Practical Wisdom for Your Journey
1000 Steps
When overwhelmed by life and faced with repeated setbacks, there may be more than one way to look at your life. Consider this perspective.
Seven Attitudes & Actions That Can Increase Happiness
Happiness is partially tied to our genes but also impacted by our attitudes and actions. Find out how you can increase your happiness even in the face of loss.
Five Worthwhile Lessons to Help Shape Your Grieving
There are many lessons to be learned while grieving that benefit us know and in the future. Here are five of the lessons I’m learning these days.
What Story Do You Need to Keep Telling?
On a day of remembering Vicky, the power of story telling is all the more important as I find myself needing to continue to tell the story.
Stitching Your Heart Back Together
How you think about and respond to a broken heart can make a big difference. Reconciliation is a pathway that can lead back to life.
Three Ingredients to Help Set Realistic Expectations
Your expectations can be the difference between staying in a place of discouragement or seeing movement towards a worthy goal.
Stop Empathy Blockers From Interfering with True Empathy
We all by mistake use empathy blockers when we fully intend to show genuine empathy and support. Raise your awareness by realizing the impact empathy blockers can have on those you care about.
Take the Hand of Grief & Mourning After a Loss
Grief and mourning are both needed after a loss. Learn how they are different and the role they each play in your grief journey.
Four Marks of True Friendship
We all need an inner circle of true friendships that help keep us going when the going is tough. Here are the marks of those true friends.
One Daily Practice You Can’t Live Without
Sometimes it’s the little things that make a big difference if practiced consistently over time.
Nothing Beautiful Comes Without Some Suffering
Nothing beautiful comes without some suffering. Those are the words of one of the chapters in the book The Book of Joy
What’s the Point of Carrying On?
What setbacks or losses have you had that have caused you to lose your why? What would it take to rediscover meaning to life once again?
The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
The power of human connection to heal us after a loss or on this road we call life is immense.
How to Live a Meaningful Life
What is necessary to live a meaningful life? Read on for some refreshingly simple ideas.
Three Ways to Grieve the Faces of Loss
There are many different faces of loss but regardless of the size or scope of your loss, they all need to be grieved in some way.
Three Ways to Loosen the Grip of Fear After a Loss
One of the emotional reactions when experiencing loss is to feel fear.
