Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
Inside: This is real life – joy and pain, beauty and suffering, uncertainty and delight, messily woven together to form a beautiful whole. TW: grief, child loss, suicide loss I’ve spent this weekend in Calgary, AB, with my friend Kathy Escobar who flew in from Colorado so that we could hug and talk for hours, …
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 …
Sensitive content: In this post I speak to child loss and early grief. 10 months ago, I lost one of my favourite people. A kindred spirit (though he’d roll his eyes at that). At 23, my son Jairus had his own best friends, but he was one of mine. He made my life better, more …
Inside: Child loss is excruciating. Letting go feels like creating a safe and special corner of my mind and heart in which to gather and house my memories and love for my son so that I have some room left for hope and joyful possibility. Sensitive Content: Suicide, grief, child loss The agony was intense …
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: Perfectionism can drown us. It’s not all on us. We don’t control everything and everyone, no matter how much we care or love or how hard we work. One of the biggest struggles of my life is releasing my grip on needing, desperately needing, life to be orderly, tidy, safe. I spent my life …
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 …
Inside: I think magic comes in the ordinary – for those willing to see. Do you want more space or permission to pause and notice the ordinary magic of your life? The streets are black apart from the meager light cast by the streetlamps. But this is more than enough light to illuminate the sparkle …
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: You can embrace that you are strength and struggle and it is good. You can trust yourself – you are wise. You can be afraid and messy and still show up fully to life. Here are some of the ways I overcome fear. My anxiety has been spiking lately again (2018). I always need to …
Inside: sensitive content- the thing that has made the biggest positive impact on my mental health – on my capacity to live with joy – is choosing to embrace imperfection and “good enough.” I choose to live imperfectly – On purpose. Why I (joyfully) eat frozen pizza on Friday nights… Because last spring as the …
