Douglas enjoying a day on the lake. In celebration for the life of Douglas Evans Madsen.

Douglas still extending his heart and hand outward More Alive in Heaven- A Story of Healing, Purpose, and Redemption ***Douglas and I...

Hey there, I understand the tremendous courage it takes to reach out to another on this path that you never, ever imagined walking, yet...

Over the next three weeks I’ll be returning to each of the three questions which form the basis of pieces written for the Collaboration, Tears, Tools and Treasure, and putting together a digest of the different strands that have emerged. As I said in last week’s post, there is such a wealth of hard-earned experience and wisdom in our community of grieving parents, and I think the variety of writing this has produced remains one of the greatest strengths of this collection of

Photo Credit: Getty Images “Sooner or later, every human meets their own Everest. Your mountain does not need to impress other humans for you to consider it sacred.” ~ Eka Mora In my lifetime I sense I must have an entire mountain range. My Everest is loss. I understand that if one is alive, there will be loss. My cognitive mind comprehends this. Yet try to explain it to my heart which often resembles a washing machine on its spin cycle. Imagining how it cannot possibly conta

Photo Credit: Romey Macdonald. On a Douglas inspired walk around his birthday she found this. Noting she's never seen a feather such as this. Moving into being powerless over the choices another is making with their one wild and precious life, opens a door into where I can move into empowerment. If I am conversing with another and everything that is said feels as if it’s hitting a rubber wall, nothing is landing, not even sticking for a brief moment, there’s always a choice