A few months ago a new client called me to make an appointment. She had just been through a very painful separation. We talked about what...

I originally wrote this in college, but it is still just as timely now. You never know what you have until it's gone. I always believed...

Hide and Seek is a wonderful game to play with your children. The next time you play this game observe what happens. If you are the...

A teenager drowned in the sea during a Church youth camp. A large group of believers who gathered for a pastors' convention were all...

There are things in life that I may never want to happen. There are things that I will try to hide from, try to keep away. There is...

We all experience severe heart break at some time in our lives. For many it happens in childhood or adolescence, the time when we are...

It was a couple of weeks after Christmas, and I was standing by my mailbox in the vestibule of the apartment building where I lived in...

Consumed by my loss, I didn't notice the hardness of the pew where I sat. I was at the funeral of my dearest friend - my Mother. She...

It was a moment I will never forget. On February 22, 2003, I was visiting with my son Brian Michael at his home in North Carolina, where...

Becoming a care giver might not have been a conscious decision on your part. It may have arrived quietly and unnoticed because you are...

Guilty, Your Honor, I whisper. Have you ever done anything so horrible that you would prefer to hide in a dark closet for the rest of...

With my father, his brother and their father having had late onset Alzheimer's I can't help but wonder if someday it will be my fate....

"T he only constant is change". Change is something that affects us all in our lives some more serious and impacting than others. Moving...

Dan called me to his room. He looked perplexed and asked "who are all these people Barbara?" I looked around the room. On the walls there...

Hurricane Katrina has hit all of us in America, both literally and figuratively, close to home. Initially, the most startling thing to me...

My mom just passed away recently. It was a very quick death; the result of a fast-moving cancer. We had no idea that she was so sick;...

Here I sit in Wisconsin in my Aunt Mary's hospice room, as she lay dying. I'm feeling myriad emotions and thoughts are surfacing that I...

Birthdays, anniversaries and other significant days can cause great pain after the loss of a beloved. Counselors call them grief...

Most people do not understand the death process until they are faced with the death of a loved one or they decide to plan their own...

I must admit the subject of death is not one that I am very comfortable with. My family has dealt with much death over the course of the...