by Sandra Lee Dennis | May 13, 2015 | Awareness, broken heart, Creativity, Emotional Crisis, Existential despair, Grace, Grief, Healing, Love and Betrayal, Psychological healing, Relationships, Spirituality, Trauma
“If you don’t transform your suffering, you will surely transmit it.” —Richard Rohr Although I have written and published two books during the past fifteen years, I have never considered myself a writer. Ernest Hemingway said, “There is...
by Sandra Lee Dennis | Feb 28, 2015 | Betrayal, broken heart, Emotional Pain, Grace, Grief, Healing, Love, Love and Betrayal, Relationships, Spirituality, Trust
“Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten — it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.” —Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee You need to give yourself credit if you...
by Sandra Lee Dennis | Sep 26, 2014 | Betrayal, Ego Defenses, Emotional Crisis, Grief, Healing, Love and Betrayal, Post-traumatic stress, Psychological healing, Rejection, Relationships, Trauma, Trust
After a mind-bending abandonment by my long-time partner I received a lot of well-meaning advice. Some friends recommended to me, if I was serious about healing, that I take “one-hundred percent responsibility for everything that happened.” When I expressed my...
by Sandra Lee Dennis | Sep 13, 2014 | Divorce, Emotional Crisis, Emotional Pain, Grief, Love, Post-traumatic stress, Psychological healing
In the aftershock of my partner’s sudden exit from my life, I got a lot of suggestions from friends and family. I was advised to count my blessings that he was gone, to let go, to get over it and to move on as quickly as possible. I was plied with well-meaning...
by Sandra Lee Dennis | Jun 20, 2014 | Betrayal, broken heart, Emotional Crisis, Existential despair, Grace, Grief, Love and Betrayal, Psychological healing, Spirituality, Trauma, Trust
The heart broken in love opens like an archaeological dig into the past. The velocity of the fracturing draws you down, down, down through layers of feelings, strategies and beliefs that have been protecting your heart from a primeval pain. The grief and longing of...
