by Marlena Fiol | Sep 30, 2020
This guest blog brings you the thinking of New York Times best-selling author Dr. Stephen Post on finding your creative and compassionate calling. His long career as a researcher, public speaker and professor has given him deep insights into this topic, and he consistently eschews easy answers to inherently complex…
by Marlena Fiol | Sep 28, 2020
Many of us are suffering in the midst of COVID, a stagnant economy, raging wildfires, hurricanes and social/political upheaval. How often have I recently seen these words on social media “I am so done with 2020!” I can easily be pulled into that thinking. Our wildfires in Oregon have destroyed…
by Marlena Fiol | Sep 24, 2020
In this week’s blogs, our guest Kim Colegrove has inspired us by sharing her personal story about transforming grief and suffering into compassionate action. She ended her blog with, “If you feel inspired or motivated to activate your grief, here are some ideas.” She lists…
by Marlena Fiol | Sep 23, 2020
The abandonment and loss I’ve experienced in my life caused me to cultivate a belief that I could never fully depend on or trust others, because the people who were supposed to love, support and care for me the most, had not, and this left me feeling unwanted, unworthy and…
by Marlena Fiol | Sep 18, 2020
Today’s guest on our podcast Kim Colegrove lost her husband David to suicide in 2014, less than three months after he retired from a 30-year law enforcement career. She created The PauseFirst Project, which we’ll talk about, to honor David’s…
by Marlena Fiol | Sep 17, 2020
My Father with his Newest Grandchild This is an excerpt from my new book Nothing Bad Between Us: Around midnight, with considerable trepidation, Steve walked past the pump house and across the yard the short distance to Mom and Dad’s new house…