Lemonade, The Seeds of Grace and No One Died
This is the final piece to the story I started 3 weeks ago. It wraps all those pieces together around what happened to keep me home when we had a 3 week road trip all planned out and how the world brings what we need and gives us what we didn’t know we wanted. Thank […]
Grief and the Holidays
I decided to slip this in as soon as I could. It interrupts the final episode of the saga about my recent personal life but I felt it was important to try to offer these few words to those who might be grieving as we enter the next few months. The possible landmines that lie […]
Off the Cuff and Worth the Risk
After recording the episode published on Oct 29th about resiliency, I stayed in the closet and recorded todays episode. There were so many things happening bam bam bam in our lives and it just felt necessary to continue the train of thought. I am already composing next weeks episode as a sequel to this and then I […]
Resiliency
Todays 15 minute episode looks at the desire we often have to reclaim the life we were living before some event took us sideways through the river (and then through the woods) while also opening the idea that it can sometimes be just one more way we prolong the suffering when something uninvited and unwanted […]
Resistance = Suffering
In this weeks episode, I talk about the connection between pushing away those things we don’t want actually making them grow. I often say in my work with those who grieve, it’s in the ‘againstness’ to what is, to what has come, that we suffer the most. It’s a lot to ask someone who has […]
A Really Short Story about a Really Big Deal
This short 7 minute episode recounts the recent moment when I realized I do not need to carry all the details of my experience of someone’s story as much as I need to carry the gift their story left me with. I don’t need to remember names, dates and places so much as needing to remember […]
Moving Something Out To Move Something In
This is a piece I wrote about an experience I had in trying to make room on my bookshelves for new books. It’s kind of funny and eye opening. It translated into all kinds of areas in my life. A parallel process of epiphanies and awakenings. Thank you for listening to Where the Veil Grows […]
How One Hospice Patient Changed Her Hospice Nurse’s Life
We tend, at times, as care providers to camouflage or deny our feelings when the ones we are caring for are a ‘job’. Even when it isn’t our job, we sometimes don’t know what to do with emotions that come up. After all, we are going to be fine, the one we are caring for […]
Full Spectrum Connection
In this episode I talk about the parallels between my Montessori work life and my work with those in Grief. Exploring the necessity to sometimes ‘go back’ before we can more successfully move forward. And how in going back, we find a deeper understanding and appreciation for what lies ahead. Thank you for listening to […]
The Rest of Mom’s Story
The piece missing from the story of my mom’s death is what she wrote to us in her legacy letter. The story she told, after 32 years of silence, about an event we shared during one summer vacation. It is, in large part, responsible for my decision to leave teaching and start down this road […]