by Brenda MacIntyre | Aug 12, 2024 | Grief & Loss, Mental Health
You’ve probably heard of the 5 or 7 stages of grief. If you haven’t, the 7 stages of grief are shock, denial, anger, bargaining (guilt), depression, testing (finding your way out) and acceptance. Colonized society doesn’t want you to face and live with...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Apr 1, 2024 | Grief & Loss, Resilience, Spiritual Connection
Chronic pain can feel overwhelming. If you have chronic pain, I hope some of these tips can help you find some relief. I have chronic pain myself, mostly brought on by trauma in 2016 and worsened by omicron in 2023. It’s mostly manageable and then out of nowhere...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Dec 5, 2023 | Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Spiritual Connection
If you’re feeling scattered, like you’re going in a million directions or just plain exhausted, it’s hard to know what to do. Here’s how I know you’re not alone in feeling this way: We are going into year 5 of an ongoing pandemic we have been told to dismiss....
by Brenda MacIntyre | Jul 4, 2023 | Grief & Loss
How is it that grief is just a natural part of life, but society’s way of dealing with it is to avoid it at all costs? For covid-conscious women, finding grief support is as complicated as the grief we are facing. Every time I ask myself how humanity has sunk to...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Nov 9, 2021 | Grief & Loss
We have been fed a very big lifelong lie… that grief is bad and either we need to “get over it” (stuff it and pretend we’re fine way too early) or have people doting on us trying to “fix” us. It’s a vicious circle that stems from another big lie: that we are supposed...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Oct 13, 2021 | Grief & Loss
When it comes to pain, women are like cats. My cat Pixie has been dealing with a skin infection ever since May this year. At first I didn’t even know anything was wrong… because cats and women are similar in how they deal with pain. You will rarely know when they are...
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