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.
What I learned from a Dog.
Lessons come from all things, no matter their shape or size, animate or inanimate.
Be Gentle with Yourself.
How you do one thing is how you do everything. So, if you can change one pattern, you can change others.
Sorrow & Celebration
I always thought going to a grief conference meant listening to other people’s pain and sorrow—and me, curling up in a fetal position and crying my eyes out.
Freedom Starts from Within.
When dealing with grief, however, Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness can feel incredibly elusive. It feels more like Death, Imprisonment, and Sadness—all the time.