A Journey Toward Healing the Heart I was in the shower the other day when I felt an overwhelming sense of sadness; my head started spinning, and I felt lightheaded. Here came the flood of tears; I cried myself to sleep. I felt alone because I am in Las Vegas for work and don’t have […]
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How Grief Forced Me to Reflect on Life
My Journey Toward Deeper Meaning Through Loss As the final days of 2025 slipped quietly away, I found myself reflecting on all that the past years had brought—joys, challenges, and, most profoundly, the loss of my sister. Each New Year’s Eve used to be a time for celebration and anticipation, but now, the turning of […]
Grief- Surviving and not Living
If you’ve been reading along with me, you know that at the end of every post, I always write that we are LIVING and GRIEVING. While scrolling through Instagram like everyone else, I saw a post about survival and not truly living. It made me think about myself and that statement, and I started to […]
The many faces of Grief
Grief manifests differently for everyone, and I’ve come to understand that it has many faces. I’ve experienced some of these emotions myself and have recognized them in others. Additionally, I’ve observed that some people have preconceived notions about how grief should look. Grief is deeply personal yet universally shared; it can isolate us while also […]
Grief and Gratitude……………….
In the last 2 years I have struggled with being thankful for things like waking up in the morning, being in sound health, having a job, my kids, my family and everything else that mattered and matters. Through this experience I have realized grief and gratitude might seem like polar opposites, but they often coexist […]
Mic check……….1……….2……….
I have not written in a while, not because I don’t have or know what to write but because I have not been motivated. July to September are the most challenging part of the year because, on the 4th of July weekend, I saw my sister face to face in North Carolina; August was when […]
Staying away from the place of WHY………….
I recently wrote a blog post about getting out of the place of Why, because that was the resolution I came to. As I stated in that post, asking why does not help the reason we are grieving; instead, it deepens our self-pity, and blah blah blah……….. go read the previous post. Anyway, I made […]
Leaving the place of why…………..
By now, it is no news that I lost my only sister to cancer 2 years ago, and it has been the hardest thing I have to deal with because I still miss her every day also, this blog is centered around grieving and attempting to continue to live life to its fullest. In doing […]
How are you doing???????
I haven’t written in a while due to the hectic blend of work obligations and other life commitments that have absorbed much of my time. During this period of reflection, it dawned on me how easily we become engrossed in the whirlwind of everyday existence, often neglecting the fundamental practice of self-assessment. Taking a moment […]
Why me????????????
Have you ever been in a situation where you felt alone, and nothing seems to go your way or nothing seems to work? Have you ever thought that everything bad that could happen always happens to you, but you know people that nothing bad ever happens to them; everything is always peachy? Well, I don’t […]