An Opening to Peace
Have you ever really been your own first priority? I know I put my needs a the bottom of the list of things to do. I could come up with every excuse in the book but I saw them as justified. I was...
View ArticleReflections – January 2018
Another year has come and gone and for me it’s the 3rd year I’m living this journey solo. We hear that time heals the wounds of grief. Honestly I can’t say that I’ve seen it that way. Time takes us...
View ArticleChoosing Differently
We’ve all heard it and I know I’ve argued it a time or two… If you keeping doing the same thing you’re going to get the same results. Why do we keep repeating the exact same thing when even a tiny...
View ArticleIt’s Not A Rut
Have you always been a social person or do you prefer being alone? If you have a choice do you opt to be with one or two good friends or do you enjoy the crowds? Have you ever forced yourself to do...
View ArticleReflections of This Week
For many this is the week of Valentine’s Day. A week of honoring love and happiness. This is the time of year where for a day, at least, we make a big deal out of the love we share with the love of...
View ArticleA Simple Choice
This week was the 3rd Anniversary of my husband’s liberation from his cancer-riddled body. Last year and the year before I was remembering it as the day of his death. Needless to say time has changed...
View ArticleDaily Choice
I’ve spent most of my life worried about what might happen. Very few of my worries every came to fruition. The ones that did – my husband’s death, a reversal of fortune, starting over again in my...
View ArticleReflections – March 2018
They say to never look back because that isn’t where you’re going. I say that looking back is a way to see how far you’ve come. This month has been a turning point in my life and it’s happened...
View ArticleSimply
I love my quiet mornings. A day off work, the sun isn’t even up yet and I can sit in peace and listen to the gentle resonance of the wind chimes on my front porch. It is times like these that I remind...
View ArticleDoes It Really Help?
Do you pay any attention to what works for you and what doesn’t? Or do you keep doing whatever you are doing because it’s what you always have? When the habit hurts you are you motivated to change it...
View Article2018 – Reflections for May
My dear friend Jane texted me the other day. She asked if I wanted to do something on Saturday since it would have been my wedding anniversary. She is the one person in my life that thinks about how...
View ArticleWhat Works For You
When you have lived through the worst life has to offer your perspective changes. For me all the little stuff I use to get upset about no longer mattered. Life isn’t always easy and honestly sometimes...
View ArticleReflections – June 2018
There are people & things in our life that we maintain because of some duty we feel we have. Whether there is some history, family connection or a need to keep the status quo we hold on even when...
View ArticlePushing Me Forward
I spent all of my adult life being content and happy doing whatever my husband wanted to do. If Jack wanted to go to the beach, hiking or to some remote place to photograph I was happy to go along...
View ArticleIt All Comes Down To Acceptance
“If we can’t accept all we’ve been and done, we’ll age away from integrity towards despair.” – paraphrased Erik Erickson I do my best not to wallow in my misery, the regrets and the sadness that is...
View ArticleLearning To Live
For years I was part of a couple and we did almost everything together. We’d try new things and have fun. Sometimes we just held hands and helped each other through an experience we knew we would...
View ArticleCapacity
Do you have friends and family in your life that knows what you’ve been through? Do they know the challenges, the devastation, the grief? Have they been understanding… to a point? When we go through a...
View ArticleIn The Right Time
Do you ever think about the past and wish you could go back? Do you think that somehow your life would be better if you were there now? We know we can’t go back. Wishing or thinking about what we...
View ArticleWhat Makes You Feel Alive?
What does it mean to you to take a risk? Is it traveling to somewhere exotic? Moving to a place where you don’t know anyone? Jumping off a cliff into the water below? Or are the risks you take more...
View ArticleFinding Meaning
Dear Friends, It’s late at night, for me, and I’ve been thinking about the meaning of (my) life. We look for purpose, we aspire to be more, we hope for abundance in every part of our lives. Yet as I...
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