Flourishing After Adversity

S2:E36 Moving Through Loss: When Your New Path Defies Others' Expectations

September 9
17 mins

Episode Description

Recalibrating After Loss: Walking Your New Path Despite Pushback

Laura Mangum Broome introduces the Flourishing After Adversity podcast and a free download, “Reframe the Spiral,” then uses a compass-and-storm metaphor to explain how loss changes the “terrain” of life and requires recalibration. She shares five major losses in five years—including her teenage son’s suicide, breast cancer, heart failure and transplant, her father’s death, and an unexpected divorce—and describes choosing to build iCope2Hope instead of rebuilding her old life. 

She distinguishes “moving through” loss from “moving on,” emphasizing that time alone doesn’t rebuild identity—intentional reinvention does—beginning with radical acceptance and redefining what matters. She explains why loved ones may resist change (their unexamined lives, projected fears, grief for the old you) and offers steps to handle pushback, set boundaries, answer the inner critic, take small deliberate actions, and write a “new chapter statement,” then invites listeners to review, share, visit iCope2Hope.com, join the Begin Again workshop, and download the free guide.

00:00 When Change Looks Wrong
00:26 Welcome and Free Guide
01:08 Compass After the Storm
02:07 My Losses and New North
03:52 Moving Through Not On
05:01 Radical Acceptance Reset
05:44 Why Loved Ones Resist
08:21 Three Steps to Respond
11:07 Permission to Disappoint
11:40 Micro Steps Forward
13:55 Write Your Chapter Statement
14:50 Recap and Next Steps
16:28 Closing and Resources

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