Growing up, if I wasn’t in the backyard making my younger sister eat homemade mud pies {that I ‘baked’ in the mailbox}, rollerblading around the neighborhood, or dreaming up crazy ‘Double Dare’ dares I can guarantee that you’d find me 10 inches from the front of our 19 inch TV. From the moment I dropped […]
There are lots of reasons women around the world have a love/hate relationship with the second Sunday in May. When you’ve lost a child, whether you have living children or not, it’s always {at least} a touch bittersweet…I have found the first Sunday in May, International Bereaved Mother’s Day, actually lightens my heart a little. […]
I attended a networking event earlier this week – OK, it was an award recognition event for being a ‘Small Business Superstar’ in Kansas City {I know, low-key flex. Thanks Kansas City Chamber of Commerce}.If we’ve ever met, you know once I get warmed up I can even get a brick wall to talk to […]
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 […]
What do you do when you have a tummy ache….or, at least, what do you wish you could do when you have a tummy ache? You curl up into the fetal position.What do you do when you have a pounding migraine? You rest your head in your hands.What do you do when you stub your toe? […]
I will lend you, for a little time, A child of mine, He said. For you to love the while she lives, And mourn for when she’s dead. It may be six or seven years, Or twenty-two or three. But will you, till I call her back, Take care of her for Me? She’ll bring […]
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 […]
This week was a tough one my friends. I knew it would be, I anticipated it, and I made arrangements to be able to do what I needed to do to make it through….and it was still tough.You see. Wednesday, May 19th was my Madelyn’s birthday, and the next day Thursday, May 20th was the […]
The holidays are gonna be weird this year. I don’t think there is any way around that. We won’t be traveling like usual. Events will be shorter, smaller, and mostly outside. There will be far less hugging……but, if I’m being honest…they’re not that much different from the decade worth of holidays that came before it […]
I haven’t really talked about it a lot lately…but…Over the last several weeks (Ok, like all summer #thanksCOVID) I’ve been compiling amazing information, research, examples, and exercises around grief, resilience, happiness, and mindfulness. I actually found an amazing series of books by the Harvard Business Review that has sent me down the research rabbit hole…and, […]