Just Us: Our First Mother-Daughter Disney Trip After Loss
Our first mother-daughter trip to Disney World was joyful, tender, and harder than I expected. It became a quiet milestone in learning to travel, remember, and keep living after loss.
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How to Achieve a Life You Love and the Story of Our Wedding Day
When God Answered a Prayer This is our wedding story, and everything He did to make it happen There is a moment I keep returning to when I think about our wedding, and it isn’t the flowers, or the dress, or even the look on Bill’s face when I walked down the aisle. It’s the…
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A Dream About Birds | Rest, Trust, and Faith Reflection
A Dream About Birds: A Reflection on Rest, Trust, and Faith Of all the animals in the world, and wow, God made so many, I can never stop loving birds. Horses are majestic. Lions, powerful. But birds? Birds are the ones I can’t stop watching, small, vulnerable, and somehow completely free. I always pay attention…
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What to Do When a Spouse Dies | First Steps for Healing
What to Do When a Spouse Dies (Part One of the “Heart After Loss” Series) I don’t love talking about this part of my life, but it’s one of the main reasons I created this space.I want to share my faith, my stories, my life with Bill, our daughter, and the pieces of my journey…
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How to Feel Better While Grieving | 10 Gentle Ways to Lift Your Spirit
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…
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Grief 101: A Gentle Guide to Letting Go and Healing When a Spouse Dies
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”…
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The Night We Met: A 90s Love Story and Healing After Loss
The night we met in 1996. It was the 90’s. It doesn’t sound like it was that long ago, but when I say July 13, 1996 and now it is 2025 (29 years!) then it feels like a long time ago. It was the time before everyone had cell phones. It was becoming a thing,…
