be part of the healing of this world
As I teach in the courage work, emotions get first crack at writing our stories when something hard happens. More than that, though, our bodies do too. Our bodies come in to save us through fight, flight, or freeze to
It’s not unsuccessful. It’s just different.
Every ending to the infertility journey is valid. Enough. And can be happy.
Receive the healing
Our body remembers, trauma gets stuck in our tissues, our hearts yearn, and our brain makes up stories to keep us as safe and comfortable as possible.
To love hard means to grieve hard.
The waves of grief will come. Sometimes in tsunami-like waves. Sometimes it's in slow ripples. Either way, the waves always come. We can ride them in. Be crashed to the bottom by them with a mouth full of sand. Or
Ten years
This morning as I got ready, two mourning doves and a blue jay worked through some stuff in our holly tree right outside the window. Of course, the blue jay was pretty feisty and eventually staked its territory.
The grief doesn’t get better; it gets different…
I've learned that when you hope in the things of this world, it easily can become the kind of hope that steals, kills, and destroys.
To know deep grief is to love and wonder
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Comparison
When we seek to understand and sit beside each other without comparison, we're in it together.
