🎧 Episode Title: My Grief Is Not Like Yours: Theo Boyd on Layered Loss, Divine Signs & Radical Hope
Guest: Theo Boyd
– Author, Grief Educator, and Speaker
Books:
📘 My Grief Is Not Like Yours
📗 Hope All The Way
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💡 Episode Summary:
What if grief didn’t just break you—it rebuilt you?
In this deeply moving conversation, Theo Boyd shares how her life was upended by a string of heartbreaking losses: her mother in a tragic farm accident, her father’s suicide, the sudden death of her longtime counselor, and the end of her marriage. But Theo didn’t stay in the darkness.
Through writing, faith, and raw resilience, she created two life-affirming books that are helping thousands find healing. This episode is an emotional blueprint for anyone navigating the chaos of grief and searching for signs that love never dies.
📝 Key Topics Covered:
- Why Theo says grief is like black paint—and how the light returns
- The silent trauma of witnessing compounded loss
- The surprising story of how signs from her parents helped restore her faith
- What 79% of grieving Americans say they wish the media would do
- How to help someone who's grieving (hint: just be there)
- The most misunderstood truths about “prolonged grief disorder”
💬 Favorite Quotes:
“Grief is just like that black paint… it coats you and covers you. It takes a while for that to dry and chip away so that you see the rays of light come through. Those are the little specks of hope.” – Theo Boyd“The loss that is the hardest… is the loss that you are experiencing.”“I gave up on my faith, but my faith never gave up on me.”
🙋♀️ Your Turn:
What’s one way you’ve found light through the black paint of grief?
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