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Texas is My Placebo
This is a strange subject for a blog about being widowed, but then – maybe not so strange at all. Many, many widows that I’ve had as clients sell their house and move. It was not my first step after my husband died. There were many other first steps,...
No One is Coming to Save You
Your loss and your experience of it would have been unimaginable to you before it happened. Maybe there were others in your life who became widowed long before it was ever a reality for you. Probably you said the usual things to her or at the...
Time Travel into The Future
Time Travel into the future? For me, my interest and studies into how our minds and our universe work go hand in hand. Hence, fascination with the brain, life coaching, and psychology along with my lifelong passion for physics. Brian Cox, professor of particle physics...
When is it Okay to Change Your Circumstance?
Reading in a Facebook group that I am a part of with other life coaches, I came across this excellent question . Those of you who have taken my class or are a part of my membership site and learned the model from me, may have asked yourself this as well. So I wanted...
As a Widow, you CAN choose happiness
I offer you living proof that happiness is a decision, a choice, the result of taking action for your own damn good. Be your own best friend and advance into the happy lane. Happiness IS a choice. Can you grieve and still experience happiness at the same time? YES YOU...
Where Are You on Your Widowed Hero’s Journey?
WHERE ARE YOU ON YOUR HERO'S JOURNEY? THE HERO'S JOURNEY may not be the first thing that springs to mind when your spouse dies. But it indeed sets you on the path of this mythic structure. We do have a choice and that is to let the trauma of the loss propel us into...
Hope is Not a Strategy
We WANT to hope.
Hoping makes us feel better.
So how can that be wrong?
The 15-Minute Miracle
Something most people don't know about me. I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 20 years ago. Yes, at that time it was in full flare and I could barely even function. Hanging onto the walls of my city condo to try and walk from the bedroom into the bathroom took...
Life Is Happening FOR You
So this is happening. When I first looked out, big trucks were filling up and blocking the street. Some folks might feel irate over the obstruction and noise. Not me. I smiled to myself and said, “Look at that. They’re all working for ME.” I felt rich beyond measure!...
A Little Piece of You
You can take comfort in all the parts of your personality that were shaped by those are no longer here. Sometimes I see my mum. She’s in every damn cup of tea I pour – every house fly that I call out to “You bugger!”
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