I broke open yesterday with a tree. I learned that the construction project in our neighborhood will begin in 2 weeks. That’s the day that this long standing tree will die to create a road. Hearing this news was the final thing I could hold, so I broke down and cried. I cried with the[…]
We Must Get Comfortable with Discomfort. Hello lovers… I’m curious about you and wondering how you’re doing these days. If you have time, write me back. I love hearing from you. It helps me feel less isolated and alone as I’m not going out and about and running into you in my world. I miss[…]
What do I mean by that? Well, this situation we are currently living-this pandemic and having to be quarantined is too big to process, understand, let alone grieve it. There is so much loss that we’re swimming in right now. We’re in the process of losing. We’re being initiated into something we did not[…]
Well, I’ll tell you and while I tell you just get used to me writing about this a few times a year because I have to explain it a lot—why I combined freak with grief. It’s simple—you either love it or hate it. You either love cilantro or you hate it. And with the word[…]
Welcome to 2020 everyone. And welcome to your next decade! And I want to say an especially warm welcome to my newest subscribers-welcome to the Grief Freak tribe! I wanted to reach out and give you some ideas of what I have planned for you this year and beyond. It has taken me a while[…]
One of the things I learned this past October from all my dives into grief with my mentors, Alan Wolfelt, Francis Weller and Malidoma Somé, is that grief work is soul work and soul work is slow work. And unfortunately many of us are not lucky enough to take time to slow down and just[…]
Here we are again in the holidays craze. These “holy-days” that are so hard if you’re in acute grief. My heart truly reaching towards yours. And it all starts this week with Thanksgiving. This year I invite you to be a grief rebel and be the one at the table that suggests we first go[…]
October rocked me in a good way. It rocked me to my core and shuffled the foundation of how I work and how I am in the world in relation to grief. It rocked me so much and I dove in so deep that I’m still arriving back into this fast paced world I/we live[…]
A lot of pessimistic people treasure the phrase “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” We all know that’s not true. Everyone I know has had at least one teacher who the best doer they ever met. “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” We all know that is not true. At the[…]
Grief is so much more than death loss. So often when I’m introducing myself to others as the Grief Freak they often think that I’m a death doula. They tell me about the death of their mom, their friend, their pet, etc. And I listen, I hear them and their stories of death loss, but[…]
