Journal with Me: Darkness as a Gift

Journal with Me: Darkness as a Gift

Mary Oliver wrote, “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.”  Often times when something dark or difficult happens, we want to push it away, out of our thoughts. We bury it as we don’t want...
Journal with Me: Resilience

Journal with Me: Resilience

In last week’s blog post, Lily Jones gave us great ideas to encourage resilience in our children. But resilience is important for us as well. And modeling resilience helps children, grandchildren, friends and relatives see the huge benefits to be gained by this skill....
Journal with Me: Darkness as a Gift

Journal with Me: Connection

I believe connection is one of the most important elements in my life. And science agrees. As pointed out in this article, feeling connected makes us “less likely to experience sadness, loneliness, low self-esteem, and problems with eating and sleeping”. And, it...

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