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A “Love Letter” from Terri’s Dad❤️
The Brains of a Spider (NSFW) Readers are welcome to join the conversation! If you are moved to respond to Spider’s musings, feel free to write in at spiderweb@shaw.ca. Any responses that Spider replies to will be added to the comments on the blog page. Our daughter’s book This will be an atypical blog…
Read MoreAll you need is love…
Tis the season of love❤️ With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I find myself looking more deeply at the power of love in my life. And in Miss M’s. The power of loving connection… The power of loving yourself… The power of loving kindness… The power of loving community… Recently, Miss M and I attended empowerHER‘s…
Read MoreDahlia Living is spreading the love this Valentine’s!
Join us for a heart-to-heart Book Talk / Signing! Featuring the newly released posthumous memoir: Graceful Woman Warrior: A Story Of Mindfully Living In The Face Of Dying by Terri Luanna da Silva, Laurie O’Neil & Marisa Alegria da Silva When: Saturday, Feb. 9th 2pm-4pm Where: Dahlia Living (321 Elm Street, South Dartmouth, MA 02748)…
Read More“That was a tough loss. But dying is a part of life…” Carlin Lynch
Sifting through stories since hearing the news that beloved coach, educator, humanitarian and patriarch, Carlin Lynch passed away. A “father” figure to so many, including me, his passing is a “tough loss” to everyone who knew him. But as Carlin said to his friend, Buddy Thomas, “Dying is a part of life…” The question becomes,…
Read MoreBlank Slate…
New Years… TIme to review, re-examine, and reimagine the year ahead. What will you conjure and create as you write your story on 2019’s blank slate? This weekend I closed the private practice chapter of my life (for now). My heart overflowed with gratitude for the privilege of creating a sacred therapeutic space through which…
Read MoreChristmas Dream Making
12-05-2018 Dear Auntie Laurie, Thank you so much for doing this! This means a lot to me, and I wish somehow I could pay…
Read MoreSo Much Love…
Terri Luanna, we did it! Four years to the day you transitioned your dream became a reality. Our “Graceful Woman Warrior” Book Launch exceeded…
Read MoreYou are invited…
Tonight is the night… Four years to the day our beloved Terri Luanna transitioned, her legacy of open-hearted love, resilience and transformative grace lessons is yours for the taking. Please tune in to Graceful Woman Warrior’s FaceBook page tonight at 7:00 pm EST. So many of you reached out, promising to be at Graceful Woman…
Read MoreJust in time for the Holidays, two heartwarming SouthCoast self-published stories
In the spirit of family and kicking off the holiday season, I want to share two stories from BookLovers who have reached out to me recently that are two of the most heartwarming stories about writing and books that you could ever hope to read. “This book is the culmination of a promise I made…
Read MoreGraceful Woman Warrior: In touching book, Dartmouth woman keeps a promise to her late niece
Four years after the passing of Terri Luanna da Silva, Dartmouth retiree Laurie O’Neil will fulfill her promise to her niece by publishing a book on Dec. 9. Da Silva’s posthumous memoir, “Graceful Woman Warrior: A Story Of Mindfully Living In The Face Of Dying,” co-written by her 9-year-old daughter Marisa, offers a bold blueprint…
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