Using Unconditional Love To Navigate Grief with Mike Murphy

Using Unconditional Love To Navigate Grief with Mike Murphy Emily Thiroux Threatt 30:52

If you go through Grief soberly, with intention, and feel it. If you don’t escape it, run from it, and don’t medicate against it, you will evolve into a bigger, better, more loving person, for sure.

In this episode, I’m joined by Mike Murphy, a bestselling author, speaker, coach, and consultant. After almost ten years of battling breast cancer, Mike’s wife, Margot, learned the disease was spreading to her brain. The oncologist explained: “If you do nothing, you have six weeks to live; if you start treatment, you have six months.” For the next six months, Margot and Mike enjoyed every day as if she were going to beat cancer, and at night they’d get ready for her last breath. Margot’s final six months inspired “Living in Color,” a Moving and honest memoir, where Mike describes the passion and courageous attitude Margot had in her almost ten years battle with breast cancer.

Mike also created the Love From Margot Foundation, which has helped hundreds of women with breast cancer living below the poverty line.

Throughout this episode, we chat about life and death, Grief, legacy, and purpose. Mike talks about the changes Margot’s death produced in him, how it changed his views on transitioning, his purpose in life, and navigating Grief. We also go through the Transformational Health Retreat Mike is building in Colombia, Mike’s passion for helping people around the world figure out how the universe really works, and so much more.

Tune in and listen to episode 136 to learn about Mike’s Grief journey and his passion for helping others find happiness and fulfillment.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

A bit about Mike and Margot’s love story (2:30)

What is missing in our medical system (5:10)

Being brave is too hard sometimes (9:50)

Some questions are just too hard to answer (11:40)

The importance of saying goodbye (16:00)

The importance of being intentional while going through Grief (21:20)

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Emily Thiroux Threatt Podcast Host, Facilitator, Author

Having gone through the experience of the deaths of so many loved ones, I have learned to face life with love, optimism, and joy.

I have kept journals and written to express myself most of my life which led me to a career of teaching writing and writing books. I naturally turned to writing to help deal with my grief, then I discovered I could use writing to help friends deal with grief, too.

In contemplating how I could best help the grieving people I was working with, my Ignite moment came when realized the importance of helping people understand the importance of happiness and how they could grieve and be happy at the same time.

To share my message, I host the Grief and Happiness podcast, I wrote the book Loving and Living Your Way Though Grief, I facilitate weekly meetings of the Grief and Happiness Alliance, I founded the Grief and Happiness nonprofit foundation, I publish a weekly newsletter and blog, and my new book, The Grief and Happiness Handbook is coming out soon.