When life is hard, what’s the best medicine during the holidays? To Give thanks! What, you may ask? Holidays are not easy for many women let alone a normal day. If your Thanksgiving doesn’t look like a picture from the latest magazine with a big stuffed turkey...
How to begin to grieve? Tears cascaded down my cheeks. I sobbed with my head in my hands and I needed to have it out with God! I dropped to my knees on a bed of fresh pine needles I’d found along my favorite wooded trail. My inward groaning erupted in a scream, God...
How to do holidays while grieving? Do you need to learn how to trudge through grief and loss and with the Holidays approaching? Has death, divorce, devastations, and/or other disappointments smacked you up hard? Is your heart just shut down? Yet you have to get up,...
Do you feel like an empty bubble? Depleted? For many years I unpacked the Christmas boxes carefully looking for this ONE box that held this globe. It had been a Christmas gift from my parents, shortly after I married. The picturesque winter scene of a snow frosted...
How to set boundaries over the holidays? Holidays may stir up more than fun. A whole lot of chaos can come with families and friends thrown together. And if there is a dad, mom, uncle, aunt, great uncle or aunt, cousin, sibling or you name it, and they go on the hunt...
