by Lisa McFarland | May 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
I spend a lot of time walking. I love nature and find it especially comforting. Sometimes I listen to audio books or Ted Talks, and other times I just listen to my old reliable Spotify playlist of liked songs. There are several hundred songs I have deemed worthy of...
by Lisa McFarland | May 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Over a year ago, I started creating a series of public service announcements about grief. Specifically these are concepts to consider when foraging our own healing path. The intention behind the PSA Series is to provide some basic tools to help you navigate your new...
by Lisa McFarland | May 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
As I navigate my community from one day to the next, I continue to experience the omnipresent nature of death and dying. It’s everywhere. Nearly every day someone I know is trying to navigate their grief, just as I am. And this is not bad news necessarily, more like...
by Lisa McFarland | May 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the last post we considered acting on the invitation to see our moms as humans, who are flawed and miraculous, just like all of us. The encouragement was to try and see the world from their perspectives, and even get curious about our moms’ experience in raising...
by Lisa McFarland | May 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Know any? As we embark on Mother’s Day Weekend I thought it would be appropriate to talk about our complicated and idiosyncratic relationships with our moms. For one thing, when we are perusing the greeting card isle at the supermarket we might notice that the cards...