Nancy

What is your relationship with hope? When you’ve finished reading some of my thoughts, I’d love to know what yours are. Hope is a fine word, a fine thing to be sure; but hope is not enough — especially when talking about metastatic cancer. Hope is a tricky thing. It’s elusive, it’s vague, it means …

Just celebrated another birthday, but this post isn’t about that. Then again, it is. You see, today, I’m sharing a little story about an unexpected, birthday-related grief trigger. I would love it if you shared a grief-trigger story of yours at the end of this post. Sometimes, grief triggers are expected. You are prepared, or …

I’m pleased to share this special #MetsMonday featured post by Linda Catanzaro Boberg and her daughter Meg Boberg. They share how their lives have been impacted by preparatory and anticipatory grief and how they cope with the ongoing challenges this kind of grief brings. Dealing with preparatory and anticipatory grief is hard. Writing and reading …

I thought a lot about what title to give this, my first new post of 2022. I mean, one of the ‘rules’ of blogging is that you think long and hard about your post titles and pick a good one. Whatever that means. As you can see, for this one I went with simple. #2022. …

Listen now or download for later. A limited number of other posts are available as audios in my free resource library. When a beloved pet (any kind) dies, it’s a big deal. Therefore, it goes without saying (or should) that pet grief is real grief too. If you’ve ever grieved deeply for a pet and …