pilgrim Pathway

Issues


  • What’s the Next Thing?

    In the past I’ve talked about how many of us sit around starting our conversations with the words, “If only…”.  Unfortunately that thinking tends to stir up resentments or remembrances of times gone by when you were healthy or healthier.  We can switch our thinking from “if only” to “what next” but I’d like to…

  • Weight of the World

    Welcome to Caregiver Friday!! One of my favorite places to visit in New York City is Rockefeller Center.  There’s a huge status of Atlas carrying the world on his back that is magnificent and certainly for many a sign of the times.  It’s easy for a fictional character to carry the weight of the world…

  • Holding the Pain

    It’s amazing how certain things in our lives keeps showing up.  In my conversations for the past twenty years with people like you, those newly diagnosed with a chronic or life-threatening illness, the same words and phrases continually appear.  Our human experience is shared and our emotional and spiritual lives are ways we can express…

  • Breakout!

    When you hear the word “breakout” it may conjure up scaling prison walls in search of freedom.  I find as I talk to more and more people diagnosed with a chronic or life-threatening illness that the “breakout” is not about escaping, but figuring out how to deal with being backed into a corner. Let’s face…