When adversity comes, we tend to shun and avoid it. This only keeps us stuck in our limiting stories. Make the decision to walk through adversity with grace.

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Julia sits across from me in my office. Her face reflects the strain she has been under for the last several weeks: her mother is dying. She is exhausted.

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I am a writer, speaker and guide on the subject of grief transformation. I have radar when I observe conversations and I look for the gems of grieving and healing.

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Loss forces us to look upon the big question of what happens after death. In our modern society, with death carefully hidden from us and the quest of eternal youth predominant, we are badly equipped to deal with it when it happens. All of us have had the experience of losing a loved one and of people turning away from us, scared to acknowledge our loss.

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Time is a very complex thing. Understand how time is can be non-linear following bereavement.

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Grief is a natural response to the loss of something so where better to look for understanding about grief and loss than to nature itself? If we look at the four seasons we can gain understanding about how grief affects us and how we can support ourselves as we move through our own seasons of grief.

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Grief surfaces at predictable and unpredictable times. Revisiting the same feelings is normal. Learning how to respect the feelings when they appear and creating the time and space to feel is important. I had an unexpected moment of grieving remembering the death of my son, Cooper. It was June 12th and would have been my son's 17th birthday. He had died 15 years earlier from a 4th stage neuro-blastoma cancer at the age of 19 months. I have included a list of things I do to support a safe environment to embrace the emotion when it appears for more healing.

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When we experience loss we immediately turn to our friends and family, expecting them to be able to help us. All too often, we are left disappointed. Friends don't know what to say and can find it difficult to be around us.

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I have unfortunately been on both sides of this article. I have spent time visiting friends and family when they have been sick, but I have more often been the patient everyone is visiting. Many of the visits went very well, but unfortunately others didn't go so well for them or me. Hopefully my mistakes or my tips from experience will help you. Visiting someone who is sick isn't always easy, but it can be an enjoyable time and it should primarily be a comfort for the patient.

While war and poor economic conditions begin to affect people allover the world, more and more people suffer with depression. The more we focus on news events and the business climate, the more we are depressed. Whatever the reason you feel is the cause of your depression, the following five simple tips guarantee you reduce it significantly.