GRIEF: Our loved ones make up the details of our life- Healing Your Grief 2 Minutes at a Time #58
Ok, I have to admit something. I didn’t even follow my own great advice this week. My mom’s Angel Birthday was on Monday and I filled my day. I didn’t just fill my day, I PACKED it full. I had a full day of reiki clients to see and I went to yoga class at night. I did not leave one moment for reflection, healing or celebrating as a family. At the end of the day, I had realized what I had done. I had fallen into the busy trap (which is not hard to do given our hectic...
Read MoreGRIEF: The Storm Before The Calm: Healing Your Grief 2 Minutes at a Time #57
My mom’s Angel Birthday is coming up this Monday, and one thing never ceases to amaze me. For every single Angel Birthday I’ve experienced, for the many different loved ones I have lost, over the course of many different years, I always forget about the one thing that throws me every single time. I always forget about… The Storm Before the Calm. Wait! Isn’t it calm before the storm? No, not in this case. As with everything grief, this too is turned upside down. “The...
Read MoreGRIEF: TOP 3 TIPS FOR LISTENING TO A GRIEVING FRIEND
We all want to help when our loved ones are grieving but we think we don’t know how, or we won’t be good enough or we’ll say the wrong thing. Well, this week, we’re going to learn that… Sometimes not saying anything is the best thing you can do to show your love! Not say anything? What does that even mean? We need to sit down and listen to them. I mean, REALLY authentically, actively listen. But how do we do that? Especially in these times, there is a...
Read MoreGRIEF: Angel Birthdays: What’s your grief volume?
Grief is hard. Grief is long. Grief is all-consuming. It is this grief trifecta that makes it incredibly challenging to see beyond ourselves and that is OK. Healing from this place is part of the journey, part of the challenge and where you discover you are stronger and more resilient than you ever knew. But how do we know exactly where we are on our grief path? We take a look at our volume of grief. And it just so happens that the definition of volume is...
Read MoreGRIEF: Random Acts of Kindness: Healing your grief 2 minutes at a time #54
We’ve all been in that place. That dreadful lonely place of grief where we find ourselves feeling like no one could possibly feel as lonely, or as sad or as hurt as we feel in this precise moment. It happens to all of us. But what if I told you that one simple act could help remedy you from this feeling and eject you from this place faster than you could ever imagine? Well, here it is… Take a moment and do something kind for someone else. I’m not sure if...
Read MoreGRIEF: The List: Healing your grief two minutes at a time #53
Hello, Beautiful Person! Welcome back to “Healing Your Grief Two Minutes at a Time”. This week we are getting down and dirty with our grief work. Some weeks are lighter assignments. This will not be one of them… but the payoff will be worth it. It was my birthday this week! 🙂 It was filled with lots of fun festivities and celebrations but my grieving heart still found me through the bustle of the chaotic fun. I found myself wishing my parents were...
Read MoreGRIEF: The Trickle-Down Friend: Healing Your Grief 2 Minutes at a time #52
Hello Beautiful Person! Welcome Back to Healing your Grief 2 Minutes at a Time! This week’s tip goes out to all the front line supporters of all the grieving hearts out there. Grief doesn’t just affect one person. Those who are grieving have so many people around them that care for them and want more than anything to take their pain away. To help ease that pain, we do exactly what we are supposed to do. We witness their grief. We allow them to tell their story over and over...
Read MoreGRIEF: SENDING LOVE WITH YOUR LOVE BUBBLE: Healing your grief 2 mins at a time #51
Whether you are grieving or not, this week’s tip will probably be one of the most helpful and useful tips you will ever learn and use. All of us have been in circumstances where we must be around people we are not fond of or who trigger us in some way. So, what do we do? We could certainly sit there and scowl at them or stand there avoiding eye contact but what does that do for our own hearts? What if I told you there was something you could do that would feel empowering, strong...
Read MoreCreating your Heart Masterpiece: Healing your grief 2 minutes at a time #50
Two weeks ago, we cut out our paper Valentine’s hearts and wrote down everything we loved about our loved one. I asked you to keep the exterior of the cutout for the special project we’re going to do today. I want you to hold the cutout up and take a good look at it and ask this simple question: Am I left with an empty heart or the canvas to create my very own Heart Masterpiece? It’s a small shift in thinking but it is powerful. Are we going to focus on the...
Read MoreGRIEF: Write your first Valentine to yourself: Healing Your Grief 2 Minutes at a time #49
This Valentine’s Day, let’s all write our first Valentine to ourselves. Why you may ask? We need to prime our own pump first. Let me explain. Years ago, I took my children to a petting zoo with my mom. There, in the dirt, stood an old-fashioned water pump. Naturally, I had my daughters attempt to push the metal lever to extract the water from the ground. After countless attempts, I’d resolved that the pump was just broken and it was time to move onto the goats....
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