Christina Rasmussen

Good morning from Austin Texas. Here’s to a great new month for us all. What is one thing you are planning to do in November apart from the typical things we do before the Holidays. What is something you need to do for yourself?

May each book find its way to the heart that needs it.
May it answer the questions the heart has.
May it guide the heart to a new direction.
May it provide clues to a new beginning and healing to an ending.
And may this book be a map to all the places the heart craves to go to next.

With blessings and prayers this Tuesday morning!
Christina
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Invisible Loss: Recognizing and Healing the Unacknowledged Heartbreak of Everyday Grief Invisible Loss: Recognizing and Healing the Unacknowledged Heartbreak of Everyday Grief

We wake up every morning preparing for the hit and a forsaken life.
Companionless.
Paralyzed.
Flattened.
No more.
I won’t let you stay in the ocean.
I won’t let you convince yourself that you are still being knocked out, just like you were the first day.
We are going to stop this senseless experience.
How, you might ask?
Take a moment to breathe consciously.
Your body is free to stand up and walk away from this experience.
Your mind is free to find a new place to call home.
The waves can’t stop hitting you all at once, but we can make them less frequent.
I am going to ask you to shift your mind from the pain to something very basic like the grass on your feet.
A book.
Something solid.
It has to be basic and unchallenging at first.
It has to be easy.
We just need to take you away from the waves.
We need to exit in a flat way.
Go get your nails done.
Get a haircut. Bake a cake. Go window shopping.
And if you think these suggestions are ridiculous and you can’t change your life by baking your way out...
Think again.
Consider this for me. The waves will keep hitting you if you stay unconscious.
This is the first step to finding your new ground and making sure fear won’t get in the way of that.

- Christina Rasmussen