Guidance By Li

People often push the idea that healing means "moving on" or "letting go", but that's not how love works. Most grieving people aren't trying to erase the connection or forget the person that passed away. We are actually trying to figure out how to carry them differently. How to continue living, laughing, showing up, and building a life...while still holding love for someone we miss every single day.

The connection doesn't end because their physical presence did & I sure wish people would understand this with greater depth, instead of trying to rush people to "get over it". Instead, we should be holding space for people that are making intentional effort to carry their grief with honor.

Grief is not a negative thing friends. It's sacred to some of us. So please stop being dismissive 🙏 and instead show up with empathy, curiosity, and love ❤️.

Don't forget to share this message if it resonates with you. This community is on a mission to educate others in the grief space! I couldn't do it without all of the help I get from each of you. &BetterTogether!

With Light & Love, ~Li

Wouldn't it be nice if grief and hardship politely knocked first or waited until we were ready to face what it delivers? 🥺.

I hate to deliver this message, but those of us that know, recognize that they very much arrive uninvited. They disrupt everything familiar, and then leave us trying to recognize the life we once knew.

Healing isn't about "getting over it" on a timeline that makes other people comfortable. It's about learning how to carry what has changed, while still finding moments to breathe, live, laugh, love, and slowly reconnect with yourself again.

Some days our hearts still feel very heavy. Some days you might feel super strong, while others leave you feeling anything but that. Please give yourself the same compassion you would give someone else walking through this unimaginable pain 💔. For you deserve that same love and TLC!

Patience & grace friends. It's not really an option, it's a necessity 🙏. With Light & Love, ~Li

One of my favorite places to be 🥰🐶. How can one explain the feeling of laying in bed and having your dog come upstairs to find you, only to lay into you and snuggle like it’s the only place he wants to be?! Marvin has my heart. Thanks for this pocket of peace big guy. Our souls connect on a deeper level and I am so grateful for it! If you know, you know 🥰.

Hello Friends,

Please see this week's groups schedule. I will be in Wilbraham @ The Wilbraham Senior Center Tuesday morning to facilitate our grief support group. Please don't hesitate to join us in a space where you don't have to pretend you're okay or like you are rushing your healing. Together we talk honestly about the realities of grief, while also learning practical tools, perspectives, and ways to navigate life after loss.

Tuesday afternoon I will be @ The Ludlow Senior Center facilitating Limitless Legends. This group is a supportive, uplifting class designed to help seniors continue to grow, thrive, and live with purpose. Together we explore topics like aging, perspective, building a healthy mindset, caring for the mind and body, reducing stress, finding meaning, and just strengthening overall well-being.

Please feel free to join us if you are in need or interested in either. I am so blessed to lead these groups & look forward to seeing my tribe there 🥰.

With Light & Love, ~Li

While this weekend's cookouts, family time, and extended weekend off of work matters to most, please make sure that we are also making space to honor the names, faces, and sacrifices behind this day ❤️🤍💙.

For many families, Memorial Day carries grief, pride, heartbreak, and remembrance all at once.

Enjoy the moments. Gather with the people you love, but don't forget the reason we're able to do it 🙏.

With Light & Love, ~Li

Friends I am sharing this as a client recently brought the one she purchased to show me in one of our sessions & it was simply wonderful 💜. The arms are weighted, so when you are hugging it or it’s draped around you, it feels like a hug 🥰. Consider picking one up for yourself or someone that might be in need 🙏🏼🫶🏼. Love, ~Li

SAVINGS ARE HERE: BOGO 50% OFF! Ever been the person who doesn't know what to gift their loved ones? I wanted to test how my girlfriend would react to a viral gift: a weighted hug animal from Pulse of Potential.

Not many people talk enough about how grief can create a full-on crisis of faith. Not just religion, but faith in life, people, fairness, safety, or even the future you thought was guaranteed.

One minute you're praying, believing, trusting, and planning your life, and the next you're sitting there wondering how the world can keep spinning after someone so important is gone.

A lot of grieving people feel guilty for being angry or questioning everything, or even feeling massively disconnected from God or their spirituality after suffering. But honestly friends...when your heart gets shattered, it makes sense that your beliefs might get shaken too.

Grief and hardship have a way of forcing people to rebuild themselves from the ground up, and many times faith isn't lost forever. But it takes time to heal, and to also explore things we never thought we might in an effort to make connection to our loved ones or figure out how we are going to step through the remainder of our lives without their physical presence.

If this resonates with you, consider giving yourself time and grace. It's 100% normal for you to feel the way you feel. After my brother died, Catholicism didn't fill my cup, but opening my mind up to other ways of spiritual and philosophical ways of living through Buddhist teachings did ❣️🧘‍♀️🙏🍃.

For me, it took intentional work and opening my mind outside of the set belief system I was raised with. We all have our own belief systems and I don't know how I could live my days without my spirituality and belief in higher power, but in the beginning it was a struggle to feel that way.

You're not alone friends. I see you out there and want to thank you for being a part of this community to help support one another through some of the hardest times of our lives 🙏. With Light & Love, ~Li