GRIEF: HEALING YOUR GRIEF 2 MINUTES AT A TIME: Angel to-do list
Hello Beautiful Person! Welcome back to healing your grief two minutes at a time. This week is project based. Now if you are newly grieving, and have just recently lost a loved one, this might be a healthy seed to plant and stuff to start to think about. If you have been on your grief journey for awhile, this may be the perfect project for you to start to help yourself feel empowered and a little bit more in control of some of the circumstances in your life. We are going to...
Read MoreGRIEF: HEALING GRIEF 2 MINUTES AT A TIME #15: Heal your grief with food
Hello Beautiful person! Welcome back to healing your grief two minutes at a time. This week, I want to do a little Part 2 on the gut, except this time I want to focus a little bit more on the foods that you can eat that might be really helpful for your system and to help support your organs as they go through their grieving process. Now I know you might think I’m gonna say get your Ben & Jerry’s and your Doritos but no, I am not. I know that is...
Read MoreGRIEF: HEALING GRIEF 2 MINUTES AT A TIME #14: Heal your gut, heal your grief
Hello Beautiful Person! Welcome back to healing your grief two minutes at a time. This week, I want to talk to you about your gut. What? Your gut? Grief and your gut? Yes, grief and your gut. You know we have that sick to your stomach feeling and it’s not just emotions. There are actually neurons in our gut that produce neurotransmitters like serotonin which we know is responsible for depression and aggression. So what can we do about it? Well, a really simple and easy way to...
Read MoreGRIEF: HEALING GRIEF 2 MINUTES AT A TIME #13: Homeopathy
Hello Beautiful Person! Welcome back to healing your grief two minutes at a time. This week, I want to talk to you about homeopathy and how it can be used to help heal our grief, and an assortment of other things in our life certainly, but today I want to talk, of course, specifically about our grief and just another way that we can help support our bodies through this difficult time. For those of you who do not know what I am talking about, it is one of these little...
Read MoreGRIEF: HEALING GRIEF 2 MINUTES AT A TIME #12: Happy Angel Birthday Dr. Maya Angelou!
Hello Beautiful Person! Welcome back to healing your grief two minutes at a time. This week, the world is celebrating a beautiful angel birthday. Happy Angel Birthday Dr. Maya Angelou! I know the concept of an angel birthday can sometimes be hard to embrace when we are sad and grieving but this is an opportunity to give gratitude and celebrate a life well lived. What an amazing woman this woman was for all of us and just take a moment and send up that gratitude...
Read MoreGRIEF: HEALING GRIEF 2 MINUTES AT A TIME #11: Energy Follows attention grief journal
Hello Beautiful Person! Welcome back to healing your grief two minutes at a time. This week, I want to talk to you about a really beautiful concept that has really started to play itself out in my life. It is that energy follows attention. So what we put our time and attention on really begins to manifest itself in our life and I think this is particularly hard when we are grieving because there are days where we just feel really sad and we just really miss that person...
Read MoreGRIEF: HEALING GRIEF 2 MINUTES AT A TIME #10: Happy Face Meditation
Hello Beautiful person! Welcome back to healing your grief two minutes at a time. This week, I want to share with you one of my most favorite meditations. It is what I like to call my Happy Face Meditation. I hope it will help you get through today. Sometimes when we are grieving, that is the most that we can hope for. You begin by laying down, or you can do this seated in your chair right here and close your eyes. Picture a vacuum at the top of your head and have that vacuum...
Read MoreGRIEF: HEALING GRIEF 2 MINUTES AT A TIME #9: Empathy- the great healer
Hello Beautiful person! Welcome back to healing your grief 2 minutes at a time. Wow! This week, I feel like I can call it a wrap. I can call this whole video series a wrap. I’ve given you some tools and I have thousands and thousands of tools ahead of us of great ways to heal but what happened to me in the last week has been more healing to me than any of those tools. I was invited to be a part of this dinner that was filled up with other moms without moms. It was a...
Read MoreBEST MOTHER’S DAY GIFT EVER FOR MOMS WITHOUT MOMS
It’s Mother’s Day…again. It is that time of year I begin to avert my eyes from the card section at Target for fear I will start bawling in the middle of the aisle. So starts the tempest of emotions that rise up to create the perfect storm of excitement, love, sadness, loss and guilt as I strive for the balance of celebrating my own accomplishment as a mom and satisfying the insatiable longing for just five more minutes with my own mom. I am unsuccessful yet again at...
Read MoreGRIEF: HEALING GRIEF 2 MINUTES AT A TIME #8: “All is well” The Bible and our angels say so
Hello Beautiful Person! Welcome back to healing your grief two minutes at a time. Today is my bible new age mashup and I hope that you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed piecing it together over the last few weeks. The theme of today is “all is well” and I know that that can feel hard to even say those words when we are in the thick of our grief because nothing really feels well during those moments. So I want to start with sharing a bible story that has been incredibly helpful...
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