I spent most of my life questioning God. At times? I felt that there was no way that the song "Jesus loves me" could be about me. Sure, i...

Take this time to look inward. Turn inside of your own heart. Breathe. Corona virus is revealing all of us no matter if it has touched ou...

Piece by piece my heart has healed. September 10, 2015 my first husband ended his life via suicide on my Grandpa's land. Piece by piece. ...

It's your choice how you grow out of your trauma. You can pick yourself up out of the thorns and you can grow your trauma into a beauti...

You can do hard and holy things. You can overcome. You can move through the pain, grief, and trauma with grit. You can hold your li...

It's only heavy if you carry it. There are some events that happen in our lives that change us from the inside out. Sometimes....we carry...

Life has no balance. The balance is within you. If you are off balance within your own soul then another can easily anger you, upset you....

We read so many posts that say we should be watching out for our friends and our family. Watching out for their happiness, their health, ...

One day you're going to be ok. One day you will look back and be in awe that you got this far. One day your heart won't hurt so much and ...

If you have followed my writing from the beginning you know that I don't write about my children's grief. Why? Because it's their grief a...

Grief. When you lose someone you love in a sudden and/or tragic way? You don't have to look for the gift inside of your suffering. Ok? Le...

Open the window. Tonight, I sit here in my home with the window open and the fresh spring air swirling through the room. My fingers are o...

Dear widow, You are allowed to move forward. Does this mean letting go? Forgetting? Moving on? No. You are allowed to move forward. Every...

Have you been following my writing for awhile now? Did the title of this blog post scare you, worry you, or confuse you? It's ok. Don't w...

I received this message from a man today. I was in tears and knew I had to ask him if I could share his message anonymously with the worl...

Stop scrolling for a moment. Are you a man or woman that lost a spouse to suicide and you're raising kids? Me too. It's hard....isn't it?...

I received this letter from a woman in another country. I sobbed the entire way through. I could feel her sadness, her trauma, and her br...

A thousand different heavens. The day that I got the knock on the door that my first husband had shot himself in the heart.......I walked...

I used to be cynical. Really cynical. And then the universe ripped the rug out from under me and left me alone with trauma in my heart an...

This is a heartwarming letter that I received this from a ten-year old boy. I cried rivers of tears through the entire letter. My heart i...