Find Comfort and Restored Strength

Find Comfort and Restored Strength

If you’ve been on a country drive lately, you likely noticed all the newborn calves dotting the fields. I never tire of watching them skip around on spindly legs. And I laugh out loud as they dash to visit a fellow playmate. But then race back to mother’s side at the...
Shifts Happen

Shifts Happen

Have your ever been awakened from deep sleep by violent shaking, rolling floors and walls, toppling shelves, and a deafening roar ripping the air? If so, you’ve likely experienced the shifting of the earth’s surface. In other words, an earthquake! If the shift is...
Your Micro-Decisions Matter

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...
Benefits of Expressing Gratitude

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...
Platitudes of Bereavement

Platitudes of Bereavement

A beautiful heartfelt piece on Platitudes of bereavement from Brian Brown originally composed in 2015 but modified and expanded upon today: Platitudes… those little things that we say.  Oftentimes they spill out of our mouths when we don’t know WHAT to...
Grief: A Call For Care

Grief: A Call For Care

June’s Science of Mind issue featured a full article I wrote diving deep into the topic of grief: a call for care.  Think about the last time you stopped to admire nature’s handiwork and beauty. How did that make you feel? Troubles melt away or joy bubbles up? Wonder...