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We have always needed each other but in times of quiet certainty, we can forget how much.

A quiet, stable life depends on honest human interactions and support.   Unfortunately our neighbours to the south have elected a president who isn’t interested in friendly interactions with us, nor in mutual support.  Many Canadians are feeling our quiet, stable way of life, being shaken…

For more than 200 years we have lived quietly, trusting that our neighbours to the south would act in a neighbourly fashion and now they’re not.   So we grieve.    We grieve the peaceful coexistence  and the peace-of-mind that seems lost to us right now.

Grievers need people who will listen without shushing them or painting a sunny face on things and they need to stay away from those who would add outrage and fear to the load that they are already struggling with.  

Right now we are all grieving the uncertainty of living next to the USA.

Right now we all need good listeners.

We need each other.

xox

This week the news was full of stories…

… stories of a schoolyard bully with too much power …

and the air was filled with the uproar of people debating how to deal with the bully.

For many, his bullying behaviour and the ripples from it will have brought up memories of other bullies… and other abuses and the frustrating feeling of powerlessness that comes with abuse. 

If this week has brought up painful memories for you, please be gentle with yourself.     xox

You can’t change what happened to you but you can change how you feel. 

When you have the tools you need and you use them, you can heal.

Grief Recovery teaches adults how to heal their broken hearts

and supports them while they do it.

Start 2025 with the skills that can change your life

and the support you’ve been searching for.

xox

When well meaning folks tell you that “You’re Not Alone” 

they have no idea how misunderstood

and how much More alone that phrase can make you feel.

They don’t get it.

They haven’t walked in your shoes.

They don’t know what you feel.

… and if what you feel is Alone …

then the holiday season can be a very hard and lonely time

No Matter How Many Other People might be near by.

Grief Recovery teaches adults how to heal their broken hearts.

No matter what broke them.

How long they’ve been broken,

Or how painful the break might feel.

You can heal your broken heart.

… and you don’t have to do it alone.

As adults we are somehow expected to know how to deal with everything that life throws at us…  no matter what life throws at us… and most of the time we end up winging it.

Most of the time we’re copying what we saw our parents do… even when it doesn’t bring us satisfying results or seem terribly healthy.

We do it this way… because it’s all we’ve ever known.

It’s hard to admit that what we’ve been doing isn’t working… or that what we were taught isn’t healthy.

That’s what makes admitting that we don’t know, such a brave and life-changing act.

Because when you admit that you’re in a rut and that you don’t know how to get out… you can stop.

You can stop doing what isn’t working and start looking for new and better.

You can stop following the old rules and begin to look for help in new places, from new people.

You can learn new ways of living.

   xox

For some it comes with milestone birthdays, or New Year’s resolutions…

for others it’s the autumn leaves and shortening days that trigger it…

that nagging feeling that you’ve got more good days behind you, than there are left in front…

.. and you grieve.

You’re not grieving the passing of time per se but the chances missed and the mistakes made… and the bittersweet memories of things you won’t do again.

We’re allotted about 80 years in a lifetime…

… that’s 4160 weeks.

What have you done with yours?

What do you still want to do?

What have you given up on?

What is holding you back?

If grief, anger and regrets are stopping you from moving forward in life, the Grief Recovery Method can teach you how to heal.    xox

Life is full of broken promises.

“If you do well in school, you’ll get a good job.”

“If you marry a nice person you’ll be happy forever.”

“Once summer arrives there will be cottages and beaches and barbecues with friends.”

Life seldom turns out the way we expect it to.

If you’re alone, or feeling alone this summer, please be gentle with yourself.

… and if you’re grieving,  I’m here.   xo

We all make mistakes and we all have regrets.

When life changes, it can feel like a door has closed.  

We can feel like prisoners, locked in cells with nothing but our regrets.

How are you supposed to move on from that?  

We’ve all missed deadlines at one time or another, said things that would have been better left unsaid and stayed silent when words would have helped…  but sometimes those slip-ups feel impossible to recover from.

If you have ever wondered how to  forgive yourself for what you have done or failed to do… Grief Recovery has the answer.   Grief Recovery teaches people the steps to take to heal hurts that seem impossibly complicated.  It only takes 7 weeks.

Your time to do things right may have passed but your time to heal the pain of regret hasn’t. 

Call today and find out how.