Dancing With Skeletons Liz Stoeckel & Debi Ruud/Music by Darrell Devaurs/Artwork by John Alden

Two recent movies have stirred strong emotions in all who’ve seen them. Liz and Debi discuss the outrage and hope brought to the big screen via the films, God + Country, and Bob Marley: One Love.
We urge you to see them both.

I'm convinced we all need therapy. Finding the right program and the right therapist and the right person in whom to entrust our deepest needs is daunting. Do we call upon a Life Coach or a Psychiatrist? How much is too much to pay? Liz and Debi are asking these questions and do NOT pretend to have the answers. We only know what has and has NOT worked for us. We only know the dangers of toxic hope and we invite you on our journey of discovery.

How many of us think we have all our death ducks in a row? It can be really easy to think all the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed. It's easy to believe we've done the best we can for those we leave behind. However, there are a LOT of i's and t's and those left behind will be left to handle that which is left unhandled.

The right ingredients, the right recipe, and the right amount of time makes for less stress. Having a back-up plan and a team on whom we can depend are some of the key ingredients in success.

Its so easy to raise our expectations to outrageous heights, especailly this time of the year. How open are we to NEW traditions - to NEW experiences? New can be scary. New can be uncomfortable. But just like a pair of really good shoes, NEW can be the best thing we’ve ever dared slip into.
Embrace the new.

He was getting better.
He seemed at peace.
We had so much to look forward to.
He went out and got a hair cut.
It happens when we least expect it. When a friend or family member takes their own life, we play the last minutes, hours, and days over and over in our mind. What did they say? Maybe it was an accident. Could I have stopped it?
Today, our friend Kate stopped by to talk about the day her fiance' Andre' Bush took his own life. Andre' was a light! He was a bright talent, and a beautiful soul, but mental illness robbed him - and us - of all that should have been to come.