Use your primary sense perception to find a cocoon of safety and serenity in the present moment. — In the middle of your day, something triggers you and suddenly you are on edge: you feel the cortisol pumping through your veins and adrenaline is at an all-time high. You are jittery and jumpy and your heart is banging against your ribcage. …

The elusiveness of faith when you need her most. — Little did I know that our relationship lived on the brink of extinction. Not the slow grinding death spiral of flowing ice carving cirques near mountains tops but an overnight destruction like the Minoan Empire doused in lava. …

4 gifts of grief. Suffering never comes empty-handed. — Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift” — Mary Oliver Imagine reconnecting with your deceased loved one every week in a lucid dream. This is part of the light side of grief that no…

Rage: one of the many voices of unbearable grief after the death of a loved one. — I was a token shell. A cracked image with only sharp edges — abandoned, used, insubstantial. Was this funhouse mirror perception or the truth? I was beyond caring for I had found solace in my wallowing. A sense of justice that I had been right all along — That. God…

I’ll see you in my sleep: a 5-step roadmap to help you have a dream visit from your passed-on loved one. — They told me 1,133 days ago (approximately) that my mother had died, yet she was the first one to wish me a happy birthday on January 21, 2021. In a dream. This time around, she didn’t come in person as usual but instead left a letter for me on the…

Let us normalize public displays of sorrow — You stand frozen in the checkout line two rows down. Starter signs of sorrow spread throughout your face. Your lips turn down, quiver and pucker. Cheekbones rising to meet eyeballs alive with terror bleak and thick like a peafowl about to be ambushed. You struggle to adjust features, curate them into a shape socially…

Charles Darwin was wrong. Tears are not purposeless. — Although some other species instinctively cry out in pain or because of other irritants, humans are the only creatures whose tears spill because of their emotions. So why do we do it? Why do we cry, for example, when we are sad? Between 2018 when my mother died and now…

How to have crying sessions to cope with tears that seem unending — You just experienced a death: your loved one passed, a miscarriage, a marriage or relationship ended, and you can’t stop crying. Maybe it happened a month ago or a year ago. The pain is raw and crippling. Your throat is sore from screaming. …

How to create a simple 5 step plan and avoid unnecessary anguish — Are you feeling a sense of dread deep in your belly as the holiday season begins to unfurl in all its festive glory? This might be your first holiday without your loved one or your tenth. If it feels too overwhelming, depressing, and exhausting to be in the presence of…