When Grief Breaks You: The Power of Surrender in the Deepest Pain
What happens when grief doesn’t come one blow at a time—but all at once?
In this episode of Redeeming Her, Marielle shares the raw story of losing six loved ones within one year. It wasn’t just sadness. It was a spiritual and emotional collapse. Her body shut down. Her mind went numb. Her spirit went silent. This wasn’t a single storm—it was wave after wave of unrelenting loss. Deborah Larson identifies it as cumulative grief, where your heart can’t process each hit because they just keep coming. And maybe you’ve felt that too. When one trauma bleeds into the next, and suddenly, your soul forgets how to breathe. Grief healing can seem impossible… but love IS possible.
“I couldn’t move. I physically couldn’t move my body,” Marielle recalls. “It was like every layer of loss collapsed on me at once.”
What followed wasn’t instant healing or a feel-good miracle. It was something deeper: surrender. In the middle of her breakdown, God whispered to her heart: “You’re trying to carry what I’ve already redeemed.” That was the moment her healing began—not because the pain vanished, but because she stopped carrying it alone.
From Agreement with Fear to Agreement with Truth
This conversation isn’t just about grief healing—it’s about what you’re agreeing with. Marielle realized that she had unknowingly made a covenant with fear, hopelessness, and the need to keep functioning. When she consciously broke those inner agreements and aligned with Heaven’s truth, something broke loose inside her. It wasn’t a pep talk. It was a holy shift. Deborah walks her listeners through this same process—recognizing the lies we silently agree with and choosing to rewrite those agreements with truth.
If you’re walking through your own fog of layered loss, this episode is a sacred invitation. You don’t have to hold it all together. You don’t need to fake strength. You get to collapse—and let God rebuild. Healing starts with honesty. It moves through surrender. And it’s sustained by truth.
So if you’re stuck in emotional numbness or spiritual burnout, here’s where to begin: acknowledge the weight, speak truth out loud, ask Heaven for its perspective, and write down every moment of clarity. These “sound bites” of revelation will become your new internal narrative. Because grief doesn’t get the final say—God’s redemption does.
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