From Grief to Hope
How can we move from grief to hope? In this episode of Your Superpowered Mind, host Kristin Maxwell sits with guest Dora Carpenter to talk about how moving from grief to hope is an individual journey that is unique for everyone. To overcome grief, one should openly face grief first, no matter how difficult the situation is. It is also important that you recognize that life has its meaning and purpose after experiencing loss. Tune in to know some of the things to say and not to say in supporting someone in the journey from grief to hope.
Kristin Maxwell:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind. I am your host, Kristin Maxwell, and in this show, we explore the process of transformation and give you tools and strategies that you can use to transform your own life. Today, I am going to be talking to Dora Carpenter about moving from grief into hope. And Dora carpenter is a luminary and pioneer and a grief coach certification movement. And based on years of experience working with hundreds of families in the death care industry and her own experiences, Dora founded the Institute of Professional Grief Coaching and the International Coaching Federation accredited From Grief to Gratitude Coach Certification. Dora believes that grief is not to be fixed or cured but is a necessary part of the experience of transitioning from despair into hope. Dora, welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind.
Dora Carpenter:
Thank you, Kristin. So honored to be here today.
Kristin Maxwell:
Thank you. You are doing some really important work out there in the world, and I’m really excited to get some of your thoughts on grief because grief is something that we don’t talk about very well in our culture and the idea of grief, I think is very overwhelming, and I’m really curious to get your perspectives on that. But before we do, I’m going to ask you my first question, which is what superpower did you uncover as a result of mastering your mind or in the process of mastering your mind?
Dora Carpenter:
That is an awesome question to ask, and I tell you, Kristin, I never really thought of it from that perspective, so it was actually thought-provoking for me. I say that for me, it’s simply just listening to that still small inner voice. I like to say that divine, intuitive guidance and listening to it, knowing, and then acting on it have been what propels me. So if I had to define my superpower, it would be that. I don’t know whether I would say intuitive, but divinely inspired thought.
Kristin Maxwell:
That’s lovely. Divinely inspired thought. I do love that. And I’m curious, is that something that you could always do?
Dora Carpenter:
That’s a great question also because sometimes, I question, “Where did that come from?” When I was 21, I read a book, The Magic of Thinking Big: Cure Yourself of Excusitis, The Failure Disease. But even before that, when I think about it, and I go back to even my childhood, it’s what really propelled you, Dora, to think that you could do whatever you set out to do. I don’t know the answer to that. It’s a question that I still ask myself. What made you feel that whatever you set out to do or whatever that thought that comes, and usually for me, Kristin, it’s early in the morning. When I awake, there’s this thought, and I’m a type A personality, so there’s this thought. “Create this, do this, call this person, go do this,” and then I just, without any excuse or without any hesitation, may change courses for the day or course correct.
But that’s always been, and I don’t do very well. I don’t take no. I just proceed, and however it works out, to me, that’s the way it’s supposed to work out. That’s the lesson I’m supposed to learn, or that’s how I’m supposed to course correct, or that’s how I’m supposed to expand on it and go further.
Kristin Maxwell:
Wow. What a proactive way of looking at things. That’s amazing. We’re going to go into that a little bit more, but before we do, I want to let everybody know, before we take a super quick break, that they can find more about you, Dora Carpenter, at doracarpenter.com and I will certainly have the link to your page in the show notes. And can also if you go to yoursuperpoweredmind.com, you can check out what we do at SuperPower Experts around creating community and helping people to check into their own divine space.
Hang on a moment, and we’ll come back and talk more about moving from grief to hope. Hang on.
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