This time of year is nostalgic for me. Ever since I had children in school, the end of summer and the start of school year have always been bittersweet. The start of a new school year brought to mind how much growth had occurred for my kids. The anticipation of a new school year, new [...]
I often talk about grief being a journey. One of my clients asked me the other day exactly what that means. So I explained that we can go through our lives traversing or sidestepping disappointments, setbacks, and perceived failures; wondering what we have to do to have our lives turn out the way we want [...]
Today's subject is men's grief process and how men relate to loss. This will be one of the offerings we are creating in the Being with Grief program. Men approach grief from their own unique perspective. We grieve in our own way, depending on how we were brought up, what we have experienced and how [...]
The deeper I get into grief work the more I realize that grief is a part of almost every facet of our lives. There is grief every time our lives do not turn out the way we planned, the way we wanted, or contrary to our dreams. This happens daily. Every day we can over [...]
This past weekend I was in Boulder, Colorado, attending a Psychology of Eating Conference. It was good to be back in the presence of the mountains. The majesty of the mountains never fails to nourish me. The conference was a powerful reminder of the importance of my work as an Eating Psychology Coach. I reconnected [...]
I have been thinking about transitions lately. My husband Dan is retiring from his 36 year career in construction. This brings many changes for both of us. Navigating the time around transitions can be a little like navigating grief. We all go through a variety of life- changing transitions. Some of them are major, like retiring [...]
I always think that when I promise to expand on a topic in my next newsletter that it will practically write itself; that I will not have to work hard on writing it. I'll let you in on a secret, when it is time for me to write my newsletter it does practically write itself! [...]
This past weekend Dan and I went on a train trip. He has always reminisced about a train trip he took with his grandparents when he was a boy, and has wanted to share a train trip with me. The perfect opportunity for such a trip arose with Dan working near Omaha; we found ourselves [...]
I am more aware lately of how inundated we are with messages. They are everywhere: on billboards, television, Facebook, and in magazines to name a few places. Everywhere we look we see advice for every issue or problem we may have. These messages have good intentions. Someone found a way to make a problem better, [...]
As I sat down to write this blog I found that my thoughts were all over the place. They were all good thoughts, but I would write a sentence about one topic and then switch to an unrelated topic. I decided to let it go for a while and come back later. When I resumed [...]
