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Coping with grief and loss…

Roxy Lebsanft2016-02-23T08:27:44+00:00February 23rd, 2016|Categories: Blog|Tags: Acceptance, allowing, Coping, grief, loss|

Is anyone else finding February an up and down month? I’m feeling more healthy and content than I have in a long time (thanks to more diligence with health and work-life balance strategies) and yet sad at the same time. On Friday night I found out that one of my friends has terminal stomach and lung cancer. It was a shock - sudden, completely unexpected and it’s aggressive. He went straight into palliative care. As I was sharing the news [...]

Lessons of Loss and Love

Spending time with people who are approaching the end of life is an experience I’ve come to value for the way it helps me put things in perspective. As a result, I’ve discovered that when I approach the week just one day at a time, as you do when circumstance prompts you to remember that each one is a gift, it becomes easier to discern the important things of life from the not so important. Here are five things I’ve [...]