Continuing with my ‘what if…?’ series inspired by Scenario Cards (which are packs of cards that come in 3 different varieties (self, the world and life) that inspire meaningful conversations designed by psychologists according to their website, and I highly recommend them!). You can check out the rest of the…

To live our best lives — “Imperma-what? Is that even a word?” My husband said this to me when I mentioned the word impermanence while we were out walking our dog around the neighbourhood. I can’t remember exactly why I had brought it up, as this conversation happened many months ago now, but it’s something that…

Continuing with my ‘what if…?’ series inspired by Scenario Cards (which are packs of cards that come in 3 different varieties (self, the world and life) that inspire meaningful conversations designed by psychologists according to their website, and I highly recommend them!). You can check out the rest of the…

I just finished reading world renowned medium Tyler Henry’s second Book ‘Here and Hereafter’. It’s essentially a guidebook to living a better life — sprinkled with anecdotes of psychic readings he’s done over the years to emphasize the points in each chapter. The overarching theme of the book is the…

I recently bought two of Medium (yes, that kind of Medium!) Tyler Henry’s books (you may know him from his TV show Hollywood Medium from a few years ago — which I’ve never seen and had actually never heard of before being recommended his new Netflix series Life After Death…

A Netflix series review — In this article, I want to give a shoutout to Alicia Domínguez for mentioning this series in this fantastic article of hers. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been interested in what happens after death (but also scared shitless about it!) because none of us really know…

The Netflix series — a review — I just finished binging all 9 episodes of the Netflix series Life After Death with Tyler Henry. And, I’m obviously living under the biggest rock imaginable, because when a coworker told me about it two days ago when I told her about the Netflix series Surviving Death (which I’ll write…

A hologram? A diamond? Soil? How the future of death is changing — This is part of a series on the future of…what? Let me know what you’re curious about the future of and I’ll do some research! (Note: I may not choose your topic to write on, and if not, please don’t be offended — I will choose topics based on my…

In order to feel closer to them — I’ve been thinking the last few days about death and grief. Mainly thinking about my dog Penny who we lost in December. I’ve been wandering around and saying out loud to no one “love you Pens!”. Perhaps because we’re thinking about getting another rescue dog and I don’t want to…

Well, this is your brain on grief — It’s me again, your friendly neighbourhood grief writer. I was going to say counsellor, but I’m not a qualified counsellor of any sort (though I do have a background in psychology). But it seems like I’ve unexpectedly taken on an unofficial mantle of grief…something I can’t quite articulate. Grief-aware person…

The Five Remembrances — I’ve said it before, but I’m bringing it up again because I think it’s really important — the concept of impermanence, which can also be thought of as, yep, that cheery topic (cue sarcasm) death. It brings us back to the here and now. It snaps us into the present…

How losing my mom changed the way I thought about death — I was all set to write about positive psychology and how it can change your life. But that is not what flowed out of my fingers onto the page. That is not what my heart obviously wanted to write about — what it wanted to be heard. I wanted to…

I got up at 5:20 this morning.

But in reality, she rescued us — This is going to be difficult for me to write, with probably some tears shed along the way. Why? Because I just said goodbye to my furbaby rescue daughter six days ago, and the house feels too empty and the grief is too strong. But, sharing this memory will help…

is keeping me resilient — NOTE: This was written on December 12th, 2021. Do you know what brings out the real you? Uncovers the shining diamond that is within? There’s one thing that strips away everything and lays us bare and vulnerable. It’s something that every one of us goes through eventually: death. And not…

And the words stop coming, what do you do? — Back in the fall of 2015, I was writing my National Novel Writing Month novel for the 6th year in a row, and as with the previous 5 years, I was confident I would be a winner (I normally end up writing about 80,000 words which is 30k over the…

Answer: you go with the flow — More of an answer: You survive by keeping going. By going with the flow of it. You can’t, “get over” grief and loss, or even really move away from it. It’ll always be there, but just change from day to day or week to week, month to month or even…

Death has changed the way I think about life. It’s not something I thought about much before my mom’s passing in December 2015. I’d lost my grandfathers from both sides long before then, but they were elderly, so even though I was sad, it was a natural and expected thing…

Have you ever felt that you aren’t going through grief in the right way? If so, know that there are lots of different kinds and what you are experiencing is totally normal. …

How to cope with tragedy — I recently learned of the tragic passing of one of the Vocal writing platform’s very own beloved creators Tom Bradbury. I’m sure many of you who are in the various Vocal Facebook groups are now aware of the tragedy befalling Tom’s 18th century grain mill farmhouse in rural France to…