From Grief to Grace

For grievers, the season that once brought joy may heighten an awareness of the feeling of despair and intense pain. What can you do when the world is saying, "Let's be merry!" while you are feeling a responsibility to honor your sorrow?

On today's program From Grief to Grace, host Chaz Wesley welcomes back Dieter Randolph, cofounder and minister of Water and Stone Church. They discuss the process of letting go of beliefs and paradigms of the past, and the transformational choice to reinvest in the now.

Returning special guest, author, and grief guide Georgena Eggleston joins host Chaz Wesley to discuss the feelings of uncertainty in times of change, loss, and pain-and allowing a path of peace to unfold with action and grace.

On this World Day of Prayer in Unity, host Chaz Wesley is joined by Randy Fikki, spiritual leader at Unity Southeast in Kansas City, Missouri, discussing this year's theme, "Peace in the Midst."

Each step of our journey holds a certain necessity of lessons and possibility. On today's program From Grief to Grace, host Chaz Wesley offers insight into the choices and opportunities we have to honor and trust each sacred step of loss and grief so we may walk this journey with love and grace.

The Buddha once said, "If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete." On today's program From Grief to Grace, host Chaz Wesley introduces enlightening conversation and self-care activities of mind, body, and spirit that can sustain energy while minimizing the fatigue commonly associated with grieving.

On today's program From Grief To Grace, host Chaz Wesley discusses the value of finding meaning in our journey of grief. Becoming mindful of the transformative capacity of grief is one of the most empowering ways to understand loss, cultivate acceptance, and honor compassion toward yourself and others.

Loss and grief shatters the world we have known, thereby creating a tidal wave of emotions in the wake of our everyday life. On today's program, host Chaz Wesley shares insight and clarity on what these emotions mean. We can allow the current of Truth and meaning to guide us back to shore.

On today's journey From Grief to Grace, host Chaz Wesley interviews Michel Pascal, author of the book Meditation for Daily Stress: 10 Practices for Immediate Well-Being. Michel Pascal is a french writer, meditation teacher/singer, photographer, and director for spiritual documentaries. Before moving to the United States, Michel lived in the largest monastery in the Himalayas, Kopan Monastery in Nepal. The high master Chepa Dorje Rimpoche (descendant of Milarepa) was his meditation teacher for 15 years. Michel has written 19 books in French about spirituality. Drawing on his experience of living at the Kopan Monastery in Nepal, Michel shares his new and easy method of meditating in the moment to calm the mind and break the cycle of stress addiction. In the midst of one's grief experience, Michel's book is a guide to a revolutionary meditative techniques for finding peace, quiet, mindfulness, and centeredness. A true authority in meditation, Michel introduces readers to the power of meditation as a coping mechanism for daily stress, anxiety, and depression-and yes, grief!

On today's journey From Grief to Grace, host Chaz Wesley interviews writer and poet Deirdre Hade, coauther of the book The (Not So) Little Book of Surprises. A verbal and graphic trip to the unexpected, whimsical, and wise worlds, Hade and her husband and graphic visionary Will Arntz (What the Bleep Do We Know!?), with images provided by award-winning photographer Endre Balogh, will inspire the reader. They also allow for a lot of smiling and moments of clarity and wonder. The prose and poetry will raise your awareness to the level that great art does when truly enjoyed. The (Not So) Little Book of Surprises marries practical guidance for navigating our increasing busy and chaotic world with deep mystical insight to awaken the sleeping soul within us.

Their mission is to joyously use their God-given gifts-writing, singing, and speaking-to successfully inspire, uplift, and transform the lives of as many people as they can touch in their lifetime and beyond. And with their new double-CD, Beautiful Brokenness, they are doing just that! On today's journey From Grief To Grace, host Chaz Wesley interviews inspirational speakers, singer/songwriters, and best-selling authors, Karen Taylor-Good and Stowe Daily-the powerful duo known as StoweGood.

When caring for someone who is chronically ill or dying, we may start to grieve that person long before their physical death. Often, we grieve the loss of the person's "former self." Primary caregivers often experience exhaustion, regret, or even guilt or shame for "wishing it were over." It is important to recognize these feelings as normal. Ultimately, anticipatory grief is a way of allowing us to prepare emotionally for the inevitable. On today's journey From Grief To Grace, host Chaz Wesley shares thoughts and coping skills for caregivers and the anticipatory grief reactions of the physical, emotional, and spiritual nature that occurs before an impending loss.

On today's journey From Grief to Grace, host Chaz Wesley is joined by coauthors Dieter and Jenny Randolph of Unity Society about their new book, Branching In. Explaining their mantra of grace as, "you don't need anything extra to be who you already are," Branching In is the process of understanding this now moment as the fruit of a more profound life experience. By following it through-branch and trunk and back to root-we can use that expanded awareness as the seed for life's next now moments.

On today's journey From Grief to Grace, host Chaz Wesley shares how the spiritual faculty of faith becomes an action step we can take as we affirm that the healing, loving presence of the Divine is working to bring peace and harmony in the midst of chaos and fear.

On today's journey From Grief to Grace, host Chaz Wesley shares the metaphysical interpretation of the spiritual power called "Love"-and the strength of its presence in our lives when we are healing from loss.

On today's journey From Grief to Grace, author Rob Goor joins host Chaz Wesley as we discuss the authors beautiful novel to his son, Dear Andrew, a chronicle of life and death, loss and love-expressed through letters from a father to his deceased 8-year-old son. Letter by letter, this father processes at such depth that peace is made tangible and grace is discovered.

The only moment we have is now. "The New Now" is where we are alive without our dead person. Grandma will not be here this Thanksgiving to make her butterhorn rolls. She is dead. Granddad will not be here to host the Friday after Thanksgiving football game, complete with corndogs and root beer floats. He died in July. Now What? On today's journey From Grief to Grace, author and grief guide Georgena Eggleston joins host Chaz Wesley to guide us through a process of permission-and a more peaceful holiday season.

Join host Chaz Wesley as he gently guides listeners through a new thought process of letting go in the midst of chaos and change.

On today's journey From Grief to Grace, host Chaz Wesley interviews author Keidi Keating, whose books The Light: A Book of Wisdom and Experiences From the Light bring together a collection of astounding and inspiring true stories. They also share insights from renowned teachers and authors such as don Miguel Ruiz, Neale Donald Walsch, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and many more. The Light presents profound guidance for discovering inner light, living from the heart, oneness with humanity in a spiritual realm, and connection to others through service.

On today's program, host Chaz Wesley speaks with trauma specialist, grief guide, and author Georgena Eggleston about personal loss, permission, and assurance. With an awareness of synergetic methods and self-care strategies, Georgena explains the difference between raw, fragile, and gentle grief-and how discovery and curiousity helps one move beyond grief. Georgena teaches mindful grieving and intentional mourning so people have the tools to discover where grief lives in the body-and how to release it and replace the thoughts that keep us stuck in the grief loop.