by Michele Mariscal | Feb 25, 2020 | Newsletter
This has been the month of the heart! How is it going? Have you paid attention to what is happening in your heart? This has been quite a challenging month for me! It holds many happy and sad memories and anniversaries of death. Life is like that if you have a...
by Michele Mariscal | Jan 6, 2020 | acknowledging loss, Grief
December 18th – it is a day etched into the calendar of my emotional body for many reasons now. The interesting thing about grief and loss is that there can be many conscious as well as unconscious thoughts and feelings and all of them are available to observe,...
by Michele Mariscal | Dec 9, 2019 | acknowledging loss, Grief
I had decided to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday this year and stay home for Christmas. I was surprised about how much more sadness I experienced. I have done my grief recovery work with all of my family who have died through these past few years and so the grief...
by Michele Mariscal | Nov 7, 2019 | Grief
Recently, in an interview that I did, I spoke about “riding the wave of grief.” It is much more empowering than feeling engulfed by the waves that come. What I find most interesting is how memories seem to seep back in with no rhyme or reason. Today I am missing my...
by Michele Mariscal | Sep 5, 2019 | Grief
Feelings Buried Alive Never Die…this is the title of a book that I recently discovered. I had an experience this weekend that reminded me of this. My friend’s mom had been in the hospital for 50 days and died over the weekend. I was able to spend time with my friend...