The Grief Alchemist

The Power of Choosing Happiness The transformative power of a joyful mindset, regardless of life's challenges and weather. I am committed to living a life of joy, especially during moments of grief and loss. Segment 1: Lessons from a Life Lived with Joy I always say it was the year worth dying for, Willis and his wisdom, encouraging the choice of happiness even in the face of life's storms continu...

The Power of "Yes" Over "No"  The transformative journey from a life filled with "no" to the dawning realization of the countless missed opportunities.  Their may be an initial sense of reluctance and loss tied to leaving home, paralleling it with the gradual journey of self-exploration. Segment 1: Unfolding the Path of New Experiences Then the point where there exists a transition from reluctance...

There is an old Irish proverb that says, joy and sorrow are linked like day and night. You can not experience one without the other.   And I know now that so often, things are not always what they seem, that there is more to our experience and more to this life that what appears at first glance. Connect for a Complimentary Rainbow Energy Session here Mornings have long  become a time for reflectio...

I think I will hurt a little longer. I may need to cry that ocean of tears before I am fully healed. But I wanted to share a beautiful meditation with you this morning. Meditation has many values: offering us new perspective on stressful situations It is a life skill for reducing stress. Allows us to focus on the present and this is where we have control.  The focus when we meditate should be posi...

How many times will we be asked, how are you? And then end up consoling the consoler

The Greek Philosopher Epictetus knew suffering. He was brought to Marcus Aurelius' Rome as a slave, then rose through the ranks to become one of histories greatest teacher, before suffering once more in exile. We can only imagine the hardship of 50 AD for one who lived in slavery and one, Epictetus, who required a cane, due to a lame leg. But, how on earth, does Epictetus play a role in my life as...

It is amazing how life can change on a dime. Every part of our life can change and yet we can feel static. Because if we move, we must at some level of our existence accept this unwanted change. Need to talk? And so, we may feel at times like life is moving around us, like a raging river moves around a large rock. This is grief Other times we may feel out of control, tumbling like the rocks washed...

New Years is a time to stop and reflect on the past. Hillary Swank in the movie, New Years Eve, reminds us that possibly, we get another chance to do more, love more, let go of what was and embrace what is or what will be. And what if we are dying? Can our soul also be excited to return home, to feel the freedom from body and mind?  New Years is often thought of as a celebration, but really it is...

A mountaineer once said, you can climb any mountain, if you simply take one short upward step at a time. Possibly, we can think about life as, one breath at a time. And we can get through anything. Seems simple enough but being awareness of breath may be the most unconscious and wonderous thing available to us. Breathe: James Nester This year has challenged me in so many ways. Reconciling the loss...

My suitcase was packed, tickets, and plans carefully laid in place. I had said from the get-go that I was not doing Christmas. Last year, Christmas was painful enough, wondering if it would be our last, and still not believing that was even possible. But lasts often lead to firsts. I desperately wanted to escape the on slot of emotions that could arise from decorating the house and celebrating the...

Eric Clapton song tears in heaven often could make me cry. I used to love the melody as Garth Brooks sang; I could have missed the pain, but then I would have had to miss the dance. We can touch the surface of raw emotion, watching a show, listening to lyrics, but nothing prepared us for the actual pain of losing a person we love. Grief is not a problem to be solved, comparable to another's grief,...

Have you ever heard of "Earthing". The simple act of walking barefoot on the earth, drawing natural energies from making direct contact with the earths polarity. I had but didn't really pay too much attention to this idea, until I watched a documentary call "Earthing". The Book: Grounding I like when things make sense. We all have this inner knowing that can often be discounted. The intelligence o...

Sandra considers herself to be all things spiritual, then clarifies she is not a part of any religious body. As a spiritual councillor, nondenominational minister, actor, singer, shaman, wedding officiant and more, she sees her role as a spiritual councillor that supports one quest to find and experience a deeper meaning in life, death, and marriage ceremonies. She is vibrant, kind, articulate, fa...

Death tunes us into the times we wish we would have better. Perceived or otherwise, death encourages us to make amends. It is a time we reconcile ourselves. I witnessed this as my husband died, he had the need to make amends. I recall the day he apologized for not being "onboard" early in our relationship. He felt he had wasted so much time and cause both of us grief. Things that I thought I had p...

The time before death is unique. So many torrential emotions flooded my mind as I traversed the biggest loss I had ever experienced, the loss of my life partner and husband Willis. It took a short 9 months for him to travel the path from seemingly healthy persons with a full life, filled with hopes and dreams to death. Before this experience, I had experienced the loss of business enterprises, a d...

Death occurs when the heart stops and breathing ceases and while the brain appears not to be functioning, people who have had an NDE or near-death experience; a lucid structured process with greater consciousness and awareness of themselves in the humanities. About 17% of people who died while in care experienced a review of their life through the lens of humanity, dignity, kindness and compassion...

I was never really good at saying goodbye. In Death, is it good-bye or until we meet again? There is nothing kind about cancer. The diagnosis is painful and brings up many questions and not a lot of answers. As life swings in the balance, the looming potential of death hangs heavily. And then there is the final good-bye. In the 10 months, from diagnosis to death, we spend hours talking about life...

Why can it last so long? Why do some people seem to recover, and others struggle? Some stay sad, others angry, others recover, and thrive, but for those who don't, that is a regret. Possibly they have become their grief. In the beginning, it can feel so overwhelming, that daily functioning is a struggle. The couple weeks after my husband died, I was in shock. By the end of the 2nd month, I thought...

Let's face the fact, we are all going to die at some point. We face death of the people we love, but how often do we talk about it? Surrendering to what is, takes courage. The reality of death, we can not change. At times it can be deeply painful. It may be easier for us to turn away from our pain, locking it away for a while. The loss of a spouse or a child, may be one of these times, that we fai...

Cancer Survivor and health innovator Lisa Warner always had the innate ability to perceive the world much more holistically than most, a gift which has helped deepen her conscious awareness of humanity's inner connection to Source. Even so, the realization she was facing cancer initially terrified her. The resulting experience, however, discovering her "SOULution" within, has been the catalyst for...

Before Kim had an epiphany, she was a financial advisor in saturated market, focussing on her own and other people's financial freedom. She was attending regular network marketing meetings and finding those nessesary leads, reading lots of written advise from world finance experts, and coming home night after night feeling exhausted. All the experts she was studying had one thing in common, they h...

In David R Hawkings book Letting go  David talks about the unconscious loss of freedom we impose on ourselves when we use the words I can't. Rather, David encourages us to ask ourselves a bigger question, Why won't I? Behind the bigger question lies our fears underlying I can't. I know through my experience of drowning in a capsized plane that I can't closed every possible choice I could of had fo...

Have you ever felt horrified, heartbroken, frightened and helpless. It is said, that the emotions we feel are optional, in that we don't have to have our emotions derail our lives. But we are human! We have emotions, but consider sometimes our emotions make our problems bigger than they really are, in that moment. Like the, I can't do this phrase, when really it may mean that I feel overwhelmed, I...

Listening to Marcie, you will know that she has experienced so much grief early in her life, and yet she is here helping others overcome. How did she do it? Like most things in life, it wasn't an easy journey, but with intention and purpose she rose above her pain and loss and looks at life through the window of gratitude. She is an experienced healer, Marcie Mazurenko, started her healing journey...