“I still do not know what this mass is. I do not know what the next chapter looks like or what I will look like on the other side of it. I am still standing in the doorway of a story I did not write, holding the doorknob, deciding — every single day — whether to keep walking through it publicly.”
Read MoreEvery Detour was the Path - Episode 1: "Worthy of Being Seen: Fourteen Years of Grief, Searching for Joy, and Learning to Belong to Myself"
Kierkegaard wrote that life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. I have found that to be profoundly, viscerally true. In the moment of each rupture, being sent back downstairs, losing my husband Nick, leaving everything I knew, I could not see why. I was just trying to survive it. But looking back now, I can see the thread running through all of it. Every detour was the path. I just couldn't read the map while I was walking it.
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