It’s often difficult to know how to help a grieving friend. Maybe your friend’s dad just died. Maybe your friend’s mom just had a stroke. Or maybe your friend just experienced a miscarriage. Maybe your friend’s child was just diagnosed with an incurable illness. Maybe your friend was just diagnosed with cancer. Or maybe your…
We were originally supposed to get married in May of 2008. But, when it was clear that my mother’s early onset Alzheimer’s disease was progressing rapidly, we moved the wedding up by four months. I’m happy she still knew I was her daughter at my wedding despite Alzheimer’s disease. Fifteen years ago today, on January…
My parenting resolution is to give my kids more life and less grief. This year, I want to give my kids more experiences and less things. I want to give my kids more new perspectives and less judgement. And I want to give my kids more encouragement and less criticism. My parenting resolution is to…
It is often painful to remember a deceased loved one at Christmas. I’ve lost my mother and my grandparents over the last decade. Holidays are always hard for our family. We are reconciling the joy of the season with the grief that inevitably fills our hearts each year. I never want my loved ones to…
This is the face of high functioning anxiety and depression. Anxiety and depression is my norm. My anxiety started in elementary school. And my depression started in middle school, when I was in sixth grade and my dog died to be exact. I never know how much of it is situational and how much of…
