Circumstance Vs Thought

In the beginning we can feel responsible for what has happened. My thoughts: “I should have been there.” Now add on the fact that we do not know how to do this grieving thing. My Thoughts: “I don’t Know how to grieve.” My friend these are your...

The Grieving Experience Has An Ending

There’s a lot of things that frustrate me, with being a Grief Specialist and working with grievers trying to help them through their grief.  We try to help them find their own personal path out and through it. But nothing frustrates me more sister dear then...

I Feel Bad For Feeling Good

I distinctly remember having a, a huge bowl of vanilla ice cream. Now that I think back on it, I probably was trying to eat away my pain. This was right after Austin had died and the very first spoonful of vanilla ice cream that I put in my mouth was, so sweet and so...

Conflicting Grief Feelings

It’s a concept. I don’t think a lot of people think about the fact that love and hate can exist at the same time in our heart. Happy and sad can exist at the same time. That’s where the term bittersweet comes from. We have opposite emotions or how we...

Prioritize Your Grief

We have to start prioritizing our grief. We do need.  No one wants to be without love. But when you have love and you have these relationships through death, divorce, and again, break up of a romantic relationship, you lose it. But no one wants to deal with it....

Uvalde

This episode was recorded just two weeks after the Uvalde, Texas shooting.  Sharon asks Erica to go back to the moment when she learned that Austin had died to help people understand what those parents might have been feeling in the moments leading up to finding...