by Amy Lindner-Lesser | Jul 4, 2023 | Newsletter
Hello Amy,
Happy 4th of July!
A day to celebrate the freedoms that we get to enjoy in this country.
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Freedom means accepting differences and embracing diversity. It means being free to love whom we wish and being free of hate. It means having the freedom to express our values and creativity and being free to work where and when we want to work.
We are free to live where we want to live and to practice any religion we choose. We have the freedom of speech to express our opinions and ideas without fear of persecution. We have freedom of the press, to assemble, freedom from fear, from want, to pursue education, to vote, and others.
Many of these we take for granted.
I believe we can’t celebrate freedom unless all of us are free. And that includes being free from the emotions and grief that are holding us from living a joyful life.
Freedom is the topic of today’s podcast. I hope you’ll watch or listen and let me know how it “lands” for you.
As always I would love to hear about you and what life quakes you’re facing now or have in the past. Reply to this email and let me know.
Wishing you a safe, happy, and inclusive 4th of July!
Until the next time, I love and appreciate you,
Amy
by Amy Lindner-Lesser | Jun 21, 2023 | Newsletter
Hello Amy,,
Wow! We are more than halfway through June. I’m beginning to believe what I heard for years, time moves faster as we age. Why is that? Is it because we see the time ahead of us as shorter than that which we have already lived? I’m curious. What I do know is that whatever time I have left, hopefully still lots of it, I want to revel in the moment and make more experiences to savor.
Since it still is June and June is Pride month, this week’s podcast is an interview with my friend, Susan Rose. Susan went through a major “life quake” a few years ago when her then-husband informed her that he felt he was a woman inside a man’s body. We talked about the emotional roller coaster she went on for the next few years. How Susan felt like a widow, but there was no “real’ death or a body; no funeral or rituals in which to find support.
Susan’s story is not completely unique. Just within my circle of family and friends, I am aware of parents whose children have undergone gender transition, also referred to as gender affirmation, and other spouses. Each person’s experience is unique and yet there are commonalities. My hope is to provide you with some questions to ask that can help on your journey to find support and answers. Often family members are not offered coaching or counseling to assist them to deal with their own emotions and loss. I really enjoyed my talk with Susan and hope you will too.
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by Amy Lindner-Lesser | Jun 16, 2023 | Newsletter
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by Amy Lindner-Lesser | May 17, 2023 | Newsletter
I hope the weather and the calendar are synching better for you than for me here in New York State!
I awoke this morning to temperatures in the low 40s, I looked at my watch to confirm the date and it said it was May 17!
Could this be true? Last night I received FEMA warnings for frost for the next two days!
I want it to feel like spring again! One of my favorite things to do is sit on my porch taking in the warmth from the sun and watching the almost constant parade of birds to the feeders and the antics of the groundhogs and bunnies. Hershey loves it too!
I just released a new podcast episode. It is a little different from the others. In this one, I have a conversation with my friend and animal communicator, Marybeth Decker. We had a great discussion about animals’ roles in our lives, handling their final days and deaths, and learning to communicate with them to understand what they are telling us. I was sad to end our chat so we continued after the recording ended! Please watch it here and let me know what you think.
As always, I would love your suggestions for future episodes. Email me!
I’m excited to tell you that I have completed my first chapter in a book to be released this coming fall. The book, Life Shifts, is an anthology of 22 chapters from different women about a transformational shift in their life. We also will each have a free offer to download. In my chapter, Coming Full Circle from Loss to Joy, I talk about my experience in Mexico which led me to navigate through my losses and to a life now filled with joy.
I can’t wait to share it with you!
Until the next time, I love you and appreciate you,
Amy
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by Amy Lindner-Lesser | May 3, 2023 | Newsletter
Each and every one of us is unique, not completely though. We all have skin, blood and organs, and . . . mothers. While not all of us have fathers, and we may or may not have living mothers, we all had a mother who brought us into this world.
No matter the relationship with your mother, be she living or, as my friend Victoria says, more than alive, that relationship comes with a lot of emotion. You may have more than one mother as in a birth mother and an adoptive mother, a mother and a stepmother, two mothers, or another configuration of mothers. She or they might be actively involved in your life or totally absent.
No matter the number or type of mother, next weekend’s Hallmark holiday, Mother’s Day, tends to bring a lot of emotions to the surface.
When I worked as the director of a home healthcare agency, finding employees to cover patient care on Mother’s Day was close to impossible. I argued that we needed to consider paying overtime just to have people (women and men) work because everyone was either a mother or had a mother and wanted time to celebrate or commemorate her life.
In my newest podcast episode, I talk about Mother’s Day and provide some ideas for coping with an emotionally charged day, especially if your mother has passed away or is absent from your life. How do you feel about Mother’s Day? Do you have any special traditions?
Please watch, or listen, to the podcast and let me know what you think. If you have ideas for guests and/or topics around life transitions, loss, or grief, please reach out!
I wish you a happy Mother’s Day whether you are a mother through birth, adoption, foster care, or marriage, have a mother, or mother an animal, pet, scout troop, plant, or anyone or anything else. We are all mothers in some way and help nourish a soul or our world.
This week I am celebrating the life of my stepsister, Laurie Gilbert, who passed away this week after a valiant battle with pancreatic cancer. Laurie was the person who was instrumental in making sure her dad (and my other 3 stepisters’ dad) and my mother got together. Without her prodding, they would not have spent their last years happily in love. She was the first of my four stepsisters I met when I became the “baby” of the family in 1996 (our “parentals” didn’t marry until 2002). We didn’t exactly get along smoothly that first time, however, I am very happy to say that we did become close and a cohesive unit in caring for our aging parents. Laurie led a colorful life including travel, working in the television industry with John Ritter and Bil Cosby, and as a paralegal later in life. She was a collector of friends and maintained connections with friends and family members across the world. I will miss her laughter, honesty, and our conversations.
I am also remembering my dog, Migo, whom you might have met at The Rookwood Inn. He passed away a year ago yesterday and was a loving and faithful companion of mine for most of his short nine years.
Yesterday, a friend and I accompanied another friend to Utica, NY for the unveiling of her mother’s headstone. In the Jewish religion, it is customary for a gravestone to be “unveiled” at the one-year anniversary (yahrtzeit) of death. It was an honor to support her in this – something I don’t feel anyone should have to do alone.
Are you remembering someone special this month? What practices have you put into place to keep their memory(ies) alive?
Until the next time, remember I love and appreciate you,
Amy
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