#MondaysMoments
February 13 2017
Last week we began talking about our theme, Love is Eternal. C.S. Lewis described this in his book, A Grief Observed. In this book, Lewis wrote about the death of his wife, whom he referred t...
Monday, February 13, 2017
February 6 2017
This month our theme is Love is Eternal. To illustrate this I’ll share a story of a woman who came to the support gatherings I facilitate after losing her husband of 60 years. This couple met in hi...
Monday, February 6, 2017
January 30 2017
I think this quote from Anthony de Mello in his book, Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality, summarizes our Live Now…Allow Change theme this month:
You need to be liberated. Don’t car...
Monday, January 30, 2017
January 23 2017
I recently read in the book, The Other Side of Bonanno, that “prolonged grief is dominated by yearning, the repetitive and futile search for the lost loved one.” Sadly, yearning creates more pain, ...
Monday, January 23, 2017
January 16 2017
Living now and allowing change (our January theme) is about being present and letting go. When we’re talking about allowing major changes, those you didn’t ask for and/or want, like the death of a ...
Monday, January 16, 2017
January 9 2017
Last week we started discussing our theme for this month, Live Now…Allow Change. What does that mean? It means that to live in the present moment, you need to allow change in your life. Change is a...
Monday, January 9, 2017
January 2 2017
On this, the second day of the New Year, I’m happy to share our January theme, Live Now…Allow Change. New Years is a perfect time to practice this. Allow yourself to embrace the New Year and all th...
Monday, January 2, 2017
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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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