The Becoming of Me

How did I get here? These days, it all makes sense. I can follow the trail of threads weaving into a pattern and I understand I am exactly where I should be. Awhile back, I would wake up some days and wonder how did I get here? So far from where I thought I would be....

Resilience Over Re-Solutions

As I shared in my New Year’s post last year, “Just Say No to Re-Solutions,” I’m not a big fan of resolutions.  They fall into thinking similar to hope, trying and wishing for things to be different than they are currently.  Particularly when people are struggling...

Remembering With Purpose

September 11th will long be a day that carries meaning here in the United States.  Until 2001, it was just another day of the month.  But that year, just four months after losing my husband to cancer, the towers came tumbling down.  What had seemed to be an isolated...

Immortal Beloved

Early on in my grief recovery work, I was asked to identify which of Gary’s strengths I would most want to embody.  It helped to decrease the sense of separateness the loss of his physical presence had created. At the time, I could not imagine how I would ever...

The Scent of Roses

Tuesday was my birthday.  My tenth birthday without my husband.  And I finally realized why I have avoided it for the past decade.  It’s because he isn’t here to make the big deal of it he always did. My first time celebrating my birthday with Gary was also our first...

Four Books That Saved Me

I’ve been an avid reader since I strung my first letters into words and words into sentences. When I needed solace, companionship, escape, new approaches to life, information and inspiration, I would head to the nearest bookshelf or bookstore. As I moved through the...
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