If you have read my book or took one of my classes you have heard about how I named our fear center in our brain The survivor self. For those…
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Deep breath, another deep breath. Some nausea. Sweat. And a need to go back to hiding. This is what courage feels like. Courage is not a pleasant experience. It is…
I don’t know exactly when it started to happen. But there was a moment in time when things shifted towards more happiness than hopelessness. More joy than resistance. More cheer…
“Mommy, what’s wrong?” “Did something happen today?” My daughter Isabel said as she stepped into the car on our way home from her school. “No honey, I just had a…
There will be many mistakes in your life after loss if you live it fully. You will make the wrong turns. You will absolutely say the wrong things. Date the…
What if I told you there is a place in your life where you get to laugh again out loud. What if, no matter where you have been, how much…
I am afraid to leave. How can I go? I don’t even know that I want to go. Things are not bad, just not ideal. What about the kids? I…
“You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.” I wrote one day in the midst of writing my book 3 years ago. I was remembering who…
When people reach out to me — through social media, through email, through letters, or face to face conversations — they rarely describe their experiences in terms that a clinical…
Dear one, I know how tender this moment is. Loss. Transition. We grieve, we stretch, we hang on for dear life. We fall apart, we begin again. We walk through…
