Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
Inside: There are so many ways to build a beautiful life. There are many paths to get to joy and there are many routes to wholeness. There is more than one right way to be human. Sensitive Content: grief, child loss We need models of what’s possible . Examples of courage, hope, strength. Women ahead …
Inside: I’m turning 50! The past decade of my life has been full of sorrow, emotional and physical pain, joy, adventure, growth, and day upon day of ordinary beauty. It all came tangled up together. I’ve decided to embrace it all. Sensitive Content: suicide, grief, depression The past decade has been a wild ride. As …
Inside: Yesterday marked nine months since his death. Nine months can feel like a lifetime or the blink of an eye. Enough time to help create and birth new life but not enough time for my heart, mind, or spirit to figure out how to say goodbye. Sensitive content: grief, child loss, suicide I took …
Inside: Walking each other home is a privilege. Here are 19 bittersweet gifts I’ve picked up as I walked alongside my son through the final year of his life. Sensitive Content: in this post I speak to child loss, suicide loss, and severe depression On a cold wintry night, just over a year ago, my …
Sensitive Content: suicide, depression, grief I’m choosing to process some of my grief out loud. First, it is helping me when I feel like I’ll explode with rage or pain. Second, maybe it’ll help another parent feel less alone. This is a very personal journey. Please click away if reading about someone else’s loss – and …
Sensitive Content: Suicide, Depression, Child Loss My beautiful son’s life has ended after a long, brave, ferocious battle with severe depression and persistent suicidal ideation. He wanted to live. Wanting to live and knowing how are two different things. And mental illness, just like cancer, is not something we choose. It is not shameful or …
Inside: Choosing life when you don’t know how you’ll live and you feel alone and unheard. Choosing to love who you are. Choosing not to quit. This is brave. Maybe you are brave. Brave. I never identified with this word. I knew it definitely did not describe me. I was afraid. I was overwhelmed. I …
