When your person dies, when you face insurmountable loss, when that thing happens to you that you never saw coming and it breaks you into a million pieces, and it feels as if your world has ended. How do you come back from that? Is it even possible? These questionsRead More →
Meaning-making amid loss is sometimes the last thing we want to hear about let alone actually do. Yet, making meaning is a way some grievers find as a way to cope, integrate their grief, and a way to honor their loved one while making a difference in the lives ofRead More →
In a world that often moves too fast for comfort, it’s essential to slow down, especially when life presents us with challenges such as grief. This was the heart of my recent conversation on the Can You Just Sit With Me? podcast with my special guest, Kelsey Scism. We diveRead More →
I am 1 in 4 women who have lost a child to miscarriage, and I am 1 in 160 deliveries that have ended in stillbirth. So, I join in with many women today on Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day to remember and honor our heaven babies. On this annualRead More →
I don’t believe all things happen for a reason. Yet, I do believe with God we can make meaning from what has happened. In this episode of the ‘Can You Just Sit With Me?’ podcast, I welcome Leah Turner, author of ‘The Freedom to Feel’, to share her journey throughRead More →
How do we survive devastating loss and begin to imagine life after it? These are the questions we wrestle with when faced with the loss of a loved one or something we deeply cherish. In my conversation with Lisa Appelo, author of Life Can Be Good Again, we explore howRead More →
The loss of my oldest sister Angie was one of the most devastating I’d experienced. As a 19 year old college student at the time, I often share how no one in my peer group had experienced sibling loss so I felt alone. Several years later my next to oldestRead More →
In my deepest moment of grief, God was there. My story of sitting with grief spans for over 30 years. I’m often asked how in the world did you make it through it. And the answer is God. Even when I was stuffing the grief, trying to hide it, ignoreRead More →
No one ever told me how much of an identity shift you experience and feel after the loss of a parent and after the loss of a sibling, a child, and so forth. No one ever told me that any loss whether the loss of a loved one or aRead More →
Grief is loud. Even when the world around us is silent, grief has a way of shouting over everything else. It tells us things that feel overwhelming, isolating, and untrue, making it hard to see a way forward. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one, a dream, orRead More →