ABOUT ALEXANDRA
Learning to move from living with loss to loving my life:
In 2020, in the midst of covid lockdowns, my husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I left my paid work to take care of him. Menopause hit me hard during this time, and in the chaos, I did not take care of myself, and my own health declined. A year later he died and as my daughter prepared to launch and leave for college, I floundered, with no work, my usual (comfortable and known) role as a caretaker, gone. Financial security, gone. My identity, gone.
I floundered in these losses for a while but found my way back to some of the positive changes I’d put in place the previous winter, I reengaged with my exercising routine and good whole food eating. Returned to my spiritual practice and eventually a course in coaching and a career change.
How to move from loss to joy:
When I was 14, I had to write a short story for my English class. I sat at the kitchen table the night before stressed and angry at my procrastination. But an idea blossomed, and I wrote. Hours slipped away, and I disconnected from time but connected to myself. Riding the flow of creativity took me to an essential ME.
I have come to understand in the years since that it is from this place we find our creative healing. From that place, we already know what we need and what we want. Where we already have the answers on how best to navigate the transitions and changes we are going through.
Walking my dog in the woods a few months after losing my husband, I stepped out of time into the flow of nature and heard a little voice from deep within me say, Live. You know how.
And with the words came a wave of hope and energy and knowledge.
Yes. I did know how. Being in creative flow is not just about creating something, it can also be about creating someone. You.
It can connect you to your inner compass and that compass can lead you gracefully through change to a place of opportunity and renewal.
To strength and confidence and wisdom.