Groundtable {The Origin Stories} How We Grieve Determines How We Heal with Tiffany Coleman
Welcome to this segment of Groundtable {The Origin Stories} on Yellow Soul! My co-host Brit Albin and I sit down with Tiffany Coleman. As someone who grew up in the church, Tiffany Coleman has had a relationship with the Lord from a young age. Soon after graduating high school in Keller, Texas, she would attend Dallas Baptist University where she would obtain a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Counseling. DBU is also where she would meet and fall in love with her late husband, Dwight Coleman, Jr.
Tiffany describes the back to back tragedies that shifted the trajectory of her family's life 17 months ago. First, her husband unexpectedly passed away in April 2022, of a pulmonary embolism, leaving Tiffany a young widow and single mother of their four children: Tristan (14), Kennedy (8), Ella (6), and Chloe (3). Then, only five months following Dwight’s passing, Tiffany's mother lost her fifteen year battle with cancer. She shares with us, “It is the sweet grace of Jesus that has carried me and my children through.” Tiffany takes a deep dive into coping skills, how to acknowledge the perimeters of grief to avoid pitfalls, why routines and rhythms are essential for her, and how she taught her children to translate grief in their individual lives.
Tiffany has a background in marriage and family therapy. She has done work in the private practice counseling setting, a women's shelter, foster care agency, charities, and as an investigator for Child Protective Services over the last 15 years. Tiffany’s life calling has been to walk with others through life struggles, pain, and traumas. However, it was after the loss of her college sweetheart that she discovered another reason why God led her down the educational path He did all those years ago. It was time to apply all that she imparted on others, to herself and her children as they journeyed through the valley of grieving their beloved husband and father.
From the beginning Tiffany has declared that grief and hope can coexist, that loss and sorrow is not a life sentence, and that through all of life’s disappointments; God is faithful to redeem, rebuild, and bring beauty from the ashes! She clings to this truth; we don’t get a pass so we do have to learn healthy ways to walk and cope with our grief. Through her story, we learn how to step in and out of grief while we are in the healing process.
Book Recommendation by Tiffany: Experiencing Grief by H. Norman Wright
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