Three Tips for Dating After Loss
August 16, 2012
By Guest Blogger
When I decided to start dating again after my husband died it was almost like guilt started screaming at me so loud that I felt sick to my stomach. I literally had to sit down and think this decision through. It was not as simple as a yes or a no answer. I was a 34-year-old widow, with two little girls by my side. When I sat down to think it through, along came some… Read More >
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 >
Glad No Matter What
May 28, 2010
By Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
After many years of resisting change and grieving losses in my life, I embarked on a journey of choosing to be – Glad No Matter What. This choice sprang from how dreadful the alternatives seemed, and also from burrowing into my own psychology for many years, and finding out that weaving the dark and the light together creates a rich, fertile “middle ground” to live in. From this middle ground came my gladness. So what… Read More >
