Life on the Rocks with a Twist of Gratitude

  Grief comes in waves.  Grief for a relationship that ended.  A job you miss.  A childhood lost to trauma,  A person you lost.   I am remembering my brother today on his birthday.  Note to self.( that I tell everyone all the time) there's no timeline to grief.  There's no formula to how it works.   Its not a straight line.  Healing takes place in lighter moments.  When. you can laugh again and remember someone with a smile along with a tear.  Healing takes place in slow increments.  Sometimes you feel fine.  Then there are days when you are not.  I think for me  there has to be an acceptance that there is no resolution(other than we must all go forward)  There has to be an acknowledgment that  grief is the price of love. Today I am grateful for that little boy with whom I played Rockem Sockem robots with.  For that sarcastic teenager  who had a crush on Stevie Nicks.  For the best a...

  Mother day is tomorrow here in the States!  Flowers, brunches, eating out. is often the order of the day.  My mothers day is always wonderful.  I revel in the wonders that are my now adult daughters.  I am so proud of the three of them and would stop a train for any of them.   That being said,  there is, inevitably a melancholy to this weekend for me.  I lost my mom at 19.  She had lung cancer.   Chemotherapy was in its infancy back then and barbaric.  She died too young and left me too soon.  Fast forward to today.  I send out articles  on how to get through Mothers Day to clients. I am well aware of how hard a day it is for so many.  I find my self wondering. "what could have been?" Like so many motherless daughters.  I wonder what she would have thought of the choices I made.  I hope she would have been proud.  I ponder this every year.  After she died. my career path changed.  I tho...

When talking with a client yesterday they told me they were broken.  I asked them. to reframe that thought.  Maybe they were not broken. but dis-assembled.  Think blueprints.  You are putting yourself back together in a different fashion! Have a great day!