Relationships – The Mother’s Day episode is the perfect segway into this episode, which gives you a peek into the relationship between my mom and me. Here you will learn that we often rely far too much on our expectations.

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Our Living Journey - It's been 15 years since Jason left his body. Every year my experience of his absence is different. In this episode, I share with you the experience that I had on Mother's Day 2021.

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Relationships - In this episode, I continue exposing circumstances that led me to uncover the life tools needed to build the foundation upon which my life is built. You'll listen and remember what was happening around this same time in your life and how our own life's foundation was also being built.

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Relationships - In this episode, I'm temporarily shifting the conversation from Our Living Journey (Coping to Thriving) to Relationships (Then and Now). Throughout the Relationship series, I share my perspective on how relationships impact our lives beginning with the genesis of my own identity and the loss of my innocence as a child of 14.

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After spending much time ebbing and flowing in and out of the stages of grief, I came to accept the death of Jason.

In the acceptance, I discovered a way of grieving that allowed me to hold on to my love for him and allow him the freedom to move on.

It was a New Consciousness.

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After the 5-Stages of Grief has been introduced, in this episode, I share how allowing the emotion of anger to express itself, was what freed me from the bondage of grief, broke the chains that mentally trapped me. It was the stage of anger that gave me the ability to manage the experience and empowered me to accept, in a fluid way, Jason’s death and who I was becoming through the experience of it. My transformation “noticeably” begins.

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In this episode, I begin sharing the journey of the death of my son Jason. It’s a deeply troubling, lonely, and emotional journey that led me to counseling and the discovery of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ 5-Stages of Grief. I introduce the stages and lay out, in detail, what I experienced as I went through them. I invite you on the journey and unfold an opportunity for you to awaken to a new perspective around grief and offer a process that will allow you to manage it effectively and with resolve.

This first episode is an introduction to what’s to come. I'll give you a peek into my background, and a bit of my up bringing and why this might be important to you.

I share some of my darkest secrets, some that you may identify with, being raised by a single parent, my abusive relationship, being raped as a child, having a child at 17, joining the military and the grief experienced from the loss of a son.

In this first episode, I share with you the tip of my life’s stories, lessons I’ve learned, successes and failures. I set the stage for you to hear pieces of the unique experiences, circumstances, and decisions I’ve made that placed me squarely on the path of being The Cool Ass Sage that I am.

Here you’ll get a glimpse into future episodes around relationships, coping and thriving, divided times to new beginnings, transformation and even science and spirituality.

This podcast is designed to help you navigate towards a life you love. The episodes are created with truth, honesty, vulnerability, compassion, and authenticity. They are for you because you… are the true hero in this life. Through it all, I will prove that no matter your life circumstances, you too can and will consistently WIN at living the best version of your life… right now.

So, let’s get on with it…