Life. The ups. The downs. • Navigating beauty. Pain. • Full heart. Heavy heart.

Is the price of true friendship worth the pain?

Avoiding your triggers isn’t healing...

Whatever pain you can’t get rid of, make it your creative offering. - Susan Cain

Grief changes us. The pain sculpts us into someone who ....

Grief: old and new pain • Pain: the consequence of love • Love, which ends in grief

Living in the present is nice, in theory, except when you’re in pain.

Need help? Call on me. • I’ll bear my burdens alone. • Come close. Stay away.

I believe there is beauty in witnessing another’s pain, in not suffering alone. And yet, when faced with my own pain, I tend to go it alone.

My relationship with music changed when my dad died.

See me past the now • Know me deep through stories told • Witness the pain, joy

Processing loss is worthy of our time and focus.

A ravenous, animal-like drive set in … to avoid pain.

We must bear witness to one another’s grief.

Pin-pricked nerves: the fear • A quest to avoid the pain • Manic search for peace