Making Meaning—the Sixth Stage of Grief
I had alluded to a sixth stage of grief last week, but I didn’t want to get into it, as I thought my blog was already too long. I didn’t want to lose you. Sadly, I did lose someone.
Continue ReadingStages of Grief during COVID-19.
I’m experiencing grief during this pandemic, as well as survivor’s guilt. Does that ring true for you?
Continue ReadingPurpose–it may be simpler than you think.
I’ve never had a day when I couldn’t get out of bed. Yesterday, I wondered if it would be the first.
Continue ReadingDistraction in the time of COVID-19.
Today, I needed a distraction. My emotions are so close to the surface, I can’t even watch or read happy and uplifting stories without crying because they remind me how much is at stake
Continue ReadingThe best self-care: giving to others.
My self-care is giving to others. What about you?
Continue ReadingSelf-disclosure of my people-pleasing.
Sharing my truth means I can’t hide from it. Once it’s out, I’m confronted with its destructiveness and feel I have no choice but to change.
Continue ReadingPeople-pleasing knocks a hole in my accountability. Act 2.
My people-pleasing ensures that no one feels bad–No big deal! Don’t worry! I hate when that happens!–except me.
Continue ReadingAs a people-pleaser, my truth holds me accountable.
For better or for worse, I’d rather have a hole the size of New Jersey in my wall than yell at the person who put it there.
Continue ReadingTwas the morn before Christmas…
I always relished that moment on a winter morning when I stepped outside into the cocoon of the stillness and silence. If someone had boxed up that feeling of peace and put it under my Christmas tree, I’d have needed no other gift.
Continue ReadingVulnerability, and why I'm thankful for it.
I’m trying to pinpoint when this new relationship with my dad started, but it was less a point and more an evolution.
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