Season 4, Ep 4: An Overview of Step 3 from “7 Steps Toward the Power of Grief and Hope” in the book “Tears are the Source of Your Passion” with guest Amanda Taylor

Co-Authors, Counselor Mandy and Chris Saade, are thrilled to announce the launch of their new book “Tears are the Source of Your Passion: The Power of Authenticity and Grief.” Season 4 of Finding Hope is meant to serve as a companion to the book by offering episodes that focus on the book’s content, bringing it to life with engaging conversations and stories from people who have used the 7-steps as a guide in their grief journey. You can order the book on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3sb5FGB.

Section Two of the book covers the “7 Steps Toward the Power of Grief and Hope,” a heart-centered, self-coaching model designed to support individuals through the creativity of the journey of grief. In this episode I am discussing Step 3: Initiation with entrepreneur/writer and mother Amanda Taylor.

After tragically losing her high school sweetheart and military pilot husband, Neal, in 2012, Amanda found herself suddenly raising their four beautiful girls alone. Speaking about Step 3 she says “Initiation was the threshold from who I WAS, to who I was now going to be. I can look back, after 10 years have passed, and am proud of where I am today.”

When talking about Step 3 both Mandy and Amanda concur that we don’t get Initiated to “learn lessons” – but instead they are life events that allow us to transform into more of our authentic selves.

Amanda Taylor is an entrepreneur, writer, and yoga teacher, and the mother of, now five, amazing daughters. She believes that her grief transformed her and uncovered her life's calling.

Amanda has traveled the world with her daughters, and blogs about their adventures at mommyadventurer.com. She also writes both fiction and non-fiction books and articles.

Amanda has undergraduate degrees in both English and psychological neuroscience, and a master's degree in creative non-fiction writing. She is also a certified yoga teacher and loves teaching deep stretch and restorative yoga. Amanda recently enrolled in the Clemson New Farmer's program, and she has a vision for transforming backyards into food gardens all over the state.

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