Words for the Journey

They tell me, I must learn to live a new normalBut I’m not sure that I know how

I'm still recovering from Mother's Day even though it will be 4 years this June my mom's been gone. It's pretty internally torturous, to be quite honest, but I'm fully dedicated to moving through those crappy, difficult emotions. It's probably the hardest human thing we can do.

     While sorting through boxes and bags, it is not unusual for me to find something unexpected. It happened just the other day. Shifting through a box, I came across a wrinkled, somewhat yellowed piece of lined school paper.

Life is precious, as you have learned with the passing of your mom. Learn how to create space after releasing guilty feelings and thoughts.

Have you ever wished you could fast forward through something? A tedious conversation, or maybe a visit with the perky dental hygienist and her terrifying arsenal of metal weapons?

Are you feeling guilty? Do you feel like you did or didn't do something while your mom was here with you? Learn how to honor your mom this Mother's Day.

Last week my task was to find some childhood pictures for my daughter who wanted to use them..ughhhh. My biggest "trigger" is pics. But I knew I needed to. Well Miss "Hey, I speaking publicly to people about strength and bravery, and sit and sign books about it all" grabbed her Ipod and went running out of the house "ugly crying"!

                                      Grieving and Growing Through Traumatic Loss

Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.  Keri RussellWe can watch the news on television; we can listen to our radio or read it on our computers.

Shortly after Daniel died, a co-worker of my husband's gave us a book.  The book was accounts of local parents who had lost children in various ways.

I wrote this a few years ago - it mentions the Oklahoma City Bombing which will have its 18th anniversary tomorrow - and after what has happened in Boston I thought it might be appropriate to share now:

We haven't even come close to understanding the "whys" of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, and now we are confronted with the horrific happenings of the bombings at the Boston Marathon yesterday...this time taking another child's life - an 8-year-old boy - an innocent bystander who was cheering on the runners as they neared the finish line of the marathon.