As an introvert (yes, that may surprise you), I have resisted podcast interviews like the plague for years. So I’m as surprised as anyone that I recently sat down with Aaron Lahman for a full-length interview on his Our Healing Voices podcast. You know what? I actually enjoyed it. I mean, I REALLY enjoyed it. PartContinue reading “I Did Something I Never Thought I Would Do”
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Grieving Your Way Home to Yourself
After my best friend Sheri’s death in high school, I didn’t have a single adult in my life who knew how to respond to my pain or show me the way to heal it. Their floundering in the face of my grief was as frightening to me as the fact that my dear friend couldContinue reading “Grieving Your Way Home to Yourself”
Apologies from a Reluctant Blogger
Dear subscribers: My apologies. I haven’t blogged for awhile. That doesn’t mean I take you for granted. Quite the opposite. Every time I get a new subscriber on my blog, I do a little dance of joy. It is a highlight of my day. In way of explanation for my absence in your inbox,Continue reading “Apologies from a Reluctant Blogger”
Making Your Grief Useful
Grief. Grieving. What’s the difference? Grief is to grieving as the eye is to seeing, as the ear is to hearing. Think of grief as an invisible organ of perception. Think of the difference between grief and grieving as the difference between what a person is and what a person does. Grief is a partContinue reading “Making Your Grief Useful “
Laughing in the Face of Loss
Some say that the only way to heal grief is to face it and “move through” the pain. I beg to differ. Healing grief is more of a dance. It is holding grief close and letting it go. It is thinking about it and not thinking about it, talking about it and not talking aboutContinue reading “Laughing in the Face of Loss”
Defining Grief on Your Own Terms
Before you know how to heal your grief, you have to get to know the grief that is yours to heal. Put simply, grief is the spontaneous suffering you experience when you are subject to a real or imagined loss of someone or something you greatly value or cherish. But what makes grief so difficultContinue reading “Defining Grief on Your Own Terms”
Courage to Heal
In ancient times, there was born a legend of two sea-faring dangers: Scylla and Charybdis. The two monsters dwelt on opposite shores of the Strait of Messina. They were poised to destroy anyone courageous or ignorant enough to pass between them. It was told that Scylla and Charybdis had once been strong, beautiful sea nymphsContinue reading “Courage to Heal”
It’s Grief Awareness Day
Grief comes in all shapes and sizes. Please reach out to someone you know who is suffering grief today – yourself included. “It isn’t the volume of pain that determines its impact. Silent pain can kill just as noisy pain can heal. Attune yourself to the suffering that cannot be heard. Shea Darian, from DoingContinue reading “It’s Grief Awareness Day”
Blessing the Infant Within You
An Audio Contemplation from Doing Grief in Real Life It’s been said that infants commune with angels, that babies and toddlers are protected by spiritual powers from beyond. This seems only right when one considers the vulnerability of the newborn. Angel theories aside, as an infant, your fate rests mostly in the arms of yourContinue reading “Blessing the Infant Within You”
Born Grievers, Born Healers
Creating Healing Environments for the Grieving Child Grief. It’s as much a part of us as blood and bones. We humans are grievers to the core. We love and cherish, and we lose what we love and cherish – through death, divorce, conflict, illness, injury, trauma, financial woes, loss of home or homeland… Even so,Continue reading “Born Grievers, Born Healers”