There are many times when life doesn’t go as planned. You lose someone or something that’s important to you. A plan doesn’t go well. A career goal can never come true. Friends and family shift loyalties away from you. When life doesn’t go as planned, there’s a certain amount of shock and denial at first.…

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It takes love to heal. Love is the ointment that soothes and starts to heal emotional wounds. Love allows forgiveness to enter the heart and soul. Love cracks the darkness of depression, and tears away at despair. Love stands quietly beside you in depression. As I sat, depressed and angry, I asked, “Who in the…

November is a month of death anniversaries for me. One of the death anniversaries is that of my mother. She was dying of bone cancer, and taken to hospital with a high fever. After a week of blood transfusion and treatments, she had a seizure. Mom lapsed into a coma, her brain function not even registering. After…

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