Welcome to Everyday Creation, a show about living our purpose, lifting our vibes and, for this episode, creating our purpose as we go.

In this short essay, I talk about an exercise for the mind that centers on the idea that everyone has an inner light that's available to us whenever we want it.

I'm no expert, but I've learned and grown a lot over the years and am pleased to offer you this bit of spiritual wisdom. Some of my Everyday Creation essays will touch on similar themes, and I will share them with you when they're ready. For now, please enjoy this mental exercise. I find it quite soothing.

This is Kate Jones. Thank you for listening to Everyday Creation, available on YouTube and in podcast directories including Apple, Spotify and Audible.

Marla Grant is an Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist and Founding Affiliate Leader of Helping Parents Heal Tampa. She helps parents who have experienced child loss, as well as individuals who are grieving other types of losses, move “from heartache to healing.”

She also teaches Mental Fitness Mastery as a Certified Positive Intelligence Coach to help clients infuse their world with more kindness and empathy and less judgment and stress.

In this extraordinary interview, which covers physical loss and spiritual connection, Marla shares what she's learned and how she's grown from the loss of three of her children. She encourages individuals who have experienced grief to seek help and support, and to know that healing is possible.

She says that personal responsibility, acceptance and willingness (PAW for short) all were important for her own healing. To learn more, please listen to the episode and visit Marla's website.

You also can find her on Instagram and Facebook under Inspired Grief Recovery.

This is Kate Jones. Thank you for listening to Everyday Creation, available on YouTube and in podcast directories including Apple, Spotify and Audible.

Jared Gleaton is the author of “A Feast for the Senses: The Psychological Art of Eating Well.” He also hosts “Jared Gleaton Eats” on YouTube.

A school psychologist in Skiatook, Okla., Jared applies his professional expertise to writing about food and reviewing restaurants. One of his goals is to help people expand their palates to appreciate different kinds of dishes and preparations, and, in so doing, perhaps overcome biases in other aspects of their lives too.

In this interview, he shares his experiences with food growing up with his father, an unabashed "pie fiend." Jared didn't have his father's metabolism, though, and found himself gaining a lot of weight. He talks about how he lost the excess pounds eight years ago and has kept them off, and says he hopes that sharing his story will help others who also want to improve their relationship with food.

“A Feast for the Senses: The Psychological Art of Eating Well” is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million. It comes in audio and ebook as well.

And here's a link to "Jared Gleaton Eats." Enjoy the "Feast."

This is Kate Jones. Thank you for listening to Everyday Creation, available on YouTube and in podcast directories including Apple, Spotify and Audible.