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- People who will die
- People who will care for a dying person
- People navigating grief and death in a death-phobic culture
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On my quest for stress reduction, I found myself in an Introduction to Yoga class at The Yoga Sanctuary in Punta Gorda. Sure, it’s trendy, but it’s one of the few fads in which no harm is done by more Americans buying into it. Yoga has been practiced for 5,000 years. It brings physical, mental…
I’m a spiritual, manifesting, tree-hugging hippie, but I’m also a rational person that values evidence. While I do believe in some things that can’t be proven conclusively by science, the majority of the choices I make are backed by results-driven data (if only by a very real placebo effect). Salt lamps have become mainstream in…
*This post was published late because, for those of you who haven’t made a cross-country move, everything takes the back burner when you’re living out of boxes and suitcases. The cat’s out of the bag. We’re moving to Detroit (er-the Detroit Metro Area)! After much consideration, we decided to sell our home and many of…
Dear Janet, To say I was blindsided the day you died last year would be an understatement, and fittingly would be exactly how you died. (Somehow the impact it had on me was more important than the one that took you out? This is what grief does to us.) It was first thing in the…
Have you ever taken a multi-day road trip with a cat, a dog, and a toddler? I’ve done it twice now, and surprisingly, it’s not as bad as it seems! (Admittedly, I can say that because I have an extremely helpful husband.) Back in May 2018, our family drove from Southfield, Michigan to Gulf Breeze,…
Going into 2020, you probably weren’t just looking back on the previous year, but on the previous decade. Weren’t we all wondering how the hell 10 years had passed so quickly, and reflecting on all that had transpired (or not) in that time? I, for one, considered why it was that I didn’t seem…