-
Join 1,156 other subscribers
-
My Most Recent Ramblings
Categories of Posts
Looking for Something?
Tag Archives: death
Book Review of Your Soul’s Plan, by Robert Schwartz
Robert Schwartz has written one of the most important and inspirational books about life I’ve ever read: “Your Soul’s Plan.” Robert has taken on the tremendously bold task of answering the “why” of some of the biggest questions a person can ask … Continue reading
Year’s End
Do you ever think that things like the beginning or end of the year are only that because our calendar tells us they are? To some person who lives in the wild, who lives by the sun and phases of … Continue reading
Posted in Holistic Healing, Mental Health, Sensory Processing Disorder, Spirituality, The Voyage
Tagged ADHD, change, clairvoyant, death, end of year, frustration, holistic healing, SPD
12 Comments
Mother’s Day Without Mom
This is the first Mother’s Day that I am motherless. It feels weird. Even though Mom and I weren’t as close as a lot of mothers and daughters, I would always acknowledge her on Mother’s Day. She would be celebrated … Continue reading
Posted in Spirituality, The Voyage
Tagged Aruba, death, grief, healing, mom, Mother's Day, party, sadness
11 Comments
Another Loss
I keep meaning and wanting to finish editing and to publish a post I wrote over a week ago, but life keeps rolling and rolling, sometimes over me. After dealing with punches of parental death and the aftermath of having … Continue reading
Eulogy for Mom
This is the whole truth of what I would say, if I were not concerned about being PC at my mother’s memorial. But, because of the level of understanding of 99% of the people who will be there, I have … Continue reading
Posted in Holistic Healing, Mental Health, The Voyage
Tagged bipolar, death, eulogy, healing, mother daughter relationship
13 Comments
To Everything There Is A Season
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Right now is a time to rest. To take a breath. To build up energy. A time to be born, and a time to … Continue reading
The In Between Time
Such a weird feeling; this in between time. It’s a strange haze of grief, yet at the same time, living life. And that entails the normal range of emotions from sadness, to frustration and anger, to joy, laughter, and having … Continue reading
Echoes
December 27, 2012 I came into the house. The familiar house that I grew up in. The cats are happy to see me- they are hungry because they haven’t had breakfast yet. Beyond tired from a red-eye flight that was … Continue reading
She’s Finally At Peace
This morning, I received the dreaded phone call from my mom’s caregiver. This time, instead of the usual, “Just calling to let you know that everything’s fine,” from her chipper voice, I got an upset, “Something’s wrong; I think she’s … Continue reading
When Will She Come Back?
Mom is still out of touch. Her reality and mine are not the same. She grabs at small pieces of reality and rounds out the story with fantasy. She tells me that Dad had an overdose of cortisone, and it … Continue reading
Posted in Mental Health, The Voyage
Tagged bipolar, death, mental illness, psychotic break
4 Comments
Life Is A Journey... Not A Guided Tour 