Over the last couple of weeks as you know I have been struggling and yes, sometimes giving up “seems” easy. I would escape the pain, I would escape knowing how to turn my life around, I would escape having to find a way of rebuilding my life.
Yet is it so easy?
You think of people YOU will hurt, you think of people that will MISS you, you think of how others would give anything to be alive, you think of whether death is an appealing alternative…..
Giving up may seem an easier alternative however it would be hardest on the people you …read more

The reality of bereavement is that we are shaken to our core, our beliefs can be shaken, our belief in the goodness of life can be shaken. You all know how I love quotes to help us think about the future, well Anne Lamott has a wonderful quote to help us
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.”
Grief can stop us in our tracks, stop us from living because of the guilt that …read more

I saw this quote when I was shopping in Whole Foods yesterday, it is accredited to Mary Anne Radmacher
 ”Courage does not always roar,
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
At the end of the day
Saying “I will try again tomorrow”   
I think those 4 lines sum up the courage we need each day as we fight our grief, fight our loss, fight that desire to give up and walk away. But lets all remember to …try again tomorrow.