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Welcome to Episode 3 of the Heart in a Drawer podcast, where we explore hurt, healing and hope as adult children of divorce. Today we’re discussing the fear of abandonment, dealing with sudden triggers, processing trauma, and meditating on comforting Bible verses to overcome.
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Welcome to Episode 2 of Heart in a Drawer, where we explore hurt, healing and hope as adult children of divorce. Today we’re discussing the reason for the name “Heart in a Drawer,” why I chose “It Is Well With My Soul” as the theme music, and what you can do with old pictures of your parents.
Welcome to the Heart in a Drawer Podcast, where we explore the hurts, healing and hope for adult children of divorce. Heart in a Drawer Podcast Are you a child of divorce? Whether your parents’ divorce occurred when you were very young, an adolescent, or even an adult, I know the divorce affects you in … Read more
Are you dealing with grief that just won’t go away, because a literal death has not yet occurred? We can learn how to deal with a living death from the story of Tamar, King David’s daughter.
As a child of divorce since the age of 4, I have dealt with a living death most of my life. Though my parents’ marriage ended decades ago, I still deal with the fallout. The marriage is over, but the negative effects linger on, because the divorce is a living death.
I’ve also experienced living deaths from loving prodigals, handling disappointments, and dealing with various messes. Life doesn’t always give us definite endings, and when negativity continues, you can feel the reverberations of a living death.
This is my writing process for transforming painful memories into poems.
I go to my journals and immerse myself in those feelings. Then I pull out a photo from that time period.