by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 28, 2025 | grief, healing
Here are seven helpful tips to process grief: 1. It’s important to acknowledge and honor your feelings, even if you can’t fully feel them. Avoiding or suppressing emotions can cause more harm than good. 2. Move your body and get outside. Shift your focus from...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 21, 2025 | Gratitude, grief, healing, heart, pets, Uncategorized
In early August, I observed a small umbilical hernia in my little Shih Tzu dog, Bitsy. The next week I had to go to Birmingham and I sent her to doggie daycare at our veterinarian’s office and asked them to check it. When I picked her up I talked to the doctor. She...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 6, 2025 | counseling, forgiveness, Grace, grief, peace
Excellent thoughts for those counseling individuals grieving a loved one without confidence of the deceased’s eternal condition- From Biblical Counseling Coalition: “Wise Words for Vulnerable Times………I’ve been reading the rich, pastoral letters of John Newton. I...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 22, 2025 | grief, healing, Uncategorized
) June 22, 2022) friend who lost her mother recently and I, now 22 months into widowhood, were just talking about this very aspect of grief last night. The experience of and lesson of such “emotional ambushes,” as I have called them, is very true. It does...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 15, 2024 | Comfort, grief
So….., I had been looking for my wedding rings for a week. Not even 30 minutes after posting about my fear that I might not find them (and feeling the sick sense of loss in my gut and praying for God to give me grace to accept their loss, if that was to be the case),...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 1, 2024 | Friendship, Grace, grief, witness, work, writing
Hi, Friends. I want to share something with you I discovered recently in my own grief journey…. But first, I’m going to share a poem I read today. (See photo.) Two weeks ago on one day I had two people who brought my grief full face before me. One was an...
