Several years ago I worked with a client who was asked to be on the PTA – something she desperately did NOT want. However, like many, she often said “yes” when her inner voice – her gut instinct – urged her to scream “NO” and run the other way. The pressure to join the PTA brought her face-to-face with a life-changing realization: she could
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A college friend recently remarried and moved away from Atlanta. I seriously contemplated the many changes in his life….new wife, new stepdaughter, new city, new job, new friends, and a new home. Talk about change. Essentially, every single thing in his life has changed. Instantly, I understood why one might have a grief response to marriage – even a much wanted and very happy
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Financial loss and hardship is an all-too-common form of grief. While you may think of grief only as death or divorce, any kind of change in the familiar patterns or behaviors of your life can cause grief. If there is one thing that both causes and affects almost every facet of our life, it is money. The lack of it seeps into each and
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Tragedy struck Aurora, Colorado, last week. A senseless, gut-wrenching tragedy that leaves many of us feeling stunned, confused, sad, mad and vulnerable. My son was at the midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises.” As a 16 year old, he was stoked to go with his friends. “What fun,” I thought. I declined my daughter’s pleas to do the same for the Katy Perry
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My youngest child finished 5th grade this year. “My” last year of elementary school. A precious phase of life I’ll never have again. This ending hit me like a ton of bricks. I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I repeatedly found myself sobbing as I drove down the road. Suddenly, a second round of kids became appealing. But being 45, divorced, and not actually
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How I wish it wasn’t so.  Today, while at lunch with my dad, I let my heart be pierced by the gravity and pain and incomprehensibility of a neighbor’s cancer.  At 44, she is a year younger than I am.  Her father succumbed to stomach cancer at the very same age. My mother has been keeping me updated.  I’ve heard the words and known
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