Resilience and Making Connections
This is part four of the guest blog series on
Resilience Says Stay Curious
This is part three of the guest blog series on
Handling the Holidays
The holiday season can offer a time to reflect and
Resilience, Can you Adapt?
To watch her navigate those extremely difficult days was inspirational and instructive. She embodied the word resilient.
Colbert, Cooper & Grief
You may have seen the recent interview with Stephen Colbert by Anderson Cooper on CNN. If you haven’t, I highly encourage you to do so. It is a frank and compassionate conversation about grief between two people who have been shaped by their loss. The fact that these two successful people who have both experienced significant loss were so open about sharing their experiences was striking.
Loving & Losing a Difficult Person – a daughter’s story
My mother was a difficult person. Not only did the
The Next Five Minutes
If you have not prayed for ways to survive the next five minutes, be thankful. I have, and it is tough.
Then, I Asked Daddy
Now that I am no longer in my 20’s, I have seen many stages of life, and I am quite sure I will remember this stage of my life, the end of my father’s life, as one of the most beautiful, dear and sweet times. I have had the opportunity to experience, reflect, and savor what Daddy has taught my children and myself throughout our lives, and how he has helped form us into the people, we are today. The two words that keep coming to my mind are family and community.
Lacy’s Story
The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking
For All of Us Who are Really Bad at This
"It’s not that you don’t care - you brought a casserole. You’re just scared. Scared of saying the wrong thing. Scared of making the widow cry. Worse yet, scared of making her put on a smile, fix coffee and listen patiently to your grief stories. You never mean to make it about you, it’s just that you get nervous and it’s kind of good to talk to someone you don’t have to explain things to…"