Today is your starting line. Think about all the good intentions or projects/ideas you keep in the back of your brain with the goal of pursuing them some day when you get more time. You really want to make these things happen but it always seems that something gets in the way and the ideas remain… Read more »
Posts By: Mary Kate Cranston
Gabby Giffords
Photo by CBSNews.com If you Google the word resilient, you will find yourself reading about Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ. Resilience is the ability to recover from a crisis, a dramatic life change or even failure. Some people are born with resilience and others develop it. Resilience is when life hands you an awful situation and you turn it into an… Read more »
Mojo for 2012
Whenever I find myself straying off the path of being healthy and positive, I go read my Kris Carr books. Carr, an author, motivational speaker, wellness coach and cancer survivor, is always uplifting for me. She provides down-to-earth tips on self care along with other insights about living a healthy lifestyle. To jump start your mojo for 2012,… Read more »
Happy New Year!
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce Happy New Year! The idea that 365 days stand before us, fresh and unmarked, ready to be embraced is rather… Read more »
A Time of Healing
As 2011 draws to a close and a New Year is almost here, you might be trying to figure out how you are supposed to face the future without a loved one who recently died. Longtime grief counselor and educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt of Fort Collins, Colo., advises story-writing and storytelling to help the healing process. “Tell… Read more »
Mommy Doesn’t Shave Her Face
I was shopping the other day at the local drugstore for Christmas stocking stuffers for my son and browsing among all the different shower gels being sold for men. I was trying to figure out which one my son would use when my eyes traveled over to the section displaying men’s razors. Ahhh..men’s razors. I was reminded of a period of time right… Read more »
Quiet & Solitude
Give your mind a rest. Just as your body needs sleep for renewal and optimal health, your mind needs periods of quiet and solitude. A quiet mind reveals important things about your life, changes you may need to make to create a healthier and richer lifestyle. Inner information such as this cannot break through constant… Read more »
Christmas Sighting Of A Loved One
In the hustle and bustle of eating, talking and being with my wonderful family yesterday on Christmas Day, I received a unexpected present that I think others who have lost loved ones will be able to identify with. Maybe this has happened to you but you didn’t tell anyone else about it because you figured they would… Read more »
Five Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes
Happy Birthday Cry, Laugh Heal! Yup. It has actually been one whole year since Cry, Laugh Heal was launched as a blog and I really can’t believe it. How would I measure my first year of blogging? In friendship, in kindness, and in support. That’s what blogging has meant to me. It has opened up a new world… Read more »
About Me:
A blog about moving through grief by developing resilience, practicing wellness & finding the wicked funny side of life. Widow. Mom. Writer. Dancer.
