Once you come to terms with your true emotions and feelings, holding them as valid, your job is to feel the feels. And hold on to your hats cause this is where the ride gets wild and sometimes scary, which makes it easy to avoid feeling. We tell ourselves we’re just putting it off for … Continue reading Avoid the Avoiding & Feel the Feels

Because I only vaguely saw the terrain I was traveling through during The Haze, it all looked the same. It felt the same too. Yet when the mist finally started burning off I could see I was no longer in the place I’d started. The hard work had made a difference! What did that hard work look like? ...

About a year after losing Alison and most established aspects of my life, I’d decided I’d had enough of feeling sad, of carrying around the burdens of trying to build a life. I felt I had no answers, knowing nothing but that I was going stir crazy. I didn’t want to commit suicide, but I … Continue reading The Haze

I live in arguably one of the best places on earth. And I have a pretty satisfying life – good friends, a rewarding lifestyle, playing in the ocean several days a week, beautiful views right out my door. But it’s only because I lost absolutely everything that I gained this amazing life. Growing up, I … Continue reading My Daughter, My Story & The Hot Mess that Got Me Here