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There are moments in life that change everything. Loss arrives without warning, certainty disappears, and the version of you who once felt grounded suddenly feels far away.

In Episode 121 of the Spiral Up Podcast, I sit down with my dear friend and fellow Spiral Up coach, Jan Reed, for a deeply honest conversation about grief, faith, and what it means to keep choosing forward after life-altering loss. Jan shares how losing her husband to suicide reshaped her world and how healing became possible without bypassing pain or pretending everything was okay.

This episode is for anyone navigating grief, emotional overwhelm, or a season that feels heavier than expected. It’s a reminder that joy is still available, even when life isn’t fair.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• How grief and faith can coexist without contradiction

• Why feeling your emotions is essential to healing, not a setback

• What choosing joy looks like in real, everyday moments

• How to move forward without rushing the healing process

• Why choice, not circumstance, shapes who you become next

Meet Jan Reed

Jan Reed is a Transformational Life Coach and E4™ Spiritual Psychology Coach whose work was born from her own sacred unraveling. After the devastating loss of her husband to suicide, Jan entered a deep healing journey that ultimately awakened her purpose: to help people after a big loss who get stuck in emotional overwhelm to release the pain of the past so they can welcome a future of joy and happiness. As a coach in Spiral Up with LaChelle Weime, Jan brings heart, trauma-informed wisdom, and spirit-led tools to help women remember who they are in God and create lives aligned with their true design.

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Rebuilding Life After Suicide Loss, Faith, and Finding Joy Again with Jan Reed

There are seasons in life that arrive quietly, and then there are seasons that arrive like an earthquake. The kind that leaves you standing in the aftermath wondering how everything changed so fast.

This episode of the Spiral Up Podcast came from one of those moments in my life and in Jan’s.

When Jan Reed joined me for Episode 121, we weren’t sitting down to deliver a polished teaching or a neatly packaged lesson. We were having a real conversation about grief, faith, and what it looks like to keep living when life delivers a loss you never asked for.

Jan’s story is one of profound heartbreak. After losing her husband to suicide, her world shifted overnight. As she shared her journey with me, I was struck not just by the depth of her grief, but by her willingness to stay present, to feel, and to keep choosing forward even when nothing felt steady.

When Grief Becomes a Teacher

One of the most powerful truths that came out of this conversation is that grief itself can become a teacher. Not because loss is good, but because it invites us to slow down, feel deeply, and listen differently.

As Jan shared her experience, it became clear how suppressing emotions only delayed healing. It wasn’t until she allowed herself to feel the full weight of her grief that relief began to emerge. Tears, anger, confusion, and even joy were all part of the process. None of it was wrong.

I see this so often with the women I work with. There’s a fear that if we allow ourselves to fully feel our pain, we won’t be able to come back from it. But what Jan’s journey reminds us is that emotions move when they’re acknowledged. Healing doesn’t come from avoiding pain. It comes from meeting it with compassion.

Faith Without Bypassing

Another important truth we talked about in this episode is that faith does not require emotional bypassing. Trusting God does not mean pretending you’re okay when you’re not.

Faith can hold questions. Faith can sit with sorrow. Faith can coexist with days when getting out of bed feels like an act of courage.

Watching Jan navigate her grief showed me that faith doesn’t disappear in hard seasons. It deepens. She learned to trust guidance without needing to control outcomes, to listen instead of forcing answers, and to believe that even when she didn’t feel strong, she was still being carried.

The Power of Choosing Forward

Throughout this conversation, one word kept surfacing again and again: choice.

Not the kind of choice that ignores reality, but the kind that acknowledges it fully and still decides to move forward. Some days that choice looks like bold action. Other days it looks like resting, crying, or simply not quitting.

Jan shared how choosing joy didn’t mean forgetting her husband or minimizing her loss. It meant allowing space for happiness alongside sorrow. It meant saying yes to creativity, connection, travel, and purpose again, even when fear was still present.

Joy doesn’t erase grief. It expands life around it.

What I Hope You Take From This Episode

If you’re in a season where life feels heavier than you expected, I hope this episode gives you permission to stop judging yourself for how you’re healing. There is no timeline. There is no right way. There is only the next honest step.

Episode 121 is a reminder that you are not behind because life knocked you down. You are not failing because this season is hard. You are still powerful because you’re here, still choosing forward.

And that choice, made one day at a time, changes everything.