This entry has been a long time coming…In May, Sharing Solace was blessed to be asked to attend the National Funeral Director Association’s Professional Women’s conference in Miami. I mean, it was an all-expense paid trip to Miami – YES! I didn’t know what I was getting myself into…but I went in with an open […]
For as long as I can remember I’ve been a terrible sleeper. As a kid, I would wake up at 4 in the morning and go watch cartoons for a couple hours before I had to get ready for school. As I got older (and had more control over my bedtime) I became a terrible […]
There are lots of ways to say this same thing. Honestly my favorite? It doesn’t get easier, you get stronger!{But it doesn’t really lend itself to pretty graphics like this one…}I mean, think about it: When you got to the gym and you lift that 5lb weight over your head over and over again you […]
Resilience…kinda a daunting word don’t you think? Everyone knows you ‘gotta have some’…but do we really know what it is? Or, how to get it? Or, why we really even need it?I bet you’ve heard that phrase ‘everything happens for a reason’, right? {Cheese and rice, don’t get me started on platitudes, we’ll be here […]
With much of the country under (some amount of) snow, I’m declaring today a snow day!! Yes, I know. With everything going on with COVID, snow days {for many of us} are a thing of the past. We can now dial in and work remotely and all the good stuff… BUT – just because you can work […]
This year, I’m living by the word simplicity. I realized there were so many things in my life that truly didn’t bring value and I was making everything harder and more time-consuming than it needed to be! Yes, it does sound similar to my 2019 world ‘Declutter’ – and there are a few similarities – […]
Shortly after my Maddie died, the ‘festive holiday season’ came around and {believe it or not} I was not in the holiday spirit. I just wanted my baby there to experience her first Christmas. But, I tried to put on a brave face so that no one knew what was really going on inside my […]
I received an email earlier this week from a very nice person. Basically, it said “I’ve really appreciated your advice and words of comfort in the past but I’m bowing out now. I do not appreciate the f-word being used in daily life – especially in my grief journey – and cannot condone the practice.”My […]
We’re less than eight weeks from the beginning of 2022…Can you believe it?But first, we have to enjoy, entertain….and just plain get through…all the festivities (and parties, and get-togethers, and happy hours, and ‘quick visits’, and shopping, and cooking….and eating, you can’t forget all the eating…)Over the last 12+ holiday seasons I’ve ‘celebrated’ without my […]
If you answered ‘No.’ I can’t blame you. I constantly preach self-compassion {and self-love} but practicing what I preach is not always as easy… I’m constantly finding that I’m beating myself up over this thing or that.As we move into the holidays, I think self-compassion is especially needed and powerful. The holidays are tough – […]