As Thanksgiving approaches in 6 days, let’s be intentional with gratitude. Looking for Father’s with daughters to join me on this 6 day gratitude challenge.
It’s simple
1. Every morning 3 things you are grateful for
2. Every night before bed 3 things you are grateful for
Do this WITH YOUR DAUGHTER. It could be verbal or write it in a journal. If you are down to join me drop a 🤙🏼 in the comments.
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Hey, you busy Dad, stop. Listen, this is what you need to do for gratitude for the next 6 days as Thanksgiving approaches. Do this with your daughter. Three things you're grateful for in the morning and three things you're grateful for in the evening. 6 days in a row. Except the challenge. Do it with me and with your daughters and see how that changes our perspective, our mindset, and just our overall well-being because we know gratitude changes things. So if you're down, put a shaka in the comments that you're down. We're going to do this together. All right, let's do it.
As 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 2024 approaches, let's take a moment to give thanks for the times spent together that make our days better, the struggles that make us stronger, and the community that keeps us all together.
Let's express gratitude for one another and the countless blessings we share.
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✨I help widows step out of the fog of grief, get unstuck, and reclaim themselves to create a beautiful life after loss
💫My new grief course "Into The Light" is now available⬇️
After becoming a widow at the age of 35, I've learned that everyone has an opinion and you will receive conflicting advice about how you should pick up the shattered pieces of your life:
Go back to work right away → Take some time off.
Leave your wedding ring on → Take your wedding ring off.
You’re too sad → You’re too happy.
You’re talking about him too much → You’re not talking about him enough.
You should wait to date → don’t wait too long to date.
Don’t make any big life decisions → You’re not making enough changes.
You should go and exercise → You should rest more.
You should spend more time with your kids → You should take more time for yourself.
You should keep busy → Don’t you think you should slow down?
It is exhausting and it often feels like you can’t do anything right. If you’re struggling with conflicting advice and worrying about making people uncomfortable with how you're showing up in the world after your person’s death, I completely get it. It can feel like you're desperately trying to please everyone so they stay and you don't suffer MORE loss.
But here is the thing. When you sacrifice your own comfort for others, what you’re really sacrificing is your authentic self and path. You begin to live a life that isn’t your own but is curated by other’s opinions of you and what others think is best for you. You need to make yourself comfortable, not anyone else.
If this resonated with you and you need help navigating relationships, setting boundaries, and cultivating confidence and empowerment after the death of your person, see below for practical grief support and how to work with me.
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✨ The power of giving is truly transformative. When we extend a helping hand, the positive impact is felt far beyond the initial act. Whether it's through time, resources, or simply a kind word, giving creates a ripple effect that spreads happiness and fulfillment.
🔄 The beauty of giving lies in its reciprocity. By helping others, we often find ourselves receiving much more in return. This might come in the form of gratitude, personal growth, or a deeper sense of connection with our community. The joy we bring to others has a way of enriching our own lives in unexpected and profound ways.
💖 Embrace the power of giving and witness how it elevates your spirit. Acts of kindness, no matter how small, can lead to a more joyful and fulfilling life. Let's make giving a habit and create a world where everyone thrives on the happiness it brings.
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This year has flown by, hasn't it? As we get ready to say goodbye to 2024, let's think about the journey we've all been on as parents. It's been a year of ups and downs, of laughter and tears.
Some of you may have celebrated incredible things – maybe your child took their first steps, learned to read, or overcame a big challenge. For others, this year might have brought sadness or disappointment.
No matter what this year held for you, I hope you can find moments to be thankful for. I hope you can hold onto the happy memories.
We're a group of parents, each with our own stories and struggles. Let's support each other, offer kind words, and celebrate each other's wins.
So today, I want you to reflect on how this year has been for your family. What are some of the biggest moments you'll remember? What are you most grateful for? What are you looking forward to in the year ahead?
May the coming year bring you and your family joy, love, and a sense of peace.
𝙇𝙚𝙩'𝙨 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙠𝙞𝙙𝙨 𝙖 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢!
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If you are struggling with peace in your home or constant conflict, book a call with me.
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Is "giving back" something you should delay until you have everything you need first?
Or, is it a muscle you can grow with what you have right now?
I’ve been reflecting on that and shifting my beliefs around giving...
It is easy to imagine that big acts of kindness can only happen when you have over abundance.
Yet, what if giving of what you have today is really helping you become the type of person that will actually act on giving WHEN you have abundance...
Anna Wierenga is a great example of someone who gives freely and every chance she gets. She is always jumping to seeing ways she can help others around us.
I’m learning from her that we don’t need excess to make an impact.
Sometimes a thoughtful conversation or a genuine gesture of a cooked meal is enough to lift someone’s spirit.
Generosity is a choice that transforms us just as much as it helps others.
The challenge in front of us today is to learn how we can make giving part of our daily journey, not the outcome at the end.
How have you seen this done well in your network?
#Givingback
✨I help widows step out of the fog of grief, get unstuck, and reclaim themselves to create a beautiful life after loss
💫My new grief course "Into The Light" is now available⬇️
I built a life with my late husband for 10 years before the fateful day that we lost him and life as we knew it was forever changed. For a decade I knew the person I was with my husband. I knew what this world looked like and felt like. I was comfortable in this life, with the people that were in it, my identity within it, and my dreams and plans for the future.
When your person dies your life as you know it up abruptly ends. There is a hard break in your life’s path and you are detoured in a completely different direction without the person that you were walking with for so long.
It is natural and normal to feel lost, disoriented, and overwhelmed on this new path you find yourself. Even when you get your footing and step forward into a new life after loss, it can still feel strange and uncomfortable because it is different than the path you were on. Your brain hasn’t caught up to your new reality. It hasn’t gotten used to your new personality or the new way you have to perform daily tasks because everything now shares space with trauma and grief. The people that were once in your orbit may fade away and new ones will join. You may feel like your purpose in life is also altered. You may tolerate less because your expectations are higher now knowing that life can be cut so incredibly short and you want to focus on the quality of your time and who you spend it with.
If this resonated with you and you need guidance to feel fully planted and comfortable in your life after loss, see below for practical grief resources and how to work with me in a 1:1 container.
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💌DM "Support" for 1:1 grief support
💌DM "Light" for my grief course
💌DM "Carried" to preorder my 2nd book
💌DM "Running " for my book
💌DM "Email" to sign up for my list
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✨I help widows step out of the fog of grief, get unstuck, and reclaim themselves to create a beautiful life after loss
💫My new grief course "Into The Light" is now available⬇️
My late husband, Ryan, had a dark blue mesh laundry basket in the closest in our bedroom. When he suffered an anoxic brain injury on October 14, 2021, and never returned home, every day I stared at that laundry basket. I couldn’t touch the basket for months after his medical event. It felt as if washing those clothes would be accepting that Ryan was never coming home and that our worlds would never be the same. I just wasn’t ready to come to terms with that reality.
The people we love who die leave so much behind. Everywhere I turned in our home, there were reminders that Ryan had been real. For so long it was too painful to go through his things. I think part of me was in willful denial, that this couldn’t be my life. I didn’t do anything because it was rebellion against his death. But there came a time when staring at the clothes in that blue, mesh laundry basket and Ryan’s things around our house caused so much more pain to look at than reassurance and peace. At a point, they made me feel like I was trapped in a tomb of broken dreams and a broken future.
In many of the decisions I had to make after my husband's death I used the same exact metric to decide on my “readiness.” If changing something brought me more pain than peace, I did nothing. But as soon as that balance shifted and not doing something caused more pain than peace, I knew it was time to take intentional action. It didn’t mean acting was easy, but only that I was ready to move toward accepting a layer of my grief and my new life.
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Grief coach for widows. Helping widows lost in grief find joy and purpose after loss.
✨I help widows step out of the fog of grief, get unstuck, and reclaim themselves to create a beautiful life after loss
💫My new grief course "Into The Light" is now available⬇️
I built a life with my late husband for 10 years before the fateful day that we lost him and life as we knew it was forever changed. For a decade I knew the person I was with my husband. I knew what this world looked like and felt like. I was comfortable in this life, with the people that were in it, my identity within it, and my dreams and plans for the future.
When your person dies your life as you know it up abruptly ends. There is a hard break in your life’s path and you are detoured in a completely different direction without the person that you were walking with for so long.
It is natural and normal to feel lost, disoriented, and overwhelmed on this new path you find yourself. Even when you get your footing and step forward into a new life after loss, it can still feel strange and uncomfortable because it is different than the path you were on. Your brain hasn’t caught up to your new reality. It hasn’t gotten used to your new personality or the new way you have to perform daily tasks because everything now shares space with trauma and grief. The people that were once in your orbit may fade away and new ones will join. You may feel like your purpose in life is also altered. You may tolerate less because your expectations are higher now knowing that life can be cut so incredibly short and you want to focus on the quality of your time and who you spend it with.
If this resonated with you and you need guidance to feel fully planted and comfortable in your life after loss, see below for practical grief resources and how to work with me ⬇️
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💌DM "Support" for grief support
💌DM "Carried" to preorder my 2nd book
💌DM "Running " for my book
💌DM "Email" to sign up for my list
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Grief coach for widows. Helping widows lost in grief find joy and purpose after loss.
✨I help widows step out of the fog of grief, get unstuck, and reclaim themselves to create a beautiful life after loss
💫My new grief course "Into The Light" is now available⬇️
If I could go back to the time before my husband's accident, there is so much I would do differently.
There is so much I would make sure I knew and understood about what my husband, Ryan, wanted if anything happened to him and what would be the most significant and important to him as the boys and I went through our lives without him. I would make sure we had the really tough conversations even if they we didn't want to talk about these terrible, unimaginable things.
We didn't have a lot of these conversations and so I had to make really difficult decisions on my own without truly knowing what Ryan wanted. All my decisions were in his best interest (or so I thought), but I truly wish I didn't have to make any decisions in crisis and that I just knew exactly what to do. I didn't know so much. I still don't know if I did exactly what he would have wanted. But I truly did the best I could.
If you're reading this and have a spouse or significant other, here is your sign to start having those really tough, messy, and unpleasant conversations. I wish I had fought for them. I wish I had some insight into so many things I have to guess and wonder now for myself. It's too late for me, but it's not too late for you if your spouse is still here ❤️ I hope you never have to know the answers to these questions, but I promise they will mean more than you know if you ever do need to know.
What are some things you wish you had asked your spouse before they died?
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Grief coach for widows. Helping widows lost in grief find joy and purpose after loss.
