BookGiveaway:
Susan is offering 1 copy of her non-fiction book, DANCE WITH JESUS, to 1 randomly chosen commenter. The winner will be announced here on Friday, November 6th between 5-6 PM EST. To be entered in the Giveaway, please leave your contact information within your comment (you may choose to use the Contact Me form to privately send me your email address--the form is in the right-hand sidebar on the blog's main page, toward the bottom).
Questions for Susan Mead:
You come from a very tender place in wanting to help others move from grief to grace: the passing of your sister by her own hand, and then the passing of your son. Has this helped in your healing process?
I
needed to see and or read about someone else who had lost and was living
again-joyfully. I found a profound need to share my path for the next
individual needing a helping hand and a guide along the healing journey. Someone
who has been there and understands without any questioning, that’s one thing I
bring to the table.
Does the calmness you speak about
finding in the midst of chaos change daily? How can we learn how to be so
adoptable?
Calm
in the chaos of life does change, however, I choose to recalibrate often by
renewing my mind daily. When I start my day in the Word of God, He calms the
chaos of my day and orders my steps. Does it solve everything? No way! Yet it
changes and settles the atmosphere.
The
song Lord Jesus Come is playing in the background right now. How appropriate! To me calm is spelled
J E S U S. He calms our chaos, just like He calmed the stormy seas, saying,
“Quiet. Be still.” And the storm was quelled. So I invite Him into my storms
and ask Him to quiet them for me.
Do more women than men tend to deal
with guilt issues over “lightening up” after tragedy? If so, how can we
overcome this?
I’m
not an expert in this area. More women TALK than men, that we know, so the
perception may be this is so. I learned that we have to accept the differences
of individuals as they grieve.
We
can offer some possible things folks may (MAY!) experience, yet people simply
grieve differently. And each person deserves respect for their needs, as long
as it is not self-destructive or destructive to others. Then that would need a
referral to someone else to guide them from a destructive to a constructive
path.
So
many folks simply need to know what they are experiencing is NORMAL
feelings/behavior in an ABNORMAL situation. That brings a measure of calm into
the chaos and is where being trained as a chaplain comes in handy!
On a lighter note, do you have a
go-to favorite comfort food or other indulgence for one of life’s
just-plain-old-yucky days? Myself, I find comfort watching movie-musicals!
How
fun! I’ll have to try that sometime too. A great book with me curled up, tucked
in and snuggled under a soft blanket on my little red love seat or sitting on a
dock over water calms me. Or a massage – that always
works to dump the junky stuff!
And
Nestle’s Toll House chocolate chip cookies…RARE treat that my 91 year old mom
makes for Thanksgiving each year-and we are getting close, so I’m thinking
about them already! (Why is my mouth watering?)
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Author's Bio:
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Author's Bio:
Susan Burfoot Mead is blessed to be married to my
soul mate, Holt Mead, since 1979. She is the mother of two sons, Matthew,
who lives in South Louisiana and Kyle, Forever 20 and in Heaven, where he is
doing a Dance with Jesus. Kyle’s been there since March 29, 2008.
She wrote the book Dance With Jesus: From Grief
to Grace as the answer to a question posed in the Experiencing God Bible
Study she was in the midst of doing. The question asked was what does God want
you to do, right now?
With the passing of her son Kyle, Susan realized
things get broken, discarded or replaced. People Matter. She HAD to create time
for the people who mattered MOST to her! Susan believes God gave her this gift
of time to do what He wants her to do. Make His name known. Hold the hand of
others as they walk a path of healing towards hope. Help others be transformed.
In 2014, Susan was
ordained as a Sr. Chaplain with the International Fellowship of Chaplains, Inc.
(IFOC) and certified by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation
in Critical Incidence for Stress Management (CISM) in Individual Grief, Group
Grief and Grief Following Trauma.
Places to connect with Susan:
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Please note:
--I have a title change for my novel coming soon from Elk Lake Publishing: Always With You.
--I will soon launch a specially designed website that will incorporate Eveyone's Story blog. I hope you will follow me on this new site. When it goes live, I'll make the announcement!
Please note:
--I have a title change for my novel coming soon from Elk Lake Publishing: Always With You.
--I will soon launch a specially designed website that will incorporate Eveyone's Story blog. I hope you will follow me on this new site. When it goes live, I'll make the announcement!
