This week I have been feeling stressed & overworked. My excuse is: I don’t have time to do this work; plus run my business; plus preparing & creating a Forgiveness Seminar; plus being a coach; a Leader Training Leaders; plus creating an architectural presentation in Peru for a client – that doesn’t exist – but […]
I have always been uncertain what to say to console someone who has lost a loved one. What can I say – what can I do that would actually make a difference for them? I can’t say that I know what they are going thru – because I really don’t know. I feel saying “I’m […]
I received a comment from a reader, Cool Hand Luke, that woke me up from my slumber. The comment said “don’t give up 5 minutes before the miracle…” And I saw that I was giving up! I have not been posting here for a while. And I have kept myself away. I like what Cool […]
Today I received a text message from a friend of mine. She needed some information from me and i’m dealing with my mother’s passing in Hospice, I have been unavailable for her a few days. She wrote “Big Love to you and your family. Hesitating to intrude, but can we talk…” Wow this left me […]
I just read this great story :: Recently, I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport as the daughter’s departure had been announced. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said, “I love you and I wish you enough.” The daughter replied, “Mom, our life together […]
Tonite an email arrived that pulled at all my emotions. It reads :: “Señor, I have maintained my daughter’s roadside marker for 14 years now. I will soon be gone as well. It was important for me, in the waning years of my life, to be able to speak with her at the place she […]
Today I was able to define the statement for The Compassionate Friends newsletter. In this third workday of the SELP I was able to define my mission statement very clearly. It reads like this: What I am out to create is to transform the energy of grief, loss, anger and hopelessness into the energy of […]
There has been this story in the newspapers that is still gnawing at me. On Nov 20, a baby girl, named Baby Grace by investigators, was found in a construction dumpster – umbilical cord still attached. The first thing I thought was “how can anyone just dump a baby like a pile of trash?” But […]
Grief, anger and hopelessness can be very difficult emotions to work thru. But work them thru we must. Sometimes the feeling can be so overwhelming and it seems that there is no way out. This video seems to have all these emotions wrapped up into one package. It express the one thing that we all […]
