You don’t know what you don’t know, until…it happens to you.
Then what?
Recently I visited friends at a funeral home. They had lost their father. One woman is a member of my Advisory Board of Hearts with a Purpose and another woman is a reader of my newsletter. I offered them both my sympathy.
But one of the women said, “WOW you don’t know what you don’t know until it happens to YOU.”
Then she said, “You get this. You know grief and loss.” I shook my head in agreement.
Grief and loss and transitions come in a variety of packages.
So how do you handle the death of a parent?
A divorce?
A betrayal?
A home foreclosure?
An illness?
Exposing abuse?
Writing a book based off of pain?
The loss of a family unit?
Or you name yours… you don’t know what you don’t know until it happens to you?
Or, what do you think it might be for you soon?
Author Katie Brazelton explains in her book, Conversations on Purpose for Women, “Grief as any sadness, loss, pain, failure, or sorrow you have had to deal with, whether that was a crisis in your own life or in the life of your spouse, child, or dearest friend…The circumstances of your past can help you find purpose and fulfillment in your life as you befriend someone who is experiencing a crisis that you have already lived through. Put another way, your grief is meant to be recycled into something useful that blesses the life of another, as soon as you’re able.”
Or as it is stated in the Blessings of Brokenness by Charles Stanley, “God has a purpose in allowing bad things to happen, and his purpose extends not only to my life alone, but to the lives of others who I may influence or help.”
If you are walking through you don’t know what you don’t know, until it happens to you, would a coach help you now, or help you prepare for major transitions coming your way?
If so, let’s chat, Schedule a time to chat now!
