Tag Archive for moving on

Marriage and Betrayal: I Burned My Wedding Dress

prayer on the beach

This past August marked what would have been my 25th wedding anniversary. As a way of releasing the commitment bound to that day, I burned my wedding dress. Over the years, I tried on the oyster-pink raw silk garment to see if it still fit. At times it did, while others it did not. In August, it fit my body…

The Roots of Healing: Embracing the Freedom to Grow

Plant roots

  We moved out of our house three months after the tragedy. By a strange twist of fate, the husband of the woman who purchased my home had taken his life five years earlier. It was an eerie connection to have with the person buying my house, weeks after my husband died. One of the first things she did was…