Suppose you’ve experienced the impossible experience of loss. Losing someone that you love, who is a part of you, emotionally. You’ll understand what you are about to read: I watched my only child die, a slow death. She had so many tubes and IVs attached to her small body of only 57 days, and she Read more
Isn’t this a given? Shouldn’t it be? It may not feel like it is natural or as if you can feel your grief when you can, when you want. When you lose your loved one, when you lose your sense of what life was going to be and what your expectations of that life will Read more
The Hardest Part of Grief. It’s all hard. It’s all impossible. It’s all a blur. I want to run away. I want to go back and I can’t. You can’t. There is no cure. No fix. No remedy. What is the hardest part? The silence of the finality. Finality is deafening. How can you fight Read more
When you think about 2020, it will take your breath away- it may not be in a great way, it may not be in a way that you feel proud about or sure about. But I encourage you to have an open mind to allow yourself to take it a moment at a time, facing Read more
Wow… I was scrolling through my stories this morning and I came across a genius story from one of my Keynote speakers, the genius psychologist, one and only Jessica Zucker, Ph.D. and instantly I felt vindication for my purpose. Allow me to explain: Grief happens on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It’s here at 5 pm and Read more
What October brings. Before I get into October, I feel it necessary to write about 2019. What a year! It’s not incredibly bad or good but more so it has been a year of unimaginable growth!That is correct, I never believed that I could grow at the rate and pace that I have. I thought that if I don’t face all that I want and my desire to serve others- it will just go away but in fact, Read more
This is the hardest blog post I’ve ever written. Not because of it being about Abortion, but because of the shame and embarrassment that I’ve carried for well over 20 years. So, here it goes: I was about to turn 19 years old and what started out as one of the best Summers of my Read more
Can we be productive in life after loss? Facing grief and living without what we have lost Grieving parents and Grieving Widow(der)s would argue that they don’t have a choice, that they have to show up for their families and their responsibilities. But I wonder if that makes us productive or if we are just Read more
You have no idea how good that feels to say.. you have no idea what that name does to my heart every time I hear it. I want so badly for my daughter to be alive and I don’t even know how to properly convey that into words. I want so badly for every Read more
