This week, Alexandra dives into the differences between apathy and surrender. She has been working on surrendering more which led to questions around apathy. Apathy tends to have feelings of helplessness and hopelessness wit…
This week, Alexandra chats with Licensed Professional Counselor, Erik Petersen about the importance of emotional and mental wholeness when working through grief. All the thoughts and feelings associated with grief can be ver…
This week, Alexandra continues discussing the area of spirituality and how evaluating the messages we get as children about morality, value systems and spirituality can impact our spirituality as adults. It helps to determin…
This week, Alexandra explains her discomfort with the idea of the good, bad and ugly. We are all good and have parts or pieces of ourselves that others perceive to be negative. Those parts and pieces come from us as kids to …
This week, Alexandra shares how easy it is to assume what someone else has going on. Not everything we, ourselves, have going on is obvious to others. We are called to be more compassionate with others because we don't know …
This week, Alexandra celebrates Forward to Joy turning 50. Such an accomplishment and exciting as the podcast morphs and changes along the way. Alexandra also share the things she has learned since doing this podcast and dur…
This week Alexandra encourages all her listeners to rock the boat. As we heal, grow and become more grounded in our authenticity, we shift dynamics with those around us and that can be challenging to those relationships. Eve…
This week, Alexandra and Sabrina Miller have a raw, authentic chat about the importance of nutrition and movement when working through the grief process. Additionally, to really make gains and be able to feel the impact of g…
Recently, Alexandra was debating to finish the basement in her house and found that she was paralyzed by the decision. Mentioning it in therapy brought on a huge emotional reaction indicating that there were feelings around …
This week, Alexandra talks about the different characteristics of ego and humility. Ego can absolutely have a healthy and necessary perspective. It does not always have to be considered a negative thing. Ego is protective an…
This week, Alexandra has the honor to speak with Certified HeartMath Coach, Jacque Timple. Something as simple as breathing, which sometimes can seem so hard, is actually a fantastic way to benefit us all in multiple ways. J…
This week, Alexandra shares about her own experience with working through childhood pattern and messages. There are so many ideas and tips out there for self-discovery and personal healing that some will say they are the ult…
This week, Alexandra chats with Rebecca Johnson, host of the Love Is Not Dead Just My Husband podcast. Widow to widow, their conversation covers so much from finding ways to move forward to questioning how to even tackle dat…
This week, Alexandra chats about impostor syndrome. It is so easy to feel like an impostor when we step out of our comfort zone. Stepping out of our comfort zone is where the most growth can happen and yet feeling like an im…
This week, Alexandra talks about the slippery slope of comparision-itis. We all do it. It’s easy to do with how much access we have to seeing what others’ have going on in their lives. It’s easy to see what others are doing …
This week, Alexandra talks about a perspective or block that some people have when their needs were not fully met as a child and are not currently met now. This is the “What About Me” perspective. It is hard for us to put ot…
This week, Alexandra continues laying the groundwork for becoming more aware of the messages and projections from childhood that impact us as adults. She touches on what is self-worth versus self-confidence. Self-worth is ab…
This week, Alexandra talks about how much Should’s and Supposed To’s can keep us from really being our truly authentic selves. Being caught up in what others are projecting onto us can prevent us from making decisions that a…
This week, Alexandra talks about ancestral and familial patterns and how they can impact our lives. Not only do old patterns impact our lives but they can impact our grief process. This is a good starting point for recognizi…
Today Alexandra dives into the importance of healing past grief and trauma in order to truly face grief in the present. Certain blocks can arise when dealing with grief that can cause us all to end up stuck. When this happen…
This week Alexandra shares how being a parent, single parent and a parent with grief is really hard. Children just know what hot buttons to push with their parents and it's all in a continued need to feel safe and secure. It…
This week, Alexandra dives into the difficulty with talking to kids about grief and death. It is hard to figure out how to manage our own reactions, let alone our kids' reactions. It's important to be honest with children at…
This week Alexandra talks about the plan for this year for The Widows Club and taking healing to the next level through examining the different areas of holistic wellness: emotional, mental, physical, nutritional, spiritual …
This week, Alexandra chats about her end of year rituals and how she likes to bring in the new year. The focus is less about New Years resolutions or a manifestation list and more about internally, what she wants to leave be…
