Choosing Joy in the Wake of Loss: My Journey Through Guilt and Grief

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As a transformational life coach, author, speaker, and host of the Melissa Hull Show, I’ve dedicated my life to supporting people as they rediscover their sense of self and wholeness. Today, I want to address one of the most challenging aspects of loss: guilt. Guilt is a complex emotion that often accompanies grief. It’s the […]

How To Start Healing From Trauma – Part 1

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Healing from trauma is possible. This 3-part series focuses on how. In Part 1, we learn about healing our thoughts. Whenever I share my story, I’m inevitably asked the same million-dollar question: How did I do it? How did I heal from the devastating loss of my son? While my answer isn’t simple, it is […]

10 Water Safety Tips Every Parent Should Know

Here are 10+ water safety tips every parent should know – because they could save a life. While we can’t always choose our life experiences, we can choose how we respond to them, by assigning an empowering or disempowering meaning. When my son died 23 years ago, I chose to create a positive meaning from […]

Finding Hope in Shared Stories: Healing Through Connection

Feeling hopeless? Sometimes the greatest form of hope is found in another’s story. Here’s how I healed through the connection of shared stories, and you can, too. The weeks after Drew passed were the hardest days of my life. I was planning a funeral and burying my son, and I remember feeling this immense heaviness, […]

From Doubt to Empowerment: Unlocking Your Full Potential

Ready to unlock your full potential? Here’s my secret for moving from doubt to empowerment. After I lost my son in an accidental drowning, I wanted to help prevent the same thing from happening to another family, and one of the best ways I could do that was by sharing my story. The only problem […]

How I Identify & Overcome My Limiting Beliefs

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]We can’t change our experiences, but we can choose how they shape us. Here’s how I learned to identify and overcome my limiting beliefs. If I listened to what my life experiences have taught me, then I’d be led to believe I’m unlovable, unwanted, and unsafe in relationships – […]

Find Your Voice With Color

Looking for a new way to illuminate your potential and connect to your inner self? Find your voice with color.  From the time I was a kid, art and color have assisted me in my healing journey in ways I didn’t realize at the time, but I can now identify. Looking back at how my art […]

What My Meditation Practice Actually Looks Like

Need a little more Zen in your life? Here’s what my daily meditation practice actually looks like.  Meditation is not just about creating a moment of peace. It’s about providing ourselves with one moment where we can reconnect with our inner selves and higher power – so we can walk into the next moment with more peace, […]

Breaking Through Vs. Breaking Free

What’s the difference between breaking through vs. breaking free? A lifetime of difference. Here’s how to reach your breakfree:  I recently realized I had more healing to do. Sometimes, you don’t know the pain is still hiding deep inside, until something triggers you – decades later – and all that hurt rears its ugly head again.  […]

7 Unexpected Questions To Ask If Your Business Is Struggling

If your business is struggling, why continue to look at it from the same perspective? Find the answers you crave with these unexpected questions.  No one wants to admit their business is struggling. In fact, you probably looked over your shoulder before you even opened this blog. So often, when we’re faced with bad numbers or […]