs and changes along the way. Alexandra also share the things she has learned since doing this podcast and during the journey of rebuilding her life.
Connect with Alexandra on her website, forwardtojoy.com, or send her an email at alexandra@forwardtojoy.com.
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