Episode 219: Thanksgiving Grief

‘What are you doing for Thanksgiving this year?’ This is a question that I have been asked dozens, if not a couple hundred times over the past month. They want to know if we are traveling. They want to know if we are hosting for Thanksgiving. They want to tell me...

Episode 212: Vulnerability and Grief

Vulnerability is defined by dictionary.com as ‘willingness to show emotion or to allow one’s weaknesses to be seen or known; willingness to risk being emotionally hurt’. It is a wonder that anyone would ever allow themselves to be vulnerable. If you are a...

Episode 205: Five Years Later

Five years later. There aren’t words to describe the heaviness of this day. I got an email from my father-in-law saying that he felt like their lives ended when they received the phone call that night. I couldn’t agree more. The family we are now is not...

Episode 184: Physical Symptoms of Grief

Thinking back to the first hour after Andy died, I remember being in the emergency room and having such tremendous chest pain that I thought I must be having a heart attack. The ER staff actually put me through the CT scanner and obtained an EKG, but there was nothing...