Finding Hope & Healing After Losing Her Son Valor | Episode 175 with Mikayla Chaparro

part 01

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Episode 175

This is part 1 of a 2 part interview with Mikayla Chapparro. In this interview you are going to hear the most honest and tender conversation about what it was like to lose her son Valor when he was just shy of his first birthday and the grief journey she would then embark on.

We talk about destructive patterns amidst grief and what it was like for her to replace those patterns with healthier coping methods that would lead to true healing. Listen in as she shares honestly about the challenges she faced in grief and the ways that she found healing. 

Mikayla has a gift with words and beautifully articulates something that many of us, until lived it, would argue there could be no beauty here – and yet Mikayla talks about a God who weaves unimaginable beauty from unthinkable tragedy. 

Next week in part 02 we spend our time talking about her faith journey – as a new christian just exploring the faith when her son died she began to wrestle with God over what He had allowed in the death of her son. She talks honestly about what that looked like for her and what her faith looks like today nearly a year later. Whether you are clinging to God and He has never felt closer or you are running hard away from Him and anything that has to do with Him – tune in for that episode, I know it will offer you hope and healing.  

I am so grateful for Mikayla's honesty and tenderness, I know this episode and this interview is going to be a tangible reminder that you are not alone in this.

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QUESTIONS we discuss IN EPISODE 175

1. What has surprised you about grief?

2. What has been the most challenging aspect of grief and how have you navigated those challenges?

3. What has healing looked like for you?

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Meet Mikayla

I'm Mikayla Dawn Chaparro. I am a wife, a business owner, a creative, and mother.
I have three children with me on earth, a son we lost at just shy of a year old, and two we lost in early miscarriages. I am currently pregnant with what will be our 7th child (our 5th who will get to see face to face).

I like to say I have 4 in the quiver, 3 in the target.
My husband and I did wedding photography + videography full time before we lost our son, Valor, last year. But now things are pivoting and looking a little different these days as we transition to a new life without our son. We are getting ready to launch a new company called Dawn Photo Co. that will be a team of photographers and videographers who work under us while I do what I've been gifted at- running the business.

My husband is continuing to do videography within the new team and we are just taking it a day at a time as we figure out what life is going to look like for us in this new future we never imagined.

Connect with Mikayla on Instagram: @mikayladawnchaparro

Check out Mikayla’s Work: www.mikayladawn.com

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