by Tambre Leighn | Sep 27, 2016 | Grief Recovery
Terrible things happen. Great things happen. Life happens. Change occurs. That is simply the nature of the experience we are having. Sometimes, by the very nature of events we label as ‘good’, going through the experience can seem easier. Any change leads to a...
by Tambre Leighn | Jul 17, 2016 | Grief Recovery
What if bucket lists were less about endings and more about beginnings? The 2007 movie, “Bucket List,” starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, was a contributing factor to popularizing the concept. If you haven’t seen it, the two men meet after being diagnosed...
by Tambre Leighn | Jun 23, 2016 | Grief Recovery
On the day I spoke my wedding vows, there were two things I did not expect. I didn’t expect that “in sickness” would come so early on in our marriage and I did not expect to become a young widow, less than eight years after saying I do. Life is full of the unexpected....
by Tambre Leighn | May 7, 2016 | Grief Recovery
Do I dare, as I tiptoe down the hallway of today, open the door on the right or the door on the left? Wishing for that last conversation that never came, to hear voices I can no longer recall. Why is it the memory of the voice disappears so much sooner than all the...
by Tambre Leighn | Jan 30, 2016 | Grief Recovery
Finally. I am there. After years…years of grief, years of feeling lost, years of not knowing who I wanted to be when I was no longer a wife, partner, and friend to the most amazing man. A life of wandering aimlessly without the future I’d imagined with my late...
by Tambre Leighn | Jul 21, 2014 | Grief Recovery
It’s not uncommon to ask the question, ‘why me?’ when things we deem to be challenges or losses occur in our lives. On the other hand, it isn’t often you hear a lottery winner, someone who has just received a job promotion or a clean bill of...