by Lisa McFarland | Mar 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Nature is one of my favorite aspects of life. In fact my genuine experience is that nature IS life. When the seasons change, I am reminded that I am part of many different life cycles from micro, to macro that repeat again and again with no action of my own...
by Lisa McFarland | Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Last week we looked at some differences between pain and suffering with the goal of trying to understand what we can learn to do, if anything to reduce them both. As a quick recap, we noted that pain is the loss we feel when someone we love dies and suffering is what...
by Lisa McFarland | Mar 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
In a former post linked here we discussed the concept of “Brain Blunders” and how they relate to our experience of grief and potential healing. As a reminder, we called out the fact that in the absence of information that makes sense to us, our brain works hard to...
by Lisa McFarland | Mar 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Reader’s Note: This post is a bit longer than most, feel free to break it up by reading in installments 🥰 In a recent conversation with someone very close to me, I was sharing a concern I had about a friend of mine whom I have not heard from in some time. I am...
by Lisa McFarland | Mar 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
In a recent post I mentioned that at the time of September 11th I was working as a nurse in the Pediatric ICU of a local hospital. There was such a feeling of connection in the aftermath of our Nation’s worst terrorist attack in history. There was a warmth that...
