FINDING JOY IN THE MOURNING: CELEBRATING MARDI GRAS WHILE GRIEVING
Mardi Gras — or Fat Tuesday— is a time of vibrant colors, joyous parades, and community celebration. It’s a season known for feasting,...
GRIEF COACHING
LESSONS IN LOSS
One of the many values Bob ascribed to was this simple but profound idea. When we were first married and broke, I remember telling him,...
UNDERSTANDING THE NONLINEAR PATH OF GRIEF
MANAGING GRIEF IS NOT A "TO DO" LIST!
Today, I’m sharing this diagram of the path within the stages of grief from one of the textbooks...
LIFE GOES ON, BUT LOVES STAYS
We don’t expect people to “move on” when something wonderful happens, so it baffles me that we expect them to move on when something te...
ONE STEP AT A TIME: EMBRACING THE DAY
If all you can do this week is just to trudge through each day and put one foot in front of the other and breathe, that’s enough. This ...
GRACE IN THE FACE OF LOSS
This truth has become a mantra for me in this season of life. As we move into February, a month filled with the reminders of love and t...
THE BEGINNING AND THE END
It’s so interesting how the beginning of our relationship and the ending are so similar. Bob sent me this card the year we were dating,...
ELEVATED ABOVE ANGELS
It gives me great comfort to know that Bob and Daddy (and Granny, Grampsy, and others I have loved) are actually higher than the angels...
TURNING PAIN INTO PURPOSE: SHARING YOUR STORY AS A SURVIVAL GUIDE
One day, your story of survival will become someone else’s survival guide. That idea has been on my heart as I navigate the journey of ...
BEGINNING ANOTHER YEAR WITHOUT HIM
The start of a new year is a moment that often brings hope, anticipation, and the promise of new beginnings. But for those of us who ha...