EP209: Cheryl Parker - How To Manage Grief While Running Your Bookkeeping Business

Cheryl Parker: I think a lot of times we intellectualize our grief and we try to justify and just think our way through it, but grief is a hard thing, and the workbook allows you to reflect and explore what's going on in your heart, and answering the questions and taking it chapter by chapter, it guides you through that process in a kind, generous way for you to just give yourself permission to actually take the exploration and to set that time time aside that we don't normally and society doesn't normally allow us to do. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by PureBookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a wonderful one. At one point or another, we've all suffered a loss in our lives, whether it was a loved one, a friendship, or even a business situation that went sour and took away something dear to you. Today's guest is a grief recovery specialist who focuses on helping people heal and thrive again. Cheryl Parker, welcome to the podcast. Hi, Michael. Thanks so much for having me.

Michael Palmer: Well, it's wonderful to have you, and I've been looking forward to having you on the show for some time now based on everything that's been happening in the world, and not that loss only happens in COVID-19. But it certainly brings it forward for many people, not only our listeners, but many of the people that they're involved with, business owners that they're involved with, their family, friends, acquaintances, that sort of thing. So I think it'll be a wonderful episode to address this and give people information and pathways to help deal with that in their lives. But before we get into all of that, Cheryl, please tell us your story and why it's important to you to help others heal from grief.

Cheryl Parker: Yeah, absolutely. So, I got very interested in grief with an unfortunate trauma that I experienced. My 8-year-old daughter Rachel died in 1998, and I was thrown into a grief process, and fortunately for me, I had an outlet that kind of took a life of its own. Rachel had actually expressed 5 weeks before she got sick that she wanted to donate her organs to help save kids