
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The sun really does rise and set each day, and with that passage of time our loss becomes more manageable.

You have a unique opportunity to carve and craft a new future; your Plan B. It will look very different, but you CAN really create a new life to love.

While it’s so hard to remember, the storms in your life will pass, and above that angry storm are beautiful blue skies!

There are many things you can do to support your widowed family and friends on Mother’s Day.

Think of your home as a basecamp. Allow it to be a place to stop and reorient, a place to remember who you are. It will change how you feel about your home.