10 Ways to Honor the Fall Equinox
September 22nd is the fall equinox. Another year, another fall, a time of harvest. To see, to re-member, to gather, and to celebrate what we are growing and have grown in our gardens this year. Sometimes, we are moving so fast in our lives that we don't take a moment...
Celebrate Love
If you have someone in your life that you would love to secretly or openly celebrate, then celebrate them and celebrate love. In sharing the stories of our loved ones who have passed on, we honor our sacred connection to them that ever exists and forever lives on.
Give Sorrow Words: How Writing Heals
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o’er fraught heart and bids it break. ~William Shakespeare The World as I Knew It Was Gone When my mom died, I was flattened. The rug wasn’t pulled out from under my feet. The rug was pulled out from under...
Changing Plans, Shifting Sands: The Body’s Wisdom & Premonitions
The body’s wisdom and its premonitions can change plans and shift the sands under our feet without notice. Life is not always easy when this occurs. When things suddenly change, it can throw us into personal or professional havoc, and have us questioning ourselves. And yet, the body is a source of infinite wisdom and can be a powerful ally in our lives.
A Summer Swim Team: Twelve Years Old and the Heyday of My Life
Twelve years old and a summer swim team is a touchstone on the timeline of my life. Little known fact, I’m a great swimmer. It’s one thing that I’m not modest about. My teacher and coach, Bob Schleihauf, taught me the most about swimming. Before him was another teacher who taught me well, except for one key lesson. I could swim, but when I went to camp, I was a non-swimmer the entire summer. It was one of the camp jokes that I wore proudly. The non-swimmer who could swim. I’d demonstrate great ability in the shallow end of the lake, but when I went to take the test in deep water, I’d panic.
When Will Life Return to Normal? On the Language of Grief & Gun Violence
It has been over six weeks since the massacre of children and their teachers in Uvalde, Texas. But I still remember the narrator’s voice on the evening TV news saying, "It will be a long time before life returns to normal." I was stunned by those words. The word...
Creativity Without the Critic ~ There Is a Different Way
Works of art are of an infinite solitude and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only Love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. Always trust yourself and your own feeling as opposed to argumentations, discussions or introductions of that...
Are You Suffering From Grief Brain?
Shortly after my mom died, I drove to see a friend who was in town visiting from New York City. We met for lunch at a restaurant, and on the way home I unconsciously drove through a red light. Thankfully, no other cars were around. A few weeks later, I went through a...
Talk About Grief & Why It’s Important
Hello Friend, As someone who has become a grief educator, it serves to talk about grief, about sorrow and loss. Two reasons come quickly to mind. First, our culture at-large can then begin to understand the many colors of sorrow and loss without sweeping it under the...
Rest When You Don’t Have Time
Time is such an elusive monster. I say monster because of the way it dominates our lives with clocks, watches, meetings, appointments ... I'm already exhausted just writing that out. How often do you think or hear someone say, "I don't have the time. I don't have...