Episode 6 | Going Boldly into the Darkness with Autumn Toelle-Jackson
Filled With Gold Widow Podcast
English - August 26, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Education Self-Improvement widow grief loss young widow widowed widows grieving death lonely Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Autumn Toelle-Jackson is the award-winning author of Boldly into the Darkness: Living with Loss, Growing with Grief & Holding onto Happiness. She has lived a life of love and loss, filled with happiness and marked by tragedy.
Labels are too simple, but they do have meaning and they do tell part of her story: wife, widow, mother, survivor. The loss of a husband, a beloved cousin and mentor, her daughter, and miscarriages have left scars on her soul and memorial tattoos on her body, but Autumn learned to grow through it all. She found love and reasons to get up each day until those days strung into weeks, then months, then years. Autumn and her family created Growing with Grief to provide those who are grieving with a place to find community, resources, and help.
In this episode we cover:
- The death of Autumn’s husband, Joe, of unknown natural causes at the age of 30. Autumn became a young widow overnight with a 2 week old and almost 3 year old
- She gained clarity and confidence working with a transformative coach
- That first laugh after the death of your spouse - so strange…
- Marrying her friend & love, Kyle
- Autumn’s grief experience after Joe’s death helped her process the death of her & Kyle’s baby, Riley
- Kintsugi - taking something shattered and fusing your soul & heart back together into something beautiful and loved
“Rather than spending weeks and months exhausting yourself and running from emotions, when you feel them you sit with them and let them happen. You’ll have a lot more energy...and room to breathe.”
-Autumn Toelle-Jackson
Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GrowingWithGrief
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingwithgrief/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/growwithgrief
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