A Message for Anyone Who Is Grieving and Needs Support
Recently, someone contacted me via my website, asking how they could find help. They were in deep grief and wanted to know how they could find a therapist. When I wrote her back, I received an error message for the email address. And I understood. When we’re feeling...
Blessing for the Brokenhearted by Jan Richardson
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” —Henry David Thoreau Let us agree for now that we will not say the breaking makes us stronger or that it is better to have this pain than to have done without this love. Let us promise we will not tell...
Words of Comforts: Free Video Series for Grievers
When I lost my husband unexpectedly, I was just like you, looking for a way through. Maybe you feel like you’re never going to feel better again, like you are supposed to be further along. Maybe you feel like you have to keep it together for others. Or like you...
When Great Trees Fall by Maya Angelou
A few days ago, I was going through a box of memories, and came across “When Great Trees Fall” by Maya Angelou. When Jim died, a friend gave me the gift of this poem. It came in the mail, enclosed in a beautiful card that said, “I saw this poem and thought...
Time is Not Linear, and Neither is Grief
The instant I hear a few bars of Neil Young singing Harvest Moon (I want to see you dance again) I’m dancing with my husband Jim again, on a warm, late October night in 1996. I glimpse the oh-so-familiar dark brown neatly combed back of head striding ahead of me on...
YOU ARE NOT ALONE is offered in print, audiobook, and Kindle.
Words of Comfort is for anyone who is newly grieving or who is still deeply feeling the loss of someone they lost in the past.
Toolbox Video Series
Learn and practice simple techniques to help you feel calm whenever you are anxious.