Dara Kurtz is the creator of the popular blog crazyperfectlife.com, with over 180,000 followers from around the world. After going through breast cancer 6 1/2 years ago, she quit her job as a financial advisor, launched her blog, and wrote her first book Crush Cancer. Her second book just released, I am My Mother’s Daughter: Wisdom on Life, Loss, and Love, It is all about the connection between mothers and daughters, how the loss of her mom impacted her life, and how to be intentional about growing relationships to create a more meaningful life. Dara is a speaker, workshop leader, and coach, and loves sharing her journey to help and inspire others. She lives in Lewisville, North Carolina, with her husband and daughters, loves spending time in nature, and practicing Kundalini yoga.
In this conversation we talk about her grief process the passing of her mom to cancer, which was just a few weeks after Dara gave birth to her first born. She felt very alone during that time with her grief and distraction became the number way of how she handled her grief, which in reality meant not to face it.
Many years later Dara herself was diagnosed with cancer, and it brought up many of the emotions she had not really processed of her mom’s passing. She found a bag of letters that her mom had written to her through the years, and in these letters was all her mom’s wisdom. She felt as if her mom was telling her to just get back into the business of really living! Her book is the collection of these letters, as well as a Legacy Letter which her mom left for her, and which she received from her father after her mom died. We talk about the importance of writing handwritten letters to our loved ones, as this will be a gift they can save and be one of the most precious items.
Here are some of the letters you can write:
1. Just Because Letter
2. Special Occasion letter
3. Legacy Letter: To be given to the recipient when we die.
Connect with Dara Kurtz : http://www.crazyperfectlife.com
Connect with Kendra Rinaldi: http://www.griefgratitudepodcast.com
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