Coping With Cancer - Small Steps to Reclaim Control and Hope
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encouraged to live fully beyond loss and adversity
Being diagnosed with cancer can feel like having the rug pulled out from under you. The life you knew shifts, and uncertainty often takes...
Cancer Doesn’t Define You. How to Embrace the Person You’ve Always Been
When I was diagnosed with cancer, everything seemed to change in an instant. The news came like a wrecking ball, smashing through my life...
Self-Care for Caregivers and How to Balance Your Needs While Supporting Others
Being a caregiver is one of the most noble and challenging roles one can undertake. Whether you are caring for an aging parent, a spouse...
Techniques for Staying Present During Difficult Times
Difficult times manifest differently for each of us. What feels like a mountain to one person may seem like a hill to another, but...
When Words Aren't Enough: Creative Outlets for Processing Grief
Grief is an intense and often overwhelming emotion that can arise from various types of loss—whether it’s the death of a loved one, the...
Reconnecting With Joy and Rediscovering Happiness After Grief
Grief is a natural response to loss, and it can come in many forms. While the death of a loved one is the most recognized form of grief,...
Life After Losing a Loved One
Losing a loved one is one of life's most profound and challenging experiences. While the pain may never fully disappear, it is possible...
Breaking the Silence: Talking About Death and Dying
Talking about death and dying is one of the most challenging conversations we can have. Yet, it's an inevitable part of life. Death...
Wake Up to Your Life
Meet it, embrace it, look at it straight in its face and do what you have to do to make it the best possible life you have. Given what...
Living With Pain and Hope
How do we find our way back into the world after an awful and painful life situation? After a divorce we wonder if we’ll ever love...
Being With Our Emotions
People sometimes say, ‘Don’t just sit there, do something.’ But we have to reverse that statement to say, ‘Don’t just do something, sit...
How to Adjust to a New Normal
Something precious and significant is taken from us. A death, an accident, a diagnosis, a broken marriage happens and loss and grief set...
Stepping Out of Your Past to Create a Good Life
“Biography does not equal destiny.” Tony Robbins What a great line, a great concept. When we believe our past shapes our future, we’re...
Start Your Day Off From The Inside Out
We bring who we are to what we do. When we bring the best of who we are, we do great things. We work from the inside out; we know...
The Skill of Listening
We as human beings all have a need to be seen, heard, understood and validated. There’s nothing like that feeling when we can say, ‘she...
To Be A Victim, or Not
Ever have something lousy happen to you? It seems to have come out of left field. It’s completely out of your control. And you go into...
Grief and Growth - A Therapist's Perspective
Being on a grief and growth journey with you is an honor and privilege. As painful as it is sitting here with you – grief-stricken,...
Viktor Frankl Quotes to Help You Cope
Man’s Search For Meaning by Dr. Viktor Frankl, is one of the top ten most influential books in the US. Written in 1946, Frankl writes...
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