On The Importance of Breaking Promises

by Kerry Lusignan | Aug 24, 2020 | Anger, Marriage

I’ve been a promise keeper for most of my life, only breaking promises when left with no other choice – when a murmur in my heart began pounding so loud that it overruled me. There was the relationship that lacked kindness and mutuality – the friendship laced in...

Our Father’s Tears

by Kerry Lusignan | Jun 12, 2020 | Parenting, Relationships

Here I sit, on the cusp of Father’s Day, feeling both with and without Father — while the earth has a fever and pirates run amuck. I remember my father crying. I’m not sure when or at what age, though I could venture a guess — I was (perhaps) six. It was over our...

Mothering in Times of Sorrow

by Kerry Lusignan | May 9, 2020 | Parenting, Relationships

When my daughter was two, she found a bumblebee lying on our stone pathway. It was late August in New England – when gold-trimmed monarch cocoons dangle under milkweed, and sleeping pompoms of woolly bear caterpillars nestle in leaves.  To the naked eye, the bee...

Trauma – Holding Hope and Sorrow Simultaneously

by Kerry Lusignan | Apr 15, 2020 | Trauma

   COVID-19 is unique in that it is simultaneously resulting in trauma to us collectively, and to many of us as individuals in how we are hit directly by it. It’s poking at grief, gratitude, and guilt concurrently. And because the ramifications of it...

Judging Each Other’s Grief – Video

by Kerry Lusignan | Apr 15, 2020 | Educational

   What happens when you navigate painful emotions differently than your partner? David Kessler, author and grief expert, states that couples don’t divorce because of insurmountable hardships or loss, couples divorce because they judge each...