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Learning To Take Care of Yourself
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how we can take of ourselves when life throws us a curveball and I believe its all about organizing the care and keeping of YOU.
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When Life Gives You Lemons
When life gave me an orchard full of lemons, I freaked out and ran through a multitude of worst case scenario’s. Then I stopped. I made the decision to think carefully and ON PURPOSE about what was happening and how I was going to respond to it.
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When You’re Angry With God
Do you ever feel angry with God? Do you wonder if you’re being punished or if he even exists? I felt all of those things for a long time. Husbands aren’t supposed to die at 46.
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The Bitter and the Sweet
Use your pain to transform how you move through the world. Learn to live in grace and love while never forgetting the brokenness. It is because of the bitter that we can fully experience the sweet.
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A Camp for Widowed People
For a few days widowed people get to set aside their grief work and just relax and soak in the comfort and deep understanding of being with people who get you.
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Finding You In Your Future
Here’s the thing. Even though you feel like your future is over, it isn’t. If you have a pulse, you have a future. If you have a future, there is a future version of you waiting for you and cheering you on.
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The Other Side of Loss
I want to encourage you to stay the course; to process the pain, and to fight your way through your grief because your future is waiting for you.
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Pain is Inevitable, Suffering Is Optional
The pain of loss is clean pain. The thoughts we wrap around that pain creates suffering, including denial, regret, worry, anxiety, indignation, anger, and self-pity.
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Learning To See the Gift of Grace
I have come to the end of myself. I have given up dreams of my past and future. In sitting on the ledge, I became aware of the possibility of a new life, a new life in which I served and nourished others.
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The View From Five Years Out
The sun really does rise and set each day, and with that passage of time our loss becomes more manageable.
Navigating Widowhood 