Losing a loved one is difficult. The holidays make it worse. Here are some ways to remember your loved ones and care for you.

May you celebrate Halloween (or not) in the way that serves your heart and soul best. Here’s what this holiday means to me.

Caring for yourself while grieving and taking care of loved ones. Can hold both at the same time. How I've learned to do it and still work on.

People struggling with grief and illness don't always show it on the outside. My story of Nick's cancer diagnosis.

Losing partial hearing and how hearing aids improved my quality of life.

Taking back your agency from grief and how writing lists can help.

How my dog, Zoey, walked alongside me during my grief journey and how they save us.

Weathering the storms of Grief (HURRICANE)

How journaling and letting others know how I really was helped my healing.

This is the space between grief and hope and how journaling is an act of hope.

Losing our beautiful dog but Love always wins.

Daily stories of why October is my favorite and worst month of the year. How joy and sorrow can co-exist in the same moment. Halloween is a day of the ultimate joy and sorrow of October.

Daily stories of why October is my favorite and worst month of the year. How joy and sorrow can co-exist in the same moment. 15-year anniversary of suddenly losing my son after four months of treatment for leukemia.

Daily stories of why October is my favorite and worst month of the year. How joy and sorrow can co-exist in the same moment. How The Oak Tree Poem held us up during Nick’s illness and beyond.

Daily stories of why October is my favorite and worst month of the year. How joy and sorrow can co-exist in the same moment. Birth of my second son. Family complete.

Daily stories of why October is my favorite and worst month of the year. How joy and sorrow can co-exist in the same moment. The sky’s the limit with a costume and imagination. Our love of playacting.

Daily stories of why October is my favorite and worst month of the year. How joy and sorrow can co-exist in the same moment. Story of my birth and how it molded me into the person I am today.

Daily stories of why October is my favorite and worst month of the year. How joy and sorrow can co-exist in the same moment. Nick’s journey to remission and the stumbles and wins of October.

Daily stories of why October is my favorite and worst month of the year. How joy and sorrow can co-exist in the same moment. How family decorations remind us of beautiful memories and warmth of a season or holiday.

Daily stories of why October is my favorite and worst month of the year. How joy and sorrow can co-exist in the same moment. How journaling was a place to release my grief and how I built a legacy of love through words.