I had a tough start to 2017 & I couldn’t seem to find a way to pull it together … then I had a good cry. I grieved a relationship that I thought would be a lifetime, instead it was a season and an amazing love story. But the realization is that the relationship has Read more
I spent many years searching for love & happiness: for a long time, I thought it was a man. I thought drugs/alcohol was the answer… I tried being a workaholic. I earned college degrees and titles. I overate. I ran marathons. Yet everywhere I looked it wasn’t there and when I couldn’t find it … Read more
Recently I had a really bad day! My definition of a bad day was that it just felt wrong and everything and everyone bothered me!! Sigh..in fact that bad day was spent feeling sad, anxious and stressed.. BUT It’s ok to have a bad day because there’s an appreciation of the greatness of my life. Read more
Whenever I wake up, a memory of my parents will pop into my head. I cannot express the intensity of the ache that has been present since the death of my father, then the loss of my daughter obviously intensified the ache and when my mom passed away for a long while the ache grief Read more
When I began my grief journey I didn’t realize what self-care was much less self-compassion, I quickly realized that I had no idea how to care for myself while having fallen apart. I also realized that I was my own worst enemy. I treated myself worse than I would someone that I had no feelings Read more
I wrote this letter to myself, a month prior to beginning my journey with After Chloe, I encourage you to write a letter like this, I encourage you to find you again throughout your journey of grief. Dear me: It’s been quite a while, I felt it necessary to write you because I haven’t heard Read more
I often catch myself trying to remember what was before all of this pain and loss, I look at strangers and I wonder if they can tell that I am without a huge part of my heart? And then I quickly realize that regardless of what these past few years have brought the world keeps Read more
There is power in goodbye.. stay in that goodbye.. I know you may think – why are you saying this, why are you, how can you say this… Stay with me and read on… When I was forced to say goodbye, as early as I could remember… ( Kindergarten) I felt like a goodbye Read more
I can still remember the first time I felt abandoned or the pain of loosing someone or something that I could not replace… At the time that feeling was unbearable and I decided I would do whatever I could to avoid feeling “alone”… There began my belief that love was accepting to put up Read more
If you are reading this…. thank you so much for coming to my website, and my blog. I appreciate that you are taking the time to visit Next, I am so sorry that you are grieving a loss… I am assuming since you are here on my site. I am going to share a bit Read more
