When I think back to the first couple of years after my husband’s death, I ask myself, “How did I ever make it through that?” Now, nearly ten years later, I’m amazed at how far I’ve come. I’m actually okay most of the time these days. I am immensely grateful…
In my last blog post, Lean Into Your Grief and Loss, I talked about consciously allowing and acknowledging your thoughts and emotions, whatever they may be at that moment. Healing takes work, not just time, and we must go through grief, not around it. Exploring and expressing our grief helps…
Grief sucks. Big time. Wouldn’t it be great if we could just ignore our grief? Just push it aside, perhaps by keeping so busy that we don’t have time to deal with it? Tuck it away by focusing on everything and anything other than our pain and our emotions? I…
When my spouse died in 2011, life as I knew it came to a jarring standstill. Thinking back, it was like being completely immersed in reading a book, but then suddenly, midsentence, the rest of the story disappeared. Blank pages. Everything gone, vanished. Only the past was left, no more…