In all my 27 years of practice as a therapist and almost 10 years as a grief coach, I have helped 1000’s of people deal with grief and trauma. And I want to add that I have helped with any kind of grief not just death loss. Grief is so much more than death loss. […]
Hello dear ones, How are your hearts? How is your grief? How is your joy? These are the only things that seem to really matter these days. I’m grieving the Colorado poet Laureate Andrea Gibson who is such an advocate for full wholehearted living through feeling everything life has to offer-both the grief and the[…]
Hello dear ones, Come hear me speak this Friday, April 19th In Boulder at the Circus Center. I’m one of the featured speakers for this incredible event created by one of our caregivers-Crystal Evans! It’s part ted-talk, part ecstatic dance and part cacao ceremony. Register and secure your slot here. Use Coupon code: GRIEF for a discount on your ticket[…]
Well, Happy April’s Fools Day dear ones. I meant to send this a few weeks ago and then life just kept happening. I used get these out to you every full and new moon. I’m letting go of that and just sending these out when they’re ready. Welcome to those you who are new and looking[…]
2024 is off to a rough start-both personally and collectively. I want to offer some words of support around the collective grief and how to be with the sorrows of the world. I’ve been falling into the pit of despair even though I‘ve been earnestly practicing this from my grief mentor Francis Weller: “The work of the mature[…]
New year, same shit; new year, same grief. Happy f*%#ing new year. Pardon my swearing and bitterness. But maybe you’re right there with me, especially with everything going on in the world right now. And you may really get it if you’re in acute grief, (grief that is brand new or up to 3 years). And[…]
I want to share a dream I had last week. I only had a short glimpse of it but the effects of it are still impacting me today. I see a human heart. It is breaking, it is hurt. It needs lots of care and help. At first it’s just one heart, but then it[…]
I’m having a hard time getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday knowing that so much pain and suffering is happening in the Middle East and even here in these United States with violence and anti-semitism as a result of what’s happening in the Middle East. My heart breaks everyday. And I am filled with[…]
Hello Loves, My book, Life Upside Down: The Fall That Transformed Our Lives, Lifting Me Through Grief, Love and Quadriplegia is finally here! It was launched on September 29, 2023. It’s available as a paperback and ebook on Amazon. Here’s the Amazon link: https://a.co/d/5wcBkYM And here’s the book’s own website which includes a beautiful trailer at[…]
Although here in Colorado it doesn’t feel like summer at all. We’ve had so much rain for the past few weeks-it feels like we’re actually in the middle of April. But I’m so grateful for all the water. Water truly is life and we need it here often. Also, many blessings to those of you[…]
