Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Jacqueline Phelps.
Hi Dr. Phelps, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
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How I started and How I got here?
Not wanting to seem too spiritual right out the gate, but God. I’m blessed with the ability to look back and now see His amazing care and handiwork. Although it did not seem like care at the time. Michela passed over to be with the Lord in June of 2003. I would say, my journey began that second or moment. But the process of becoming has God’s loving and stern hands over 18 years to cultivate in me. Our family and friends “we” have been on this journey for a real long time and are still learning and evolving each day. Michela passed over from a lower bronchial spasm, which is a fatal asthma attack. Michela’s respiratory muscles contracted and narrowed to the point of obstructing her airway. She was at home with her father and two uncles. The next morning, my journey began. A journey that produced Sharing the Weight of Grief. The does and don’ts to faith-based grief support.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
As I mentioned previously I’m God’s handiwork. His hands smooth things out. My road was less than smooth because when Michela passed over I thought God and I were cool. I had just enough good Word in me to get myself all confused. As the oldest in my family and an A personality, my initial problems stemmed from my inability to control our grief. Once it became apparent, I was not in control, the real work began. I go into details about this in Sharing the Weight of Grief. The unseen, unspoken, and unbelievable truth about complicated grief and how to survive, and yes as Chapter 7 testifies to “Engage Life” anew.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
Beginning November 2021 decided to take a leap of faith to pursue public speaking full time. I was recently featured as a guest on Light the Path podcast. This gave me the confidence to finally close the K-12 educator door. Now, I’m completely and totally committed to spreading a message of hope, love, and light globally. I specialize in encouragement through words, whether it is written or spoken. The power of our Words to facilitate hope, love, and light is powerful in the might of God. I am and would like to be known as a child of God. One who is committed first to God’s plan and not my own. If I’m known for that first then all the other things I would like to do as a servant of the gospel will be true as well.
As a writer and public speaker, I would like my actions to help those in need find their inner peace even during the most difficult situations. I am most proud of my family and how even without me controlling things we have all survived and thrived. Everyone in our family was touched forever by Michela’s passing over. I am so proud of my family’s bounce-back muscles. Our journey was very hard. Sharing the Weight of Grief touches on this throughout the book and gives examples of the enormous stress and strain on our entire family. This past Christmas we had our 1st Annual P-Berry Christmas Bash full of hope, love, and light.
Big Shout Out to a faithful team of overcoming warriors. The P-Berry Team
What do you think about luck?
Luck is not a term I frequent in my life. Luck is defined as “success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions”. I am committed to a belief system that operates on faith. In my life, all my beliefs operate from a system of faith. The ability to see the unseen; and to bring forth the impossible. Faith allowed me to see myself as more than a grieving mother. It allowed me to become what you see before you today. As an over-the-top controller, one of my first grief journey assignments was to stop “doing” and start “trusting”. How can one truly trust chance? I could not. Faith on the other hand, gave me tangible evidence that God might know what He’s doing in my life. Even during heartbreaking darkness our faith can grow and lead us to better.
Although Michela passing over might be termed as bad luck for some of your readers. How could a life full of so much love be considered bad luck? I believe even those things which stretch me have been handcrafted through the watchful eyes and hands of my heavenly Father. No, luck sounds too much like “chance”. Faith serves me better as I move to what awaits me.
It is faith that drives Dr-Phelps.com. It is faith that allowed our family to make it to and through Chapters 1-6 of Sharing the Weight of Grief. It is faith that brings me here with you and your loyal readers today. My faith refused to settle for hopelessness, hate, and darkness. To answer your question completely and fully, luck has no role in my faith. Sharing the Weight of Grief makes the same statement to those who are supporting someone through any type of loss. Why settle, rely or comfort yourself by chance? Sharing the Weight of Grief is here to help you win using tried and tested unshakable truths from God’s master plan.
Thank you for allowing me to serve you today.
Dr. Jacqueline L Phelps
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