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The Joyful Mom Podcast
I’m Megan Hillukka, a mother to a large family, a wife, business owner, homeschooling mom, and this podcast shows you how to find joy in motherhood, even when it’s busy, overwhelming, and chaotic, so that you can have peace, energy, and be the mom you thought you would be. We’ll talk about mental health, business, homemaking, marriage, raising kids, and more, all the ups and downs that a mother might experience in her life as she raises her family. This is the Joyful Mom Podcast.
Episodes
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81 : You Cannot Wish Trauma Away
Send a message to Megan Experiencing trauma or PTSD while grieving is so challenging. The pain is doubled.You need to deal both of these intense feelings. But…
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80: How to Help Your Grieving Friend
Send a message to Megan This episode is more speaking to those around you to learn about grief and how they can help and support you on your grief journey…
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79 : Physical health vs mental health
Send a message to Megan Are you healthy? What are the ways you do to make you healthy? Remember, that being healthy is not only physically but also mentally…
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78 What is Emotional Freedom Technique/ E.F.T./ Tapping?
Send a message to Megan In this episode, I am going to share a very special tool for you to use to support you in your grieving journey.I often use this with…
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EP 77 Does this ever get better?
Send a message to Megan “Does it ever get better?” “Please tell me it gets better.” “I can’t keep living this way.” Have you also asked the same question? Are…
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76 Anxiety With Your Other Kids
Send a message to Megan “If you have other children, how are your anxiety or stress levels about them?” And the overwhelming response was- horrible, over the…
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75: How Do I Know if I'm Grieving Correctly?
Send a message to Megan Is there a correct way of grieving? This is the common question a grieving mother would ask. We often compare our grieving to other’s…
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74: What is the Difference Between Therapy and Coaching?
Send a message to Megan Both Therapy and coaching are very essential in our grieving journey. So, how do they differ and how can they help us in dealing with…
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73 : A Father’s Perspective
Send a message to Megan In today’s episode, I have a very special guest who I hold closely to my heart, my dear husband, Justin. He is going to share with us…
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72 : ANTS Thoughts
Send a message to Megan “Ants may be tiny but they can definitely ruin your picnic.That’s how our negative thoughts can ruin our day”. Dr. Daniel Amen In this…
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71 : Ways to remember your child this season
Send a message to Megan In this episode, I am going to share with you some tips on how your child will be noticed or remembered in this holiday season. If you…
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70: Grief as a Child
Send a message to Megan We have a special guest for this episode, Randi Proman Wolfson, who’s going to show us how grief looks into a child’s eyes She first…
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69: Anxiety and Fear Leading Up to the Holidays
Send a message to Megan For this episode, we are going to focus on the internal work in ways moving through the holidays. Feeling anxious or dreading the…
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68: 3 Ideas to Support You Through the Holidays
Send a message to Megan Holiday season is a time for happiness and making good memories with your loved ones. How can a grieving mom experience true happiness…
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67 : God, Grief and the Work I Do
Send a message to Megan In this episode, I want to share to you how God has given me strength in facing the most difficult and painful aspect in my life, the…
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66 : The Words You Say and Speak
Send a message to Megan In this episode, we are going to know how powerful words are especially in grief. We can connect the words in our thoughts, and use…
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EP 65 : ALL GOOD or ALL BAD
Send a message to Megan How can you tell someone if he or she is good or bad? Is it through his or her actions? In this episode,we are going to realize that we…
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64: Baby Loss and Holding on to Hope with Ashley
Send a message to Megan In this episode, we are going to listen to Ashley’s story of grieving, moving on, and inspiring others. Ashley had lost a child not…
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63 : The 3 Biggest Myths That Are Keeping You Stuck
Send a message to Megan In this episode, we are going to debunk 3 biggest myths that are keeping you stuck and preventing you from healing. 1. Time – Some…
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62: C.A.R.R.Y.ing Grief
Send a message to Megan In today’s episode, I’m going to share with you a quick guide I use in coaching grieving mothers. Our emotions in grief are just like…
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61: Grief in Your Body Guided Meditation
Send a message to Megan Grieving affects our physical and psychological well-being. It puts a lot of stress and tension on both our mind and body. In this…
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60: Shifting Grief With Mary Anne
Send a message to Megan Losing her son to suicide was not something that was on Mary Anne's mind as she tried to support and help her son with his mental…
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59: The importance of resting in grief
Send a message to Megan Grieving over someone’s death is greatly draining not only emotionally, but as well as physically. In this episode,we are going to know…
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58: Children’s Grief and Trauma with Samantha Colai LMFT
Send a message to Megan Samantha is the therapist our children went to after the death of their little sister Aria. I have learned so much from Samantha and I…
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57: Needing to Know
Send a message to Megan Have you ever felt like you don’t know enough about exactly what happened with your child’s death? Maybe it feels like you cannot find…
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56: Fear
Send a message to Megan Fear is driving our world right now, fear seems to be something that stops us from taking action and doing the things we want in our…
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55: How To Get Through Grief
Send a message to Megan How do we get through grief? It can feel so impossible. I wanted to share ideas that came to me of how we can learn to walk with grief…
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54: Searching for hope in deep grief with Pony Walker
Send a message to Megan I’m so excited to have one of my coaching clients Pony here on the podcast. Pony has been a joy to work with. She’s so open and…
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53: Building Your Support System
Send a message to Megan As a grieving person it’s exhausting to be alive. It’s exhausting every single day. And then there are people around us who don’t…
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52: Pregnancy After Loss with Amy Watson
Send a message to Megan Pregnancy after loss can be a terrifying experience. The worries and fears that come up after you know the possibility of losing…
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51: What Story Are You Telling
Send a message to Megan The way we tell our story is a powerful thing. We can tell our story with shame, resentment, guilt, and where we keep beating ourselves…
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50: Why You Should Invest in Your Mental Health
Send a message to Megan Right now, you cannot buy anything from me. I have nothing to sell you in this moment. So I wanted to talk about investing in yourself…
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49: Getting in Tune With Your Emotion
Send a message to Megan Looking inside ourselves and beginning to feel our emotions is one of the most difficult things we can do. We are driven by our…
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48: Generational Trauma
Send a message to Megan I’ve been meaning to do an episode on generational trauma for a while, and I wanted to do it now, with all the discussion around racism…
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47: A Honest Conversation With a Grieving Mother
Send a message to Megan In this episode, Marcy Larson, another grieving mother comes to share her story of loss, and how she’s learning to navigate grief. This…
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46: How I Became A Grief Coach
Send a message to Megan Because it’s May, and Aria died in May- I want to share my story again and a little bit about my journey to become a grief coach. -Very…
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45: Triggers and Anniversaries
Send a message to Megan It’s still crazy how suddenly your life can be flipped upside down and everything changed in an instant. Today I want to talk about…
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44: Caring For the Child Within
Send a message to Megan We all come to grief with our own stories and experiences. As children, we may have had experiences that were painful and intense…
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43: What does it mean to be a mother?
Send a message to Megan Mother's day is right around the corner. I want to hold space for you, if you are a grieving mother with no other children, a grieving…
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42: Are You Going Backwards in Grief?
Send a message to Megan You ever feel like you have finally climbed out of the hole of grief, things are going well, and then bam. You are back at the bottom…
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41: Grief Comparison
Send a message to Megan Today’s topic is about grief comparison. There is so much comparison in our lives, especially in grief. Your grief is different from…
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40: Choosing Joy in Grief
Send a message to Megan On this episode, I want to talk about how each one of us has to make a personal decision on our own grief journey. How are we going to…
The Joyful Mom Podcast39: How I Define My Grief With Rachel Reichblum
Send a message to Megan Episode 39 Show Notes In this episode, Rachel Reichblum shared her story on how she knew grief and her journey with grief. - Rachel's…
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38: Complaining Vs. Processing Emotions
Send a message to Megan Episode 38 Show Notes Today's topic is how we navigate ourselves in the midst of our grief to better understand on how we Complain and…
The Joyful Mom Podcast37 Managing Your Mental Health in Times of Stress
Send a message to Megan Sign up for the FREE mini-course "Who Am I?" www.meganhillukka.com/whoami • What is 5,4, 3, 2, 1, Method? •How to be focus despite this…
The Joyful Mom Podcast36 Dealing with Anger in Grief
Send a message to Megan Sign up for the FREE mini-course "Who Am I?" www.meganhillukka.com/whoami Grief does not give us the right to lash out at others. It…
The Joyful Mom Podcast35 Supporting Grieving Children With Jana DeCristofaro
Send a message to Megan Episode 35 Show Notes I asked my community for questions on how to support and help grieving children. Some of these are their…
The Joyful Mom Podcast34 Staying Married After the Death of a Child
Send a message to Megan Episode 34 Show Notes Sign up for the FREE mini-course "Who Am I?" www.meganhillukka.com/whoami Justin and I talk about the challenges…
The Joyful Mom Podcast33 When Your Grief Has Been Too Long
Send a message to Megan Episode 33 Show Notes Sign up for the FREE mini-course "Who Am I?" www.meganhillukka.com/whoami There is huge expectation from society…
The Joyful Mom Podcast32 The Things People Say to You in Grief
Send a message to Megan Episode 32 Show Notes Sign up for the FREE mini-course "Who Am I?" www.meganhillukka.com/whoami -I Clearly remember the things people…
The Joyful Mom Podcast31 When All You Know is Grief
Send a message to Megan Episode 31 Show Notes Sign up for the FREE mini-course "Who Am I?" www.meganhillukka.com/whoami -Who is Lindsay, and how has grief…
The Joyful Mom Podcast30 Are We Over-medicating Grief
Send a message to Megan Episode 30 Show Notes Sign up for the FREE mini-course "Who Am I?" www.meganhillukka.com/whoami There's nothing wrong with medication…
The Joyful Mom Podcast29 5 Things I've learned with Grief
Send a message to Megan Episode 29 Show Notes Sign up for the FREE mini-course "Who Am I?" www.meganhillukka.com/whoami Mental Health is not a given- it can be…
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28 Permission to Grieve
Send a message to Megan Episode 28 Show Notes -Who is Shelby, and how did you come to know grief? -Your story of the first time giving yourself permission to…
The Joyful Mom Podcast27 Grief is a Gift
Send a message to Megan Episode 27 Show Notes Sign up for the FREE mini-course "Who Am I?" www.meganhillukka.com/whoami Grief is hard Grief needs to be fought…
The Joyful Mom Podcast26: The Past, Present, and Future You
Send a message to Megan Episode 26 Show Notes Sign up for the FREE mini-course "Who Am I?" www.meganhillukka.com/whoami -What 3 emotions do I feel? -Story of…
The Joyful Mom Podcast25 Grieving Changes in Life with Traci
Send a message to Megan Episode 25 Show Notes -How does someone know they are experiencing menopause? -What are the general age ranges? -What are the emotions…
The Joyful Mom Podcast24 Living a Cultivated Life
Send a message to Megan Episode 24 Show Notes -What’s the purpose of cultivated family -Why I looked for cultivated family -Lessons of loss from Aria, that…
The Joyful Mom Podcast23 Therapy, Trauma, and Hope with Justin Sunseri
Send a message to Megan Episode 23 Show Notes Hey, today I'm super excited because I got to chat all about trauma, therapy, and how we are stuck and not broken…
The Joyful Mom Podcast22 In the Absence of Joy
Send a message to Megan Episode 22 Show Notes Grief is not a disease. It is not an illness that needs to be done with and moved through quickly. So what do you…