May 20 2019
In order to help us embrace our brokenness and attend to what never changes in loss, it is important to find safe places and communities where our hidden wholeness is welcome. Our Monday’s Mo...
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May 13 2019
Last week we introduced this month’s theme, “Loss. What Never Changes?” and referenced the hidden wholeness within us. In his book, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey toward an Undivided Life – Welcom...
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May 6 2019
Our theme this month is “Loss. What Never Changes?” In the Voices of Grief: Honoring the Sacred Journey documentary we share in the community, author, retreat leader, and speaker, Paula D’Arcy, tal...
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April 29 2019
Last week I asked you where you find light, your light that helps you find the path by walking it. An instructor in my spiritual direction training, Nancy Bieber, talks about carrying a lantern as ...
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April 22 2019
As you find your path by walking it, it is helpful to take light along the way. In the documentary Voices of Grief: Honoring the Sacred Journey, Paula D’Arcy says, “There are many lamps, there’s on...
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April 15 2019
There are as many ways through grief as there are people. To find your unique path by walking it, you allow yourself to grieve. Three skills that can help are:
Noticing – Attending and surrender...
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April 8 2019
Just as we shared last week in Marilyn McEntyre’s “What to Do in the Darkness” poem, you find your path through grief by walking it. How do you do that? We each do it in our unique way by experienc...
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April 1 2019
Our theme this month is “Find the path by walking it.” The idea for this theme came from a poem entitled “What to Do in the Darkness” by Marilyn McEntyre:
Go slowly
Consent to it
But don't wallow ...
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March 25 2019
Death. Makes Life Real. Not long ago I attended the memorial service for a sweet, loving elder in our community. While there I spoke to a wise member of clergy about safe places for people to take ...
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March 18 2019
People often ask me how I can do the work I do. They believe that spending time with people who have lost a loved one would be depressing. Just the opposite is true for me. Life becomes very real f...
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