Episodes

June 12, 2024

Quieting the Busyness

How often do you describe yourself as busy? Life is just busy. The thing about busyness is that it can also be a tactic to avoid looking at ourselves, our feelings and events that have impacted us. It’s not necessarily a cons...
June 5, 2024

Apathy Vs. Surrender

This week, Alexandra dives into the differences between apathy and surrender. She has been working on surrendering more which led to questions around apathy. Apathy tends to have feelings of helplessness and hopelessness with...
May 29, 2024

Chat with Erik Petersen

This week, Alexandra chats with Licensed Professional Counselor, Erik Petersen about the importance of emotional and mental wholeness when working through grief. All the thoughts and feelings associated with grief can be very...
May 22, 2024

Spirituality Journey to Wholeness

This week, Alexandra continues discussing the area of spirituality and how evaluating the messages we get as children about morality, value systems and spirituality can impact our spirituality as adults. It helps to determine...
May 15, 2024

There Is No Such Thing As Good, Bad and Ugly

This week, Alexandra explains her discomfort with the idea of the good, bad and ugly. We are all good and have parts or pieces of ourselves that others perceive to be negative. Those parts and pieces come from us as kids to p...
May 8, 2024

Scars Are Not Always Visible

This week, Alexandra shares how easy it is to assume what someone else has going on. Not everything we, ourselves, have going on is obvious to others. We are called to be more compassionate with others because we don't know w...
May 1, 2024

FTJ Turns 50!

This week, Alexandra celebrates Forward to Joy turning 50. Such an accomplishment and exciting as the podcast morphs and changes along the way. Alexandra also share the things she has learned since doing this podcast and duri...
April 24, 2024

Yes, Rock the Boat

This week Alexandra encourages all her listeners to rock the boat. As we heal, grow and become more grounded in our authenticity, we shift dynamics with those around us and that can be challenging to those relationships. Ever...
April 17, 2024

Chat with Nutritionist and Fitness Expert Sabrina Miller

This week, Alexandra and Sabrina Miller have a raw, authentic chat about the importance of nutrition and movement when working through the grief process. Additionally, to really make gains and be able to feel the impact of go...
April 10, 2024

What's In Your Basement?

Recently, Alexandra was debating to finish the basement in her house and found that she was paralyzed by the decision. Mentioning it in therapy brought on a huge emotional reaction indicating that there were feelings around i...
April 3, 2024

Ego vs Humility

This week, Alexandra talks about the different characteristics of ego and humility. Ego can absolutely have a healthy and necessary perspective. It does not always have to be considered a negative thing. Ego is protective and...
March 27, 2024

Heartmath with Jacque Timple

This week, Alexandra has the honor to speak with Certified HeartMath Coach, Jacque Timple. Something as simple as breathing, which sometimes can seem so hard, is actually a fantastic way to benefit us all in multiple ways. Ju...
March 20, 2024

Rediscovering the Self

This week, Alexandra shares about her own experience with working through childhood pattern and messages. There are so many ideas and tips out there for self-discovery and personal healing that some will say they are the ulti...
March 13, 2024

Award-Winning Podcast Host Rebecca Johnson

This week, Alexandra chats with Rebecca Johnson, host of the Love Is Not Dead Just My Husband podcast. Widow to widow, their conversation covers so much from finding ways to move forward to questioning how to even tackle dati...
March 6, 2024

Oh Those Impostors

This week, Alexandra chats about impostor syndrome. It is so easy to feel like an impostor when we step out of our comfort zone. Stepping out of our comfort zone is where the most growth can happen and yet feeling like an imp...
Feb. 28, 2024

The Curse of Comparison-itis

This week, Alexandra talks about the slippery slope of comparision-itis. We all do it. It’s easy to do with how much access we have to seeing what others’ have going on in their lives. It’s easy to see what others are doing a...
Feb. 21, 2024

What About Me?

This week, Alexandra talks about a perspective or block that some people have when their needs were not fully met as a child and are not currently met now. This is the “What About Me” perspective. It is hard for us to put oth...
Feb. 14, 2024

Self-Worth vs. Deservingness

This week, Alexandra continues laying the groundwork for becoming more aware of the messages and projections from childhood that impact us as adults. She touches on what is self-worth versus self-confidence. Self-worth is abo...
Feb. 7, 2024

Quiet the Should’s and Shout Out the No’s

This week, Alexandra talks about how much Should’s and Supposed To’s can keep us from really being our truly authentic selves. Being caught up in what others are projecting onto us can prevent us from making decisions that ar...
Jan. 31, 2024

Blasts from the Past

This week, Alexandra talks about ancestral and familial patterns and how they can impact our lives. Not only do old patterns impact our lives but they can impact our grief process. This is a good starting point for recognizin...
Jan. 24, 2024

You Have to Heal the Past to Heal the Present

Today Alexandra dives into the importance of healing past grief and trauma in order to truly face grief in the present. Certain blocks can arise when dealing with grief that can cause us all to end up stuck. When this happens...
Jan. 17, 2024

Hot Mess Mama Days

This week Alexandra shares how being a parent, single parent and a parent with grief is really hard. Children just know what hot buttons to push with their parents and it's all in a continued need to feel safe and secure. It ...
Jan. 10, 2024

The Dreaded But Very Necessary Chat with Kids

This week, Alexandra dives into the difficulty with talking to kids about grief and death. It is hard to figure out how to manage our own reactions, let alone our kids' reactions. It's important to be honest with children at ...
Jan. 5, 2024

Phew, We Made It!

This week Alexandra talks about the plan for this year for The Widows Club and taking healing to the next level through examining the different areas of holistic wellness: emotional, mental, physical, nutritional, spiritual a...