Five Ways Our Angels Communicate with Us
Have you ever wished you could just have five minutes to talk to your loved one who has passed away to get their input on a conflict or problem? I know I would give anything for those five minutes. I miss their direction, advice and wisdom. But since we can’t really get those five minutes, we must devise another way to talk to our loved ones. Have you ever taken a moment and asked for them to communicate with you? Have you ever asked for a sign to help give you direction...
Read MoreNo More What Ifs- Healing Grief 2 Minutes at a Time #74
The “What If” game It’s a life-destructive game, at its best. At its worst, it breaks apart our confidence, our trust and, worst of all, our faith in knowing we are ALWAYS exactly where we are meant to be. But it is just one of these sneaky little things that creep into our grieving process. It doesn’t matter if we are grieving the loss of a loved one, a relationship, a recent onset of illness, or a life before having to care for aging parents, it finds its way into our...
Read MoreGrief: Proof we are all protected and can finally let go
It was just one of those days. I spent half the night awake wrestling with the myriad of emotions in my heart and head, trying to find peace with this new found Lyme diagnosis with my daughter. Mentally trying to organize the ridiculous amounts of information that has been dumped on top of my brain. Trying to organize. Trying to understand. Trying to find peace…and failing miserably. The daytime hours went about the same. I’d spent the entire day doing practically...
Read MoreGRIEF: Healing our isolation with our own power and vulnerability
Isolation. It’s something that happens to all of us. It doesn’t matter whether you are grieving the loss of a loved one, a relationship, a friendship, life before an illness or caring for ailing parents. When we are in pain, we pull away. We find reason to not trust others. Maybe we push them away because we’re too exhausted from our grief to invest in a relationship with anyone else. Maybe it’s because we’re afraid they might leave us too. Maybe...
Read More10 Ways Grief Shows Up in our Life: Healing Grief 2 Minutes at a Time #71
How does grief show up in your life? Have you ever really thought about it? Do you think that some of those ongoing emotions and struggles you’ve been facing are actually uncovered grief? Grief shows up in our life way more than we realize. When we begin to recognize that grief is not limited to death and that every life change causes us grief, we can begin to heal our hearts more efficiently and effectively. By recognizing it’s grief that we’re feeling, we give ourselves...
Read MoreFear Or Courage- Which will you choose?
My daughter was just diagnosed with Lyme Disease today. After an hour long appointment with the Lyme specialist, my head dizzy with information, details and fear, I walked out to my car to find a parking ticket. I apparently did not turn my wheels in enough on the San Francisco hill to appease the patrolling officer. Seriously? It was almost comical, except that it wasn’t. It was my tipping point. I was a mess. My daughter was a mess. We were both crying and both feeling...
Read MoreGrief: Closed for Repairs. Healing Your Grief 2 Minutes at a Time #69
There are certain times in our lives when we just need to close for repairs. We are simply not able to handle friendships, relationships or outside pressures. Perhaps we can manage this exterior work peripherally for awhile but sooner or later, it will just exhaust us and deplete us until we are forced to shut down for repairs in order to do the interior work necessary to heal our hearts. This closing time is critical for our hearts. We NEED this time to nourish ourselves and heal...
Read MoreThe Art of the No-Guilt Apology
With Father’s Day behind us, many of us are reeling from the after effects of that day. Some are basking in the glow of a beautiful day, greatly enjoyed with their Dad, while others are feeling distant, sad or alone. That Dad bond…it’s a tricky connection. It’s our first love. It’s our first standard of a man. It’s our rule maker and first provider. It could have been a great standard set or the example of what we never want in our life ever again. With all...
Read MoreLoving Our Fathers- Blocks & All
It’s Father’s Day weekend. For some of us, we’ve been without a father for years. For others, this will be our first Father’s day without him. Either way, there is a place in our hearts that opens up for this one man on Sunday. Whether we had the storybook father or the nightmare dad, our hearts automatically open up to him on Father’s Day and it’s our job to let him in. If we close down our hearts, we close down a part of ourselves. We close down...
Read MoreGrief: Legs Up The Wall: Healing Your Grief 2 Minutes at a Time #66
There are times in our lives when things just feel upside down. As hard as we try, we can’t seem to flip it around. We find ourselves running ragged, having short fuses, keeping ourselves endlessly busy yet feeling utterly alone, sad and depressed. It doesn’t take grief to feel this way but anyone who is grieving would attest to the fact that this is what a regular day feels like when you are healing a grieving heart. I am ragged, short-fused and feeling utterly upside down this week. In...
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