In this digital and intellectual world of ours we often rely on talk therapy for our healing. It is a tool commonly used these days. To be honest it works for some of the people some of the time. Best not to rely on it as your only go to tool though. We often live in our head and healing for me takes place in the body – we need to include the body in our healing work especially … [Read more...]

“My husband died 2 years ago only 2 weeks after he was diagnosed with a cancer.  Four months later, my dog was diagnosed with cancer and died after 8 months of grueling chemotherapy (today would be exactly a year). I did not know what to do with all this death. I only knew I had to get through it… so I grieved my husband and was able to let go of him after a year. But I could … [Read more...]

In our death denying, grief adverse culture we often delude ourselves into believing our grief will just go away. Others encourage us, often they say for our own good, to get over it, to move forward, or to suck it up. So we do our level best to get back to normal - quickly. We find ways to hide our grief from the light of day. However, we can’t really hide it, it shows … [Read more...]

Whether it is the ‘death’ of a job; a relationship; a car; a pet; a friend; or a family member, don’t waste it! I have come to know that each death we experience comes with fertilizer as well as with sorrow and sadness. Often we need to get through some of the grief we feel before we can get a sense of the fertilizer the death has left behind for us. No matter the depth of … [Read more...]