What is the difference between grieving inside the Waiting Room vs outside? Someone in my Life Starters community asked me this question this week. So, I thought this is an…
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Some might argue that it is strange to want to explore what happens to us after we die. And their argument might be correct. It is kind of strange, but…
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same…
Something catastrophic happens to our ability to care for ourselves when we go through a devastating loss. We disown our body. We detach from it. We only feel and see…
I have to be honest and say this. After my loss I listened to the wrong people…the people who had no clue how it is to go through loss at…
There is a place within us that tells us we have to be Olympic swimmers to swim in the ocean. We have to be thin to go on a date….
Two years ago I had a dream. I dreamed about a world where we go to reenter after loss. That world brought together the loneliest hearts so they could no…
Crawling inside my small closet sobbing had become a frequent visit. It was the only place in our two level, ranch house in Concord, Mass, where I would not be…
“I will be a wave breaking at the shore alongside thousands of waves.” My husband would say at night during his terminal cancer diagnosis when the thoughts of dying would…
After someone we love dies we spend years in this untamed pain. We spend every waking hour tortured. We learn to survive the big, deadly waves. We get hit, over…
