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Welcome to my blog, where you'll find substantive, well-researched articles that blend neuroscience, philosophy, poetry, personal reflection, and the latest life coaching tools in service of helping people engage their full potential.

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On Empty Nesting

March 12, 2021Kirstin Hotelling Zona

What a strange, echo-y feeling. Suddenly, the twenty years of hands-on mothering that stretched ahead of me as I gave birth for the first time, a tunnel of space that seemed impossibly long because me at fifty-three seemed then to be someone entirely distant from me at thirty-three, feels eerily ghost-like…

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categories grief, letting go, presence, transition, Unconditional Love, Vulnerability
tags Mothering, grief, love, empty nest

On Shame, Guilt, and Grief

February 21, 2021Kirstin Hotelling Zona

As long as we’re stuck in shame, grief’s gift—a process of slow tenderizing, of deepening vulnerability that, over time, expands our ability to feel even more fully and therefore love even more deeply—remains agonizingly just out of reach, behind closed doors whose seeming impenetrability makes them loom monstrously large.