M.A. Counseling Psychology & Grief Recovery Specialist
I WORRIED I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was
Episode #3 of my podcast, “Beauty In The Breakdown,” can be found here: There are a lot of myths about how we’re supposed to “do”
You’ve got to take a deep dive into the center of the pain, immerse yourself in it, the way you would immerse yourself in a
Episode #2 of my podcast, “Beauty In The Breakdown,” is up and available today. Loss and grief can be hard enough, and the holidays can
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! In past blog posts, I’ve extolled the benefits of a gratitude practice (Gratitude: The Practice and Gratitude: The Concept). Today on the
About a year ago I announced that a podcast would be forthcoming. Well, I finally did it. And due to some technical difficulties, it launched
If I could choose the scene of my death, it would look something like this: in my home, in my bed, in my sleep. Totally
Death of a loved one. That’s an obvious example. When people die, we expect their survivors – spouses/partners, children, parents, etc. – to experience grief.
Lately, the things that scare me aren’t death or disease. Although given what I’ve been through in the past ten years (lots of deaths, lots
Saturday, October 26, 2019, 5:30 pm – The Kincade fire, a two-hour drive north of me in Sonoma County, is spreading and the wind is
Suffering resides in the space between expectation and reality. I’ll offer a few examples: Expectation: that my son would outlive me. Reality: He did not. Expectation: that
Grief is the pain associated with loss. It’s normal to want the pain to stop, to want it to go away. It’s normal to feel
