by Lisa McFarland | Nov 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Huh? Just reading that sentence should make your stomach turn. Yet I hear this so often when trying to help others make space for their grief. In the last post we talked about the word “selfish.” We challenged our use of the word, and opened to the fact that the...
by Lisa McFarland | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
The word you likely need to delete from your database of language is “selfish.” If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone, especially a woman, say to me “I don’t want to be selfish” I would be free of financial stressors for the rest of my life! Here are some...
by Lisa McFarland | Nov 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
The answer to this question seems obvious. Whether we lost a loved one long ago, or just this year, we understand that grief has set in and it is part of us now. Even if we don’t feel acceptant or open, anyone who has lost a loved one has felt some degree of grief...
by Lisa McFarland | Nov 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has passed since I lost my daughter Alexis (1997) and my son Emmanuel (2002). Getting around to this time of year remains a hostile threat. It’s the dangerous kind we can’t see coming even though we have been here a million...
