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More Love, Less Fear: 3 take-aways from MA/NH Alz Assoc Conference 5/21

Conference Take-Aways, Contemplation in Action, Healing Grief & Loss, Reflection, Survivor's Mission, Trauma Recovery & Renewal

Dear Friends, I attended the MA/NH Alzheimer’s Association “Map Through the Maze: Conference for Professionals” this past Wednesday, 5/21. It was one of the hardest things I’ve done since my mom passed away from Frontotemporal Degeneration almost six years ago. The event was held in Marlboro, MA, where I worked as a professional user-experience design […]

Bunny Enjoys a Carrot

Required Respite: 30 of 43 Days

Contemplation in Action, Reflection, Survivor's Mission, Trauma Recovery & Renewal

A ten-day respite in the Southwest has restored my body-mind-spirit. While not visiting with a dear friend, I spent four days and three nights at a desert hermitage completely free of schedules, to-dos, technology, and distractions. The sunrise and sunset, sunlight and shade, my hunger and thirst, deep rest and movement, singing and silence were […]

Transforming, Becoming Whole: 26 of 43 Days

Contemplation in Action, Reflection, Survivor's Mission, Trauma Recovery & Renewal

In the past six scheduled organizing days (scheduled over two weeks), we worked on organizing just twice – on the 23rd and the 26th day. We rested from this project on the other four days, as it has sapped our strength (physically, mentally, and emotionally). On the 23rd day I shared my overwhelm and fatigue […]

Sun Room with Estate Boxes

Mid-Project Review: 20 of 43 Days

Contemplation in Action, Reflection, Survivor's Mission, Trauma Recovery & Renewal

Mid-way through this 3-month project I am feeling the fatigue of it. I’ve booked a mid-March 10-day get-away to New Mexico, a respite I hope will melt the winter off my back and restore my spirit. That said, we continue to make excellent progress managing what has been an overwhelm of life-trauma and estate-related material […]

Killing Myself to Get a Life: 19 of 43 Days

Contemplation in Action, Reflection, Survivor's Mission, Trauma Recovery & Renewal

Physically and emotionally hung-over from hauling estate boxes yesterday, I dragged myself back to the job today. Acutely aware of my fatigue, I opted to do nothing. Yes, that’s right, do nothing. I literally slept for five hours, during and beyond the time we had allocated for work. A day of respite from this ambitious […]

Transforming Trauma, Becoming Whole: 17 of 43 Days

Contemplation in Action, Reflection, Survivor's Mission, Trauma Recovery & Renewal

Feeling exhausted and worn-out, I’ve continued to move forward with the help of three. My beloved Karl, and organizers Edith and Hillary have carried us out of the basement project (FTD Trauma 2007-2009) and into the upstairs project (estate management 2013-2014). This week we worked to clear the guest room and prepare the sun room […]

Befriending the Skeletons in My Closet: 13 of 43 Days

Contemplation in Action, Reflection, Survivor's Mission, Trauma Recovery & Renewal

It is February 15 and we are 1/3 of the way through a 3-month organizing project (scheduled 1/15 – 4/15) to resurrect contents of my FTD (Frontotemporal Degeneration)-life-trauma 2007-2009. Originally, the primary goal was to unpack and clear boxes from 2009, stored for the last five years in our basement. The process in 13 sessions […]