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“The reality is that you will grieve forever.” ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler March is always hard for me. Has been since March 21, 2017. That’s the day my eldest son, then twenty-seven, found his father hanging in our basement. I apologize for being so brutal.  But it was. What no one tells you about

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” ~Pablo Picasso Twenty years is a long time when you know you’re meant to be doing something, but you don’t quite know what it is or how to go about doing it. To cut a two-decade story

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ~Marcus Aurelius Every time I get back up from my lowest point, it seems as if negative thoughts will drag me down all over again. Whether it’s the fear of actually being happy only to be sad once again or

“Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong.” ~Les Brown I sat in the doctor’s office, waiting—linen gown hanging off me, half exposed—while going through the checklist in my mind of what I needed help with. I felt my breathing go shallow as I mentally sorted through the

“When we deny out stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write a brave new ending.” ~Brené Brown There was a time when I felt really sorry for myself. I had good reason to be. My life had been grim. There had been so much tragedy in my life from

“Burnout is a sign that something needs to change.” ~Sarah Forgrave Fifteen years ago, my doctor informed me I was in the early stages of adrenal exhaustion. In no uncertain terms, she warned that if I failed to address the stress I was under, my adrenals might not recover. This was hard to hear, but

“Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.” ~Alan Watts We sometimes hear of remarkable people who just knew what they wanted to become from a young age. I, however, was not one of them. When I was about eight years old, I told my cousin that I wanted to become a

“Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.” ~Brene Brown The honest truth about needing to please is that we do it to make other people happy. We will sacrifice everything and anything to put a smile on another’s face and lighten their load, while ours

Last week I ran a giveaway for Brad Aronson’s HumanKind: Changing the World One Small Act at a Time—a heartwarming book that highlights ordinary people doing extraordinary things and offers practical tips for everyday kindness throughout. I had ten books to give away—four for the blog, three for Facebook, and three for Instagram—and I invited