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This week, Forward to Joy has officially been around for 100 episodes! This is such a huge accomplishment for Alexandra and to celebrate she shares the top 10 things she has learned since Shawn died and also since starting this podcast. This is one you’ll want to save and listen to multiple times. <3
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Hi, I’m Alexandra Wyman, and welcome to Forward to Joy.
This podcast was born out of my own journey through grief, healing, and finding a way to embrace joy again after deep loss. I created this space to have real, honest conversations about the messy, complicated, and beautiful process of navigating life after loss.
Each week, I’ll be sharing stories — both my own and from incredible guests — that shine a light on grief, mental health, resilience, and the tools that can help us keep moving forward. This isn’t about fixing or forgetting — it’s about finding meaning, hope, and even joy in the midst of the pain.
Whether you're grieving yourself, walking alongside someone who is, or simply curious about what healing can really look like, you're in the right place.
New episodes weekly! I’d love for you to join me on this journey Forward to Joy.
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This week is short and sweet as Alexandra chats about the importance of reading the room, especially with grief. When experiencing a loss, we get to decide what we want to share, when and how. It is not okay for others to project their discomfort onto us nor ours onto them. Be empowered to work through your grief the way you need to.
Connect with Alexandra on her website, forwardtojoy.com, or send her an email at [email protected].
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This is one of Alexandra’s favorite episodes, and such a good reminder as the weather starts to get warmer. It's also good to have favorite episodes for when a podcast host loses her voice. Hopefully, Alexandra will get her voice back soon and will be back to new episodes. Enjoy!
Connect or Work with Sabrina: Bodiesbybrina.com
Instagram: @bodiesbybrina
Podcast: Veggies and Vices
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This week, Alexandra had the honor of speaking with special core trauma transformation specialist Dr. Tara Perry.
She is a subconscious mind expert who has been featured in Fox News, Esquire, Lifetime Television for Women, and more. Over the last 25 years, she has successfully treated celebrities, Olympic athletes, first responders, doctors, parents, and children. Tara’s passion is working with people to resolve their grief and deepest suffering. Enjoy this chat!
Ways to connect with Dr. Tara:
Website: https://consulttara.com
Podcast: Next Level Healing (also found on YouTube)
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This week, Alexandra talked about the science of trauma and how it can look different for children and adults. We often only see the surface of what people are experiencing, and there could be so much more underneath. It’s helpful to understand what trauma looks like and how it can impact people, since we are interacting with each other throughout our day.
Connect with Alexandra on her website, forwardtojoy.com, or send her an email at [email protected].
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This week, Alexandra talks about affirmations. While they can be very useful, alone they are not as effective with healing deep core beliefs that may impact us negatively. We need to use other modalities to help require our brains and then affirmations can be a useful tool for setting intentions.
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This week, Alexandra discusses her thoughts on regrets, where they come from and how to heal from having them. Regrets arise when we are attached to an outcome we think would happen if we made a different decision. There’s no way to know if that is truly how it would go. Healing internally can lead to alleviating the feelings around regrets.
The Midnight Library
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This week, Alexandra has an enlightened conversation with Mary D’Agostino. Mary’s wisdom is inspiring and a must listen. She has handled so much of life with grace and imparts her knowledge. Mary has taken all that she has learned and offers this guidance through a variety of opportunities.
Connect with Mary: marydagostino.com
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This week, Alexandra discusses the unanswered questions that come along when someone dies. No matter how much notice we have that someone may be dying, there is a part of those we love that we won’t know. Finding out about the parts we didn’t know before someone died, will lead to those unanswered questions. The hope is that as we heal, the desire for those answers will lessen.
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This week Alexandra talks about sadness in grief. Sadness requires time so we can grow around it. It will still morph and change. Often around sadness are other feelings such as anger, frustration and even joy. We can still use our other strategies to help us manage our sadness.
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This week, Alexandra chats about feelings of being a burden. Grief is isolating and it can be difficult to work through without a community. Grief is not something to take on alone. It is helpful and important to find a community to help you.
Connect with Alexandra on her website, forwardtojoy.com, or send her an email at [email protected].
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This week, Alexandra talks about feelings of hopelessness and helplessness that are common when dealing with grief. Losing a loved one can make us question what our life’s purpose is and where to find meaning. Our trajectory changes which can make us feel helpless and hopeless. Finding a community and an anchor to help us take one step at a time, is essential.
Connect with Alexandra on her website, forwardtojoy.com, or send her an email at [email protected].
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This week, Alexandra talks about the importance of working through anger. Referencing Dr. Hawkins’ book Letting Go, she discusses how anger can serve us and also limit us.
Pick up Letting Go as an audiobook here.
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This week Alexandra dives into the activating feelings that come with grief. Betrayal can be experienced in different ways. It is typical and necessary. It is also important to find ways through the feelings rather than stay with them for too long or to ignore them.
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This week, Alexandra talks about how when going through grief, the rules of what we have followed for the structure and trajectory of our lives changes. We get to make up our own rules when we take the blank canvas we become during grief and rediscover who we are and who we want to be.
Connect with Alexandra on her website, forwardtojoy.com, or send her an email at [email protected].
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This week, Alexandra chats about how she likes to bring in the new year and set intentions for the upcoming year. She reflects on things to leave behind in 2024 and what she would like to do in 2025 as an encouragement to all listeners. May this new year bring abundance, light and love.
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No matter where you are or what you are doing Alexandra wants you to know that you are not alone. No matter where you are in your process, it is right. Many blessings, joy and comfort in this holiday season.
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This week, Alexandra talks about the pressure to get over the loss of a close one. There is the idea of moving on, getting back to life, be grateful for what you have. And yet, after a major loss, there’s no getting over it. We move forward and can take steps to heal but that loss will always be felt in one way or another.
Reach out to Alexandra at [email protected] for a copy of You Should Be Over “It” ~ Thoughts by Sharon White
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This week, Alexandra chats about triggers or activators. When we are activated by what others are doing, it can be a reflection of ourselves- something we need to heal and most likely is from our childhood. It can scary to look at ourselves especially when upset by the activation but it is an opportunity for more awareness.
Books:
Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
The Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance, and Dreams
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