This holiday season, give yourself the gift of being present. This season can be filled with memories which can bring you down or lift you up. Choose to focus on those good memories. When Jacques and I got married, we wanted to establish a new tradition for our Christmas dinner. His mother was from Sicily, […]
If you are anticipating that your holidays will not be the same as they were before, you are correct. They won’t be the same, yet when you look at all your holidays past, none of them were the same. Now is the time to take really good care of yourself and create the holidays you […]
When I read what people are saying in some of the grief groups I follow, I notice that many people are stuck in their grief. The gist of what I hear is that people feel that if they lighten up on their grief, they somehow will lose the connection with their loved one who […]
Whether you like it or not, change happens. Whether you want it or not, change happens. Have you ever thought about that? As much as we expect or would love for things not to change, almost everything does. When I was growing up, everyone I knew was expected to graduate from high school and get […]
I love Marci Shimoff. She wrote Happy For No Reason, a book that changed my life. After Jacques died, I was miserable. I hadn’t smiled in months and could barely take care of myself. I had several significant health issues, and I just didn’t know where to turn. I came across Marci’s book and thought, […]
When my husband Jacques died, I had many different physical symptoms like a flair of inflammation and insomnia. I spent too much time with doctors trying to find relief, but I eventually did feel better. Then when Ron’s heart started to fail, I was challenged too. My blood pressure was way too high which was […]
Do you always tell the absolute truth? The most common answer to this question is “Of course I only tell the truth!” But do you? Really? Years ago, there were many stories that I told. I wasn’t trying to be dishonest. I was trying to feel better about myself. I felt that I could be […]
When I mention the name of my podcast, Grief and Happiness, to someone, I generally get comments of how those two words don’t go together, but I know in my heart that they do. People generally think of grief being negative reminding them of great sorrow. I understand that, and I also know that grief […]
I woke up the morning with some of the lyrics of the Beatles song A Day in Life running through my head. “I read the news today, oh boy . . . .” only I had read the news last night on Instagram. Leslie Jordan died in a single car accident after apparently having a […]
Those who know me know I frequently ask people to not say “I’m sorry for your loss.” This phrase grates as trite and something people say out of a sense of obligation to recognize someone’s loss then rush on to what they actually want to talk about. I just got home from a nine hour […]
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