My bright, bubbly blue-eyed daughter lived for two decades on an addiction train before it crashed the final and last time six years ago today. I boarded that train with her hundreds of times to support, console, encourage, empower, love and heal during its journey into the light of rebirth and to the depths of emotional darkness. The joys… Read More
Happy Mother’s Day
Hello Beautiful Souls, It’s a glorious feeling when kindness from a loved one uplifts your heart and soul with gratitude, love and joy. Becoming a mother is the most magical experience in the world. Being the best mom I can be, has been at the forefront of my life since I was eighteen years old. This had led to many… Read More
Happy Birthday to My Daughter: Life Beyond Loss
Happy Birthday Baby, I miss you beyond comprehension. Life is so quiet without you in it. I miss your big smile and your bigger heart. I miss your laughter and your sense of humor and the way you had an intuitive sense about people and things going on around you. I truly have never met anyone as sentimental as you…. Read More
Celebrating Mother’s Day After Loss
Hello Beautiful Souls, As I sit here reflecting on child loss a few days before Mother’s Day I notice the emotions swirling around inside me. I can literally feel my heart racing with a combination of grief and hope while my mind tries to grasp all that I have lived through in these last four decades. It is a blend… Read More
Celebrating Mother’s Day One Year After Child Loss
Dear Inspired Souls, I am feeling great loss this year of not only my mother and my wonderful second mother but two daughters who left this world many years apart who reside in my heart each and every day. This is my first Mother’s Day without my daughter Crystal and my emotions have been in process all month as I… Read More
A New Day: Reclaiming Joy
Soulful Greetings, It’s a glorious morning to watch the new day begin by the ocean. The sky is streaked in muted then vivid shades of yellow gold, tangerine orange and rose pink and as the sun slowly rises so does the vibrancy of it’s appearance. It is illuminating and energizing to my body, mind and soul as I alternate between… Read More
Love Never Ends
Soulful Greetings! It’s a surreal experience to be sitting on the deck of our local ski resort observing colorfully clad people of all ages happily gliding down the mountain on this beautiful and relatively warm first day of February while I struggle with the core issues on my mind of life, loss and love. I appreciate the warmth of the… Read More
Goodbye 2016
Thoughtful Greetings, As I sit here and reflect on 2016 I am reminded of the importance of several personal events that transpired in my life over the course of this year. My life changed dramatically and I am making it my highest priority to adjust to a new reality and to move forward into a new year with grace, courage,… Read More