Could focusing on your own emotional well-being be the breakthrough your family needs? Hear how one mother turned Grief into Growth.

In today’s episode, I welcome back Vickie Menendez, a transformational coach and author whose life has been shaped by profound loss and personal growth. Vickie shares insights from her transformative journey of loss and healing, highlighting her experiences with addiction within her family and the heartfelt lessons she has learned about unconditional love and self-healing.

Throughout this episode, Vickie shares profound revelations about soul contracts and the ways her children’s lives guided her own healing journey. She emphasizes the need for parents to focus on their own emotional well-being, as their energy and approach can significantly influence their children. Through her story, Vickie discusses the importance of supporting loved ones struggling with addiction by creating a judgment-free space, focusing on personal growth, maintaining positive energy, and showing unconditional love, compassion, and acceptance. She also introduces her memoir and companion book, which provide tools and perspectives for navigating grief and fostering personal growth.

Tune in and listen to episode 302 of Grief and Happiness with Vickie Menendez to discover how unconditional love, self-healing, and creating a judgment-free space can foster connection and transformation in the face of grief and addiction.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• Finding healing through storytelling: Vickie’s memoir (1:17)
• A soul contract and the role of addiction in Vickie’s life (4:00)
• Loving an addict without judgment (7:02)
• Lessons from personal loss and family addiction (12:54)
• The impact of self-healing on parenting (16:01)
• Energy, emotions, and breaking the spiral of fear (18:54)
• Final reflections and the power of love (23:41)

Connect with Vickie Menendez:

• Website
• Mother of All Memoirs website
• LinkedIn
• YouTube

Let’s Connect:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Pinterest
• The Grief and Happiness Alliance
• Book: Emily Thiroux Threatt – Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief

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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.