#MondaysMoments
April 27 2020
Last week I wrote about one way to promote inside-out healing – taking care of yourself. This week I want to talk about two others, allowing your grief and looking for light along the way. Allowing...
Monday, April 27, 2020
April 20 2020
As you seek inside-out healing through your loss of a loved one and/or your losses in the pandemic, one of the first things you can do is take care of yourself. Drink lots of water, go outside if y...
Monday, April 20, 2020
April 13 2020
Continuing with “Inside-Out Healing,” when we selected this theme at the end of 2019, we had no idea that our world would be in the midst of a global pandemic in April. But given our current circum...
Monday, April 13, 2020
April 6 2020
It makes sense that the first Monday’s Moments blog post in April 2020 came out on a Thursday not a Monday. It makes sense because very little at this time is happening as it usually does. Change a...
Thursday, April 9, 2020
March 30 2020
Below are the final two of Dr. Karen Wyatt’s seven ways to use grief to unite us from the End-of-Life University podcast, “How Grief Unites Us: To Stand Together for Love”:
Find harmony with other...
Monday, March 30, 2020
March 23 2020
Continuing our discussion of Dr. Karen Wyatt’s seven ways to use grief to unite us from the End-of-Life University podcast, “How Grief Unites Us: To Stand Together for Love,” below are the next thr...
Monday, March 23, 2020
March 16 2020
In her End-of-Life University Podcast segment “How Grief Unites Us: To Stand Together for Love,” physician Karen Wyatt offers seven ways to utilize grief as a bridge to other people. Please know, d...
Monday, March 16, 2020
Previous Posts
December 11 2023
I wasn’t always comfortable with the concept of, “Dare! Silence.” I grew up in a house with five kids and two parents, so silence was not something that happened often. When I began to practice a s...
December 4 2023
This month’s theme is “Dare! Silence.” Silence is very important throughout our lives, especially on our grief journeys. Silence can be intimidating, and we often try to fill it when we encounter i...
November 27 2023
To close this month, please read Anne Hillman’s poem, “We Look With Uncertainty” as you notice “something new is being born in” you while making new treasured memories.
We look with uncertainty
be...
November 20 2023
My favorite holidays is Thanksgiving. In terms of the meanings behind other holidays, I’m all in. But I can do without their hype and commercialization. So as we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, ...
November 13 2023
As I was writing this month’s posts about our theme of “Memories Become Treasures,” the song “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac started to play. When our youngest child went off to college, this song mad...
November 6 2023
This month’s theme is “Memories Become Treasures.” In a recent grief education and support group I was leading we talked about looking at old photographs of deceased loved ones and how those pictur...
October 30 2023
To close out this month, read these words of poet John O'Donohue:
The dead are not distant or absent. They are alongside us. When we lose someone to death, we lose their physical image and presenc...
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