by admin | Aug 9, 2018 | Blog, Grief, Resilience, Uncategorized
When you lose someone you love there will always be trigger days that follow. As the anniversary of a friend’s death drew nearer I had my first experience with trigger days. I was anxious and on the actual date I felt a sense of unexplained sadness all day long. It...
by admin | Apr 20, 2018 | Book: Grief is..., Grief, Uncategorized
Grief is… missing being loved by the person you lost. ~Heike Mertins~ We always talk about missing the person we’ve lost, but, we seldom speak of missing being loved by those we’ve lost. I think it’s an important piece in understanding what it feels like to grieve....
by admin | Apr 20, 2018 | Blog, Book: Grief is..., Grief, Uncategorized
Grief is… missing being loved by the person you lost. ~Heike Mertins~ We always talk about missing the person we’ve lost, but, we seldom speak of missing being loved by those we’ve lost. I think it’s an important piece in understanding what it...
by admin | Mar 25, 2018 | Grief, Resilience, Uncategorized
Hug Someone You Love Today The very fact that I now live in a place where my grief has become one of the stories of my life is somewhat remarkable. It’s taken a long time for me to incorporate my experience of grief into my life story. It is now a part of me the same...
by admin | Mar 5, 2018 | Blog, Eclectic Living, Grief, Uncategorized
Conflicting emotions tend to throw most of us for a loop. Are we angry? Are we sad? Are we relieved? Are we pleased? How is it possible we’re feeling all those emotions at once? It’s enough to shut down many of us or send us looking for some coping mechanism that...
by admin | Feb 15, 2018 | Grief, Resilience, Uncategorized
Shit Happens / Life is Good “Shit Happens” is sometimes the most appropriate and honest response there is. Though I had often used it in an off the cuff manner when a situation had gone wrong the sentiment that followed tended to be “Oh well. Let’s accept this...
