There will always be setbacks, especially in the beginning. When I say beginning, I mean the first 2 to 3 years after loss. Sorry I didn’t say six months or…
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Up until very recently I was proud of my strength. I thought it was my best trait. I believed it was the reason I survived the tragedies of my life….
“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 tried to think where to start. He had died not even a couple months before. The girls were 4 and 6 years old. He was the one with the…
I see you preparing for the holidays with your head down. Your heart broken. Your tears frozen. Your body in agony. The holidays can have this effect. There is no…
I might not have witnessed the most tragic losses of our time but I have been a witness to thousands of mourners and I come away with one truth. We…
It happens in your whole beingness, deep down and within every layer of your body. It pulls from inside out and your whole world around you spins like a maze…
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…
Last night I sat in a room full of women who lost their beloved husbands. Well I wasn’t really sitting with them but I was on a big screen via…
