APRIL 2026

LIFE | LOVE | LOSS

“Give yourself permission to be kind to yourself.”

– Kindness Blog

PERMISSION

“Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.”

-Jon-Kabat-Zinn

Happy April!

Permission has been on my mind lately.  Where do we give it and where is it withheld.  How many times do you think, I ‘can’t do that?’  And when you have the thought do you ask why, or whose voice is saying you can’t?  A lot of the things in our lives are done and not done by habit, tradition, by the things we were taught as children.

Some of that is great. 

Some of it is not.

So, back to permission.  Did you grow up in a clean quiet house where you did not have permission to be loud or make a mess?  Could you grant that to yourself now?  Buy some finger paints, turn up your favorite music loud and give yourself permission to enjoy it?

Or is the opposite true for you?  Did you grow up in noisy chaos?  Do you need permission to create a quiet clean space to sit in peace, to have stillness in your life?

Where is one place in your life you can grant permission that could bring new or restored balance, peace, calm or clarity?

In grief journeys we often wrestle with the fact we didn’t choose the situation or circumstance in which we lost someone we loved.  If it is a loss by suicide, we certainly did not give our permission for them to not be here anymore.  Yet, our point of power is in what we choose now, what permissions we give ourselves in processing pain, grief, and lack of understanding.  It is how we make room for all of that as we move forward, living without them, that is our opportunity, our choice when none of the rest was.

What permission inside your grief journey do you need to give yourself or others?

What would make more room for love and understanding in the midst of pain?

Choose that.

All my best,

Genna

Mental Health Moment:

“Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.”

–Jay Baer

Let’s grant permission this month to the things that feel good, make our shoulders relax, feel like warm sun on our faces.

Let’s say yes to slower choices that regulate our nervous systems into peace and deep breathing.

Let’s give our minds and hearts permission to feel things safely, through peace in a new and beautiful way.