I have been reading Viktor Frankl’s book Man’s Search For Meaning, which I highly recommend, and have received much inspiration. The first half of the book reflects on the time he spent in Nazi Concentration camps. Reading his thoughts reminded me so much of my early grief. Early grief is a time when we can […]
Water has been on my mind lately. We’ve had more rain in the last month on Maui than I think we’ve had in the three and a half years I have lived here. Everything is wet, so wet that it’s mushy. If you stand on the grass, you will sink, feeling a little like shallow […]
In creating the services I offer online, I wanted a symbol that represents me and the “why” of what I am doing. I didn’t have to look far because I am surrounded by tropical beauty here in Hawaii, and I knew instantly that the beautiful flower, the plumeria, is what I am all about. I […]
I remember in Jacques’s last couple of years that Queen’s song Under Pressure kept running through my mind. I kept thinking, if we can just get through this crisis, this hospitalization, this challenge, that things would get better, but those things just kept piling up, and the pressure was enormous. At times I felt guilty […]
Before moving to Maui, we visited often, and I always felt wonderful while I was here. I couldn’t define why at the time, but I did see that everyone was friendly. We were always greeted with Aloha and thanked with Mahalo. When we moved here, I had the same feeling. I have always wanted to […]
After loss, when you get to the point where you want to talk to someone, where do you go? I discovered that I had pretty much isolated myself and knew that it was time to climb out of my cocoon. When we moved to Maui, Ron was having significant health challenges, so I chose to […]
Ram Dass is now a spiritual leader who started out as a prominent Harvard psychologist. In 1967 he traveled to India and met his guru. This is when his life changed. His guru gave him the name Ram Dass which means Servant of God. He has been guiding people along their spiritual journeys ever since […]
Both times I dealt with the death of my husband, I stopped eating. I’m sure there is a lot of psychology that goes along with that, but the simple fact was that I just wasn’t interested in food. I was cocooned in my blanket on my bed, and I had no inspiration to get […]
When I was alone after Jacques died, the evenings were long and lonely. I had a hard time focusing on books or television, and I realized I longed for company. I started looking for somewhere to go or something to do so that I wouldn’t be around people who said, “Oh, that’s Emily. Her husband […]
In Facebook yesterday, Kelly’s Treehouse posted: “If you know someone who has lost a very important person in their life and you’re afraid to mention them because you might make them sad by reminding them that they died—you’re not reminding them, they didn’t forget that they died. What you are reminding them of is that […]
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