grief

3 min read 2023-06-01 22:30:18

LGBTQIA+ Pride Month Without Your Person

With LGBTQIA+ Pride celebrations kicking off this week it’s easy to feel… well, a lot of things. With the anti-queer, anti-trans,

2 min read 2023-05-31 09:01:00

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James were thinkers and writers, and each of them faced the traumatic death of a person they

1 min read 2023-05-31 00:08:07

Next month I will publish my sixth collection of poems, The Wind and the Rain, with Blue Diode Publishing. I am launching the book at St Mark’s

2 min read 2023-05-29 21:00:12

This week on It’s OK that You’re Not OK: What’s it all for? Loss and meaning in midlife with Chip Conley Midlife has a lot of messy stuff

15 min read 2023-05-27 02:00:23

1989 Dettingen, Germany It’s a late summer afternoon, the sky blush and gold. The heat has left my cheeks flushed and my hair sweaty. I find my

3 min read 2023-05-23 19:00:08

You won’t find bones or bodies. Instead you’ll find natural stone markers, buried ashes, and feathers. Dried flowers, prayers written on small

2 min read 2023-05-22 21:00:22

This week on It’s OK that You’re Not OK: Living with chronic illness: a conversation for everyone with a body, with Sarah Ramey Look, there

3 min read 2023-05-20 13:09:00

Watching a loved one move through the stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can be one of life’s toughest and most heart-breaking challenges. If

3 min read 2023-05-20 13:09:00

Watching a loved one move through the stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can be one of life’s toughest and most heart-breaking challenges. If

2 min read 2023-05-17 23:28:00

If you’re a man, you are likely to develop prostate cancer at some point. This will generally happen when you’re older/old, and in most cases,

3 min read 2023-05-15 21:00:15

This week on It’s OK that You’re Not OK: Collective Grief and Communal Joy: with Baratunde Thurston Can you heal pain by focusing on

3 min read 2023-05-11 18:53:10

I recently completed three-plus years of off-and-on (mostly on) supply work at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Española, New Mexico. The end

3 min read 2023-05-09 19:00:50

It’s been a month since my old dog Willow died, and I miss her healing presence. The house feels empty without her calm energy, but my young dog

2 min read 2023-05-08 21:00:34

This week on It’s OK that You’re Not OK: Why do we celebrate trauma (aka: resilience)? with Dr. Gabor Maté Did anyone teach you that

2 min read 2023-05-08 02:11:12

I decided to take the long way home. I had just dropped off our younger son at a sleepover, and our older one is in Kenya for two weeks on a service