Category: Grief

Grief: Sitting with the Pain

Grief shakes you to the core.  The feeling of sorrow that comes with a loss is a painful experience.  A loved one that is no longer with you.  Something you pursued that didn’t come to pass, and likely never will.  You invested your time, your emotional energy, your love into a person or thing, and … Continue reading “Grief: Sitting with the Pain”

Dealing with Hurts

Friday morning I woke up feeling excited. I had prepared a teaching for a group of ladies and could not wait to get to the meeting to share with them. The topic addressed dealing with hurts and pain. Let’s admit it, hurts are a part of everyday life. Someone hurts our feelings, betrays our trust, … Continue reading “Dealing with Hurts”

The Stages of Grief

If you have lived on this earth for very long, then you have experienced loss. I see it every day in my office. Loss of a relationship. Loss of a job, etc. Someone we love moves far away or someone we love is not who we believed (hoped)) he or she to be. Perhaps you … Continue reading “The Stages of Grief”

Deep Loss

As I woke up the other morning I grabbed my phone and was confused by the various messages asking if I was OK. I quickly pulled up the local Orlando news to see that during the night a dark horrific tragedy had occurred in the city I call home. My heart sunk as I viewed the … Continue reading “Deep Loss”

Rememberance

  This past Friday was 9/11. A day remembered by our nation as one of the darkest days in American history. A day so impactful that most Americans remember exactly where they were and what they were doing the moment they heard the horrific news. Countless men, women and children lost their lives that day. … Continue reading “Rememberance”

Dealing with Disappointment

  I hate feeling disappointed but bad news arrived this past week and I felt very blue. There is a verse that says “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” This week, my heart (emotions) felt hurt when I found out my husband had again been passed … Continue reading “Dealing with Disappointment”

Experiencing Grief

In working with clients, I have discovered the topic of grief is a tough subject to tackle.  It is typically avoided until an unfortunate event forces a discussion to occur.  Grief had once been described as a step-by-step process consisting of 5 emotional stages: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.  It was believed that once … Continue reading “Experiencing Grief”

Celebrating a Loss

As I sit here contemplating all the issues I would like to blog about, something about this day cannot escape me.  Though the world moves on, thrusting its urgency upon me, this day must be remembered.  It was 14 years ago – I had just experienced the greatest highs and lows of my life, all … Continue reading “Celebrating a Loss”

Dealing with Loss and Depression

It was around two months ago when I learned that my daughter was moving, along with her husband and two children to Chicago.  For the last nine years, Beth was living here in Orlando and we basically did life with them: saw them move three times, have two children, go through the ups and downs … Continue reading “Dealing with Loss and Depression”

Pain

We live in a world with pain; intense, distant pain of senseless tragedy and heartache. Pain so close it can eat at our soul. We long for safety. We hope for a place to rest.   Pain in the deepest parts of ourselves. We all know it. We all manage it. Or deny it and … Continue reading “Pain”