Introduction: The impact of a serious diagnosis on a family is far reaching and the healing continues long after treatment is over. “Mommy’s dying,” Julian declared, his sticky half boy-half baby fingers stuck to the short hairs on my neck. He looked into my eyes to gauge response, and I could tell by his… Continue reading “Mommy’s Dying”
Make Every Day a Celebration
Too often our minds turn to tasks incomplete, dreams unmet, problems in our society and environment that feel overwhelming. Tune into the news and a majority of the time the message is not one of uplift, instead exacerbating fear, unease and frustration. We get to work or gather with our friends and family, and often… Continue reading Make Every Day a Celebration
Do I need a Life Coach?
There are so many different ways that working with a coach can be helpful, but the basic idea is that you have someone in your corner helping you to find greater balance, fulfillment and joy in your life. I help my clients connect with their values, and together we ferret out the disruptive self-sabotaging talk… Continue reading Do I need a Life Coach?
The Cancer Wake Up Call: My Top 10 Life Lessons
We GET to wake up each day. We GET to have these experiences, even the little things that rub us the wrong way. Heal your relationships. Enjoy your body. Fall in love. Be in nature. Laugh more. Be vulnerable. Be real. You will NEVER have it all together. You will never get it ALL done.… Continue reading The Cancer Wake Up Call: My Top 10 Life Lessons
The Weight of Uncertainty
How do you navigate the exquisite pain and heaviness of uncertainty in the face of fear and tough decisions?
A Year I will Never Forget
2015 was quite a year! I will share with you a few highlights, in no particular order. It goes something like this… I completed 5 grueling months of chemotherapy and at the end my hair, eyebrows and eyelashes grew back in. I could go out in the world freely without fear of getting every cold… Continue reading A Year I will Never Forget
Pause to Celebrate Your Successes
As we prepare to turn the page on 2015, it is a great time to stop and take stock, to acknowledge all of your successes and hard work over the past year. Look how far you have come! This reflective pause is vitally important in our culture of distraction and forward momentum. There are endless… Continue reading Pause to Celebrate Your Successes
Am I Fit for this World
There are tons of support networks and websites and organizations designed to assist and support women as they go through breast cancer treatment. But what happens when treatment is over, when you are handed back your license to resume “normal” life? I have fallen into this vacuum where my pre-cancer life doesn’t fit. It’s like… Continue reading Am I Fit for this World
The Magical Mermaid Sisterhood: How I was Healed by Play
The strip malls and megastores pumped cars past the sludgy underbelly of the Hackensack River as I made my way down the Jersey Turnpike. I didn’t want to smell this water as the traffic carried me towards my destination ‘down shore’, as the natives call it. I hoped, dear God, that this water wasn’t spewing… Continue reading The Magical Mermaid Sisterhood: How I was Healed by Play
Coming Full Circle
It was a happy reunion, a completion of a circle, to come back round to the Omega Institute again. The Women's Leadership Center hired me to help with the pre-event Faculty Support and hosting logistics, a post I had held there for 3 years some time ago. I was tasked to help prepare for the… Continue reading Coming Full Circle
Melissa's Healing Hope 