How To Make The Holidays Special When You're Not Feeling It
Catholic Grief Coach
The holidays are just around the corner. There is pressure to make them special. What if you are not feeling it. How do you put on a happy face when you just want to crawl in bed and cry? This episode I help you with those awful feelings. Get 20 tips on ways to make the holidays special and also honor your deceased loved one without having to fake it. Peace in the Storm: Grace for the Grieving Heart- go to
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Is It Self Care, Or Am I Just Checking Out?
Catholic Grief Coach
Self care is a good thing. We hear all the time how we need to have self care, but too much of a good thing can turn into a bad thing. This episode I explain the difference between having self care and just trying to numb out so you don't have to feel anything. Go to to sign up for a free grief consult.
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Grief During The Holidays
Catholic Grief Coach
Everywhere you look is Christmas stuff. This started before Halloween. This can subconsciously trigger your grief during the holidays to happen earlier and earlier. You can start to feel more dread and sadness this time of year. This episode I help you process through the grief and see it for what it is. You will learn three steps to help allow the grief instead of always trying to push it away. Grab your free consult call at
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Should I Go, Or Stay Home?
Catholic Grief Coach
This time of year there are a lot of celebrations or gatherings. The thought of this makes your stomach drop. You might feel pressured to show up, smile, and pretend you are okay. Or you want to avoid it completely and stay home. You don't know what you want to do so you just spin in anxiety, stress, overwhelm, and grief. This episode I lead you through how to discern if you want to attend celebrations or gatherings. You will know how to care for yourself and how to feel at peace with the decisions you have made. Join my next , we start November 7th, 2025
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I Can't Stop Picturing Their Final Moments
Catholic Grief Coach
You keep reliving those final moments or days of your loved one. It makes you feel awful, so why do you keep doing this.There is a driving feeling behind everything we do. You may not be aware of it, but it is there. This episode I give you four steps to help find the feeling and to help you stop torturing yourself. Nothing has gone wrong, this is a natural thing to do, you just need to slow down to know what is happening. Want to find hope and healing?
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When Your Faith Seems Lacking Because It's Not Working
Catholic Grief Coach
You feel like you have a strong faith, but you feel like it's not working. That maybe you aren't as faithful as you thought. That you should be doing something different. This episode, I talk about the ways that these lies sneak in. That we tell ourselves generalized statements. What does "it" even mean. What would it look like if it was working? Get help with your grief while staying true to your faith.
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Grieving The Moments We Took For Granted
Catholic Grief Coach
After the initial shock and numbness of death wears off, you may find yourself not only mourning the future moments with your loved one, but also past memories. You may find yourself thinking, ‘I wish I had told them thank you more’, ‘Why didn’t I appreciate all they did for me instead of snapping at them.’ This episode will help you recognize when you get stuck in a guilt and shame spiral and what to do about it. Want a place to talk about your grief without having to defend your faith? Go to and sign up for the next grief group cohort.
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How To Pause and Feel
Catholic Grief Coach
I have joined a new walking challenge. What I have realized is that I have a hard time pausing and being present. This is especially true when grief is spiraling around in our brain. Pausing feels scary. Pausing feels painful. This episode I talk about pausing more. Resting in the Lord. Allowing it to feel scary. Allowing the Lord to heal. Join my Catholic Grief Group. We start the next cohert Nov 7th. Go to
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The Thing That Helped You Cope, Became A Problem
Catholic Grief Coach
You were just trying to survive and get through the day. It was too hard to say no to food, drink, scrolling, or shopping. So you didn't. Now you are starting to see that the thing that helped you cope is getting out of control. It doesn't make you feel good, it just makes you feel guilt and shame. This episode, I talk about how those things can be helpful, but what do we do when they aren't. Learn how to cope without using a crutch anymore. Want help with this? Go to to find out more.
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Guilt from a Troubled Relationship
Catholic Grief Coach
For those of us on the grief journey, there is always some element of guilt that comes in. Specifically if the relationship with the deceased was not what we hoped it to be. This episode I show you how to handle the guilt that will come. I talk about how to heal the relationship, even though the person is no longer alive. For help with your grief, go to
info_outlineSo often I hear people say "I am struggling with grief." You think you are being specific when you say this. The fact is that this is a very broad statement. When things are broad it tends to make us feel overwhelmed. When we are overwhelmed we tend to struggle more, which makes us feel miserable and stuck.
This episode I teach you how to break this broad statement into something very specific. Something that you can work on. Something that will help you feel better.
Stop struggling in your grief and start feeling better. Join my Catholic grief group at https://catholicgriefcoach.com/workwithme/