Learning to Breathe again - After losing a loved one to suicide
Presented by Lark Galley – Thursday 9:30 – Lark Galley
On March 21, 2019, Lark experienced a devastating loss—the unexpected suicide of her 19-year-old son. Having already endured her father’s suicide five years earlier, this second death hit especially hard. All expectations for the future were erased.
Everything became difficult. Even breathing felt like a conscious decision. This is the story of her raw and painful journey through despair and grief; it is standing on the brink of an abyss ready to pitch into the darkness and making the very difficult decision to step away from the edge.
Lark shares how this decision to use her loss to bless the lives of others helped her to heal from both her son’s and father’s suicides. It is her desire to instill hope in those who wonder how, or even if, they can go on.
Self Discovery After Divorce
Presented by Michael Glassford – Thursday 10:30
Divorce is difficult. Anyone who says different is selling something.
Pain is real. But so is healing. There are pathways to healing, even after Divorce.
Michael practiced divorce law for 14 years, went through two difficult divorces himself, and he wrote the book, “Divorcing with Dignity.”
Michael is a legal expert. However the principles he teaches to help you survive and thrive passed divorce are universal change management techniques that can be applied in many of life’s toughest situations.
The Key to My Prison; A Journey from the Darkness into the Light
Presented by Sheila Logan – Thursday – 11:30
Finding true joy and happiness in life is harder for some than others. The reality is that we can’t just wake up one morning, decide to be happy, and then live a life free of trials. Sometimes our lives are disrupted by our struggle with depression, anxiety, failure, divorce, death, other people’s choices, or many other difficulties.
In the Harry Potter movies, there is a creature called a dementor. Whenever anyone comes into contact with it, it sucks all of the happiness from that person. Also, the light everywhere goes away and the person feels like they are in darkness.
I have often told my children that when I struggle with life it feels like there is a dementor in front of the light at the end of my tunnel. Meaning, every time I tried to get to the light at the end of my tunnel my happiness was being sucked out of me and everything would get dark.
Are you tired of feeling the darkness? Are you ready to finally reach the light?
If you’re like me, you may feel like punching the next person who says, “God doesn’t give us more than we can handle” in the face!
It is possible to reach the light and find true joy and happiness even in the face of adversity and trials that come one after the other.
I’d like to share my story with you and some of the ways that I have found to get rid of the dementors in front of the light at the end of my tunnel… without the Patronus Charm Harry uses in the movies.