by Sandy | May 19, 2020 | Divine, Grief, Grief Coaching, Happiness, Healing, Intention, Self-care, Suicide, Suicide Loss Survivor, Suicide Survivor
Jan McDaniel is a writer from the southeastern United States. She creates projects for survivors of traumatic loss, including suicide loss, through her website and blog, A Way for Hope. A partner of Serenity and frequent guest blogger. Jan’s words always ring...
by Sandy | Feb 16, 2020 | Grief, Grief Coaching, Healing
Sometimes when I’m working with a grief coaching client, they will ask, ‘Is it okay if I don’t cry every day? If I laugh at a joke or enjoy a meal with someone, does that mean I never really loved them at all?’ It’s a sincere question and...
by Sandy | Oct 8, 2011 | Grief, Grief Coach Training, Grief Coaching, Happiness, Healing, Holistic Life Coaching, Self-care, Suicide, Suicide Survivor, Workshops
It happens quite often. Someone will be telling about a loss, worry or fear and another will say something like ‘at least you are not going through what I am’. Pretty effectively causing the first person to feel that they have no right to feel what they do...
by Sandy | Sep 25, 2010 | Focus, Grief, Healing, Reiki, Reiki Class, Self-care, Uncategorized
The first time I experienced Reiki it changed my life. Sounds a bit dramatic doesn’t it? Well, for me it was just that. I had been experiencing severe shoulder pain for quite some time. I vividly remember being on that Reiki table and as the hour neared ending I...
by Sandy | Jul 25, 2009 | Grief, Healing, Holistic Life Coaching, Reiki
My father died on Friday, December 29, 2006. It was much more painful than I expected. My father and mother divorced when I was very young. My mom soon married again to the man who raised me, the man I have always considered and referred to me as my dad. I was...