🌾 When the Ordinary Moments Bring You to Tears This morning, I was making a chocolate chai latte (from a packet 😁) when I started thinking about a recipe I used to make years ago. (Chocolate Magic Mud Pudding) I stood on my toes and reached up into my cabinet above the stove where all…
How to Feel Better While Grieving: 10 Gentle Ways to Lift Your Spirit Grief can make everything feel heavy, even the smallest things like getting dressed or making coffee. It’s easy to think nothing will help, but I’ve learned that little things do matter. Sometimes healing begins in the smallest, simplest steps, the kind that…
Letting go and healing when a spouse dies is a process. Grief is unlike anything I’ve ever been through. It fits into its own category. It’s not a straight line or a five-box checklist. Most people move back and forth between feeling their loss and rebuilding daily life, sometimes in the same hour. That “whiplash”…
It’s been 4 years and 2 months since my husband, Bill, passed away. I’m flashing forward quite a bit and I have so much to talk about. So much. I’m writing in the moment. But this moment is something I’ve experienced probably 90% of the time he’s been gone. I don’t know how much…