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I talked a lot this week on my instagram about how the path to becoming unstuck is made up of micro moments where you choose to keep going. That when you wake up in the morning, there is that very first brief moment of peace before you are hit, once again, with the reality of the stress, trauma, grief and LIFE happening to you. Even getting out of bed can feel overwhelming and pointless sometimes. But, the way to keep going is two fold. 1. We can do anything for 2 minutes, ju

Recently I have been told I have “big emotions.” Which I found offensive at first. I was reflecting on this on my walk today. And I had to laugh. I started my walk feeling overwhelmed. I feel sadness about my kids going back to school, sadness about my loss and life’s current state. I was listening to a podcast that stirred up a lot of frustration and resentment next. I asked for signs that I was handling my life in the right way. Shortly after a car passed that only had 4 di

But wait... there’s more! That sham wow commercial has truly become a meme for my life. Prior to the year of loss, my life was not all lollipops and rainbows. In fact, I wore the scars of my experiences as a badge of honor, truly. It equipped me to navigate difficult situations and people and it made me really, really good at my work. My superpower is people. All of that came to a dead stop when Thomas died by suicide. The amount of judgement and comments and people pouring o

A full circle moment. When I graduated from high school I KNEW I wanted to be a psychologist. I took my first Intro to Psych. course and felt like I knew everything and it was so boring that I switched majors. Had someone told me then that actually that meant I should stay in that major, I can only imagine what my life would be. But, I landed back here anyway, where I was meant to be. It started a year ago when I decided a faster path to heal my own grief would be to take a c