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Is Grief Felt on Both Sides of Death?
This is a question that quietly visits many parents once they move beyond fear of death and into love for those they’ll one day leave behind. Not Will I die? But How will my children be when I’m gone? And even more tenderly… Will their pain hurt me where I am? If you believe, as I do, that the soul is eternal and that death is not an ending but a transition, then this question deserves to be explored with softness rather than dread. From a Soul’s Perspective: Pain Changes Sha
Jane McGarvey
2 days ago8 min read


What Determines a Successful Relationship?
It’s a question most of us have asked—sometimes quietly in the middle of the night, sometimes loudly during heartbreak, sometimes smugly when we think we’ve “got it right.” So what actually determines a successful relationship? Is it longevity? Commitment? Shared values? Lack of conflict? Staying together “no matter what”? The truth is, this question is far more complex than we are usually willing to admit—because every single one of us arrives in a relationship carrying wild
Jane McGarvey
Jan 267 min read


When Doing Stops Working: Meeting the Feelings You’ve Been Running From
At some point, the doing stops working. Not because you’re lazy. Not because you’ve failed. But because the strategy you built to survive has finally done its job — and now it’s asking to be laid down. Most people don’t burn out because they’re weak. They burn out because they’re excellent at functioning without feeling. The hard worker in you learned very early that movement was safer than stillness. That productivity was praised. That usefulness secured belonging. That bei
Jane McGarvey
Jan 194 min read


When the hardworker in you doesnt want to feel, they just want to do.
When Doing Becomes a Refuge From Feeling There is a part of you that does not want to feel. It just wants you to do . Do more. Be useful. Be productive. Stay busy. Stay needed. That part of you is not lazy, broken, or wrong.It ’s the hard worker. The achiever. The reliable one. The one who learned very early that movement was safer than stillness. And yet…where does it end? At what point do we stop doing long enough to come back into feeling? Because the cost of never stop
Jane McGarvey
Jan 124 min read
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