I have been quiet for a little while now.
Over a month ago, I lost unexpectedly lost my Mom. As many of you who have followed my journey the last two years, you also know that I lost my baby brother unexpectedly in a car accident two years ago.
Talk about an avalanche of change in the last 24 months. As you can imagine, these two physical losses are heartbreaking. I wouldn't be being honest if I didn't also tell you that that they have also broken me open in the most positive way. New ways, in fact, that I’m uncovering every day.
I’ve lost (physically) but I know that I have and will continue to gain a new (emotional and spiritual) perspective, everyday that I stay open.
Specifically, I know that I will gain a new and even deeper way to love, to serve and to transparently share.
In this time that I haven’t been communicating with you, I’ve gone inside, and in many ways, looked up. You could say I’ve looked up for guidance around how to best heal. I miss my Mom and Dino terribly! (The photo above was taken at our family home just two months ago before she passed).
Life will look up as I continue to look up. Thankfully this is just the kind of woman my Mom was and is also what she passed onto me…
One thing I know that helped me begin to heal from losing my baby brother was serving others (acceptance was met somewhere at the intersection of helping others and taking time to be still and also help myself).
I remember sharing this with my Mom many times over the last two years. She would ask me how I was “doing it” and this was almost always my answer: supporting and serving others.
One thing I will forever be grateful for is following each other’s grief journeys so closely. She was my confidante and I was hers, and for that, I am extremely grateful! Where there is love there is life, and, there is still so much love between us.
As happens with tragic or unexpected deaths, I haven’t made sense of it all yet, of course, but, I want to share as much as I can. Why? Because we can't do it alone (we aren't meant to do it alone) AND writing is my medicine. (It is great medicine).
You may follow my ongoing sharings on my personal Facebook page HERE.
I trust that pieces of what I share will support you on your journey of change. Because, as humans, the truth is that we are all on a journey of change…
Lastly, as always, I am acutely aware that in order to create your most powerful authentic brand as a woman, you must work, everyday, to create yourself. And sometimes this can come from allowing things, such as death, to show us how to live today, REALLY live, today.
If you have a choice. Choose really living today.
So, that's where I am at the moment. I'm happy to be back sharing with you. Thank you. Sending you all my love.
Life will look up as you continue to look up…
I'll be in touch again soon.
Life is good,
p.s. Where there is love, there is life.
You can follow my writing on life and death HERE.