Does everything feel like too much these days? Get When Life Sucks: 21 Days of Laughs and Light for free when you join the Tiny Buddha list. “Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.” ~Joan Didion This spring marked ten years since I lost my mother. One ordinary Thursday, she didn’t show up to work, and my family spent a blur of days frantically hanging missing person fliers, driving all over New England, and hoping against reason for a happy outcome. My mother was prone to frequent mood swings, but she also talked to my … Continue reading 10 Lessons My Mother’s Death Taught Me About Healing and Happiness