Life After Loss: You’re Still You {podcast}

Happy July! The kids and I are on a three week “West Coast Tour,” as I like to call it, visiting friends and family. It’s been one year, on the nose, since we moved from San Diego to Virginia, so it was time to come back and see all the beautiful...

Women’s Retreat on Orcas Island

Well, I’m kinda bursting to tell you this! My warrior sister, LMFT Elaine Hamilton, and I are co-hosting a women’s retreat on the incomparable Orcas Island, WA, October 10-13, 2019. WHAT!?!? Elaine and I are both navigating unforeseen seasons in our lives,...

NEW BOOK!

You guys! I’m so excited to announce that I have a new book coming at the end of summer — August, 20, 2019 to be exact. I’ve been working on it for some time now, and I can’t wait to put it in your hands because this one’s a bit different...

First chill, then stupor, then the letting go

Since I shared with you about the loss I’m currently navigating, so so so many of you have reached out to me and told me what you’re facing. Impossible situations. The kinds of things you can’t see beyond, you cannot even imagine what your life will look...

This is for all of us who have lost something . . .

The last year has been the hardest year of my life. I have found myself in the middle of my greatest fear, walking through the very situation I would have done anything to avoid. One year ago, my husband, Steve, came home from back-to-back deployments — he had...

Every Wall Becomes a Door

If you’ve read Begin Again, you might have seen the beautiful poem by Fr. Francis Dorrf that I chose for the epigraph of the book. It reads: I’ll know I’ve been raised from the dead When everything becomes a door— Every brick wall, Every dead end, Every...