I have said it countless time to grieving moms in my office that children grieve differently than we do and don’t need to just sit around the house doing nothing. Adults use the business of personal demands and work to distract themselves from continuous and intense emotion. The waves of grief are unavoidable and when they do encompass us, we…
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Sometimes It Seems You’re Surrounded by Suffering
I’ve been walking beside young widows and their children for the past 5 years. It started very slowly. A previous client called pleading, “You’ve got to see my friend. It’s just too much and too sudden and you are the only one I trust.” After a few months, she has a friend whose husband suddenly died and the pleading continues…
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Walking Down Memory Lane
I have been given an amazing task which I both love and in moments find very challenging. Accumulating photos of a loved ones life for a Celebration of Life slideshow allows you to really walk through their shoes in a very personal way. As I sat with my sister in law yesterday going through decades of photos reliving their past…
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The Body of Christ is Alive and Well
As we mourn the death of my brother in law’s earthly body and the passing of his soul into eternal life, my husband and I both remarked at how strong the Body of Christ is at work in the lives of both their family and ours. A couple of years ago after a bad church split that left me unemployed…
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Coping When Life is Hard and Sleep Isn’t Happening
The last two nights have been tough. After being sick for two weeks and sleeping a ton, I keep waking up in the night and can’t go back to sleep immediately. Being a mental health professional, I follow my own advice. I pray. I then get up for an hour and try again, I even sometimes exercise to ware myself…
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