Finding Your Way Forward  

Just as life is filled with amazing joys and accomplishments, it is also filled with unexpected and sometimes destabilizing losses.  We know our parents will die… someday, but that doesn’t make it any less heart wrenching when we are faced with their declining mental and physical health.  For me that day came when my father had a stroke and my mother was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer within months of each other. 

My insides still tremble with tenderness for the fragility and vulnerability that I saw in my parents as we moved them from their home to assisted care to hospice. My relationship to my mother and father were complex in different ways and I was completely unprepared for the impact that their passing would have on me.  I felt untethered and struggled to have the energy to focus, socialize, do the endless tasks of running a business and build a new life after relocating to California.  

And, what I know now is that I kept underestimating how much energy grieving takes and how much support I really needed.   Being a well trained Iowa farm girl, bucking up and being self-sufficient had deep roots!

Luckily, Resonance Healing had more power than my Iowa upbringing and brought my brain and heart back online again.