The text came in the late evening of July 15th; my brother was in the process of dying. Within 90 minutes, I received another text that he was gone. While he had been fighting cancer for three years, the end came quickly and was a shock. My big brother lived 5 hours from me. We …
You have heard me say it dozens if not hundreds of times – life is beautiful and messy. I coach, speak, and write about positivity, and I believe all of that exists within the beauty and messiness of life. It’s about heightening the beauty through celebration and lessening the messiness of sorrow. It’s about joyful …
A week ago, another tragedy hit, another mass shooting killing 19 4th graders and two teachers. There is the war in Ukraine, global warming, and various other issues that seem to be insurmountable. I know I’ve been asking myself what I can do to bring more LOVE, kindness, compassion, and peace forward. While there …
On Sunday, the world lost an amazing man – Desmond Tutu, and I lost a man who changed my world. I’ve shared his importance in my life before, so I’ll keep it short. I invited him to join my first global hug event in 2008, and he said YES! He then joined a second time before …
Whether you find yourself in celebration or sorrow, know that someone is on a similar journey as you. There is no need to compare your celebrations or sorrows to others’ joy or pain. Feel your feels. Breathe. Laugh. Cry. And remember, YOU are someone! SOMEONE: Someone is welcoming in a new life today. Someone …
I was recently asked this question: “How do you deal with anger at an unexpected loss?” While I do not know the specifics of this question, here are some tips. Please understand that there is not a ‘one size solution’ for everyone. Take what resonates and leave behind the rest. FEEL your anger. It wants …
We can choose compassion instead of comparison on any topic, especially grief. Someone is losing a grandparent today. Someone is losing a parent today. Someone is losing a spouse today. Someone is losing a sibling today. Someone is losing a child today. Someone is losing someone they LOVE and care deeply for today. …
It’s Thanksgiving. This table is used to be extended as far out as possible and often with a card table at one end to allow all the family to eat together. It’s used to having place settings set up for six, eight, or more people depending on who could come. The house smelled delicious, the …
Grief is like a vast body of water. There will be days, especially early on in your grief journey, when the waves are pounding too fast for you to keep up with, and you won’t know how you don’t sink to the bottom. There will be days when a rogue wave hits …
People often ask me how I started Positive Focus. Why did I start Positive Focus? As with many things, I ‘happened’ across PF on a search for my tribe. I thought my tribe was a card league, and I found out my tribe was a global movement. The man, Ray (he was a private …
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