Cultivating connection, peace, and positivity

Easier said than done, right? How are you all doing in this unsettling and surreal space we’re inhabiting? I don’t know about you, but tempering the daily onslaught of fear, anxiety, anger, and helplessness is no easy task. Each morning I get a detailed pandemic update from my number one newsman (AKA my husband) as…

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Reimagining Life and Death

In this unprecedented moment in time, I find myself leaning into and reaching out with an open heart as we settle into this new normal that is the coronavirus pandemic. Each day brings with it new information, restrictions, escalating anxiety and fear, loss of life, and loss of our daily, grounding routines. Astonishingly, it has…

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Grace Lessons

  Happy almost spring! I don’t know about you, but with the temperature hovering near 60 and the sun beckoning me to come outside and play, my heart and soul are percolating with possibilities! Miss M and I are super-excited to share our heart-opening interview on WJAR NBC 10’s Studio 10 with Meaghan Mooney. Adorning her…

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Positive News Now

Miss M and I are super excited to share our Positive News Now interview with you! A podcast from our new friend and founder of The Story Stylist, Gayle Nowack, we’re incredibly honored to be Gayle’s featured guests to kick off her new season! Gayle interviews conscious business owners, authors, speakers, and visionaries on her online radio…

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Books and the World

It’s here! Our first Graceful Woman Warrior TV Interview! Deep gratitude to Cape Cod Writer Center’s Books and the World, and our fabulous interviewer, Kathy Aspden. It was as if Terri Luanna handpicked Kathy just for us… As soon as I received the email link I immediately called my Graceful Grief Warrior, Miss M. “You’re…

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The Widowed Parent Podcast

  Meet Jenny Lisk, founder, and creator of The Widowed Parent Podcast. In the wake of losing her husband to brain cancer, Jenny searched for resources to help her children navigate the challenging terrain of grief. Frustrated in her search, she decided to create the content she was looking for. Interviewing some of the most…

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In Our Hearts

Walking down the meat aisle in BJ’s, my phone dinged. Hmmm… I thought. My niece, Jessica. Hope everything’s ok. Pulling my cart to the side to read her text, tears began to swell in the corners of my eyes. Visualizing my beautiful niece driving her inquisitive four-year-old daughter, Sophie Luanna, home from daycare, I continued reading: “I want to…

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Counting My Blessings

  January 1, 2020… Savoring a moment of quiet on this New Year’s morning. Scrolling through social media’s well wishes, resolutions and year/decade in reviews reminded me just how incredibly blessed I am. This past year was filled with so many moments of pure grace as Miss M and I shared her mother’s transcendent legacy…

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Resilience

It’s been an emotionally charged day. It’s Terri’s “deathiversary.” Weird word, right? Well, it’s certainly a weird day. One that, no matter what you do or don’t do, insists on being seen. Heard. Recognized. Sandwiched smack dab in the middle of Thanksgiving and Christmas, the timing intensifies an already magnified sense of missing Terri. Luckily,…

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The “Forgotten Mourners”

    Today is Children’s Grief Awareness Day. According to the National Alliance for Grieving Children, “Bereaved children are often referred to as the ‘forgotten mourners.’ Many bereaved children feel isolated in their grief, unaware that they are not alone. Children’s Grief Awareness is an opportunity to tell children they are not forgotten and that there…

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