Episode 444: Mindi Holmgren (husband Corey died), Justin Holmgren (brother Corey died)

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

My friend Mindi Holmgren and Justin Holmgren join us to share about the sudden death of their husband/brother at age 35. Corey, who drowned in the community swimming pool on January 19th 2019, was a Military Chaplain and LMFT working at Lifestar in Murray, Utah who helped hundreds during his lifetime. Mindi and Corey are the parents of four—with their last child born 6 weeks after Corey’s death. Mindi and Justin share about Corey’s life work (which one of Corey’s clients, Tate LeBaron spoke about in Episode 422), how to help those with a sudden and tragic family death, what to say and not to say, and how they are making their way forward. They also talk about how their testimony has deepened and their thoughts about the plan of salvation to bring hope and the Atonement of Jesus Christ to help bring healing. They also talk about how there is sometimes no answers and how to live with faith during mortality. The Holmgren family has started a non-profit organization in Corey’s name. Check it out at coreyholmgren.org. If you are interested in donating to their cause, you can do so right on their website or through Venmo at @chmemfund. If you are dealing with a sudden and tragic family death, want to help others, or want your faith strengthened, please listen to this podcast. It is powerful and moving. It is sacred ground to listen to and witness this family story. You can reach Mindi on IG at @focusingoneternity and Justin on IG or Twitter at @justinholmgren. Thank you Mindi and Justin for being on the podcast and sharing your story. Great job. It honors Corey and gives us better insights to help others.

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:08.0	Before I introduce my guests, I'd just like to introduce the topic we're going to talk about.
0:13.0	We're going to talk with Mindy, and we'll talk more about who Mindy is, about the loss of her husband, Corey,
0:20.0	two and a half years ago in the prime of
0:22.5	his life at 35. Mindy at the time was expecting and now has her fourth child.
0:29.2	Mindy's an active member of the church and is now dealing with something that's sort of the
0:34.1	worst case scenario, losing her husband in the prime of his life and the prime of their family
0:38.6	life and an accident.
0:41.5	And so she's agreed to come on the podcast and just talk about this space that she's in.
0:46.7	And our hope is that this honors her wonderful husband, Corey, who's gone and his work,
0:53.7	which we'll talk about in the military and also as a marriage and family
0:57.5	therapist and just the lessons that Mindy's learned about applying the gospel of Jesus Christ
1:03.9	in real life to her family situation and how her testimony is actually deepened during this really difficult time.
1:13.6	Mindy is joined. I mentioned Mindy husband who's passed away is Corey. We are joined by Corey's older brother, Justin.
1:21.6	Justin is the one that reached out to me and made this whole podcast possible. So you'll hear Justin and you hear Mindy and Justin is Corey's older brother.
1:33.7	But welcome to the podcast, both of you.
1:35.8	Thank you.
1:36.7	Thank you.
1:37.3	Yeah, we're excited to be here.
1:40.0	I became aware of Corey.
1:42.2	I don't know if I've said your last name, Holm-G-R-E-N.
1:48.0	Let me, let's just first introduce, Mindy, will you introduce yourself to our listeners, where you live, where you went to school, what your degree is in, and just your family and anything else you want to just share as far as your introduction.
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