Walking Through Grief: Coping, Comforting Kids, and Embodied Emotions :: Erin Nelson and Colleen Montague [Ep 517]

Grief is a journey that no one wants to walk, yet so many of us will experience deep loss in our lifetime. In this episode, Colleen and Erin have an open and honest conversation about Erin’s journey through unimaginable loss—losing her husband in a plane crash, navigating her children’s grief, the heartbreak of her mother’s suicide, and later, the devastating loss of her son in a car accident.

Through her story, Erin shares what it looks like to carry grief in our bodies, the crisis of faith that can come with loss, and how she found her way through the darkness. From those tragedies was born Jessica’s house, a place for families to walk through grief and be supported. And now a book When Grief Comes Home that shares the tools she has learned through so many trials. 

Here are some topics we cover:

• The impact of trauma and grief on the body and nervous system
• The importance of modeling healthy grief and emotional expression for children
• How to come alongside grieving families in tangible, practical ways
• The unique challenges couples face when grieving a child and how to let someone grieve in their own way
• Brightsiding- what it is and how to speak to someone in a dark season 
  
  

Connect with Erin and Colleen: 

• Website:  Jessica's House
• Facebook: Jessica's House
• Instagram:  Jessica's House (@jessicas_house)

Links Mentioned:  

• NACG
• When Grief Comes Home: By Erin Leigh Nelson and Colleen Montague

Related Episodes:

• When Moms Walk through Grief :: Stacey Thacker {Ep 76}
• The Ministry of Presence in a Broken World :: Tess Clarke [Ep. 252]
• Processing Grief, Infertility, and Loss in Community :: Julie Fowler [Ep 502]

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