Forward To Joy
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.
Episodes
June 12, 2024 • 17 mins
How often do you describe yourself as busy? Life is just busy. The thing about busyness is that it can also be a tactic to avoid looking at ourselves, our feelings and events that have impacted us. It’s not necessarily a conscious decision. It can be a protective mechanism.
Connect with Alexandra on her website, forwardtojoy.com, or send her an email at alexandra@forwardtojoy.com.
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June 5, 2024 • 17 mins
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.
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May 29, 2024 • 53 mins
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/
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May 22, 2024 • 24 mins
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 spirit...
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May 15, 2024 • 17 mins
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/
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May 8, 2024 • 22 mins
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 ...
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May 1, 2024 • 23 mins
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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April 24, 2024 • 24 mins
This week Alexandra encourages all her listeners to rock the boat. As we heal, grow and become more grounded in our authenticity, we shift dynamics with those around us and that can be challenging to those relationships. Everyone we are around are mirrors for us. We are also mirrors and we show each other what we need to work on. It's easy to not want to handle the fall out of these shifts but so much more rewarding when we continu...
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April 17, 2024 • 48 mins
This week, Alexandra and Sabrina Miller have a raw, authentic chat about the importance of nutrition and movement when working through the grief process. Additionally, to really make gains and be able to feel the impact of good nutrition and working, it is essential to evaluate the messages and conditions we ascribe to as children. The experiences do not need to be large and can actually just be a flippant comment with a lasting im...
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April 10, 2024 • 18 mins
Recently, Alexandra was debating to finish the basement in her house and found that she was paralyzed by the decision. Mentioning it in therapy brought on a huge emotional reaction indicating that there were feelings around items in her basement, that she would have to clean up. Simultaneously, coming out of winter hibernation, Alexandra did some spring cleaning around her house and after doing so, found she had created space for m...
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April 3, 2024 • 19 mins
This week, Alexandra talks about the different characteristics of ego and humility. Ego can absolutely have a healthy and necessary perspective. It does not always have to be considered a negative thing. Ego is protective and attempts to keep us self. The more we are our authentic selves and in our self worth, the more we can be aware of how our ego is part of us without succumbing to comparison and impostor syndrome. Humility is a...
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March 27, 2024 • 50 mins
This week, Alexandra has the honor to speak with Certified HeartMath Coach, Jacque Timple. Something as simple as breathing, which sometimes can seem so hard, is actually a fantastic way to benefit us all in multiple ways. Just doing some intentional breathing can help the aging process, bring down our energy (in a good way), help others with their anxiety, help with attention and the list goes on. This was such a fun conversation ...
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March 20, 2024 • 21 mins
This week, Alexandra shares about her own experience with working through childhood pattern and messages. There are so many ideas and tips out there for self-discovery and personal healing that some will say they are the ultimate resource, a guru. Alexandra cautions against following gurus because there are always others that we are learning from. After a big loss, we don't just rebuild our lives and livelihood but rebuild ourselve...
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March 13, 2024 • 46 mins
This week, Alexandra chats with Rebecca Johnson, host of the Love Is Not Dead Just My Husband podcast. Widow to widow, their conversation covers so much from finding ways to move forward to questioning how to even tackle dating. Rebecca shares her wisdom, which is a treat for all.
Ways to connect with Rebecca:
Instagram- @Loveisnotdead_justmyhusband
Facebook- Love is not dead, Just my husband
TikTok- @widowyourway
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March 6, 2024 • 12 mins
This week, Alexandra chats about impostor syndrome. It is so easy to feel like an impostor when we step out of our comfort zone. Stepping out of our comfort zone is where the most growth can happen and yet feeling like an impostor can lead to self-doubt and not trusting ourselves. Alexandra encourages everyone to keep going even with impostor syndrome because whatever you are doing is needed and it’s needed to be done specifically ...
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February 28, 2024 • 15 mins
This week, Alexandra talks about the slippery slope of comparision-itis. We all do it. It’s easy to do with how much access we have to seeing what others’ have going on in their lives. It’s easy to see what others are doing and wish we were doing the same. No one has had life turn out the way they thought it would. It’s a hard trap to avoid but also feasible.
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February 21, 2024 • 13 mins
This week, Alexandra talks about a perspective or block that some people have when their needs were not fully met as a child and are not currently met now. This is the “What About Me” perspective. It is hard for us to put others first or be able to meet others’ needs when we are relying on our needs to be met externally. The goal is to release others from meeting our internal needs. It is within ourselves to feel safe, secure, soot...
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February 14, 2024 • 19 mins
This week, Alexandra continues laying the groundwork for becoming more aware of the messages and projections from childhood that impact us as adults. She touches on what is self-worth versus self-confidence. Self-worth is about how we feel about ourselves and self-confidence is about how we think about ourselves. Deservingness is about what kind of life we want for ourselves and how it is accessible when it is from our true authent...
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February 7, 2024 • 13 mins
This week, Alexandra talks about how much Should’s and Supposed To’s can keep us from really being our truly authentic selves. Being caught up in what others are projecting onto us can prevent us from making decisions that are authentic. Thinking about the should’s and supposed to’s is more about the person who may be talking to us versus what is really right for us. On the other hand, saying “No” is very powerful. It’s possible to...
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January 31, 2024 • 17 mins
This week, Alexandra talks about ancestral and familial patterns and how they can impact our lives. Not only do old patterns impact our lives but they can impact our grief process. This is a good starting point for recognizing what messages from our childhood contribute to how we make decisions as adults. How our caregivers and other important adults in our lives were raised and influenced as kids, can have a direct impact on our o...
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