Your Micro-Decisions Matter
Grief changes you. It shakes you to your core. You will never be the same after experiencing a great loss. “But all endings are also beginnings.We just don’t know it at the time.” - Mitch Albom As you go through the healing process, there will come a day when you ask,...
Have You Used A Shutdown Ritual For Anxiety And Grief?
Grief or anxiety attacks can hit anytime without warning. And sometimes we can get sucked into a negative spiral. Our mean mind takes over. Before you know it, we’ve fallen down a dark deep hole. Don't you think life would be a little better if you could draw...
Finding The Invincible Summer Within
One of my favorite celebrations is Winter Solstice. I look forward to the longest darkest night of the year. What’s to celebrate about that, you ask? Because I know, starting the very next day, light will begin growing. Incrementally, imperceptibly, degree by degree....
Find Lightheartedness Amidst the Holiday Hustle
The holiday season is here. With it comes hustle, bustle, and brim-filled calendars. It’s easy to let yourself get caught up in a whirlwind of activity. Expectations and obligations push us along. We can end up feeling stressed, depressed, and resentful. Especially if...
Gratitude in the Darkness of Grief
You can find hope in the darkness of grief by embracing the Practices of Gratitude. If you feel trapped in a dark pit of grief right now, you might want to scream at me for even suggesting you be grateful. Let alone establish a practice of gratitude. Don’t you know I...
Understanding Suicide’s Allure: Steps to Save Lives by Healing Psychological Scars
Two books with provocative titles prompted this blog. First, Understanding Suicide’s Allure, by Dr. Krippner*, et al. And One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is a Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters, by Larry Dossey, MD. The following is an overview of...
Benefits of Expressing Gratitude
My friend Susan L. Schoenbeck, MSN, RN, recently wrote about the benefits of expressing gratitude that you must read. Focusing on the good does not mean that you have to be positive all the time. Learn how to live gratefully… When my friend Mary entered hospice care...
9/11: Hurt Felt Around The World
Today marks 9/11: Hurt felt around the world with the events now etched in our minds. I wanted to take the opportunity to share this touching piece by someone I know personally, Reverend Noel. 9/11 Call As I watched the twin towers of the World Trade Center implode...
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