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...
Have You Used A Shutdown Ritual For Anxiety And Grief?

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

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....
Gratitude in the Darkness of Grief

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...
The Grieving Brain

The Grieving Brain

Remember those tv commercials with the egg frying in a pan and the caption: “This is your brain on drugs”? Well, have you ever wondered what your brain looks like on grief? Grief Brain Yes, there is such a thing as Grief Brain. The jolt of a sudden loss causes your...