Trauma Recovery Coach, Speaker, Consultant & Author
We left Austin 6 days ago for a month in the Pacific Northwest. Landed in Portland, rented a car, and spent 3 wonderful days with granddaughter Valentina. We had planned more visits with friends, hiking in Olympic National Park, much-longed-for-time … Read more…
It seems I missed World Book Day. It was April 23rd. As someone who worships at the altar of books, I’m surprised I didn’t even know there was such a day. It makes sense, of course. There are days to … Read more…
I am writing this on Christmas Eve. Today is the one-year anniversary of the last time I saw my granddaughter, Nicole. She was getting settled into a group home, where she had been released after several weeks at a a … Read more…
I’ve been doing something new on social media. I am hosting a FB Live every Monday through Thursday at 12:30 p.m. Central Time. In the interest of originality, I am calling it Jillian Live. This past week I’ve been talking … Read more…
One of the coping mechanisms I’ve used during my life is to try to squeeze out of every experience, however good or bad I may judge it to be, the lessons I can use to move forward. As I wrote … Read more…
It’s been a while since I have posted, so I wanted to provide an update to all my readers and the wonderful people who have supported us these last two years. When last I wrote, we’d moved out of our … Read more…
This is the day we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, the man who died leading a movement to achieve equality for black Americans. It is trite but true to say we are all the descendants of immigrants. Some of my … Read more…