Colebird

11/06/2023

10/20/2023

Posting my two favorite pre-accident pictures of my mom on her what would have been 83rd birthday. I feel her kind, compassionate, beautiful, playful soul so deeply in both of these photos. I miss you every day, mama. ❤️

05/03/2023

I so enjoyed talking with Christine and Shelley on their podcast, “Dare To Live”. Their podcast focuses on their own personal grief journeys, navigating being widows and moms of teens. They bring authenticity, courage, humor, wisdom and so much more. It was an honor to be a guest! ❤️

03/01/2023

From a client. I love this so much. ❤️

08/11/2022

Now offering sessions at Om Spa!

02/24/2022

“ …stop every few hours, or stop whenever you're feeling stressed. Then take three deep breaths. Then smile from your head to your toes and everywhere in your body.” Deepak Chopra

02/10/2022

Oh. So. True. ❤️

02/01/2022

15 years and I remember it like it was yesterday. The sleepless night gazing out the window from the living room couch, the snowy morning, our golden retriever, jasper, frolicking in the snow before we said goodbye to her to leave for our doctor’s appointment. The final ultrasound before the scheduled c-section. The panic on the nurse’s face. The doctor confirming that baby B didn’t have a heartbeat. Cole. Cole didn’t have a heartbeat. But surely it was a mistake. (Cont. in comments)

12/30/2021

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Many of us are taught that we shouldn’t be affected by grief and loss, but no one is exempt. As we heal through meditation, our hearts break open to feel fully. Powerful feelings, deep unspoken parts of ourselves arise, and our task in meditation is first to let them move through us, then to recognize them and allow them to sing their songs. This poem by Wendell Berry illustrates this beautifully.

What we find as we listen to the songs of our rage or fear, loneliness or longing, is that they do not stay forever. Rage turns into sorrow; sorrow turns into tears; tears may fall for a long time, but then the sun comes out. We can learn to open our heart to all of it, to the pain, to the pleasures we have feared.

(from "A Path with Heart")

12/30/2021

How many of us walk around with the nagging feeling of “something’s wrong”, or “the other shoe is going to drop”, or “I’m/ It’s not enough”?

Anxiety. I know it well. Especially in grief.

Reading this, and remembering again (and again and again) that “enough” is right here in the fullness of presence, of this very moment, truly allows me to take a deep breath and let “everything that’s wrong” dissolve, making space for an open and calm heart. ❤️

(Pictured is an excerpt from Tara Brach’s beautiful book ‘Trusting the Gold’.)

12/01/2021

We get to choose! But first we have to be aware of our thoughts… and THEN we can choose differently.

11/29/2021

❤️

11/18/2021

Or a good scream!
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10/20/2021

My beautiful mama turned 80 one year ago today. Her soul left this earth 16 days later. I miss her so deeply every single day. But I know she is free. This first picture of her is my all-time favorite. I think this is how her soul looks now… sparkly, happy, full of joy… and so very free. Happy birthday, mama. I love you so much. ❤️