Refuge
A sweet friend and I held an intimate grief and healing circle last night. When I announced it, I received so many responses acknowledging my gift to community, as if I were doing something noble. The truth is, I did…
Category Grief & Loss
Kintsugi
Back then, I was barely able to vote on propositions or people I didn’t know. Hell, I barely knew myself. I was certainly not yet anyone I could lean on. There was a long history behind me that took years…
Wails Ripped From the Soul of Loving
Two days makes three weeks since you left us…left me. Every three days for the last month I surrender to the hands of my chiropractor who puts my body back together again. He says it is the stress that is…
Though We May Be Left Behind, We Are Never Alone
We have all had people who have walked away from us. Sometimes the leaving was painful, sometimes it was a relief, and sometimes it was both. How we digest that Outer World experience into our Inner World experience can be…
Hello is the Other Side of Goodbye
As I begin the transition from Colorado to California, I am filled with both tender grief and loss, and the yearning and excitement of a new adventure. Holding opposite and contrary emotional states is what we most often struggle with.…