by Sandra J Wilson | Grief and Loss, Soul Led
My mother kept a secret for 35 years. Not because she wanted to. Because in our house, silence was the rule. And my father made the rules. In 1959, my parents lost a baby girl. Wendy. She never left the hospital. Couldn’t feed on her own. Three months old. My...
by Sandra J Wilson | Grief and Loss, Soul Led
Grief is not a linear process. I don’t think there is anyone more fed up with the “experts” talking about the 7 stages of grief than I am. Or is it 5 stages? Who knows? It seems that if we don’t all experience grief the same way, there’s something wrong with us. In...
by Sandra J Wilson | Soul Led
The Elevator to the Great Library: A Story of Understanding Alex had rebuilt. After a significant loss, she had done everything right. Gotten back on her feet. Reconstructed a life that looked fine from the outside. And yet the same patterns kept showing up in new...
by Sandra J Wilson | Grief and Loss, Soul Led
The Day I Couldn’t Get Him Up Off The Floor. There are things you write because they’re useful. And there are things you write because they’ve been waiting long enough. This is the second kind. Each day in 2016 started hopeful. That’s the part...
by Sandra J Wilson | Soul Led
Rethinking Your Reality 6 Spiritual Concepts That Aren’t What You Think I spend my days listening to people who have rebuilt after significant loss say things like, ‘I’ve done all the spiritual work.’ While their energy looks like it’s...
