Cancer World
June 13, 2012
By Guest Blogger
An unexpected benefit of holding your baby while she dies is the wisdom that comes from tragedy and deep, deep suffering. Some years ago, I discussed this with my friend and spiritual mentor, Marge. At the time, I was pregnant with my third son, and Marge was living with terminal cancer. We had been friends for some years, since about the time my newborn daughter Grace died. Marge and I would spend time together while… Read More >
A Mother’s Grief
May 10, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Grieving is a personal experience. Depending on who you are and the nature of your loss, your process of grieving will be different from another person’s. There is no “normal and expected” period of time for grieving. Some people take a year or more, particularly when their daily life has been radically changed by traumatic and unexpected loss. On May 10, 2011, I lost my remarkable son Anthony to a tragic accident. He was 23… Read More >
Super Busy? Use These “Time Savoring” Tips!
April 21, 2011
By Guest Blogger
by Karen Salmansohn True confession: When I first read “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying,” about a decade ago, I purposefully avoided reading Sogyal Rinpoche‘s passages on death. I thought they didn’t apply to me and that I was somehow exempt! Then a few years ago, my father was literally on his deathbed. I scrambled for my copy of the book, intuiting its pages might help me better prepare for the shock of his… Read More >
