The Longest Night, The Brightest Light.
Even in our deepest darkness, we carry within us the power to illuminate.
Getting Clear on What You Need.
Grief isn’t asking you to be stronger. It’s asking you to be clearer about what you need.
Before It’s Too Late.
Dying is a natural part of the life cycle; the living is what takes courage.
Before You Fix It… Understand It
Rushing to repair your pain only hides the part that actually needs tending.
The Hidden Cost of Expectation.
Expectation is the fastest way to step out of the present. The moment we decide how something SHOULD feel, we stop feeling what’s actually here.
A Strange Lesson From Rock–Paper–Scissors.
You don’t need to win every battle, just return to the moment you’re in.
The love you lost still lives.
Grief is the echo of love . . . guiding you back to yourself.
My Dead Sister might be Teaching yoga to a 4-year-old.
Maybe energy doesn’t stop learning when we die, it just finds new students.
What If Everything You've Heard About Grief Is Wrong?
The most dangerous lies about grief are the ones that sound like wisdom.
Stop Blaming Grief.
The patterns grief reveals were always there. It's making you brave enough to see what always needed changing.
Finding the Thread Back to Living.
We are creatures of association, binding meaning to moments. In grief we must learn to untangle the thread that leads back to living.
They're not gone, when you do this, they are here.
Memory transforms loss into presence, turning what was into what still is.
The prison you didn't know you were building.
Judgement is a tool; habitual judgment is a prison we build one thought at a time.
The Power of Redirecting Your Gaze.
I would even sign her name on birthday cards to my parents as a way to mitigate the pain of her absence.
Will & Surrender
Here's the philosophical tension I'm wrestling with: the delicate balance between human will and divine surrender.
The Ripple Effect.
Every story you tell is like a drop of water in a pond. It has the power to affect 1 person.
