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Can you replace grief with gratitude? While moving from grief to love and gratitude is the ultimate goal, you can’t just replace grief with gratitude. A gratitude practice is beneficial, but you can’t avoid the grief by focusing on gratitude. … Read More
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Whether you’ve experienced tremendous grief or not, you will be touched by grief when a close friend or family member goes through difficult times. If you have experienced loss and grief, you may be called on to help others understand … Read More
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Things go wrong or not as you envisioned. It’s part of life! What do you do when things don’t go as expected? Do you fight against reality in a futile attempt to change what is? Do you assign a harsh, … Read More
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Next month we’ll be celebrating one year of Build a Life After Loss! In today’s podcast I wanted to share my thoughts about why I do what I do. I’ll tell the story of what led to the founding of … Read More
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The GPS system didn’t exist when I first learned to drive. You could drive for hours in the wrong direction before you received feedback that you were on the wrong course. Now the GPS system helps us course correct quickly. … Read More
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Taking 1% responsibility means recognizing that we can’t change what has happened, but we do have influence over our reaction to what’s happened. Taking 1% responsibility means noticing where we aren’t taking responsibility. Taking 1% responsibility means deciding what we … Read More
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As humans we want to be improving. We want to be setting and reaching goals. But striving will create imbalance in our life if we aren’t actively paying attention to how we’re spending our time and our energy. Creating balance … Read More
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My own journey through grief and rebuilding went something like this: Capable to devastated, to coping, to capable, to empowered, to thriving. I didn’t travel through these phases of my healing in a linear pattern. This snapshot of my path … Read More
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Activating or strengthening our mind, from my experience, takes two components. One is a way to release our painful emotions without taking it out on others. The other component of strengthening our mind is a way to input the good, … Read More
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo DiVinci Simplicity is essential when you’re dealing with grief and loss. Simplify your schedule. Simplify your responsibilities and activities. Make the room in your life that’s necessary to grieve your loss. To do the … Read More
