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Grief and Belief - Part 1
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Welcome to the When Grief Comes Home podcast. We're glad you're here. This podcast supports parents who are grieving a spouse, partner, or child while helping their children who are living through the loss of a parent or sibling. With personal grief stories and professional guidance, we offer parents practical tips for supporting their child who is grieving while caring for their own grief.
In this raw, honest conversation about grief and belief, Erin Nelson shares her starkly different spiritual journeys through two devastating losses. After her husband died in a plane crash, her faith deepened as she found comfort in scripture and prayer. Yet when her son Carter died years later in a car accident, she found herself furious with God, questioning everything she'd always believed.
The team explores why protest is not just normal but necessary in grief—and how that anger can actually be an expression of profound love. They tackle the well-meaning but sometimes harmful "bright-siding" that happens in faith communities and offer permission to question, doubt, and wrestle with spiritual beliefs without shame.
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Chapters
1. Welcome to When Grief Comes Home (00:00:00)
2. How Faith Reshapes After Loss (00:01:04)
3. Erin's Story: Two Different Grief Experiences (00:05:28)
4. The Power of Protest in Grief (00:11:32)
5. When Faith Feels Complicated (00:15:27)
6. Spirituality Beyond Traditional Faith (00:21:27)
7. Talking to Children About Heaven (00:29:04)
8. Honoring Different Beliefs in Families (00:32:28)
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