I was recently staring at a painting created by my three year old. I looked intently at the colors behind the blackish brown and wondered what it was supposed to have looked like. What was the original beauty behind ...
Navigating Mother's Day Mother’s Day is coming. In the view of those whose lives have not been acquainted with a loss of this magnitude and the stabbing pain of grief that follows, perhaps to them mother’s day is a ...
Lack of Vision The bi-products and aftermath of grief are so numerous, that even now, I’m sure there are things that I haven’t even realized yet that will affect us. Grief is like glitter, a song and quote suggest. ...
Have you heard of the Boulevard of Broken Dreams? I think that a lot of widows would agree that at least some portion of their grief journey has been spent there, lamenting, listing the losses, and looking toward ...
Life is normal now. I’m me, and I’m alone, and it’s okay. And then, suddenly, it’s not. When things are going well, I enjoy my life alone so much that I barely want to date. I have no desire to ...
The 7 Types of Listeners On the path of grief, one of the greatest treasures hidden within the darkness of sorrow is finding the gift of genuinely compassionate listeners. Those people who care with their hearts in all ...
Do you ever dream about your late husband? When my sweetheart died I was forced to trade in my favorite books about Christian marriages, great dates, romance and parenting your children together for the books I never expected to ...
Complicated Grief Grief is complicated. Quite literally every aspect of the process feels like unraveling a mystery and swimming against the current. Your head knows a reality your heart wants to reject. You feel like your past, present and ...
Fill In The Blanks How would you fill in the blank for your story? My life is________________________. Everything is going to be ____________________. It is shocking to me just how drastically everything you thought you knew can change. ...