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‘An invitation’ to an open heart
After loss, the last thing we think is possible is that we will find love again. In fact, it is possibly the last thing we are thinking of as we are mourning, and even when that passes, the thought of loving and losing again is too impossible to fathom. It is easy to...
Fairy Tales Can Indeed Come True
Today I am doing the impossible – or so I thought just a few years ago. I am marrying my soul mate. After losing my first young love to suicide, I never thought I would find love again. This love I have found is a new kind of love for me. I don’t think I was always...
Saying ‘NO’ to victimhood
If you had told me a few years ago that I would someday become a personal life coach, I would have certainly told you that you were crazy. I don’t even know if I really understood what a life coach was back then, other than having heard that Google gave them to their...
The Truth About (My) Happiness and How I Found It
In the darkest moments of my life, I had come to the recognition that it was both my right and my responsibility to be happy. I deserved happiness as much as anyone else did. But I was going to have to take matters into my own hands. I was going to have to set out on...
The Truth about Happiness and Why I Needed to Find It
You know those people who are bubbly and happy… morning people, who seem to wake up smiling… people who somehow bounce through their day. I was never one of those people. Nor did I think I ever could be one. I always believed you were either born happy and cheerful...
What ‘to do’ for someone during loss: Just ‘be’…
I do not remember much from the days and months that followed my husband’s sudden death. That period feels like a blur, and it was a completely numbing experience. It felt heavy, like I was cemented down, and yet paradoxically also like I was floating – completely...