290. Why Do I Always Put Everyone Else First? The Hidden Weight Every Grieving Mom Carries

About this episode

Teresa Davis discusses the importance of grieving moms giving themselves grace while managing their responsibilities to others.

You keep showing up for everyone else. Your surviving children, your spouse, your job, the people who never see what you carry. You hand out grace, patience, room to not be okay — to everyone but yourself. In her first episode back, Teresa sits down for an honest, tender conversation about the grace grieving moms give away so freely and almost never keep for themselves. Because here is the truth so many of us live and rarely admit: you cannot give from empty. In this episode, you'll discover... Why the strongest grieving moms are so often the most depleted — and what that strength is quietly costing you Why giving yourself grace is not the same as abandoning the people who still need you What one grieving woman at an empty tomb can show you about being filled back up The verse that says your most emptied-out moment may be the exact place you are held the most If you have forgotten what it feels like to be poured into instead of poured out, this is the gentle place to begin. You are not failing because you are tired. You are carrying something almost no one can see — and the God who is close to the brokenhearted has not stopped tending to you, even now. 🎵 This week's gift: the…

People in this episode

Host: Teresa Davis

Topics covered

• grief
• self-care
• motherhood
• Christian support
• emotional health

Keywords

• grieving moms
• self-care
• grace
• emotional depletion
• Christian grief support
• hope
• healing

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