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The Event That Rerouted The Trajectory of My Life (Part 1) Grief Unplugged®
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- Mental Health
Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Grief Unplugged podcast. I am your host, Heather D. Horton. Grief Unplugged is a podcast that frees professional women from the blockages of grief to find purpose in their pain. I am so excited to welcome you to this community where you will receive education and support while navigating on your grief journey. Community = Strength is what I truly believe.
My mission is to empower professional women to unmask their pain, leverage their emotions and transform their trauma into triumph. Each episode will help you give yourself permission to grieve and fully embrace the gift of now. You will learn that grief not only encompasses death but includes so much more. Anything that has a beginning and an end requires you to process the grief around it.
This podcast is for you if you’re a professional woman whether you are just starting your career, mid-career, or in the C-suite who has experienced the loss of a loved one, whether suddenly or anticipated after an illness and you feel stuck and unable to move forward and enjoy work, home/family or your relationships.
This podcast is for you if you’re a professional woman who is tired of feeling completely lost in life and stuck in your grief, unable to decipher your feelings or begin to accept the loss but everyone around you just wants you to bounce back and get over it.
This podcast is for you if you’re a professional woman who wants a community to engage with that creates safe space to explore your emotions around grief/loss which are normal and natural by the way.
This podcast is for you if you’re a professional woman who is ready to stop masking your pain, and focus less on the loss but are not sure how to embrace meaning and purpose in life again or for the first time.
I am Heather D. Horton. I am a Certified Grief Expert not only through training as a Certified Grief Coach and a Certified Professional Diversity Coach but also through years of personal experience with trauma and grief.
I will share more about my personal experience later in this episode. But first, I want to tell you a little bit about myself. Before August 5, 2017, I was a highly successful GS-15 attorney manager in the C-Suite of one of the most talked about agencies within the US Department of Treasury. I was on the verge of walking into the next level of management - SES - Senior Executive Series after serving 18+ years. But I left it all behind to start my own location independent grief coaching and speaking practice. And I have never looked back.
I am the co-author of an anthology entitled “The Roots of Holiday Grief: Transcending Loss During the Holidays and Beyond” which is available for purchase on my website - www.heatherdhorton.com. The anthology includes my inspiring personal story of loss, hope, healing, and gratitude as well as the stories of other resilient authors. I am also writing a book detailing my grief journey which will be available in Late Summer 2018. Personally, I love attending sporting events, horseback riding, traveling the world, supporting the arts, zip-lining in NC and spa retreats.
This episode is Part 1 of a 2-part series detailing my own story of my personal grief journey. Part 1 will focus on the accident/death that rerouted the trajectory of my life. Part 2 will take you through my 13-year grief journey and how I was able to transform my trauma into triumph.
I now invite you to journey with me to the year 2005. I experienced two unique tragedies that year that altered my existence. I was 33 years old, so all this occurred during my Jesus Year - Jesus lived as a man for 33 years on earth and then resurrected to heaven. The 33rd year of life is regarded as the year you are reborn in some sense. I wholeheartedly agree that I was reborn in a number of ways that year.
On May 17, 2005, a beautiful sunny morning, my aunt and uncle (my mother’s brother), two of th
Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Grief Unplugged podcast. I am your host, Heather D. Horton. Grief Unplugged is a podcast that frees professional women from the blockages of grief to find purpose in their pain. I am so excited to welcome you to this community where you will receive education and support while navigating on your grief journey. Community = Strength is what I truly believe.
My mission is to empower professional women to unmask their pain, leverage their emotions and transform their trauma into triumph. Each episode will help you give yourself permission to grieve and fully embrace the gift of now. You will learn that grief not only encompasses death but includes so much more. Anything that has a beginning and an end requires you to process the grief around it.
This podcast is for you if you’re a professional woman whether you are just starting your career, mid-career, or in the C-suite who has experienced the loss of a loved one, whether suddenly or anticipated after an illness and you feel stuck and unable to move forward and enjoy work, home/family or your relationships.
This podcast is for you if you’re a professional woman who is tired of feeling completely lost in life and stuck in your grief, unable to decipher your feelings or begin to accept the loss but everyone around you just wants you to bounce back and get over it.
This podcast is for you if you’re a professional woman who wants a community to engage with that creates safe space to explore your emotions around grief/loss which are normal and natural by the way.
This podcast is for you if you’re a professional woman who is ready to stop masking your pain, and focus less on the loss but are not sure how to embrace meaning and purpose in life again or for the first time.
I am Heather D. Horton. I am a Certified Grief Expert not only through training as a Certified Grief Coach and a Certified Professional Diversity Coach but also through years of personal experience with trauma and grief.
I will share more about my personal experience later in this episode. But first, I want to tell you a little bit about myself. Before August 5, 2017, I was a highly successful GS-15 attorney manager in the C-Suite of one of the most talked about agencies within the US Department of Treasury. I was on the verge of walking into the next level of management - SES - Senior Executive Series after serving 18+ years. But I left it all behind to start my own location independent grief coaching and speaking practice. And I have never looked back.
I am the co-author of an anthology entitled “The Roots of Holiday Grief: Transcending Loss During the Holidays and Beyond” which is available for purchase on my website - www.heatherdhorton.com. The anthology includes my inspiring personal story of loss, hope, healing, and gratitude as well as the stories of other resilient authors. I am also writing a book detailing my grief journey which will be available in Late Summer 2018. Personally, I love attending sporting events, horseback riding, traveling the world, supporting the arts, zip-lining in NC and spa retreats.
This episode is Part 1 of a 2-part series detailing my own story of my personal grief journey. Part 1 will focus on the accident/death that rerouted the trajectory of my life. Part 2 will take you through my 13-year grief journey and how I was able to transform my trauma into triumph.
I now invite you to journey with me to the year 2005. I experienced two unique tragedies that year that altered my existence. I was 33 years old, so all this occurred during my Jesus Year - Jesus lived as a man for 33 years on earth and then resurrected to heaven. The 33rd year of life is regarded as the year you are reborn in some sense. I wholeheartedly agree that I was reborn in a number of ways that year.
On May 17, 2005, a beautiful sunny morning, my aunt and uncle (my mother’s brother), two of th
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