Follow the Journey – Newest First
Welcome to a path of healing and hope. The most recent reflections are pinned at the top for easy access. Scroll down to walk through the journey from grief to grace, one post at a time or click on a tab at the top of this page to dive into a particular area:
- Signs & Connections: Explore the meaningful signs from my son Alex.
- Spiritual Journey: Trace my five-year transformation since his passing.
- Early Days of Grief: Relive the raw beginnings of loss.
- Work-Life Wisdom: Discover insights from leading six companies.
- Resilient Living: Celebrate triumphs amid life’s chaos.
Choosing Myself Again (Even in the Middle of the Storm)
Resilient Living #3 February 26, 2026 It’s been a little over a month since my last blog—the one where I talked about Alex, signs, angels, grief, gratitude, and somehow surviving another earth-shifting loss with Mike. I ended that post feeling steady, present, grounded… or as grounded as someone can be when life is still swinging.…
Resilient Living: When Life Kicks You Down Again (and Again)
Resilient Living #2 – January 22, 2026 I wrote my last post on November 30, 2025. I was proud of it. I felt strong. Peaceful, even. I talked about protecting my energy, setting boundaries, breathing through the heavy rooms. I hit publish and went to bed feeling like I’d finally found my footing after almost…
Resilient Living: Protecting My Peace in a World of Heavy Energy
Resilient Living #1 – Present Day Five years in, this is the biggest lesson I live by: I protect my peace like it’s sacred, because it is. I’ve always been an empath. I walk into a room and feel everything: joy, grief, anger, chaos. After Alex left, that gift turned into a curse. Every hug…
Work Life Wisdom: From Spiral to Leading with Heart
Work Life Wisdom #2 Two weeks after Alex was cremated, I opened my laptop at the kitchen table. Full time. I work from home, drive to our three marinas in South Carolina, and make the 3.5-hour haul to our big Tennessee lakefront—a marina, busy restaurant, and campground spread across one massive tract. Six companies don’t…
Spiritual Journey: My Messy, Beautiful Road to Knowing We Don’t End
Spiritual Journey #1 Alex proved to me quickly he could still reach me. But my spiritual journey didn’t start there. It started way before, in the sticky Texas heat of my childhood, sneaking sticky-glazed donuts off the church bus and losing myself in the colorful chaos of my grandma and pawpaw’s Illustrated Children’s Bible. I…
Early Days of Grief: The Mistakes I Made (and the Signs I Missed)
Early Days of Grief #2 The Elvis miracle on January 6, 2021 proved Alex could reach me. But the first days, weeks, months? Pure fight-or-flight chaos. Signs were everywhere—I just didn’t recognize them until later. Lots of them. The Raw Truth Alex passed in the middle of the night on October 6, 2020. I found…
Signs from Alex: The Rainbows I Begged For (and the Jeep That Whispered “Yes”)
Signs & Connections #2 The Elvis miracle on January 6, 2021—poster, beer, song, movie—shouted Alex was near. But the first weeks? That’s when my broken heart learned to ask… and his love answered in whispers that still bring me to my knees. If you’re grieving, please—open your mind and heart. Ask for a sign. Your…
Leading with Empathy: How Grief Taught Me to See the Whole Person
Work Life Wisdom #1 Five years after Alex left us, I’m still COO of six companies, Mimi to two wild grandsons, and the one who feeds nine chickens in the evenings. Three years sober. Two years off Klonopin. I sleep most nights now. But grief doesn’t clock out. It shows up in my car between…
Leading with Purpose Through Grief and Recovery
Introduction: A Life of Hustle and Heartache Before my son, Alex, passed at 23, my life was a whirlwind of work and family. As COO, I poured my heart into running six companies—four freshwater marinas in Tennessee and South Carolina, a Tennessee restaurant, and a campground with Airbnb and VRBO rentals. My husband and I…
Signs from Alex: A Mother’s Spiritual Awakening
Signs from Alex: A Mother’s Spiritual Awakening In October 2020, my life shattered when I lost my son Alex to sudden heart arrhythmia at 23. Just weeks earlier, he’d shared his uncertainty about an afterlife, shaped by a church upbringing that instilled a strong moral compass but left him questioning a God linked to fear…
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