Category: Blog

The Holidays are Upon Us The holidays can bring joy or sadness, stress or delight.  It depends where you are in your life cycle.  Are you busy with many balls to juggle so it feels like more for you to do?  Are you alone during the holidays or had a loved one die, so celebrating

We are living in stressful times.  Partly because we have access to news and what is going on 24/7.  We can be online and hooked into friends and media with no breaks.  This is relatively new behaviors because of the new technology.  Before the computers, and online access, we had television and newspapers.  So, we

Grief is a natural by product of loss.  When we love someone and they die or move away we are sad.  It hurts us, it is hard to breathe, concentrate, feel that we will ever be ok again.   The people in our lives who are not directly impacted by our loss, will try to

Grief runs through us as a river .  It can pull us in directions we never have imagined.  I would like to share some poems I have written about grief and loss.                            The Roller Coaster Ride of Grief Riding the unexpected waves

Are You Using Food As a Drug?  Simple Steps to Stop Over eating Are you using food to manage difficult feelings?  Feelings such as sadness, anxiety, anger or loneliness can be damped down by eating excessively.  The positive aspect of overeating is that you are trying to take care of yourself, and you are trying

We all have experienced sadness and grief at one time or another in our lifetime.  Working with people who have had a difficult loss, whether they have been in grief groups  I have facilitated or seen privately, the questions they have asked are: 1.  Will I ever feel better? 2.  Will I ever get over

What is it about making mistakes that makes us feel so embarrassed?  We sometimes feel like hiding and running away.  Yet the truth is, we all will make mistakes.  It is the way we learn.  There is no way to move through life without making mistakes. I once got a fortune cookie at a Chinese

All people, gay and straight, and transgender come into their  relationships with their own baggage and pre-conceived ideas. We come from a variety of religions, colors, culture and ethnic backgrounds which adds to the diversity and richness and also makes the relationships we are in more complicated. It takes courage, determination, love and grit not

When someone you know, a family member or friend dies in an accident, there is no chance to say goodbye, I love you, please be careful, you are precious, you are amazing, no there is no time to say any of this.  One minute the person is here with us, the next they are gone